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Lots of people have been asking, so I figured I would write it out.

Things I will miss about Denver:
  • Breakfast burritos and green chile{s}
  • Urban bunnies
  • Fruition Farms cheeses
  • Being able to bike to work almost year-round (OK I can do this in SF, too, but it's a different kind of prep)
  • The free Mall Ride bus
  • 1Up
  • Cart-Driver, SeƱor Bear, Sarto's, Reunion Bread Co., El Five, Hop Alley, Acorn, Jones Family Spirit House
  • Hiking in the snow and not actually being cold
  • Brief and intense afternoon thunderstorms
  • Being able to hop on a bus and be in Boulder in under an hour
  • Cheaper-than-SF rent, and a housing policy that (for now, at least) still allows for new dwellings to be built
  • Public art everywhere (even when it's bad)
  • Mountains
  • Denver Airport conspiracy theories
  • Being only a 45-minute car ride away from being able to see the Milky Way unassisted
  • My Denver work family
  • Opportunities to spend more time with [personal profile] randomdreams and [personal profile] threemeninaboat
  • Shorter flights to the east coast
  • Having superpowers when I return to sea level
Things I will not miss about Denver (besides being too far away from my chosen family):
  • High facial moisturizer and body lotion budget
  • One of the highest transit fares in the country
  • Strong car culture --> Major gaps and lags in transit infrastructure, especially for getting out of Denver proper
  • Not being able to bike more than 25 miles in any direction without having to go up the side of a mountain
  • Recycling being so difficult that I sometimes throw away even the recyclables that actually get recycled
  • Most of the concerts I want to see being at a place that is beautiful but nigh-inaccessible for folks with mobility issues
  • Hail, and hail bruises
  • Extreme rapid weather changes
  • Having to go to the suburbs for good Chinese, Mexican, and Vietnamese food
  • Everyone wanting to go to Linger and Snooze all the time
  • Maintaining the polite fiction that TAG Restaurant Group restaurants are any good when people enthuse about them to me so I don't come off like a total California food snob
  • The Denver Airport
  • The Denver Airport Bathroom Smell
  • Dog food smell days
  • Cow poop smell days
  • Basically all the smells, especially all the apartment lobbies, hotels, bars, and street corners into which artificial scent is pumped
  • Also all the smokers of all kinds, smoking in public as if that is somehow not unspeakably rude
  • Everything being about weed
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