Denver gains about 13,000 millennials per year, making up perhaps a third of population growth.
That's probably the only new thing you'll learn from today's New York Times feature story about Denver – but it does make for a great round of Denver millennial bingo. Read on to see what I'm talking about.
Things the NYT found in Denver:
- "a sort of food court for the Uber generation"
- "many in hoodies and yoga pants"
- "the trendy Lower Downtown district, known locally as LoDo"
- "signs supporting Bernie Sanders"
- "a Brooklyn native and lawyer who moved here in 2011"
- "an 1886 two-story, mansard-style house"
Things the NYT credited for attracting all these millennials:
- The new airport
- "the beer, the trains, the mountains and, yes, the legal weed"
- A growth boundary that limited sprawl
- Coors Field
- Historic preservation
- A "sense of identity ... that millennials find appealing"
Reasons the NYT thinks young people might dislike Denver:
- Rising housing costs
- An increasing "homeless population"
- Bad pizza
