People Are Leaving Denver: Here's Why
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- Опубликовано: 10 июн 2024
- Is Denver doomed? Will Denver start seeing more abandoned buildings and boarded up windows? 1,000 businesses have left, and nearly 3,000 people have left since 2020… Is that just a hiccup? Or is this just the beginning? We’ll talk about why residents and businesses have been leaving Denver throughout this video, and why it might be sing of a long road ahead for the Mile High City.
0:00 - 1:48 Intro
1:48 - 4:19 Homelessness and Migrants
4:19 - 8:29 Denver Population Loss
8:29 - 13:12 Are California Transplants To Blame? Or is it 2020?
13:12 - 14:52 Is Legalizing Pot to Blame?
14:52 - 15:47 Where Are People Relocating To?
15:47 - 17:39 Increase in Crime
17:39 - 32:07 About the Baker and Lincoln Park Neighborhoods
32:07 - 36:39 Chris Livability Score and Final Thoughts
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I Visit To Both Lincoln Park Detroit & Lincoln Park Colorado To GET MY MED's For GUT Cancer The Gov Bomb Testing Gave ME Cancer Cannabis IS GOD's Medicine You Can't OD Fools Lies Gateway Drug IS Alcohol Killed My Mother & Many Others' & Gov Sell Every Where Oh The Fluoride In The Water By LAW ? 20 IQ Points & Dementia Alzheimer's Fluoride IS A Negative Element You Know ? Gov Care Less About Our HEALTH Fact Of LAW
I left Denver for Fargo back in August. I have always loved Denver, but after my car was attempted stolen twice in the last year alone, I took it as a sign to leave. North Dakota gets bitter cold in the winter, but life is easier(imo) and much more reasonably priced here.
Simple life is sounding good these days. Technology was creeped into my life and I hate being dependent on it because it isn't reliable more than my abilities.
yeah nd is cool, i would live there in a second if they had legal weed
I worked in Fargo a few years ago , it's a pretty nice place
I lived in Denver in the early 2000's. There were tons of homeless folks living there even then. Mainly they lived in the downtown Denver area. My understanding from friends still living there is it's gotten worse and worse. Denver was a beautiful place and it would be a shame if it turned into San Francisco, Portland, LA and other cities who's politicians do nothing to address and correct the issues. The southern border situation is a shit show and it was during the last administration too. Our politicians in Washington are a joke no matter what side of the isle you're on. They are all self serving, corrupt, useless douche bags. I'm all for immigration if it's done legally. But to let floods of people in because we can't lock the border down is insanity. Cities and governments need to get much tougher on these issues that are ruining so many cities and states...The only way to fix this issue is to vote out these useless politicians.
I was born in Colorado and spent majority of life in Denver. Moved to Melbourne Florida 4 years ago and here i am watching both your videos! Melbourne is so nice and quiet compared.
How is Melbourne? Is it hard to meet people in a "small town"/small metro area like the Space Coast? I've been wanting to move to Melbourne/Space Coast for a while
If Denver is not careful, it's going to end up being the next Portland. I went there in May of last year and all you smell is clouds of dope smoke everywhere you go and if you're sensitive to it and you get migraines, it's a real pain in the ass.
From the outside looking in it seems like it's already Portland and heading towards being like San Francisco
You have an incredibly soothing voice. I look forward to your videos. Thank you for all your hard work:)
I live in denver. Your facts are spot on. Thank you for the video.
Colorado has an interesting future and I don't know if Fort Collins and Colorado Springs can save it
Thanks for your candor!
Thanks for watching and for the support!!
Colorado native of 40yrs.
My family and I are leaving and moving to South Carolina in a few months. Can not wait to get out of here. I’ll always have the memories of what once was an amazing place to live.
How do you SC?
Like South Carolina?
@@masonkanterbury3007 hey Mason!!! It’s absolutely beautiful and a slower paced way of living. People genuinely seem more joyful and relaxed and happy. We’re in Summerville. Within an hour of the beach and close enough to amenities we want for shopping etc but it’s also got a rural feel. Best decision. Check it out!
Totally agree with you on the money part, getting asked for money everytime I walk out of a store, it's not just Colorado either its everywhere, you don't know how many times I've been asked for money I've given a lot but, man it starts to really get exhausting
What happens if I have my windows rolled down and I am ar step sign oh my gosh?
I enjoyed this video.😊❤
Sanctuary city.
We left the Denver area in 2015. No regrets.
The gentrification of inner city neighborhoods really took off in Atlanta. That process still continues. Downtown, midtown, the warehouse district on and on. Housing prices skyrocket as with Denver. I would say that also put a cork into Denver's growth as well.
Still tons of traffic lol seriously though it looks worse everyday here. The migrants in parking lots is very real sadly and spreading deep to every Walmart near Denver even in Littleton for example
Do you have video on detailed stats of Milwaukee districts!I used to live there as a child!
Not yet!
For the past month of January, I’ve seen Denver become more tame during my Lyft drives. There are far less homeless people and migrants on the streets as far as I can see. I think the cold weather drove them out. I never welcomed cold winter so much.
Never really understood the fascination with Denver, its a boring midwest plains city with a mountain backdrop
Mork and Mindy? nanu nanu!
Denver is not midwest.
@@dvferyanceBefore the Californication, Denver was closer to a Midwest city. It has lots of similarities to them.
@@jag92949 my first visit to Denver was in 1997 I never got to impression it was Midwestern even then
@@dvferyance If it wasn't for the M
mountain backdrop Denver would be almost identical to Kansas City
Chris, you have nothing to apologize for.
Having visited Denver in the past, I can attest to the insanity of the city and surrounding areas. It is truly becoming lawless, with open air drug use and migrants flooding the city they are setting themselves up for something terrible this spring and summer, and probably beyond.
It's sad. There's still quite a few areas in the Denver Metro that are really nice I feel like... but of course it's all expensive.
If Biden Kept The Border Closed.... Would NOT HAVE THIS MUCH PROBLEMS That What I SEE In Ever City Too
Miles and miles of bike lanes, but not one single bike rider.
Lol, I actually used to work at the Buckhorn Exchange and its history is an adventure and a place that has to be experienced.
Denver used to be such a nice city :(
Where is that in the beginning
In Overland Park Kansas we have so many people that stand on the street corners and bother you in the parking lots. It is mostly homeless vets that are out and professional hustlers.
Denver grew in the 2010's because of the redevelopment of the fmr Stapleton airport. There was room to grow now there isn't.
115,000 people live where the old Stapleton Airport was? Doubt it. That’s how much Denver grew in the 2010’s.
@@ChrisHarden i doubt that many as well but Denver was unique in a way that they had all this vacant land land to develop. Also keep in mind you also have the strip of land to the east towards dia that was annexed when the airport was built that has also been developed.
Denver became overpopulated when we legalized marijuana, everybody and their mama came from across the country for it. Not to mention Denver and its surrounding cities have had illegals coming here for decades and now it's dirty, over populated, pothole riddled, traffic nightmares with homeless people everywhere.
I’m leaving next week. Rent is too damn high.
I'm planning on leaving soon too
Looks good but yes, I agree rediculously overpriced. Not much different than New England. Overpriced for very little good reason.
Just for the record. That street performer has been performing at that corner since covid. I used to see that guy all the time and would give him food and bottles of water. Because I was doing catering deliveries.
Popcorn 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 ready
Colorado is 26th in overdose deaths nationwide, so, yeah, legal weed isn't making things worse. It's probably making things better. Where weed isn't legal, overdose deaths are higher-West Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana and Kentucky have four of the top 5 overdose death rates, along with D.C. As for a Detroit-like future of abandoned homes, don't count on it. Denver long ago wisely diversified it's boom-and-bust economy, taking advantage of its location as the largest city in the inland west. It's a money-printing hub of research, airline travel, hospitals, tech, media, finance and federal government. Those houses you drove by in Baker (8:25) are all $1 million-plus. It's also interesting to note that Denver's highest percentage of growth was between 1990 and 2000, long before marijuana was legalized. I enjoy your drives and am looking forward to #18, when you hit my neighborhood (Wash Park).
Agreed. Trying to connect the legalization of cannabis and the current state of SOME parts of Denver is a bit of a stretch. Also, pretty convenient of your argument to completely overlook the 1.6 billion dollars brought into the state from tax revenue and fees from the cannabis industry alone from 2015 up to 2021. A good portion of which went to funds for construction of new buildings, education, etc. Denver isn't suffering from liberal politics brought on by California transplants. It's suffering what every other major city is suffering from and that's the effects of unchecked Capitalism: real estate bubble, opioid epidemic (pharma), people fleeing to cheaper states etc.
Interesting!
Chris alludes to a good point. Probably, legal weed is wildly expensive--compared to street weed.
Adding crap to weed is nothing new: Long ago, it was angel dust (pcp).
Had lived in Denver metro since 2007 and city of Denver in newer section on the northeast side since 2015. Denver is an s-hole city and that’s on the city policy makers and leadership. Sold the house and moved back to my sensible Midwest state and city 2 months ago. Much much better.
The ominous music during the drive bys later in the video 😂 fitting.
Been wanting to leave for years. Gonna make that happen as soon as I find the right place.
The juggler has been at that intersection for a long time.
Now the illegals have taken over there and when the light turns red they are all over the cars trying to wash people's windows for money, it's also affecting the traffic there.
Alcohol could also be considered a gateway drug…. But Denver has always been a boom and bust city, maybe it’s just a continuation of that pattern?
True. Alcohol is worse than weed in a lot of ways. And it very well just be a phase we’re seeing in Denver. Time will tell.
Has anyone had any luck with these guys outside Home Depot? I need some painting & drywall work done but haven't had any luck getting contractors to show up & give me a quote.
I’m sure you could give it a try if you’d like. Someone else commented about the same thing in Raleigh North Carolina and it worked out for them.
Yes go for it they should work out good for you.
I moved to Denver in 2012. When i got here the first place I ended up was the triangle by the Denver rescue mission. Rhey were smoking drugs in the wide open not even hiding it. I came from Chicago i never seen something like that in my life. Long story short ive been in Denver now for 12 years i love Denver its way better than Chicago i don't have to worry about walking down the street and get sho at😂😂😂😂. Civic center park is on Broadway and Colfax back in 2012 you couldn't walk 2 feet over there without people asking you if you want drugs i was like wtf is that....
I am in Texas and watching this video I can only wish "Don't California Texas"
Oh t X has its own serious corrupt issues don’t worry ..
Alameda (Alu mee duh) 😉
OR Al-uhhh-me-duh 🥳
Take a ride to old Aurora. Take Colfax east from downtown Denver. South Santa Fe actually looks cleaned up from when I lived in the area 40 years ago.
East Colfax is cleaning up significantly though.... And the "yuppies" are moving in 🤔
Old Aurora? No.
Ghetto area
Drug abuse is massive in red states, too.. I question that legal mary jane is the cause.
16:18 I used to live in Greeley. It’s an awful place. It’s Mean Streetz material for sure.
Interesting
@@ChrisHarden Maybe you should film a video there.
Sad. Every city profits off the homeless denver is in its low times i was born hear and wont spend my money in a city that has lost it way.
This is just the beginning! I never thought it could happen to Detroit - it's just a blue state matter of time. Keep it up liberals.
Here in Raleigh NC you will see i buch of Hispanic people looking for work outside Lowes.I was working for a guy under the table doing landscaping this past fall and he would hire them.The job is done and they where good workers.
I’m sure some of them are great people that were dealt a bad hand and are just trying whatever they can to make life work.
@@ChrisHardenOne of them is 20 years old from Hondrous and was smuggled into Texas.The bill is $15,000 that he owes to the COYOTE.He has to pay a certain amount every month sent to his mother down in Hondrous.If he does not there WILL be problems.
@@gregorycyr9272Good grief.
He did not have the Resources to take 2 weeks off.I stand correct.
I live in Baker, unless your venuzualen, there is no opportunity here.
So I have a friend who lives south of the border his job is to allow people to have papers so they can go work in United States work visas He says they hand them out like candy.
I just moved out of California. I wouldn’t go to a state with two Democratic senators like Colorado.
No kidding. I never thought I would ever be grateful to live in a fully Republican state, but boy I tell you I am thrilled. I've always been a centrist and voted for the person no matter what the party is, but you can't do that anymore. I don't know what the hell has happened to the democrats, but they have a fat lot of nerve pointing to the Republicans as being evil when they open our border to let everybody in.
Ah…identity politics.
@nancyoffenhiser4916 lol what "open borders?" There is an asylum exploit that people are using and time and time again democrats have put bills to speed up the process from 5 years to 6 months and Republicans shoot it down to keep it an issue. Maybe you should understand the causes and why people are rejecting the hypocrite Republican platform.
If I had a choice between living in Denver or Colorado Springs, I would choose Colorado Springs.
In denver, the media tells us that Colorado has always been a blue state through history. Ive been here 50 years, most of what is heard is a lie. Theybeven call us Coloradans, how hick is thst? Im a Coloradoan and not proud of my lame duck state. The most igorant ppl live in sanctuary city.
Time to pass and enforce panhandling laws... Seeing the handwriting on the wall... Past time to leave..... Bye, Bye good rithance ....
Great place to visit
Meh place to live unless you have a house.
Used to be a lot more migrants at HD. But I hope people are leaving. I do notice the trailheads are a bit less crowded. It's only cute for so long, and it gets boring when you can't find new friends.
i'm moving to houghton michigan. legal weed, friendly people, pasties, lake superior, snow, and a ton of cool stuff
If snow doesn’t bother you Houghton would be awesome
Just kidding around that’s all Briggs 😊😊😊😊
As Willy Wonka says who do you blame the mother and the father and the Democratic party
Its bad here. Why lie BAD
🤔🤔🤔🤔
Good, let them leave. Maybe then housing costs will come down enough for natives like me to actually buy a home. Easy come, easy go.
why tf would you still want to live in denver?
@@whytfdoesnooneloveme I was born here. Everything and everyone I know is here. It's beautiful. Objectively still better than most other places.
Left Denver for Aurora. Not too far, but it doesn't have the problems Denver has in city leadership! And it seems to be a trend!!!
What? Aurora??
DENVER IS THE BEST CITY 👌
Denver needs 50,000 more migrants !
White flight again
People leave, and people come back too...
Duh
Brighton is the new Denver just so the US know! Brighton has become the new normal city!👀
Mafia duh
Welcome to Colorful Colorado, NOW GO BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM!!!
Blame it on the government.
Nobody is canceling you without getting thru me first. That would still be never.
Such an overpriced DUMP
Jesus! Looks like DETROIT ???
Denvers population is growing rapidly. But we know someone who left. 😂
Neither the Denver Metro Area nor the city proper is growing rapidly anymore. It was pre-covid. I know someone who left too
Why would you buy cannabis off the street in a legalized state?
Because it's much cheaper.
Yo Briggs does Denver have bald 👨🦲 people living there today 😅
Alameada lol, it's not that hard brother that e is an i. Now your Spanish won't sound so horrible.
This is what happens when you legalize crime and force cultural enrichment.
Goh. 🤡
Biden economics. Progressive Left, thank you.
Good old identity politics. 🤡
Sounds like it's from Covid to me.
This sounds like it was written by Epich times. I lost count of "long time Republicans feel that new democratic policies caused this problem".
Legal, taxed, clinical Marijuana does not cause overdoses.
Assaults on private property is a policing policy. Denver has a common sense policy after several cold blooded shooting of innocent pedestrians. Often (Alb, SF, LA, MSP, miami, NYC) police unions, when given an opprotunity to participate in community centric copolicing policies, take an "oh yeah, we'll show you" approach, looking the other way at easily enforced yet highly irritating crime (like grocerystore assailts) . "Hey, we were told we're being too trigger happy" (ACAB).
Denver is a large city, so neighborhood analysis would be more appropriate and not so misleading. Your seeing a covid bubble in over developed ring areas.
"I know people will cancel me for saying this" is typical RW victim splaining: be outrageous, misleading, emotional appeals, lowest base tribalism, but first attack criticism by feigning weakness and victimhood, rather than seeking actual truth. Cowardly.
Real estate developers, flippers, have driven housing prices beyond reach, across the country. Car prices as well. Homelessness is a national problem. National housing and transportation for the low and no income sits unaddressed, while wealth has further consolidated. We are hostage to 40 senators representing less than 30% of American voters.
And covid lasted well past the sickness. Original supply problems caused initial scarcity. Now we see world wide inflation best controlled here in the US. However, the reports arenin for anyone to look, we see corporations making their largest profits in history, with no shame, and no accountability that the now high price of milk, or a dinner out, is being siphoned into a rich man's offshore bank account
But "long time Republicans feel things changed when people moved in from california". Right wing propaganda nonsense.
Hmm. Well it’s a real feeling among a large crowd in Colorado if you talk to the people around there, and the state has changed in some not so good ways over the last 20 years.
I’m also not left or right, I’m right down the middle. I know that still makes some of you mad, but the act from people like you of shaming others and taking personal shots at others for no other reason than not having the same exact opinions or feelings as you might have has gotten to be a tired act. 🥱
@@ChrisHarden I appreciate the earnestness of your response, and impressions of Dencer. However, you're suffering from all sorts of systematic data skewing, starting with self selecting data, self-fulfilling prophecy, plus the half dozen I've already listed.
It seems you have a good heart, but taking a freshman level intro to statistics and survey creation seminar would be personally enlightening. Five guys sitting in a bar saying "this beer tastes great, let's open a brew pub" suffers the same fallacies, with the same earnest honest conviction of your words here.
I can proudly say that I am conservative. The left’s solutions to crime are insane. You people rather punish the victim instead of the criminal. The left demands extensive tax raises so they can give handouts to the people who don’t deserve it. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to have a closed border and RESTRICT the number of foreigners crossing it.
Here’s why housing and cars is more expensive, there’s low supply and high demand. Colorado has limited inhabitable land and the construction material to build new homes is far more expensive now. Used cars are expensive since very few gas-powered cars have been made since the pandemic. There is a car shortage. It’s basic high school economics.
I live in Colorado by the way.
Spot on. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Typical lib, just ignore the problem and pretend everything is fine . Then when the problem is out of control in 10 years you’ll beg the Feds for money for a “solution”
its Trumps fault
I am a Colorado native, born in Englewood....Way back then Denver was a small sleepy town...
Fast forward to 2024 and of course Denver has grown up and out on all sides ..........................
The only constant is change ...........................................................................................................