"Innovation at elevation," proclaimed a mockup for a BART station advertisement. If the state's intentions to position itself as a tech capital weren't clear enough, a coalition of tech companies and governmental agencies recently launched a $500,000 ad campaign to entice Bay Area techies to move to Colorado. Venture capitalists infused more than $1.1 billion into Colorado startups in 2017 alone - a banner year for the blossoming state economy. 10 in a ranking of the nation's top tech metros (San Francisco ranked No. Census data, the city's population grew by more than 100,000 since 2010 - an influx facilitated by a high quality of life (at a relatively affordable cost) and a local government eager to attract startups and new talent.ĭenver recently placed No. Video: Dakota Giglio / SFGATEĭenver is one of the fastest-growing large cities in the nation. Here's a look at the kind of homes you can buy in San Francisco, Lake Tahoe, San Diego, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Oakland for under $1 million. It sometimes feels like a "boomtown," said 35-year-old Erin Joy, like "you're in on something that's growing from the ground up." It's easy to find a biking buddy or a group for a ski weekend because the city is full of young people, many of whom recently moved there, drawn by the promise of ample jobs and housing and a slower pace of life compared to the coastal metropolises. "But they take it up a whole notch here." "San Francisco got me into the outdoors - sort of," she said. Pitts' office has a group chat devoted to after-work hike plans and "almost everyone" she knows owns a four-wheel-drive SUV - the better to reach the mountains with. "REI is in the center of the city," according to 31-year-old Tamara Pitts, who moved to Denver in 2016 after five years in San Francisco. Combine accessibility to nature with a burgeoning local tech industry and a manageable cost of living, and it becomes clear why "everyone in San Francisco knows someone who knows someone who moved to Denver," Begleiter said. Ringed by mountains and blessed with ample sunshine, it's equipped for sports by foot, bike, ski and snowshoe. At 26, she's "getting to a point where I can't do that anymore."īegleiter sees herself entering a new moment in her life, in which she's hiking, skiing and doing more of the "outdoorsy stuff."ĭenver is a city well-suited to such a lifestyle change. "Everything I did revolved around it," she said of her nearly five years in the city. The drinking culture is one of the reasons Begleiter left San Francisco. "You go out for just one drink so you can still drive home." That affects everyone's lifestyles," she said. "The biggest surprise was that I had to drive everywhere.
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