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re: Speaking of places to move/retire, somebody talk to me about Loveland/Fort Collins, CO.
Posted on 9/7/21 at 4:18 pm to Jim Rockford
Posted on 9/7/21 at 4:18 pm to Jim Rockford
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Durango.
Loved Durango. Have stayed there many times and at Purgatory.
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Posted on 9/7/21 at 4:22 pm to fr33manator
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Loveland is gorgeous. Great skiing…but it’s been about 20 years
One of the colder places I've skied. Very fun, old school mountain but fck that place is cold. And I've skied several resorts in Canada.
Posted on 9/7/21 at 4:22 pm to Slippy
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Loveland/Fort Collins, CO.
My oldest brother lived in Loveland for 45 years. It's a beautiful place but like everything else they touch Californians will do it in. He hates yuppies with everything in him. Ended up selling his house and moved to south Florida two years ago.
Posted on 9/7/21 at 4:22 pm to Chum Bucket
Kind of a rough looking crowd in that town
Posted on 9/7/21 at 4:37 pm to Slippy
Probably a weird observation, but I noticed the convenience stores didn’t look like convenience stores. They were really nice, well-landscaped and oddly had curb appeal. Very clean city.
Posted on 9/7/21 at 4:44 pm to Slippy
There's a huge movement to the Denver area right now and that entire I25 corridor is going to continue to explode. I'm not sure what you are looking for but its definitely going to be more and more suburbia. Not all a bad thing.
If you are looking to retire, I'd consider areas that are nice areas but not good school areas. You can probably get a lot more for your money.
I also think you'd be crazy to buy out there without living there a year. Go and rent for awhile, then buy. Just so many factors to "retiring" somewhere without ever actually living there.
If you are looking to retire, I'd consider areas that are nice areas but not good school areas. You can probably get a lot more for your money.
I also think you'd be crazy to buy out there without living there a year. Go and rent for awhile, then buy. Just so many factors to "retiring" somewhere without ever actually living there.
Posted on 9/7/21 at 4:44 pm to Slippy
Before there was google maps or GPS, there were 2 dimensional maps. My dumbazz used one to find a shortcut to Denver one snowy evening, coming from Estes Park. Drove Loveland Pass to get there. Avalanche area after Avalance area, cliff hugging slow, white knuckles and puckered parts...led me to go back the next year during the summer to drive it. It was amazingly beautiful and eye-opening at the height and edge of mountains my dumbazz drove during the winter. I love me some Colorado. But, they had to amputate my pucker cause it was permanently damaged from that drive that one winter.
Posted on 9/7/21 at 4:47 pm to baldona
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There's a huge movement to the Denver area right now and that entire I25 corridor is going to continue to explode.
Western slope areas are growing too. Grand Junction being one of the fastest growing cities in CO.
Posted on 9/7/21 at 4:54 pm to Slippy
Front Range can be pretty nice. The only 2 I would avoid is Denver Metro and Pueblo.
Trinidad is nice and Colorado Springs is still solid, although it is starting to get too big for its britches.
Lots of little towns in the mountains though.
Trinidad is nice and Colorado Springs is still solid, although it is starting to get too big for its britches.
Lots of little towns in the mountains though.
Posted on 9/7/21 at 5:02 pm to Slippy
I lived in FoCo from 2017-2019 after the USMC to live/go to school at CSU with my best friend from the Corps. It was my first experience living outside of the Southeast, and I absolutely loved it.
Horsetooth is amazing in your back yard and you're just a drive (hour or two for many) from a bunch of other trails and whatnot. CSU makes it feel like a college town (although different than down here, cause they don't give a f about collegiate sports like we do) with a solid nightlife in Old Town. You have a bunch of awesome breweries to include New Belgium and Odell. The food scene is so much better than what you'd expect (Colorado Room, CooperSmiths, Ace Gillett's, etc). Low crime, pretty clean. Someone mentioned a homeless population and that's definitely true.
Overall it is just an awesome town with more going on than Loveland, but not as crazy populated as Denver. If I hadn't met my wife here (who is stuck in that whole "must stay in LA due to family") and had two kids? I'd be going right back now that I am permanently WFH. Hell, I may still try to pitch it to her cause I am so ready to leave Louisiana.
Horsetooth is amazing in your back yard and you're just a drive (hour or two for many) from a bunch of other trails and whatnot. CSU makes it feel like a college town (although different than down here, cause they don't give a f about collegiate sports like we do) with a solid nightlife in Old Town. You have a bunch of awesome breweries to include New Belgium and Odell. The food scene is so much better than what you'd expect (Colorado Room, CooperSmiths, Ace Gillett's, etc). Low crime, pretty clean. Someone mentioned a homeless population and that's definitely true.
Overall it is just an awesome town with more going on than Loveland, but not as crazy populated as Denver. If I hadn't met my wife here (who is stuck in that whole "must stay in LA due to family") and had two kids? I'd be going right back now that I am permanently WFH. Hell, I may still try to pitch it to her cause I am so ready to leave Louisiana.
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Posted on 9/7/21 at 5:05 pm to Slippy
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Posted on 9/7/21 at 5:37 pm to Paul Allen
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Western slope areas are growing too. Grand Junction being one of the fastest growing cities in CO.
I was talking to a guy from out there one time whose opinion was you needed to be somewhere north of central Montana to avoid the explosive growth. North of there the winters are too long and bitter for most people.
If I was going to live out there it would be in the Red Lodge, Beartooth, Cooke City area of Montana. Super scenic, pretty remote and mostly national forest-national park, so sprawl potential is limited.
I used to love the western side of the Wind River Range but it's catching the spillover from Jackson Hole.
Posted on 9/7/21 at 5:37 pm to Slippy
Do you have to be in a city/suburbs for work? There are 100s of better places to live in COlorado than that area.
Fort Collins is OK if you need to be in population but if not go further west.
Fort Collins is OK if you need to be in population but if not go further west.
Posted on 9/7/21 at 5:43 pm to Jim Rockford
We haven't talked about the Canadian Rockies yet. Lots of untapped potential if you can swing being an expat.
Posted on 9/7/21 at 5:43 pm to Slippy
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This post was edited on 5/4/22 at 9:43 pm
Posted on 9/7/21 at 5:48 pm to Chum Bucket
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Trinidad is a hot spot right now.
Really? Seems like it’s slowly declined in population for about 50 years. I drive through there on I-25 each summer and stop off from time to time. It looks unchanged.
Posted on 9/7/21 at 5:50 pm to Jcorye1
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Fort Collins is super cool, but also insanely hipster.
This!! It’s full of mega liberals. Every hipster liberal I know has Fort Collins, Austin, etc on their wish list of places to be. Eventually, it’ll go to shite.
Posted on 9/7/21 at 5:54 pm to TexasTiger08
I've always liked that area down to Raton. All of northern NM really
Posted on 9/7/21 at 6:21 pm to Slippy
The Hooters in Loveland had the most impressive talent I have seen at a Hooters.
Posted on 9/7/21 at 6:23 pm to Slippy
Moved out here 27 years ago, two weeks after graduating from LSU. Now live in the burbs of Fort Collins and have seen the rapid change first hand. My wife and I plan on moving in 5 years when the kids graduate from high school as the town is no longer the "right-sized" town that we fell in love with.
We have the typical complaints that come with a growing, popular town. I don't want to write a huge post so I'll bullet point some thoughts:
-Weather is absolutely wonderful. Yeah it gets cold, but only for short time and then can warm right back up to the 50's in the winter. Humidity is non-existent.
-Homeless problem is most likely result of our changing politics and now openly welcoming them. In this last election our "conservative" city council district was won by an unabashed progressive. I know a LOT of people that have moved here from Illinois, CA and East Coast. This isn't anecdotal, the politics have 100% changed. Was fairly conservative town back in late 90's early 2000's. Some people might have forgotten that CO voted against gay marriage back in the late 90's.
-Traffic going up to the mountains is ridiculous. So much so that we quit skiing and now head North and West to cross country ski in the boonies. I guess this is relative depending on where you are coming from so maybe gridlock traffic doesn't bother you.
-Infrastructure here is great. Almost every other weekend we are cruising around town on our bikes hitting breweries, restaurants, events, etc. If you like to ride your bike, this place is great.
-It's a clean city. It's amazing how much you notice trash when visiting other parts of the country.
-If you have school aged kids, our district has gone almost full woke. It was always a fun dinner conversation as my kids would report on the latest BS that the school was preaching. My son gave me a lesson on pronouns and the different types of sexual identifiers: pansexual, hypersexual, etc. We were able to get them into a charter school recently so at least there are alternatives here.
-Housing prices are sky high and not sure they will correct in this area. During the 2008 recession our home prices remained flat as opposed to severe correction like Las Vegas and Phoenix.
-The writing is on the wall for Colorado. Currently the House, Senate and Governor are all Democrats. That could be a plus or a minus for you.
-Sometimes I forget that we have a Division I football team in town.
-We now seem to have the California unfriendliness vibe around here. They definitely have a different aura about them.
We have the typical complaints that come with a growing, popular town. I don't want to write a huge post so I'll bullet point some thoughts:
-Weather is absolutely wonderful. Yeah it gets cold, but only for short time and then can warm right back up to the 50's in the winter. Humidity is non-existent.
-Homeless problem is most likely result of our changing politics and now openly welcoming them. In this last election our "conservative" city council district was won by an unabashed progressive. I know a LOT of people that have moved here from Illinois, CA and East Coast. This isn't anecdotal, the politics have 100% changed. Was fairly conservative town back in late 90's early 2000's. Some people might have forgotten that CO voted against gay marriage back in the late 90's.
-Traffic going up to the mountains is ridiculous. So much so that we quit skiing and now head North and West to cross country ski in the boonies. I guess this is relative depending on where you are coming from so maybe gridlock traffic doesn't bother you.
-Infrastructure here is great. Almost every other weekend we are cruising around town on our bikes hitting breweries, restaurants, events, etc. If you like to ride your bike, this place is great.
-It's a clean city. It's amazing how much you notice trash when visiting other parts of the country.
-If you have school aged kids, our district has gone almost full woke. It was always a fun dinner conversation as my kids would report on the latest BS that the school was preaching. My son gave me a lesson on pronouns and the different types of sexual identifiers: pansexual, hypersexual, etc. We were able to get them into a charter school recently so at least there are alternatives here.
-Housing prices are sky high and not sure they will correct in this area. During the 2008 recession our home prices remained flat as opposed to severe correction like Las Vegas and Phoenix.
-The writing is on the wall for Colorado. Currently the House, Senate and Governor are all Democrats. That could be a plus or a minus for you.
-Sometimes I forget that we have a Division I football team in town.
-We now seem to have the California unfriendliness vibe around here. They definitely have a different aura about them.
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