A few weekends ago, I had the extreme displeasure of helping two of my best friends put the city behind them. It was a lousy day for a move, endlessly drizzling rain, and I was burnt from balancing the mag with my nine to five. But I was also grateful for the exhaustion–as a kind of emotional numbing agent, that is. Making friends in Denver is hard. Keeping friends in Denver is harder.
I couldn't blame them for moving. Newly married, they wanted to start a family. And if you're young, working class, and family-minded, what are your options here? You could move to the burbs, of course. Englewood or Lakewood, maybe. Westminster? But then, egads, the commuter traffic starts to get brutal, and you lose the perks of living in the city.
I've spent some time in Thornton and Southeast Denver (in Thornton, I was just up the road from the Waffle House; in Southeast Denver, I was right across the street from Comrade Brewing), and after some rough years, I learned: If you're going to live in Denver…
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