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Is Denver already a Seattle?
Denver is well on its way to becoming unaffordable, even without Amazon's help.
Denver all over the internet as the #1 choice for HQ2.
Denver home prices are up 10% yoy, avg homes around 400K right now.
If you throw an Amazon on that Denver fire you looking at 20-30% housing price inflation even before ground is broken.
Denver would turn into a Seattle in 24 months.
The Denver home speculators are probably already salivating with anticipation of this "done-deal".
Toronto, Boston, NYC, DC, all of California in the unaffordable category.
- sova 9y agoDenver is still a blooming city. Take a look at the National Geographic Megaregions map. Colorado is like one long stringy island of nodes.
- SQL2219 9y agoI know it's blooming, and that is why that home prices will soon be out of reach. If the average house sprints to $700K like Seattle, how do you recruit workers from out of state?
- sova 9y agoYeah it's really rough. It'd be nice to take a cue from Paris and France and make Artist Enclaves or Warehouses where rent was cheap or nonexistent and patrons supported people of various professions (coders, artists, musicians, whatever).