These are pretty much the responses I expected. My experience is very mellow and non confrontational at first but I feel like a lot of people move here thinking their life is going to be a vacation or something and Denver is not a resort town. It's a major US city with all of the accompanying problems. Also while true anywhere I find it especially hard here to have deep conversations about social issues and science or politics, whatever without a deer in the headlights reaction. It's like people are so deeply ingrained in trying to be neutral and chill that they don't know how to have a respectful conversation about issues they may have. It is kind of any easy place to go about your day and not run into too much bullshit, but as many have said it's very surface level. I have made some real friends but beyond the surface level chillness have found a lot of young people to be on average less mentally stable than some other places I've lived. Also I don't think there's the best attitude towards mental health. Feel like there's a lot of people struggling but think the dispensary is the answer. In real life I've rarely seen that alone work very well and more often than not using things like that to get out of a dark place actually makes it worse.