well, I once was talking with a person at school and I asked them what they thought about the city and they said it’s really similar to both Albuquerque and 1990’s California, and it’s very hot. I still don’t know what they meant by that so I saw some pictures of Albuquerque and, yes, they were right. For context, I live in another country that has close ties to the United States, so maybe that’s why!!

  • zeppo@lemmy.world
    21·
    11 months ago

    You couldn’t find a homeless person in Denver… ??! It’s a huge issue right there now, approaching what Portland ~4 years ago (Portland is slightly worse but it’s comparable). A major political issue is ‘sweeps’ of homeless camps and the Mayor working on building safe camping sites and tiny house communities. Denver has thousands of homeless people and it’s the same tent city and sidewalk tent thing as CA or OR. You must not have gone slightly north or east of downtown, or Cap Hill, or out by 225 in Aurora. The park by my house near the Platte was invaded by people in RVs for about 2 weeks until the cops moved them along, and you can find people living in RVs all along that industrial stretch. Also a major thing on South Broadway. Train tracks by Alameda and I25 have tons of people living there in tents.

    Denver also is not that homogenous… large Black population in Aurora, and I was just living by Athmar Park (SW of downtown by i25 and federal) and it’s a hugely hispanic and Asian (mainly Vietnamese) area. Half the grocery stores I went to, I was the only person there who didn’t speak Spanish. Some of them, nobody in the store spoke good English and I felt like an idiot for not knowing Spanish.

    • blindbunny
      11·
      11 months ago

      Naw I didn’t. I was only there for three days. I was only around city o city, the museums and the Oriental theater.

      Statisticly and compared to New Mexico Denver is very homogenous. No amount of anecdotal evidence can change that.