Aurora, Colorado

MtManz
Living in Aurora
2y ago
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Aurora is the most? diverse city in Colorado I believe, so if you want to find culture, you can. There is an abnormally high population of Africans so check out any/all the Ethiopian places here. If you want pho.. definitly get from Aurora, not Denver; trust me.

The Cherry Creek School Dist is the 'good' one here.

If you work in Tech but work from home, location might not matter too much, but if you're looking for jobs in the future, might want to consider something with easy access to DenverTechCenter or Anschutz medical. There are lots of decent IT jobs around here if you're willing to commute a bit, too.

Colorado is pretty conservative, and Aurora is no exception. It's mostly a 'you do you' kind of a place so you'll see lots of 'merica' around here but most people don't give a shit what you're doing.

I live in the Mission Viejo neighborhood and I love it here. It has a green belt that goes all the way around, so you can do some walking and biking, there is a community library in the subdivision. Quite a few restaurants right round the corner (Sushi, pupusas, Falafel.. etc) Lowes, target, petco.. all within a 5 minute drive. Also, Cherry Creek Schools. If you can afford the area, it's great. There are a lot of car related crimes.

moonster
Living in Aurora
2y ago

I would lean more west and north Aurora, especially for walk/bike and food. South of I70 and west of 225 should get you a lot of options.

Colfax can be a bit of skid row but it's not under the control of a gang or anything.

You might like Stanley Market! Or if you're willing to go over into Denver, check Lowry neighborhood. It's immediately adjacent to Aurora but in actual Denver. Another option is to look at neighborhoods with direct access to High Line Canal and that are west of 225/south of 70. You will need a map, but once you find and trace the Canal and highways, and find Lowry you can go from there. Stanley Market is on the east edge of the Central Park neighborhood and is in Aurora afaik, up near Bluff Lake and the Sand Creek Trail.

The community college is over off of Chambers (east of 225), there is a Lowry campus too but I'm not sure how much happens there wrt Aurora, the main Aurora campus is the Chambers road one.

Basically, the further south and east you go the more McMansion territory you get into, the less walkable, and the more likely you are to encounter more vocal friction regarding a non-cis/hetero presenting lifestyle. That's not to say hate is rampant there (nor absent elsewhere), it's just greater odds. The further west and north, the more urban and diverse. I wouldn't confuse any part of Aurora with "walkable", but you can at least pretend walkable the closer you get to Peoria/Havana and north of roughly Iliff.

We do have a decent city-wide trail & park system/network that integrates to Denver's pretty well, but unless you are west Peoria they are primarily good for recreation and not commuting due to last-mile problems and the bike lane network being not that great right now. West of 225 you have a lot of older neighborhood streets you can ride on that cross (but don't dump you onto) arterials, and/or have sidewalks a little more consistently.

moonster
Living in Aurora
2y ago
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I would lean more west and north Aurora, especially for walk/bike and food. South of I70 and west of 225 should get you a lot of options.

Colfax can be a bit of skid row but it's not under the control of a gang or anything.

You might like Stanley Market! Or if you're willing to go over into Denver, check Lowry neighborhood. It's immediately adjacent to Aurora but in actual Denver. Another option is to look at neighborhoods with direct access to High Line Canal and that are west of 225/south of 70. You will need a map, but once you find and trace the Canal and highways, and find Lowry you can go from there. Stanley Market is on the east edge of the Central Park neighborhood and is in Aurora afaik, up near Bluff Lake and the Sand Creek Trail.

The community college is over off of Chambers (east of 225), there is a Lowry campus too but I'm not sure how much happens there wrt Aurora, the main Aurora campus is the Chambers road one.

Basically, the further south and east you go the more McMansion territory you get into, the less walkable, and the more likely you are to encounter more vocal friction regarding a non-cis/hetero presenting lifestyle. That's not to say hate is rampant there (nor absent elsewhere), it's just greater odds. The further west and north, the more urban and diverse. I wouldn't confuse any part of Aurora with "walkable", but you can at least pretend walkable the closer you get to Peoria/Havana and north of roughly Iliff.

We do have a decent city-wide trail & park system/network that integrates to Denver's pretty well, but unless you are west Peoria they are primarily good for recreation and not commuting due to last-mile problems and the bike lane network being not that great right now. West of 225 you have a lot of older neighborhood streets you can ride on that cross (but don't dump you onto) arterials, and/or have sidewalks a little more consistently.

Bluescreen73
Living in Aurora
6mo ago

Take Aurora smack talk on social media/Reddit/etc with a grain of salt. I guarantee you a majority of the people who dump on Aurora have never even lived here. They just repeat dumb, racially-tinged crap that someone else who's also never lived here told them.

We've lived here for 11 years and have never been shot, mugged, stabbed, carjacked, or had our house broken into and/or burned down.

Aurora is by far and away the most-diverse city in Colorado. We have some of the best ethnic cuisine in the city.

Valid cons of the city - sprawl, further from the mountains, much of the city is flat, we have no downtown, little walkability, and access to the rail network is largely poor.

The northwestern corner of the city is the most diverse area, but it's also the poorest. It has the lowest cost housing, the highest crime, and the worst schools.

Central Aurora is transitional. Some crime issues, slightly better schools, slightly more expensive, slightly less diverse.

Southern/Southeastern Aurora is the most affluent area with the best schools, but it's also the most expensive and least-diverse part of the city.

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