1. Homes under $1 million actually available. (The University Hills house below — 6 bedrooms, 7 baths — is listed for $690K)
2. Ski resorts! From San Francisco, skiing can mean a 6-hour drive in traffic. Denver puts the slopes right there. Like Loveland, pictured below.)

3. Awesome Bike paths along creeks and rivers
![bikepathat19thstbridge By Xnatedawgx (Own work) [<a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html">GFDL</a>, <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC-BY-SA-3.0</a> or <a href="http://artlibre.org/licence/lal/en">FAL</a>], <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABikepathat19thStBridge.JPG">via Wikimedia Commons</a>](https://2paragraphs.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Bikepathat19thStBridge.jpg)
Bike Path, 19th Street Bridge (photo by via Wikimedia Commons)
4. Four Seasons / 300 days sunshine

Denver blue sky (photo by Hogs555 via Wikimedia Commons)
5. Denver Broncos play in Denver

Von Miller, Denver Broncos (photo by Jeffrey Beall via Wikimedia Commons)