Metblogs has added our forty-first city to our Vast Media Empire: Denver!

As the holder of a handicapped parking permit doubling as a degree from the University of Colorado, here are my five reasons why Denver is way cool:

1. They’re a frenetic people. Hiking, biking, climbing, rafting, spectator sporting, skiing, boarding, (in my day) raving… when do they have time for LAN parties?
2. Denver has The Valley, The Turnpike, The Two-And-A-Quarter, and the Mousetrap. We have 5, 405, 520, 90, and The Collector-Distributor Lanes. You’d think we could give our highways and interchanges interesting names here.
3. In Seattle, it’s nearly impossible to sprawl, since the lakes and sound and mountains eventually hold in the suburban push. In Denver, they’re on pace to have the suburbs extend to the Kansas border by 2010. You gotta love a city that’s trying to out-LA LA.
4. Boulder. New age cults, trust fund babies, snowboarders, old hippies, housing that makes Seattle’s prices seem like Ellensburg’s….
5. Unlike Seattle, they actually built a light rail system on time and almost on budget. Heck, they have a light rail system. We just sit around killing monorail dreams and whining about traffic.

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