Cost of living, politics and overall structural changes are a few of the reasons why more and more people are moving away from Colorado. Read the full story at cbsn.ws/3IE35mi
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Back in the day, when I purchased my first home to live-in; that was Colorado in the early 1990s, first mortgages with rates of 8 to 9% and 9% to 10% were typical. People will have to accept the possibility that we won't ever return to 3%. If sellers must sell, home prices will have to decline, and lower evaluations will follow. Pretty sure I'm not alone in my chain of thoughts.
Home prices will come down eventually, but for now; get your money (as much as you can) out of the housing market and get into the financial markets or gold. The new mortgage rates are crazy, add to that the recession and the fact that mortgage guidelines are getting more difficult. Home prices will need to fall by a minimum of 40% (more like 50%) before the market normalizes.If you are in cross roads or need sincere advise on the best moves to take now its best you seek an independent advisor who knows about the financial markets.
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Went to Denver for a job in 2015 stayed until 2020 and I have never lived in a dirtier, angrier, ruder, authoritarian city in my life. Every weekend we loaded up the Subaru and headed up the hill to Evergreen or Kittredge for coffee, lunch and a hike. The mountains and the cozy little towns up there are beautiful but living in Denver just wasn't worth it. No good Mexican food (not optional for a native Texan) unfriendly people, lots of road ragers, etc. I'm back in Texas in a small rural farming / ranching community where everyone waves, strangers strike up conversations, neighbors will bring you a casserole for no reason at all. I'll never leave Texas again!
There are similar rural communities throughout eastern and western Colorado. They're just not the typical stereotype for Colorado because they're not mountainous and much dryer. But...there are "fresh" Mexicans all over the Denver area who work at Mexican restaurants...They are literally the same type of people working at those Texan Mexican restaurants. Maybe you chose restaurants in more affluent areas. They're definitely way too Americanized. Tex-Mex plagues Colorado as much as Texas as well. Real Mexican food is uncommon.
Thank you! I'm leaving California for Colorado first to save money. When the crash comes, and it will, I'll be buying land in Texas. My longtime dream I'm a poor old woman but I will make it happen! Bout 2 years! Unless all them young ones in Greenville need a nanny. I'm nervous. Leaving my home so long, my grown kids. But I just can't wait anymore.
Denver is a DEMOCRAT city; you can't expect it to be nice. I've lived in Colorado for 42 years and can count on ONE HAND how many times I've been in Denver because it sucks.
I used to live in Colorado. But it's going down the same destructive path as California, New York, Illinois, etc. Why do people allow themselves to be tricked into voting for idiots.
Those who vote for these radical progressive socialists truly believe that they are going to get "Free Stuff". They do not know how Socialism works and by the time they do figure it out it's too late. Under Socialism everyone is EQUALLY POOR AND MISERABLE.
A boomer who voted for Trump posting "Why do people allow themselves to be tricked into voting for idiots" has to be peak irony, the lack of self-awareness is STAGGERING
We lived in Colorado for over 30 years. It was home. We watched with disbelief as it became unlivable, extremely over-priced, over-crowded, unhappy place to live. We moved away to be closer to family members in another state out east. We found a great little town that feels like an early Fort Collins or Boulder next to a major university, we take care of my wife's father who lives with us, we found a perfect house that we could all live in and have our own spaces, we love the house we bought (for a third of what a comparable one would have been in Colorado). We feel like we might have a future here... that definitely wasn't the case in Colorado. Sad to say - we didn't shed a tear as we drove away.
Moved here from Wisconsin for family reasons. We are in Loveland Colorado. This place it she worst place I have ever been to in my 28 years. I am leaving my family here and going home. No way could I live here for much longer.
I arrived in Boulder in the summer of ‘86 on my bicycle. The town was gorgeous, the weather was perfect and adventure beckoned around every bend. On my second day in town I climbed the third flatiron with a guy I just met, we sat on top and marveled at the view and he said “ one day Denver and Boulder will merge, and you’ll be looking out at subdivisions all the way to Kansas. He was right.
As a kid I always wondered why they built DIA so far away from Denver. Now I know it's because they knew at some point Denver would stretch out at least that far in all directions. It's honestly sad.
@kd8199 Yeah, move to Denver, you can pay 1600 a month for a 400 square foot nook where a homeless person in a tent lives peeing 2 feet away from your head outside your window lol. I live in Denver btw and what I’m saying isn’t even a joke
@@rippindrummer666 - no argument from me on that. I agree about Denver. I am more of a fish, hunt, country guy here. I’ll live where I want without any suggestions from you. I like being free.
As a Texan that visits Colorado and other states often I can tell ya, every major city in America is facing the same changes. Homelessness, crime spreading out all over metro areas, ridiculous cost of living, influx of out of towners taking up space, a mass of huge overpriced apartment buildings. It's not a state or city issue, it's a country issue, America as we knew it is over.
Thank you for sharing this. This has been my observations as well. Not only in America, but world wide, in many of the urban cities. And why is this the case? One off the major reasons is that wages/salaries aren't high enough to support the cost of living. Some of the Haves have too much while many of the Have Nots have too little.
My grandmother is a Colorado native. Born in ‘34, raised 3 kids in Golden back in the 70s and 80s. She’s been priced out of her hometown because it’s too expensive now. This place has changed. Crappy new overpriced developments everywhere. Working and middle class people being priced out of their homes. Now this state is just another California. Only the richest people can afford it, no affordable housing, more crime and drug problems. The state I grew up in will always hold a place in my heart, but I know the Colorado I knew and loved is just a memory now.
My wife was born in Denver, as was her mother. I went through grade school, middle school, and high school in Colorado. We moved out in 2019 due to the politics. I worked with people who had moved to Colorado from California and Illinois, and they voted for the same people who ruined their home states. During the last few years we lived in Colorado, we called it The People's Republic of Eastern Kalifornia.
I left. Born and raised in Colorado, leaving was tough. Too many people moved in, I would see road rage almost every day, traffic was was almost New York City bad, my house was worth an incredible amount of money. The traffic going into the mountains was terrible. Sometimes 6 hours from Vail to Evergreen. Now overcrowded. Not the same place I grew up in. I miss the old Colorado though. Always will.
Californians are doing the same thing to Idaho. There should be an additional property tax for californians moving to lower-income states. Idahoans can't afford to live in Idaho anymore. House prices literally quadrupled in the span of 5-6 years here.
I'm from Colorado, born and raised here. The insanely high cost of living is Ridiculous!!! The middle class is truly vanishing from this state, and it's not just happening in the cities either. Here up in the mountains, there's almost only 2 kinds of people who live here: the very poor and the ultra-rich. I've known many people who had to move to another state because they got priced out of living here, especially within the last 2 years. And those who remain (who aren't ultra rich) crowd up into apartments with at least 4 other roommates to afford to live out here. And young people like myself just stay living with their parents well into their 20s, but I want to move out soon and want to actually have my own place without living in some crowded apartment. Colorado has changed A LOT from when I was growing up here. I'm grateful to have grown up here back when it was still pristine, peaceful, and less crowded, but Colorado is a totally different place now. Colorado IS California 2.0 Interestingly when I go visit western SD it reminds me of the old Colorado.
It is all over in the mountain west. I grew up in Wyoming and now live in northern WI. Not as beautiful here (but still nice), but way cheaper and WAY less traffic.
I was born here (1970) and lived here my whole life. Imagine how much better it was in those decades. I've watched my home state turn into a shit show.
I used to live in Colorado...beautiful place in Old Snowmass. 50 acres..built my own house. Than all the people from Cali arrived...drove up home prices but that wasn't the worse part. They bought their liberal ideas with them. They built bike trails (less than 1% of the population used), a valley wide transit system (to bring in their gardeners, house keepers and day workers from down valley), heated open bus stops (which makes no sense) , new rec centers, new everything....taxes went up and up and up. Mine with from under 2k to over 17k during this time. Every local I know was forced out of their home mainly because we just couldn't keep paying the increase in taxes. I knew people in Denver too. They all moved because of the drug use in the streets and the huge increase in those type of people after the legalization of weed. Another beautiful state that is dying due to the cancer of liberalism.
My brother in law says that there have been some changes in the area where he lives in Colorado. He went back home back in 2022. And I’m born and raise in California. So if there is anything is that it’s not getting better on neither side. My mother in law will be visiting Colorado next year. To visit her side of the family. I understand your frustration because here id something similar going on
I lived in Colorado fro '77-'96, moved away and back to Colorado Springs in 2021. Since ive been back my car has been badly hit (hit and run) twice in parking lots. I've almost been run killed at intersections four times on my motorcycle. Seen human waste on the streets of Colorado Springs, and had my Backhoe stolen while I was at work, and an old friends son was caught in crossfire and severly injured. I thought I needed a change and returning to Colorado was the answer, but yeah, with the crime, traffic, bad drivers, open homelessnes everwhere. I always loved going off road and camping even that is spoiled by the trash others leave behind in the mountains. Yeah , Ive had my eyes opened. There's alot to love about Colorado and you can still enjoy it here, but its the contradictions, the sh** policies that have me occasionally thinking Colorado is in decline. The grass definately isn't greener here, but it never is.
Many thought legalizing pot would fix everything and CO would bankroll. There’s more homeless now than ever. These CA style policies are ruining one of the most beautiful states in the US.
@@unnecessaryapostrophe4047 Somewhat true, although pot legalization was pitched as a gusher for tax revenues that would fund education and homelessness. Not sure about Colorado, but the black markets in Oregon and California are larger than the legit market with a corresponding M.I.A of tax receipts.
It's not the pot. I didn't vote for it-I was for the version that made it legal only to grow and possess for yourself, and I predicted that commercializing it would be a compound failure, but it's really not THE problem. The problem IS the whole package of left-wing policies, including coddling the homeless. It's like someone put a big sign up that says "Colorado has a bunch of suckers to pay for your lifestyle for you."
@@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman No, really. Pot didn't do that. The coddling of irresponsible people did. You hold people responsible, and they sink or swim with their dependencies (which are not generally significant with pot-not like alcohol and hard drugs-some people are easily habituated to bad behavior, not addicted.) The big problem is the same Californicated model of taxing the crap out of the responsible to coddle the irresponsible (I grew up there, and this was like a libertarian escape-which could handle pot just fine without the other leftist crap.) PS: BTW, Colorado DID handle pot fine when it was medical. I was a pain patient for years before it was commercialized (which took a couple years after the 2012 vote.) I do believe it was the rest of the leftist culture, which may have been very much associated with making the commercialization legal.
I moved away from Colorado about a year and a half ago. So glad that I did. The property taxes, the traffic, and the housing prices drove so many of my dear friends out of state. I moved to Colorado in 1970 and love love, love the state however, I’m thankful that I have moved. As of 71-year-old woman, cost of living and the property taxes on my home became overwhelming. I’ll come back for a visit, but I’m so glad that I moved here to Tennessee. The cost of living at property taxes and the cost of housing are so much less. Not to mention the people here are so so friendly and nice.
@@pwilliam255You’re going to see a momentous market crash any day now and it will be due to leftist policies. Can you name me one failed red city? Leftism destroys everything it touches.
@@continentalaquatics2725 did you forget how screwed we were at the end of George W. Bush’s second term? We would have been worse off if trump got re elected, facts.
I was raised in Colorado and left in 1987. I get back frequently to visit family. The changes are incredibly sad. My old high school has gone from being one of the best in the state (academically and athletically) to a war zone. It's so bad they fired all principals and teachers last year and required the teachers to reapply for their jobs. The growth and crime have destroyed many parts of the Front Range that used to be great places to live. IMO too many politicians in CO are on the far right and far left. There are no moderates and no sanity anymore.
If this fake country allowed the "fly over states" to be livable, it would affect the real estate value of the few places along the coasts where the venture capitalists live, and less people would be incentivized to leave home in the South and Mid West.
The reasons that the people gave for leaving Colorado is quite ridiculous considering those things are present in EVERY state. I live in Arizona, and I’ve visited several cities in California, Florida, Seattle, Nevada, I’m originally from Michigan, etc. and all those states have some form of crime, expensive cost of living, homelessness etc. so no matter where you go, you’re always going to run into those issue. I can even break down which state that I’ve visited/lived in has those attributes. Let’s start with the most ridiculous reason a person would leave a states 1. Homeless People: Any state could take this spot, but It’s ironic that California is in the top 4 states people are moving to from Colorado considering the fact that California is ranked number 1 for having has the HIGHEST homeless population in the country. I’ve been to San Francisco, and let me tell you, I’ve NEVER seen more homeless people in my life. Both sidewalks on each side of the road had lines of homeless people sleeping on the ground. Not only that, but there were also multiple human feces on the ground too. 2. Expensive Cost of Living: Literally every state could take the cake for this spot. Arizona used to be one of the most affordable states to live in 5-10+ years ago, but now, it’s just as expensive as the next state. A 2 bedroom apartment costs $2,000/mo to rent! California is notorious for their expensive housing, gas prices, food etc. California ranks number 2 as the most expensive states to buy houses. 3. Crime: Again any state could take this one, but Michigan’s crime rate is going up, and is increasingly becoming less safe to live in. The moral of the story is that no matter where you move to in America, you WILL run into these issues, you can’t escape it, you especially can’t escape politics because EVERYONE is going to have a difference in political views no matter where you go, so again all of these reasons for leaving are ridiculous. Saying you just want a change of pace, or different weather, or different scenery is a WAY better reason to leave a state than to say you’re leaving because of “crime”, “politics”, “homelessness”, “expensive housing”, all things you will find in every state and can’t escape. Obviously I do realize that yes more states than others have higher crime rates, or expensive housing, or homeless population etc. and I understand trying to find the state with the least of these bad qualities is important, but people shouldn’t make it seem like Colorado is the only state to deal with these issues, because it’s not.
I lived in Boulder in the oughts and now when I go back I can’t believe how much it’s deteriorated - homeless tents everywhere and gaudy huge apartment complexes.
They start the story off saying they don’t know why people are moving then the next part they say they are moving from liberal cities to conservative rural areas. I wonder if that might have something to do with it.
I was a runaway teenager in the mid 1970's who rode into Colorado on a motorcycle, and stayed a few years. The trees were green in the mountains, the roads were very easy to travel on. Cripple Creek was a ghost town, and Central City was just a laundromat and a liquor store. Real estate in Denver was cheap. I paid $90. a month for an efficiency apartment in the city. Castle Rock was the middle of nowhere, really. I went back to visit some friends in Denver a couple of years ago, and I just about puked as to what the area had become. Glad I lived there when I did!
I lived there from 1980 to 1989 and it wasn't much different than you describe. Part of me longed to move back. But after my last few trips up there to visit family and do some off roading that desire quickly faded. It is not the same place it was when I was a kid.
My family left in the late 80's. Too many Californians were moving in, it became less safe. It was less attractive with the overbuilding and more expensive.
While watching this I commented to my BF that the reason Florida is appealing to certain kinds of people is because of the illusion that it is safer and cheaper. "Safer" meaning you dont see the homelessness...and What do you know, the last lady interviewed said just that.
Great little piece! I like how you have 2 people confirming that Colorado is going to hell in a hand basket. You got the resident that explicitly said so, and then you have the realtor who said that everything is great in such a desperate tone.
Went to C. U. in Boulder in the '60's to '70's. Returned for a visit several years ago. It's been "Californicated". Talked with a local in Estes Park who moved up there from Boulder, he said you couldn't find a decent place to live in Boulder for under a Million. Stoners and the smell of marijuana pretty much everywhere.
I grew up in Colorado, Durango. I left in 2016 , the entire area was taken over by California's. They ruined it like a plague of locust . It's all just car lots strip malls and apartment buildings that no one can afford now .
I was a 30 year native that moved to Texas. 1. Got a 3 bd, 2 bath home on 1 acre for the price of a condo in Aurora. 2. Not going to raise my family in "Cali-rado" with that fruitloop governor.
Wow! I feel like I'm watching a video about my state--Washington. Same thing. Both WA and CO were the "hip" places to move to several years ago and lots of people were moving to both places. Now lots of people want out.
I used to love WA. I really wanted to retire there. Same policies as CA. Everything they raise your taxes to fix gets worst. It’s very sad. I know they don’t have state taxes in WA, but there are some local taxes and Seattle is just scary.
My Old Man moved us out of Colorado in the 1970s because even then, it was getting too crowded and gentrified. The rest of the Rocky Mountain/High Plains West stopped considering Colorado as truly part of the region quite some time ago. It’s basically California lite.
I recall Breckenridge during the 80s. Open fields and only 2 bars being The Mogul and Big Daddys. Cruised through there decades later and cannot even remotely recall the landscape but THATS progress. Oh yeah, a little Fox was trotting across a cross walk which was surreal.
I think this is realistic, relavant and heart wrenching at the same time. People everywhere are looking for this majestic place that exist no matter what the state is and the relatity is that it exists no where. The world is a changing place and it will continue when we value money over humanity, integrity and character. Most of all of us no matter the money want safety, shelter food and insurances that assist us in building a healthy life. No matter what your standing is and where you are, homeless and those who do not have will always be among us. It just boils down to the more you money you make the further you can move from them. Everyone take good care of yourselves and add a little beauty to someone else even if it is a just the beauty of hello.
As a ski writer, I spent a lot of time in Colorado. I have always felt the skiing is way over-rated, the people who work at and those who frequent the big resorts are pompous and snooty, the prices for everything are exorbitant. When I retired, I relocated to far northern Michigan, on the shores of Lake Superior. The skiing here is every bit as good as in Colorado but at a mere fraction of the cost for housing, lift tickets, dining out, you name it. And you don't have to stand in line for an hour to board a ski lift.
Dude, you're shooting yourself in the foot here. You hand out information like that and in six months you're gonna have a flood of what happened back in CO ruining your nice area and slopes.
What you describe is what I experienced in Europe, and the Europeans I have met agree. Want lower costs? Ski Cooper, Monarch, Powderhorn, Sunlight, and other smaller areas are magnificent.
Denver used to be nice, but it is now a complete cesspool. The further you get from Denver, the nicer Colorado gets. Crime has rocketed up the last few years and people are getting murdered on the streets in "nice" areas. Stay out of Denver if you can.
It's crazy, the very politicians who claim to care about the poor have the rich doing the best and the poor doing the worst. It's almost like the left guts the middle class and pushed the rich to new heights and keeps the poor just above rock bottom by subsidising them to stay poor.
@@pestemmedico6369 Statistics are far too often distorted and misinterpreted; going by “statistics”, Douglas County had more crime reported than Denver County and anyone with a room temperature IQ would immediately correlate that to higher crime and not the fact that the police in Denver County hardly ever show up (often times not at all) to calls anymore after being downsized tremendously (I couldn’t even get an officer on the line after witnessing a stabbing on East Colfax). Point is that ever since Denver started going blue the problems here have increased tremendously and someone would have to be either daft or intentionally obtuse to not notice it.
Couldn’t be because of all the people and all the shit they’ve brought with them. Colorado is not the same place I grew up in. Having a homestead family, I never thought I’d want to leave, but I think about it more and more.
All my life I wanted to go to Colorado, ever since I was a small kid and loved John Denver songs. Last year I finally made it, I wasn't disappointed overall. Stayed in Golden, nice town, drove into Denver to see all the sights and museums, which were great, but the amount of street people and druggies literally within sight of the state house were really shocking. But that's every big city right now. Will say I can't wait to go back and see different areas of the state.
I grew up in Denver and left in 1998. I came back in April for a funeral and was shocked and appalled by what I saw. They have built on every piece of land. I use to love looking at the mountains now, you can't even see them for all of the cheezy buildings they put up. I literally didn't recognize the place. I understand growth and change, but it should not come at the expense of they beautiful views nor for the sske of a dollar. The politics are a hot stinking mess! The homelessness is out of control. Crime is outrageous in areas that were prominent. I don't know how anyone can afford to live there. It really broke my heart to see such a beautiful place go to hell in a hand basket.
Colorado was my home. I was born there and lived there for thirty-five years. But constantly increasing taxes, increases in overall cost of living, and a reduction in the quality of schools for my kids pushed my husband and I out. I miss it, but it’s not worth the cost anymore .
They won't. The Coloradans tried saying the same thing to Californians, they won't listen. In fact, if my Colorado experience is any indication, they will revel in the fact that they are destroying your state and will derive great joy in watching you complain about it while knowing you won't do anything about it but hand them a ballot for them to "count". There's no way we're gonna vote our way out of this. 🤷
Tennessee is being ruined by everyone with crazy conservative politics moving to it… and is now suffering from highly inflated home and land prices, crowded roads, overbuilt land, and homeless people everywhere.
@Lab Cat How do you figure? In Colorado, Democrat policies to hinder development in favor of "open space" have driven up housing costs. Democrat policies to protect the homeless from being moved along, and provide services that make being homeless more comfortable, and (most importantly) protect them from the consequences of their drug use, have attracted attract the homeless to Colorado. Democrat policies to encourage use of public transit by neglecting road expansion and road maintenance have caused massive amounts of traffic along with massive amounts of wasted money to build the public transit that people will never use. These are the ways that Democrat policies have caused all of these problems in Colorado. How do you figure Republican policies have caused them in TN? Also, how do you square your complaint about high housing costs and, in the same breath, over development, with your understanding of economic forces?
Eventually with all the illegals being allowed to stay here they will all vote for the DemonicRAT Socialist Party of Death. It's just a matter of time that America will become a one party country. We are well on our way. It's heartbreaking,
After 42 years in the Colorado Springs area my wife and I have moved the Texas. The feel of "freedom" is palpable. Down here the government doesn't look for ways to get in your way or how many new ways they can impose taxes, fees and penalties, they actually work at helping folks succeed. The final straw for me were the blatant actions that SOS Griswald took in Grand Junction and her dictate about no third party adducts in the case of a disputed vote. Simply put, Colorado has a one-party rule and we could not trust them anymore.
Lived in Texas for the past 11 years. Completely the opposite of what you described. As a healthcare provider for 40+ years, having been licensed in no less than 7 states, I can say the healthcare for the poor is the worst I’ve ever encountered. Finding specialist care for my patients is a challenge. Many times they go without care for serious issues affecting their quality of life.
@@AuAdventures - feel free to make assumptions and spout off nonsense. Sorry bubba, my personal standards of care are very high. I stated my personal experience, not assumptions.
@@AuAdventures - you’ve asked a question that indicates an you made an assumption on your part. Who says I haven’t already broken out the checkbook many times over my 40+ year career. That doesn’t matter though. The real issue is other states have done their job to make sure their citizens get better care. Pretty simple. That’s what the thread was about. What’s nonsensical is you take a state issue and try to make it my individual issue. Move on. I don’t have time for your bullshit. BTW, don’t tell me where or not to live. I live where I damn well please. I’ll speak up about any issue about where I live too. You don’t like it? Then I suggest you scroll on by. 😂
I lived in Aurora from 87 to 94 and it was awesome. Went back in 98 for a visit, and I didn't recognize the places I had lived. Yes Colorado is absolutely beautiful, but the people in charge has decimated it. Glad I chose to stay in Texas in 03.💛🙏
Great place to live in the late 90s to early 2000s. We lived in Colorado Springs and loved it. Unfortunately just as we left things started to slide a bit in some areas.
yep, my wife is a CO native and I was a 30 year non native and we said enough was enough, we lived on the N.W. side of COS and just too many things changed, and for the worst, so, we said goodbye 3.5 years ago and don't regret it other than the landscape and places we have fond memories of. Good luck Colorado, you need it!
Quite simply, the Denver metro area has become East California. We have crime, and taxes going up, and apparently an appetite for more. We have local governments that are more concerned about ESG than making sound governance decisions for the wider polity. . We have a a state where 54 of the 64 counties are red, yet the population centers that are deeply blue driving policy. Our state is drowning.
@@alkohall4185 90%? How did you get that? 90% empty counties? Voting is by people, not empty acres. Most people live in cities, especially in the West.
My husband and my mother in law are from Colorado and they moved to California back in 2014. Now we were thinking about visiting Colorado next year so his side of his family meet the 2 lil ones.
Used to live in the Denver area until 2009, Moved out of state for work. We loved living there, from what our friends that still live there have told us, it’s a mess now with crime, traffic, and ridiculous cost of living. Too bad, we loved living there in the early 2000s.
Unbelievably perfect place? There is no such place. Colorado is great I'm sure, but that woman sounds like an irrationally exuberant cheerleader for Colorado.
Colorado IS a great place to live. But that realtor is clueless about why people are leaving. Costs are going up BECAUSE of idiotic political policies created by liberal Democrats, who are ruining Colorado. People are leaving for more Conservative places. Florida is only 0.7% less expensive, so it's not because of lower cost of living that people from Colorado are moving there.
I personally as a former native of Colorado Springs, have witnessed a GREAT DECLINE each year I've gone back to visit. Mid west rural is much appreciated.
Midwest Rural is where people are content and happy and family oriented. Unfortunately, big cities that turn out garbage policies and angry people are creating a new landscape of our country, which is why you are seeing American disintegrate mightily in the last 30 + years
It's so sad seeing the current governor be so swift on his decrepit policies. The plastic bags being one. If you look into the money being made off of this policy it's astronomical. Walmart in our town doesn't even provide the bags for 10 cents, but will sell you the 77 cent ones. If the bags are so bad, just don't sell them. Your climate crises reasons go out the window when you monetize something that's supposed to be bad for the environment.
I lived in Colorado for four years from 8/2018 to 2022. Cortez PD ran broadcast in extortion rackets on me the whole time and the Montezuma County Sheriffs refused to take crime reports. There is NO enforcement of laws in Colorado.
My perfect place lets me do what I want and only pay for what I want and get. Ain't found it yet. Too many people want to tell you how to live and take whatever you got. Government loves to make you their slave.
I just came across a video on IG of a couple encouraging people to visit and move to Colorado, Southern to be exact. So I immediately came to YT in search of videos of people of live there. THIS is the 1st video I see...then to read the comments 🥺
I left in 2020. I worked for RTD as a bus driver. Couldn't afford to buy a house. Moved to Missouri, got paid less, and bought a house..... winning!! Also, don't care for Jared😲
I am a CO native and have absolutely loved living here. But the influx of Californians moving here has been terrible. They move from CA because it’s a cesspool and they bring their garbage with them. I am looking for a job so I can relocate to another state soon. This state has gone from clean and safe to dirty and concealed carry necessary. The homeless panhandlers in downtown Denver is absolutely disgusting and scary. So sad to see what’s happening to this once awesome state.
"We live in an unbelievably perfect place." She herself must have just moved from CA. True, CO is better than CA and most parts of TX, but the politics, legalizing pot, rude people, new taxes, high cost of living, overcrowding, four hours on I-70 to go skiing...I moved out of state after 60 years here. Born and raised in the Springs. Just not the place it used to be.
@@briannadickson2884 If you look at the states that have legalized pot they have all gone to pot lol. Governments like the revenue but it creates a ton of negative impact. Also states that generally legalize it are liberal in nature which contribute to the problems. That is they coddle the indigents and drug addicts. Many of those on the streets don't want to work. Liberal states attract homeless because they don't have to take ownership for poor life decisions. I live in New Mexico that has become a welfare state. So many young people on disability having allot of kids with tons so snap benefits. Half the state does not work and on medicaid. And they just legalized pot and things are getting bad now. I mean really ugly. I'm moving out next year. When the Governor campaigned here voter base were literally those that don't work, or pay taxes. But there are so many of these entitled POS's that they carried her another term. 4 more years of this crap and we will be as bad as Colorado. The Mayor of Albuquerque is even worse. the two together will spell doom.
I moved to Greeley CO in 2018 for family reasons from New Jersey. The traffic in the Denver area is as bad or worse than northern NJ or NYC. Denver is definitely the worst traffic area in the mountain time zone. I'm a long distance truck driver and travel all 48. And, I can't believe how horribly they take care of snow removal in Colorado! Some of US 85 between Denver and Greeley is like third world after a snow fall.
I moved out of Texas and considered moving to Colorado... I traveled in the state and left shortly. I am a temp resident in Portales, NM and I really like it here.
And now Texas is inundated with people fleeing the coasts in search of yet another perfectly functioning State they can tear down and destroy with their inane politics.
Please hush your mouth. I lived in Oklahoma until I moved with my family to Colorado at age 17. The quality of life and opportunities in Oklahoma were horrendous, but here things are unbelievably better. The cost of living is bad, but don’t act like liberal politicians are ruining anything. If you think things are better run by Republicans, take a trip to rural Oklahoma and tell me how much better it is.
I moved from Colorado Springs last year.. it just got too expensive.. gas jumps up a $1 a gallon as soon as you leave Kansas.. and its 85 octane.. so the same 87 octane is $3.50..
I'm from Denver but moved back last year from Portland, OR. OMG the PNW is way worse! Portland is Slightly cheaper but they take more income tax. The crime, homelessness is a lot worse there compared to Denver.
Left Colorado for Texas about 3 years ago and it’s the best decision ever. The price of living is way down. Houses are twice as less. I do miss the mountains but not enough to stay.
@@neutralsportsfan17 because the same thing is going on everywhere. Rapid change and people think moving will solve they're problems but eventually every major city turns out to be almost the same when it all comes down to it
Liked the air quotes around Freedom. As freedom slowly erodes, some people mock those of us who value freedom. Don't know what you had until it is gone.
My son was living in Denver paying 1650 a month for a one-bedroom apartment he moved Oklahoma got a three bedroom two bathroom house for 850 a month it's too expensive I grew up there now it's crazy to live there it's always been a tourist town State
I still think of Colorado as home, Grew up in Greeley from late 50s to early 70s when we moved to Aurora. After returning from the military I stayed in the Denver metro area for several years but I gave up on ever having a home in Colorado as it was totally unaffordable moved to Sterling in 2013 but the cost of living just got out of hand even there, plus with medical problems, the 100+ mile drive to Cheyenne V.A. became too much so moved to Cheyenne. within two years I purchased a home and have been happy here ever since.
Military brat growing up and have been almost all over the U.S.- now that I am a little older I have come to the realization that I will never live west of Texas again. My RV will never see that country due to the politics and crime, now I will be heading to sunny Florida to see my grandsons and family a lot.
Denver metro is overcrowded. Why would anyone want to live that way? When I first moved to Denver, there were only 2 million people in the whole state.
We moved to Colorado when I was 3. I lived here until 88-90 when I moved to NYC. I loved it there, but I missed Denver. I moved home. I've loved Colorado until crime, homelessness, random violence, largely ineffective/indifferent leaders took over. While I am a Libertarian, A64 started our decline. All the parasites and potheads moved in like it was a jailbreak. That's what started the decline...I'm sorry I voted for it. Now, I'll be moving too. I know someone will comment, "Great! More for us!" Well, when the producers leave only the parasites are left. Who will be left to tax? I love Colorado, but it's been lost in the past 2-4 years...sadly, irretrievably. I'll miss it.
Well as they say, vote like your life depended on it. For too long people voted with their hearts and not their heads. These are the results we're seeing across the country. The problem is now that it's entrenched it will be nee impossible to fix. People are fleeing to save what's left. With that though it's a downward spiral where they left. Just look at NYC and LA. Both are one or two bad economical cycles away from a total implosion. Personally this can't happen fast enough. It will force these bad actors out and hopefully some sanity back into governance.
Funny, I'm homeless in California and work as much as I'm able to given my circumstance. I have nearly flawless attendance at work (except one day where a storm demolished my camp site) and I vape cannabis everyday. All of the homeless here that I see that don't work and just cause problems don't care about weed. They're alcoholics, meth heads, or junkies. All of the cannabis users I know work. I'm qualified for a better paying job but they all drug test for cannabis. Yea, I could quit, but why? All they need to do is call my current employer and my former employers for a solid referral. But it's not about that. It's about continued discrimination against cannabis users to keep their boot on our neck and then turn around and say, "See, these lazy potheads won't go out and get a job!" You know how many companies I've applied at or interviewed with and then walked out because their obsession with invading my personal life? Many. So now I live like this, a working guy living in a tent with no car who still makes it to work on time everyday and works hard. I save my weed for after work. If companies stopped being bigots I'd have a better paying job and an apartment but since this nasty little game continues I will do what I must to maintain my freedom to use cannabis in a responsible way. Nobody has the right to stew around in my urine and discriminate against me for what I do in my personal time. Yea, I'd rather be homeless than be treated like that.
@@dreaminez472 people lump the good people in with any bad. conservatives have a long history of treason but people will vote for them because they pander to demagoguery. It's why Putin gets so much support in russia.
That is the great flaw in one party leftist dystopias like Colorado, California, Oregon etc eventually they drive so many "producers" out that the tax base collapses, see Detroit and now Portland.
I smoke Pot sometimes abd I agree with you, too many potheads have tunnel vision and don't care as long as they can get stoned. They make it no longer fun for the rest of us
Home prices are lower than some States, but insurance rates for car and home appear to be high and are adjusted higher premiums every six months from what I was told by AAA agent in C/S. Hail and wind damage is supposed to be a big problem in moat areas of Colorado.
I grew up in Southern California and feel the same. I moved out in 88 and it changed so much since then. I'll never move back and the way things are going in the US I may even move to Mexico.
We lived in Ft Collins in the mid ‘80’s. We’re recently retired and moving to Cheyenne. NOT GOING BACK TO COLORADO! Beautiful state that I’ll visit regularly but won’t live there. It’s becoming eastern California.
Too expensive...no one wants to live in a WEF Smart City LIBERAL...Polis, "this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated" commute to Denver?...HORRIBLE DRIVE (no lights at night and serious snow/ice in the winter)...Perfect? Homeless EVERYWHERE!
When teachers and other workers are jumping ship due to the lack of affordability that is a problem. I worked maintenance for an apartment complex and the amount of Tennants needing rental assistance was crazy.
My brother lives in Colorado. He despises the able bodied druggies that are always shaking down people for money. He has 4 kids and fears for the safety of his family if they go for an even out or fills his gas tank. It’s terrible. As soon as his youngest graduates college he’s moving away.
@@mousetreehouse6833 oh yeah... don't try to hind behind the bush and pretend you're being all secretive when your butt is sticking out the other side for us all to see. One doesn't even have to read between lines to realize OP is scared of people not exactly like him.
Way too expensive to live there.. my son just moved back home to Indiana to work remote for a business in Denver! I love visiting Colorado and I will miss it.
My husband and I were natives. Politics and money are the main reasons we left. Too many people moving in and overdevelopment is also a big motive to leave. We lived in a mountain town that had become invaded by homeless, panhandlers and the crime rates were increasing. It’s a gorgeous state and leaving was extremely difficult.
Amber, I'm a retired senior in New England looking at Rifle...has that area gone bad? What general area were you in? (Don't say the town, if that makes you uncomfortable). I am also thinking of mountain towns... Thanks in advance! 😀
@@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman yes, I live in the northern part, and it's drop dead gorgeous here. Unfortunately, the summer heat/humidity, plus allergies, are going to kill me (on top of other health issues, but those would follow me anywhere). (Also, we do have homelessness and crime, but that is in the southern parts that are mostly liberal areas).
We live outside of Austin and plan to move to Colorado in a few years. Texas summers are unbearable and hazardous to your health from mid June to late August. It is 97° outside and will peak at 102 - 103°, we already had a blackout. It will be between 99 and 107° every day until the end of August. With over 50% humidity that means it will feel like 115 to 121°. This makes it difficult to do anything outside other than go to the pool. it’s even oppressive in the shade. We have violent storms pretty much weekly in the spring with hail and strong winds, and the occasional tornado. It fluctuates between extreme droughts and water conservation to extreme flooding. The power grid is not set up for the summers here much less the harsh freezes which we now have each year. The property taxes here are more then double that that they are in Colorado. We can actually afford more in Colorado then we can here because of the property taxes because right now we almost pay $1000 a month in property taxes alone.
