Corporate relo to cospgs. (Colorado Springs, Eagle: for sale, house, neighborhoods) - (CO) - City-Data Forum

va_expat · 07-21-2019, 06:51 AM

Hi everyone,

First of all, thank you for the wealth on information on this forum and for the frequent contributors. I've been lurking on the forum since January and have learned a tremendous amount from you all.

I'm being relocated from Northern Virginia to Colorado Springs and we are taking a house hunting trip next week to scope places out. We've known about the relo since the first of the year and have done a ton of research - it just takes HR forever to process this kind of stuff - and we needed to sell our home. Home sold last week, pack and ship is in a month and we need a place to live! We'll have temp housing as part of the relo so we have a bit of time to find a place.

I've been to the springs many times for work and we have family in the area. Problem is that whenever we are there it's for business or visiting family/vacation. We've never dug deep into neighborhood info with an eye on living there.

We have 3 kids, 10 and under. We've been looking in Pine Creak, Cordera, North Gate, Flying Hours, and maybe Glen Eagle. I'll be commuting to Schriever so I don't want to get too far north. Our two oldest will be going to The Cottage School so we'll need to be in D20.

The neighborhood we live in now has lots of kids; we're friends with all our neighbors, we regularly have block parties bbq'ing while all the kids are running around. We'd love to find a neighborhood in the springs that has these kinds of qualities.

I'm concerned with getting up into some of the more ritzy areas (like Flying Horse) and find that everyone keeps to themselves and none of the kids come out. My boys are always out running around somewhere and it would be a huge bummer for them to move in somewhere and find that it's hard to make friends in the neighborhood.

Given D20 neighborhoods, can you all recommend places we should definitely look at, places to avoid, etc? Neighborhoods where people are friendly, outgoing, etc?

We're looking for 4 to 5 bedrooms, max 600K.

Thank you in advance for any information you can provide!

hollyt00 · 07-21-2019, 12:28 PM

I think you'd need to verify the amount of commuting you'd prefer. Glen Eagle is pretty far north and Pine Creek is more doable. One reason why I decided against moving to Cordera was the commute (30 min) for me to go to work, where I worked at the time, (Powers and N. Carefree) was more than I'd like. That's still about fifteen/twenty minutes (I think) to Schriever. Cordera is pretty far north and traffic on Powers only has gotten worse.

DrDog · 07-22-2019, 08:46 PM

Commute is of course all relative. The areas you mentioned would probably give you a 45 min commute. I have that kind of commute most of my life until I moved here. 45 min might be fine for you.
I have same sense as you about Flying Horse but I don’t live there so maybe that’s unfair. glen Eagle is the farthest from your work and I think it might not give you the community feel. But again, I don’t live there.

otowi · 07-22-2019, 09:05 PM

Have you looked at Briargate at all? It might be a good split of distance between the school and work and I have a sense that it would be an area where you may be more likely to find kids in the neighborhood.

abcdefg567 · 07-23-2019, 10:28 AM

Isn't Wolf Ranch in District 20 and closer to Schriever?

I'd look there too if commute is a concern.

I'm sure there's kids in all of these places willing to play, unless you move into a section more geared towards the elderly with patio homes and the like.

The neighborhoods I've seen without a lot of children are typically at a turn over period in age (20 ish years) and higher priced. In the springs however, the military keeps things rotating quicker and homes seem to go up for sale every year or two, making this less likely to happen.

If your children are already accepted at the cottage program as out of district, then you also can look other places. (If not, I'd start applying as these homeschool programs seem to fill up quickly) Banning Lewis Ranch has a lot of what you're looking for too, and is again closer to the base but not too far from the kid's school.

DrDog · 07-23-2019, 06:14 PM

Is Cottage School the same school as Classical Academy?

TCHP · 07-25-2019, 06:53 AM

Cottage School is a subset program of Classical Academy. I believe it supports homeschooling programs by providing an occasional formal school setting and access to art and music.