If your heart feels ready to turn the page to a new chapter, and you settled on moving to Denver alone, rest assured that you made the right decision. Denver will make an amazing new home full of positive opportunities, beautiful nature to explore, and interesting people to meet. You’d be hard pressed to find another big-little city quite as special as this one.
To jumpstart your apartment search, we compiled a list of Denver’s best studio apartments, so you can secure an affordable, yet luxurious place to call home.
A Variety of Activities and Events to Do Solo
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Living in Denver, you’ll find plenty of fun activities. Because the city continues to grow rapidly, new restaurants, concert venues, outdoor markets, and other activities crop up all the time across this mile-high haven.
Maybe you like to go rock climbing. Maybe whitewater kayaking piques your interest. Or maybe, you want more than just adventure sports, and instead wish to learn how to paint, or sharpen up your cooking skills, or volunteer at an animal rescue. Denver offers all of these activities and more: classes for any skill you could ever want to try; meetups for all personality types, hobbies, schedules, singles groups, or families; and dog park social hours for people with golden retrievers and other fur babies.
Between the various universities, museums, adventure companies, and people, you will encounter constant support, encouragement, and guidance no matter what you want to experience.
Of course, a big city provides loads of amenities, fine dining restaurants, onesie themed bar crawls, and other community-oriented gatherings. These social events often incorporate progressive ideas or socially conscious movements, activities, and messages. Not only will you hang at Wash Park with a bunch of new friends, but you will run a 5k to support Denver’s dog rescues and get a free beer to top it all off.
Plenty of New People to Meet
If you feel a little nervous about moving to Denver alone, rest assured that plenty of others just like you move out here totally solo and looking to make friends. While Denver seems like another big, U.S. city, once you’ve been here for a while, it starts to shrink.
Maybe it’s the ample sunshine, the active lifestyle, or the delicious, high ABV craft beer, but most people here are friendly and open. People in Denver won’t brush past you with their eyes on the ground. They come from all over and bring much of their home state’s culture with them, creating a big melting pot of Midwestern friendliness, Southern hospitality, and Pacific Northwest chill.
The more you frequent your neighborhood coffee shop, the corner bar, even the grocery store a few blocks away, the faster you’ll build a little community who asks how your morning is, knows how you take your whisky, and introduces you or invites you to join their social circle.
Brief Stints of Loneliness
Denver lonely won’t hit you like Manhattan lonely, or Chicago mid-February lonely, or LA make-it-or-break-it lonely. So many people come to Denver because of its less intimidating introduction to city life.
Streets are clean, people are healthy, the weather is great. When and if you feel particularly isolated, a quick hike around Red Rocks after work will realign your perspective and reinvigorate your soul.
One thing’s for sure – moving to Denver alone is a worth-while adventure. You’ll make life-long friends, get a great new job, score a cool apartment in the city, and gain a new appreciation for the Colorado lifestyle.
The good news is, you don’t have to apartment shop alone.
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* The original version of this article was first published on May 13, 2019.
Abigail is a freelance writer who loves exploring new places, especially in the Southwest, and lived in her van during the Covid-19 pandemic. When she's not working on writing gigs to support her #vanlife endeavors, she loves packrafting alpine lakes, floating lazy rivers, and trail running.
