Why are so many people moving to Colorado? (Denver: foreclosure, brokers)

[Katiana]

Originally Posted by CAVA1990

Although I will repeat what I've said before: anyone who picks up and moves somewhere else with a spouse, small kids, no family support, and no job is insane.

I agree. I've said it many times, so have many others on these Colorado forums. Most people agree.

I've also said it on another city forum I visit, with very unpleasant responses from the natives.

[CAVA1990]

Originally Posted by Katiana

I've also said it on another city forum I visit, with very unpleasant responses from the natives.

I assume those are the people dying to leave where they are, regardless?

[Dutchman01]

Originally Posted by Cupcake77

20 years ago people would have never conidered moving to Colorado, now it seems like they are beating down the doors to get in. What changed? It's not cheap, there is not many jobs.

Colorado is being "settled" by california expats. The same thing is happening in nevada, the northwest, and arizona. I don't blame them for leaving.


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LOS ANGELES -- Mike Reilly spent his lifetime chasing the California dream. This year he's going to look for it in Colorado.

With a house purchase near Denver in the works, the 38-year-old engineering contractor plans to restart his family's future 1,200 miles away from his home state's lemon groves, sunshine and beaches. For him, years of rising taxes, dead-end schools, unchecked illegal immigration and clogged traffic have sapped the allure of the place writer Wallace Stegner once described as "America only more so."

Is there something left of the California dream?

"If you are a Hollywood actor," Reilly says, "but not for us."

Since the days of the Gold Rush, California has represented a sort of Promised Land, an image that fair or not is celebrated in the songs of the Beach Boys and embodied in the stars that line Hollywood Boulevard. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger calls the state the "golden dream by the sea."

But for many California families last year, tomorrow started somewhere else.

The number of people leaving California for another state outstripped the number moving in from another state during the year ending on July 1, 2008. California lost a net total of 144,000 people during that period -- more than any other state, according to census estimates. That is about equal to the population of Syracuse, N.Y...................

[Cupcake77]

Originally Posted by Dutchman01

Colorado is being "settled" by california expats. The same thing is happening in nevada, the northwest, and arizona. I don't blame them for leaving.


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I can tell you when we were looking at houses, most the foreclosures were homes of Califorians.

[CAVA1990]

Well keep in mind CA has nearly 40 million people so the probability of an immigrant to any Western state being from there is pretty high. Also, many of the people moving there from California are probably originally from elsewhere. Just out of curiosity, where are the immigrants coming from that you like? Also, where are you or your parents from if not CO?

[Cupcake77]

from colorado. My dad moved back to his home town of canon city and my mom is buried in canon city at lakeside.

[wilvan]

Is it possibly the safest place to be in 2012?




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[Katiana]

Originally Posted by Cupcake77

I can tell you when we were looking at houses, most the foreclosures were homes of Califorians.

Really? I would think if you were looking at houses in Colorado, that most of them would be owned by, Coloradans!

[Cupcake77]

Originally Posted by Katiana

Really? I would think if you were looking at houses in Colorado, that most of them would be owned by, Coloradans!

The realtor told us that.

A Texan is always a Texan no matter where they live, that's what they say. Very proud of where they are from.
Most Californians feel the same way, one even posted that here on CD.

[Katiana]

Originally Posted by Cupcake77

The realtor told us that.

A Texan is always a Texan no matter where they live, that's what they say. Very proud of where they are from.
Most Californians feel the same way, one even posted that here on CD.

If the people were living in the houses, they were Coloradans.

Different people feel differently, and it changes with the length of time away from one's native state. One person does not speak for 36 million.