“Denver has been discovered, but we should (feel) lucky,” said Nicolais, who lives in Denver. “A lot of cities are cheap to live in, but it’s cheap to live in because no one wants to live there.”

Stupid remark. By flocking here all your doing is fueling local political egos and making out-of-state developers rich beyond belief. You need to ask yourself why no one wants to live in these "cheap" cities the author speaks about. The answer is they are really more expensive than Denver to live in because of the quagmire of social costs strangling their local economies. Denver is evolving the same way with its current political crony capitalist management. At some point in time, the market will correct here and real estate sales will go begging.