Where to move in Denver area?

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I am a 24 year old nursing student and I am planning on moving to the Denver area next year to get my masters. I dont want to live in Downtown but I dont want to live in the boonies either. Where is a good place to live? I

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Boonies? In Denver? It is a huge metropolitan area. It depends on where you are going to school. You don't want to be too far away from school. If you go to school in colorado Springs..that is a great area. Denver Proper is much to busy for me. I grew up in Aurora and I have a sister that still lives in that area but look around a bit before you decide for sure. My heaven and yours may be different.

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The suburb of Arvada (on the west side of downtown) is really nice. (Spent 6 months there.) As is Golden - it's a town just "outside" of Denver, but very close, at the foot of the mountains. Very nice.
Littleton, Lakewood, Arvara, Wheat Ridge are west of Denver just a short drive. South of town is Castle Rock, Lone tree and Highlands Ranch, all good places to live and within a 30 min drive to downtown Denver
Denver is a huge metropolitan area, if you look it up on a map, any city that is within a 20 mile area is close to Denver. If you want to live in Denver proper, check out the Lowry area or the Stapleton area. Lowry was the old air force base and Stapleton was the old airport. Lots of new apartments and townhouses there. Within 5-10 minutes of CU nursing (I just answered your Boulder question). Both places are hot, new places to live, and there are all kinds of places to shop and eat around there. If I were in my 20's I'd definitely look there.
If you're going to the University Hospital in Denver a lot, try just east of downtown. Cheesman Park area. It's diverse, interesting, has lots of nightlife, is close to everything, and isn't too absurdly expensive yet.
AURORA!!