Comments on: Neighborhood Pride http://brianherman.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/neighborhood-pride/ My thoughts on Project Management, Leadership, Music, and Life Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:07:11 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: brianherman http://brianherman.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/neighborhood-pride/#comment-211 brianherman Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:33:57 +0000 http://brianherman.wordpress.com/?p=177#comment-211 Last week I got an earful from some friends back in Colorado about this post. They pointed out that Denver has plenty of neighborhoods and proceeded to name the same 4 I could come up with (5-Points, Wash Park, Capital Hill, Cherry Creek), then mentioned a few more I'd never heard of or never considered as neighborhoods (Highlands, Highlands Ranch (not the same thing) and Stapleton). I'll grant you Stapleton but don't even try to pretend that Highlands Ranch is a neighborhood! And as for the others... I've never heard someone say "you should come live in my neighborhood" with the fervor that these Seattle folks bring. I offer into evidence the following sites: Denver Neighborhoods: http://www.denver.com/neighborhoods/ (note that a majority of them aren't neighborhoods at all, but towns and cities, some over 90 minutes away). Denver Neighborhood map: http://www.denver.org/metro/neighborhoods Denver Neighborhood blogs: um, uh, well, google doesn't find much: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=denver+neighborhood+blogs&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 Now... Seattle Neighborhood blogs: http://www.neighborlogs.com/2008/12/02/seattles-29-neighborhood-blogs Seattle Neighborhood map: http://www.seattlerentals.com/719.html I rest my case. Last week I got an earful from some friends back in Colorado about this post. They pointed out that Denver has plenty of neighborhoods and proceeded to name the same 4 I could come up with (5-Points, Wash Park, Capital Hill, Cherry Creek), then mentioned a few more I’d never heard of or never considered as neighborhoods (Highlands, Highlands Ranch (not the same thing) and Stapleton). I’ll grant you Stapleton but don’t even try to pretend that Highlands Ranch is a neighborhood! And as for the others… I’ve never heard someone say “you should come live in my neighborhood” with the fervor that these Seattle folks bring.

I offer into evidence the following sites:

Denver Neighborhoods: http://www.denver.com/neighborhoods/
(note that a majority of them aren’t neighborhoods at all, but towns and cities, some over 90 minutes away).
Denver Neighborhood map: http://www.denver.org/metro/neighborhoods
Denver Neighborhood blogs: um, uh, well, google doesn’t find much: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=denver+neighborhood+blogs&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Now…

Seattle Neighborhood blogs: http://www.neighborlogs.com/2008/12/02/seattles-29-neighborhood-blogs
Seattle Neighborhood map: http://www.seattlerentals.com/719.html

I rest my case.

]]> By: litlnemo http://brianherman.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/neighborhood-pride/#comment-210 litlnemo Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:41:26 +0000 http://brianherman.wordpress.com/?p=177#comment-210 The guy was right about Beacon Hill. ;) And it's way more affordable. The guy was right about Beacon Hill. ;) And it’s way more affordable.

]]> By: westseattleblog http://brianherman.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/neighborhood-pride/#comment-205 westseattleblog Mon, 18 May 2009 21:07:36 +0000 http://brianherman.wordpress.com/?p=177#comment-205 Hey! Come live here! Actually my co-publisher/husband is a native Coloradan. But I'm a native Californian and we picked WS more because it reminded us of San Diego, where we lived most recently. The boom in professional online neighborhood news (at which we are proud to be among those at the forefront) is partly to thank for the enhancement of a visible and readable sense of neighborhood pride, although heaven knows neighborhood pride was here, in a big way, long before any of us opened our sites :) If you do decide to come here, and have any requests for help or recommendations, be sure to post in our forums http://westseattleblog.com/blog/forum where many helpful folks can offer advice and experience. --Tracy at West Seattle Blog Hey! Come live here!

Actually my co-publisher/husband is a native Coloradan. But I’m a native Californian and we picked WS more because it reminded us of San Diego, where we lived most recently.

The boom in professional online neighborhood news (at which we are proud to be among those at the forefront) is partly to thank for the enhancement of a visible and readable sense of neighborhood pride, although heaven knows neighborhood pride was here, in a big way, long before any of us opened our sites :)

If you do decide to come here, and have any requests for help or recommendations, be sure to post in our forums
http://westseattleblog.com/blog/forum
where many helpful folks can offer advice and experience.
–Tracy at West Seattle Blog

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