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It's more than 45 minutes from Denver. In the winter is can be much more than that. Normal conditions it's prob 1.5 hours from main street breck to downtown Denver. Vail is definitely the more "resorty" of the two towns, but they are both resort towns. Summit county (including Breck, Frisco, Dillon and surrounding) is more affordable of the two. Living right in Breck town is very expensive, especially if you don't want roommates. All of things previously mentioned (sports teams, grocery stores, bus) all exist in Vail valley as well, in basically the exact same capacity. Same with nightlife, but I think Breck definitely skews younger and is more of a post college scene. People party pretty drat hard in both, that is for sure. Both towns are dead in the off season, especially mud season (may-july). Socializing is pretty easy in both because of the alcohol and everyone is from out of town, and most likely just got there. You'll prob run in to someone from Austin who have a crew of people from there, people seem to group up naturally like that. From my casual observation Summit county has a lot more men than women. Also Vail and Breck are only about 30-45 mins apart so it's easy to get between them.
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buddhanc posted:Thanks for the advice / help! I am officially going with the Breckenridge job and I'm really looking forward to living there. I have one more question-- how prevalent are bears and moose around the area? I generally go running in the mornings and I try to do nature jogs as much as possible. When I visited yellowstone and the tetons I would always bring a bell and sometimes spray with me. Is that necessary in Breckenridge? No I really don't think so. I've never heard of anyone doing that at least. For one thing due to being so close to an interstate a lot of the trails around Breck are pretty heavily trafficked, thus scaring away a lot of wildlife. They are still around of course, but pretty familiar with people and know how to avoid them. Most bear encounters are just people seeing them knock their garbage cans/dumpsters around early morning, or running across a big pile of bear poo poo on the trail. I'd maybe not use headphones though if you are going on some trails away from main areas, just so you could potentially hear stuff around you.
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