where are some places that students live? I've heard denver tech center. Are there any other areas that are relatively affordable?
My SO (third year at RVU) and I (incoming first year) live in DTC and it's a good compromise because you are 20 minutes from downtown and 15 minutes from campus, we also live right next to the light rail station (Belleview) so getting downtown or to the airport is super easy.
I did the MSBS program at RVU and drove to campus daily and it's an easy drive (~ 3 exits on I-25 South). The traffic in the afternoons can be annoying, but if you just spend an extra hour or two studying at school you can miss most of it.
What's nice is we haven't had to move in three years, DTC is centrally located so for my SO's third year rotations he has been relatively equidistant from sites downtown and in the South Denver suburbs (for his rural rotations in places like Kansas, the school has arranged for housing, he's in the Rural and Wilderness Medicine Honors Track). Also, DTC has tons of parks if you have dogs, and a high concentration of medical offices if you want to arrange shadowing.
Some of our friends live in places like Lone Tree, Littleton, and Parker. I've had a few friends live in downtown Denver, but one of them ended up moving to Parker because the traffic was too stressful in the mornings for exams.
Hope this helps, can't wait to meet you all in July! Congratulations!
