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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, Señor 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 randomdreams and 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