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Eastern Colorado doesn't have mountains, so it's pretty much ignored by many people--including many Coloradans. It is largely dependent on agriculture, which no easy industry in which to make a living. The Front Range's appetite for water is also drying up a lot of irrigation on Colorado's eastern plains. The climate there is more harsh than many foothill and mountain areas (hotter, colder, windier), so that can be a detriment, too.
Does all of that mean that it is a "bad" place to live? For the people who have lived out there for generations, the answer would be "no." Some of the nicest Colorado people that I have ever met hail from the eastern plains. Though many of its towns are struggling economically, there are some nice communities--Fort Morgan, Brush, Sterling, Akron, La Junta, and Lamar, just to name some of the larger ones. Some eastern Colorado and western Kansas towns are starting to attract people from the Front Range who are tired of out-of-control real estate prices, traffic, and crime--and who dislike the resort "vibe" that is taking over many other rural areas of Colorado. Eastern Colorado (aside from the portions immediately adjacent to the Front Range corridor) will never have the attraction that the rest of Colorado does, but it never will have the growth problems besetting much of the rest of the state, either.
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