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There's a bunch of areas I've driven past that I wanted to go hike and explore, just to get away from everything. Then I'd fly over the same area to see what it all looks like only to find homes and ranches hidden away. COS is a great sellers market for homes, mine went above asking and was done in one day.

Bums, you bet, why work. Sit on a corner, get free money, buy weed, smoke weed "legally", and repeat the next day. Honestly, i would bet there are twice the people begging in CS since pot passed. They are literally everywhere.

Pot tax money is earmarked but I have not noticed one single benefit from the taxes collected. We had to pay extra money above the gas tax and 8.25% city/cty/state tax to fix our roads. That vote was popular with the new people that moved here. Also popular with the same people was the voter approved funding to widen I-25 between CS and Den. CO Dept of Trans wants to take that money and build a toll road with it. Its to the point where it never ends here. And please don't get me started on the Parks and Wildlife.

"Only the Rocks Live Forever"

ZKight89:

I have lived in Colorado Springs since 1976. I wanted to move to Alaska when I retired but my wife wouldn't go because our children and grandchildren live here. The Front Range corridor, at the east base of the mountains, from Pueblo to Fort Collins, is the worst part of the state. 90% of the state is rural land but +/-70% of the population lives in cities on the Front Range. The state is controlled politically by the liberal socialists in Denver and Boulder.

It's easy for me to find solitude and remote beauty because I'm a backpacker. I love the wild beauty of mountain wilderness. Even the wild places on the eastern plains can be surprisingly stunning if you keep your eyes open and your mind searching for unsuspected wonders. But if you can't get away from the roads and ATV trails, you'll have trouble getting away from other people.

I miss the ocean.

If I was moving to Colorado, I would take a serious look at the west slope. If you can't make a living there, I would look elsewhere.

KC

Sounds like everywhere America. Unfortunately. Perhaps I am guilty buying in north Idaho in 2005...

Only idiots reside on the eastern slope!

The NW corner of CO still has a few benefits, or did when I left it 3 years ago. For clarity- I was born in Montrose (family
for 3 generations), raised in Craig. Have lived west of Fruita, as well as in Grand Junction. Have also lived in WY, UT, MO,
and returned to Meeker, CO, for 13 years. Brother, 2 of my sons, my sister, and an uncle all live in Eastern CO. My folks
lived in SW MT for a few years while I was in CO, so I had some basis to compare. Dad's living in Meeker.
I could have lived virtually anywhere, and decided to make the best of the years I may have left, I needed to leave CO.
Most of the things that make CO nice were too much hassle because of the crowds, so I didn't do them, enough.
That was true the first time I left it, and even more so, a decade later. Overpriced, overtaxed, overcrowded, overrun.
But I think the same about most places, and have been known to look darkly at cars that pass my place, on a county road.

damn neighborhood gangs.........

we just plain ol have TOO many fuggin people in this country , and its only going to get worse with the Dems and snowflakes wanting to bring in every poor turd in the third world

all the best places with nice weather are plumb filled up and overflowing


the only way to avoid creeping infestations of libs is find the areas with climate so lousy noone else wants to live there.........

Is that the area between Shreveport and Alexandria?

Front Range is full.....

I hear Oregon is nice....

Yeah but Montana is lonely and horribly cold. No modern amenities, and the game is all gone. Colorado is a much better choice for people to move to....

Colorado is much nicer winter country than Montana.


Hey, if anyone is running away from Minnesota.....I found a snowmobile in Anoka......if you know...anyone is passing through.

You ain't fooling me with your diversion tactics....

No it's not. They don't call Montana the "banana belt" for nothing.

Haha! Normally I am full of schit.....but not this winter!



Bring your Muk Luks if'n yer coming.

I second what just about everyone else has said regarding the Front Range area. It's not a place I'd move to if I didn't live here already. Traffic has become a nightmare, not only in town, but in the mountains. What used to be a 1 hour 20 minute ride to the ski hills/national forest areas, now takes 3 hours minimum. Lift lines are 25 minutes long. We will not ski on the weekends anymore. Period. Literally stop and go traffic on a 65mph highway all the time and almost year round. Hanging Lake, a mountain park, more than 3 hours from Denver, now has to implement a ticket system and regulate visitors because the people traffic was so devastating. Not only to mention they were sending in first aid crews daily to rescue idiots who couldn't make the mile or so walk to the lake.

Legalized pot has destroyed rural CO. Huge greenhouses are now on what used to be vacant agriculture land, and far worse yet are losers who buy 2-5 acre plots of cheap land, bring a 70's era camper and grow illegal pot out of a makeshift greenhouse while at the same time literally schissting up the place. Trash and junk cars litter their lots. Do I dare mention hunting - look for my previous rants about that here. It's getting so crowded during regular seasons, I'd rather hunt the midwest - and I'd see less orange too.

Lot of people think they'll beat the yuppie crowd and go four wheeling and off-grid camping in the summer. However, if you don't leave on Thursday before the weekend, forget finding an off-grid spot in the national forest. And the four-wheeling, might as well paint yellow lines down the rocky trails. It's very crowded. That's not an exaggeration. In my little mountain town, well what used to be a little mountain town, we joke about the deadlocked Friday afternoon traffic, it's called the 285 RV and boat show.

I think other's have covered the influx if libtards... And for affordably housing LMAO. You will not find a decent 3-4 bedroom house here for under half million with usable acreage. You want land you can shoot on - double that.

I'm a structural engineer that does a lot of residential construction stuff. Our plan is to suck it up, cash the checks while we can, then sell our little plot of mountain land when the time comes. We've already started looking at alternatives - and most are out of state.

This sounds like the PA Pocono mountains area not far from me with people from NY and NJ. Mostly decent folk but too many, and then they want it to be like where they're from and came to escape.Hard to figure.

PS I've been threatening to move to alaska for 40 yrs. Considered CO back then, but too hard to make a living for what I do and now I would not move there. Beautiful state still and my BIL lives there now.

Up here on the North end, it's 7 degrees, the roads are iced up and it's a miserable gray day. Nothing resembling the picture most out of state folks have in their heads.
On the other hand it's a small town, quite, with low crime. I love it.

The real estate market here is pretty crazy too.

Not a good time to be buying property in CO.... but a great time to be selling. Our home value has nearly doubled in 5 years... but I don’t think that bubble is gonna last. The pot stuff is driving everything up in CO right now.... from home values to grocery prices to gas prices. If something changes in the pot industry.... the bottom is gonna fall out, big time.

I wouldn’t buy a house in CO right now....