The 5 things you should do if you want to live in rural Colorado: (Denver: real estate)

[hello-world]

Originally Posted by Nadine

You don't need a horse to join. Look us up. Loads of this work is not done with horses. If you hike or love to hike and want to help care for the trails you hike on. We do work a great deal in the Wilderness Areas where only hiking and equine or lamas, that sort are allowed. See some beauty country and enjoy some real good people. We also eat like lumberjacks and many just set up the camps and get the food ready. There are lots of jobs. In Colorado Springs a club called Medicine Wheels which are mt. bikers (pedal) are active too. There are ATV clubs that take care and look down on those that tear around and try to repair the damage they do. Anyone that is giving anything but lip service can find a club to join that combines their love with taking care of the land. Just go look.

eat like lumberjacks...and curse like sailors? this thing could be fun if that's how it is.

[ChaiOnKaw]

Originally Posted by jazzlover

...Accept all of this, and you just might enjoy living in rural Colorado. Otherwise, you just may be disappointed. Oh, and don’t expect it to be much different anywhere else in the rural Rocky Mountain West.

+1 "Thanks for visiting, now go home"

[Nadine]

Originally Posted by hello-world

eat like lumberjacks...and curse like sailors? this thing could be fun if that's how it is.

Not sailors, cowboys. No really a good mix of people. A few damns now and then when a log get dropped on a toe but that is about it. We really are family orientated. Non horseman usually work closer to trail heads. Hard for non horsemen to keep up with horses very far in. Sometimes workers pack in for a couple days. Its fun and can be hard work. Slackers are discouraged just by that alone.

[hello-world]

Originally Posted by ChaiOnKaw

+1 "Thanks for visiting, now go home"

a little of that, maybe. but, in my experience in co, it's not that simple. there's some "i just don't ... understand you." mixed in there, sometimes. and actually, there's plenty of colorado that seems to have embraced diving head first into the "exploitation" of the place that jazzlover mentions -- "come on in, enjoy our place, and let us take your money; though, we really don't care about your culture and ways, so please keep your thoughts to yourself" can happen sometimes. maybe the indigenous people here don't quite feel that way, but... on the other hand, i think there are some native american people here that are caught in between -- sometimes feeling like they want to keep their culture, sometimes feeling like "gimme some of that, would ya please?", as far as i've seen. but that's another topic, maybe...

[thepizzaguy]

Hello,

I deliver pizza for a living, and, well, I'm not going to let the natives make me restless. I'm still moving away from Chicago. Actually, I've fallen out of love with living in Colorado. It's still number one on my list, but there are other places that are just as appealing. I just want to be happy again.

I ran into some trouble in Chicago. I moved there in 1972. I grew up there. Nothing good has ever come to me here, and next month I am on the receiving end of an arbitration award against the Chicago Police and Cook County Sheriff for a 28 days false imprisonment. I'll know what I'll have to work with afterwards.

I see moving to Colorado as a step away from the Chicago Police. Colorado seems to offer privacy. If I get up from this chair for example, and walk to the front window, there's a 50% chance of seeing a cop drive by. Well I'm tired of seeing cops drive from inside my home.

To prevent that from happening again, I plan on putting 70 acres between me and the nearest paved road, and still be close in. Now I could get 210 acres, with live water, in west Texas for $7000 less, but I would then be 90 miles from my employer.

It's either a new car to replace the one that was destroy, or 70 acres in your back yard.

William

[Tool Shed]

Jazzlover... you should have just wrote....

Colorado - INVITE ONLY..

Only native Coloradans are worthy of living here, we hate everyone else, and we are tough mother-efffrs that may shoot you if you move here. Colorado was once a nice, green paradise, but now it is a brown wasteland with out water and higher taxes. We are grumpy people who get irritated with paved roads and more than two families living within 80 acres of each other.


Nice try to badmouth your community for your own selfish reasons, but luckily in America, anyone can buy any piece of land they want, and stake their claim to enjoy life as they please, hopefullyJazzlover you won't be so grumpy if we are ever neighbors.

Franco, where in CO did you end up, and what can you tell me about it?

[hello-world]

Originally Posted by Tool Shed

Jazzlover... you should have just wrote....

Colorado - INVITE ONLY..

Only native Coloradans are worthy of living here, we hate everyone else, and we are tough mother-efffrs that may shoot you if you move here. Colorado was once a nice, green paradise, but now it is a brown wasteland with out water and higher taxes. We are grumpy people who get irritated with paved roads and more than two families living within 80 acres of each other.


Nice try to badmouth your community for your own selfish reasons, but luckily in America, anyone can buy any piece of land they want, and stake their claim to enjoy life as they please, hopefullyJazzlover you won't be so grumpy if we are ever neighbors.

Franco, where in CO did you end up, and what can you tell me about it?

not to say you're not the voice of reason here, but, i'm not convinced coloradans are "grumpy motherfffers" that'll "shoot ya fer movin in". i've lived in CO for years and have rarely encountered that kind of thing. actually, i've never encountered that kind of thing. much of what i've encountered might require some paddles and a loud "clear!!" before some of those i've met here would even notice you or take the time to acknowledge your existance, which can be nearly as frustrating. but then, i have heard that thomas robb (of KKK fame), when interviewing with the boulder weekly, claimed that he "loves colorado and boulder and it's exclusive, white bread ways" (i paraphrase), so, maybe you're right to some extent, "Tool".

sorry to hear about your woes with the chicago police, pizza guy. how about being pulled over multiple times along I25 (of CO) for things like exceeding the speed limit by, count them, FIVE miles an hour (this is an interstate - speed limit 65) while people all over the place are not using signals, staying in the passing lane at 15 BELOW the speed limit (when the law says you have to allow traffic behind you by if it's wanting to get near the speed limit itself), running stop lights, etc; or being pulled over for "drunk driving" when you KNOW you've been abiding by every law you can think of because, not only are you in boulder, CO, but you just saw a police car (that ultimately pulls you over and HARRASSES you for "weaving, blowing through stop lights, never using your signal, AND far exceeding the speed limit" (none of which occurred). i have heard of each of these things happening to reliable friends here in CO. indeed, police - like the rest of us - can be a bit tricky in many places, sometimes, so be careful of thinking you're moving to a place (CO) where the police are the utmost of fair at all times.

[Katiana]

When we moved here in 1980, there was a great deal of hostility towards easterners. We moved away in 88, came back in 89 and it was Californians who were getting all the crap. It comes and goes. I've heard a lot: "you're OK for an easterner" being one that even my DH couldn't understand why I would take offense at. My DD has a friend from PA who complains about it a lot; I guess I don't notice it much any more.

[thepizzaguy]

You'ld think I would be happy knowing that a 3 judge panel it going to award me some 6 figure cash, but I was happy before the false arrest. Now I feel like I don;t want to deliver pizza in the hood anymore, and would be happier elsewhere. And then there the abandoning of my mother. Face it people, I'm a wuss. Better go with the lifetime annuity instead.

I got a ticket the last time I ws in Colorado for improper lane use. I was leaving Alamosa to go to Stunner Campground. It was like the 1st time in a city for over a week. I pulled on to the main road was getting up to speed and swerved to miss a turning truck and headed right for a trooper who gave me a ticket. I eventually made it to the camp ground and when I got home I paid the ticket.

Still not sure what I'm going to do with my money. It seems like waste to spend 45000 on a Shelby Convertible when I could get a trailer 2 blocks from the beach, or a lake house in Colorado. one thing is for sure, I can;t travel back in time to 11-13-03 and deliver the steak sandwich to the hospital 1st.

???

[NewAgeRedneck]

Tool Shed

You wrote: Franco, where in CO did you end up, and what can you tell me about it?

All things considered, Grand Junction seems to most closely offer what I was looking for. Even though it is a bit too hot in the summer, too cold in the winter, and somewhat barren looking, population-wise it's a good fit. Since my wife and I are dependant on the local economy, decent paying jobs are a necessity, as is affordable housing and Grand Junction offers both of those. We both love hiking in nature which is easy to do here. The wineries, orchards, and locally grown produce are BIG pluses. The downtown is quite nice as well. We enjoy weekend getaways and/or simple day trips. Within a 2 hr drive we can visit the Grand Mesa, Ouray, Glenwood Springs, & Moab UT. Add another hour on to that and we can visit Crested Butte, Aspen, Telluride. And I'm sure there are many other places within both of those ranges that we haven't yet discovered.

regards....Franco