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re: Is Colorado the Best State in the US?
Posted on 11/11/21 at 12:01 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Posted on 11/11/21 at 12:01 pm to SaintlyTiger88
It’s great! Business is booming, the amount of cranes dotting the Denver skyline is crazy. Everyday you read the news it’s 100+ jobs to this sector and 1000+ to that one. The politics aren’t worth melting over, very pro business here. Not a mask mandate to be had
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Posted on 11/11/21 at 12:03 pm to The Boat
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Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah
Certain parts of northern New Mexico.
Posted on 11/11/21 at 12:03 pm to SaintlyTiger88
most overrated but they have a good marketing department that dupes people into living there only to leave soon after
Posted on 11/11/21 at 12:15 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Ive lived living here vs Louisiana this past year.
Cost of living can be a bitch but its because people want to be here. It does depend on where you want to be. Front Range is expensive (well Springs and north). In the mountains is obviously costly, I had my inflation shock in January when I got here.
ETA: the people complaining about the politics either live in Boulder or are miserable people who spend way too much time obsessing about politics.
Cost of living can be a bitch but its because people want to be here. It does depend on where you want to be. Front Range is expensive (well Springs and north). In the mountains is obviously costly, I had my inflation shock in January when I got here.
ETA: the people complaining about the politics either live in Boulder or are miserable people who spend way too much time obsessing about politics.
This post was edited on 11/11/21 at 12:18 pm
Posted on 11/11/21 at 12:30 pm to SaintlyTiger88
It's a beautiful state. Older Coloradans (meaning not the hippies in Denver) are good folks. They brew some outstanding beer there. Lots of outdoors stuff. I just don't like the suburban sprawl and lib stuff. You could do worse than Colorado though
Posted on 11/11/21 at 12:33 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I like living here. The weather is awesome. And skiing and hiking most weekends is pretty great.
1. Wildfire smoke sucks. Can’t leave the house for months without feeling asthmatic (not unique to Colorado though, this is a thing for every western state).
2. Super expensive to live here, but not as expensive as the coasts. You need to making around $200k (at least) to be ‘comfortable’ and own property if you’re just starting out, and I can’t even imagine what it’s like if one has children....
3. Definitely some uppity and unfriendly people live here. Seems in general less friendly than Texas is.
4. Homeless encampments dot the landscape, but the homeless aren’t as aggressive as Texas.
The politics here are fine. It’s blue but not so blue that it’ll drive you crazy. I could never live in Boulder though.
I’ve said for a while now that there are better places if you don’t like the outdoors. But if you like the outdoors, Utah, Colorado and the PNW are the only places you should be, IMO.
1. Wildfire smoke sucks. Can’t leave the house for months without feeling asthmatic (not unique to Colorado though, this is a thing for every western state).
2. Super expensive to live here, but not as expensive as the coasts. You need to making around $200k (at least) to be ‘comfortable’ and own property if you’re just starting out, and I can’t even imagine what it’s like if one has children....
3. Definitely some uppity and unfriendly people live here. Seems in general less friendly than Texas is.
4. Homeless encampments dot the landscape, but the homeless aren’t as aggressive as Texas.
The politics here are fine. It’s blue but not so blue that it’ll drive you crazy. I could never live in Boulder though.
I’ve said for a while now that there are better places if you don’t like the outdoors. But if you like the outdoors, Utah, Colorado and the PNW are the only places you should be, IMO.
This post was edited on 11/11/21 at 12:40 pm
Posted on 11/11/21 at 12:35 pm to UKWildcats
Son did undergrad and is finishing grad school in Colorado. There’s a lot to like, but Front Range traffic and housing cost are bad.
Posted on 11/11/21 at 12:35 pm to Saskwatch
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Montana has legal weed now?
Yeah. it started being legal there Jan 1st of this year.
Posted on 11/11/21 at 12:36 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Colorado has great climate and geography. That's about it.
This post was edited on 11/11/21 at 12:41 pm
Posted on 11/11/21 at 12:37 pm to SaintlyTiger88
No
Posted on 11/11/21 at 12:37 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Idaho is way better than CO.
Posted on 11/11/21 at 12:42 pm to SaintlyTiger88
It’s nice but the people are pretty strange.
I was in Denver yesterday renting a big conference room for a customer event and some in the shared space was getting BLAZED and the whole place smelled like a skunk all day.
I was jealous but it also reeked.
I was in Denver yesterday renting a big conference room for a customer event and some in the shared space was getting BLAZED and the whole place smelled like a skunk all day.
I was jealous but it also reeked.
Posted on 11/11/21 at 12:43 pm to olgoi khorkhoi
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Idaho is way better than CO.
If we're talking scenery, I'd take Utah over any of them. But they will probably be the last state in this part of the country to legalize weed...and that factors into where I want to live.
I get that it's a non factor for a lot of people.
Posted on 11/11/21 at 12:44 pm to ducktale
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Sometimes Colorado blue states harder than California. But them mountains tho.
Not really. No mandates anywhere around here and we were the first blue state to end lockdowns.
Posted on 11/11/21 at 12:45 pm to DaleGribble
Utah IMO is extremely overrated scenery wise. Where are the trees? And southern Utah is completely jampacked with people. I’ll take CO and PNW over Utah any day. But to each their own.
Posted on 11/11/21 at 12:46 pm to EmperorGout
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Probably the ugliest collection of white people in one place in the USA, so no
You have to put lotion on daily to help with the aging. That’s the really bad part about living up here is you age much more quickly.
Posted on 11/11/21 at 12:47 pm to TigerSaintInDallas
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But if you like the outdoors, Utah, Colorado and the PNW are the only places you should be, IMO.
Oh really? How many redfish do you catch up there? What about Tuna? Wahoo?
Posted on 11/11/21 at 12:48 pm to Pelican fan99
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Wyoming is better than Colorado
Wyoming is a fricking tundra. Couldn’t pay me to live there. Way different weather than Colorado.
Posted on 11/11/21 at 12:49 pm to tigerinthebueche
Yeah, I don’t know much about fishing. I get that that’s what the outdoors is in the south. Fishing culture here is way more obscure. I’m more referring to camping and skiing.
I do see people fly fishing all the time though.
I do see people fly fishing all the time though.
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