Denver is nice. A lot more affordable and less crowded than New York. Also you got the mountains of Colorado. You should start snowboarding or snowmobiling, and you will love it here. Its not always cold and snowy in Denver, the weather is about the same as New York, sometimes it can snow a lot at once though, cuz its close to the mountains. 45 minutes from Denver you can be at 14,000 feet on top of Mount Evans in your car, its the highest paved road in North America. There is a lot of good music in Denver too, not as much as NYC of course, but probably some different stuff. A lot of west coast hip hop and east coast tooo, you get the best of both sides. For shoe stores we got Nike Town, The 400, Unsoled, Shoe Extreme ect.. I would actually prefer to live in Denver than NYC. NYC is too epensive, and crowded, and crazy. Denver has waaaaay better smoke too.