If you live here, you get it; there are A TON of common misconceptions about Denver (and Colorado in general) that need to die, including these 15 things that every Denverite wants the rest of the country to know:
1.) We do NOT endorse Casa Bonita.
Flickr/Rob Lee It may call Denver home, but we do not voluntarily go there just to stand in line for an hour and then contract food poisoning.
2.) Yes, marijuana is legal… No, we are not all stoners.
Flickr/D.C.Atty Well, those of us outside of Boulder, that is. (Just kidding, Boulder; we love you guys!)
3.) Denver isn’t actually in the mountains.
Flickr/Michael Levine-Clark …but we have a pretty killer view of them!
4.) We can complain and say anything we want to about the Broncos…
Flickr/David Walker
5.) …but YOU can’t.
Flickr/Patrick McCall It’s like the best friend analogy; we can say what we want because they are our friend and at the end of the day we still love them.
6.) If it was socially acceptable, we would bathe in green chile.
Flickr/Wally Gobetz Until it is, we will continue to do so in the privacy of our own home…
7.) We don’t lose (too much) sleep over rejecting the 1976 Winter Olympics.
Flickr/Peter Burgess It didn’t make economic sense then and it doesn’t make economic sense now.
8.) KBCO…
Flickr/Bart
9.) …Big Head Todd and the Monsters…
Flickr/Michael O’Brien
10.) …and Red Rocks Amphitheatre are where it’s at!
Wikimedia Commons Now if only KBCO would sponsor a Big Head Todd and the Monsters concert at Red Rocks…
11.) We don’t need giant, gas-guzzling vehicles to feel cool.
Flickr/João Paulo Polluting the environment just to drive down the street = lame.
12.) Living here is effing expensive…
Flickr/401(K) 2012
13.) …but if it weren’t, we would all be living in the Wash Park and Hilltop neighborhoods.
Flickr/Kent Kanouse
14.) We aren’t really beer snobs.
Flickr/Paul Thompson Ha, kidding… we are! But if you tried one of our famous local microbrews, you would get it.
15.) Finally – and most importantly – Denver is by far the best city in the entire world!
Flickr/Jeff Turner
What else should the rest of the country know about Denver? Let us know in the comments!
Flickr/Rob Lee
It may call Denver home, but we do not voluntarily go there just to stand in line for an hour and then contract food poisoning.
Flickr/D.C.Atty
Well, those of us outside of Boulder, that is. (Just kidding, Boulder; we love you guys!)
Flickr/Michael Levine-Clark
…but we have a pretty killer view of them!
Flickr/David Walker
Flickr/Patrick McCall
It’s like the best friend analogy; we can say what we want because they are our friend and at the end of the day we still love them.
Flickr/Wally Gobetz
Until it is, we will continue to do so in the privacy of our own home…
Flickr/Peter Burgess
It didn’t make economic sense then and it doesn’t make economic sense now.
Flickr/Bart
Flickr/Michael O’Brien
Wikimedia Commons
Now if only KBCO would sponsor a Big Head Todd and the Monsters concert at Red Rocks…
Flickr/João Paulo
Polluting the environment just to drive down the street = lame.
Flickr/401(K) 2012
Flickr/Kent Kanouse
Flickr/Paul Thompson
Ha, kidding… we are! But if you tried one of our famous local microbrews, you would get it.
Flickr/Jeff Turner
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