Relocating: Small but leftist towns? (Durango, Montrose: house, neighborhood, school)

[DgoNative]

Have you ever been to any of the towns on the Western Slope? Maybe you should take a quick roadtrip. They're small enough that you can catch a pretty accurate vibe of a place in a short amount of time. Use Multritrak's link to help formulate a route. That is a great indicator of where the liberals are...

[Katarina Witt]

http://www.city-data.com/forum/color...rket-like.html

Definitions: Average = add up all the prices and divide by the # of houses. Median = half cost more, half cost less.

[onthamove]

from what i here boulder would def be a good place if you are looking for a more liberal envirorment, idk though here its getting expensive but so is all of the 100 yr state

[Charles]

I wonder how much a town's perceived (or even actual) political culture plays on a person's satisfaction with living there when compared to about five other attributes that town might have. I would think cost of housing, availability of jobs, commuting quality, amenities, infrastructure, even microclimate would have more of a bearing a person's quality of life. So what happens if the forum points to the most liberal, left leaning, tie dyed, grateful-dead-in-the-doctor's-waiting-room town and there are no jobs there? Is he still going to live there?

I'll bet this poster moves ends up moving next door to a bunch of John Birchers and lives happy ever after.

Just like these folks did:

[Rickers]

I have found that many folks who claim to be liberal move to a western mountain state and after a while they mature into conservatives ! Also I have found that the areas that are dominated with liberals are also beyond any working persons range of affordability ! What do you want to do, pay a bank for the rest of your life just to be around a bunch of hippies ?

[jazzlover]

Originally Posted by rickers

I have found that many folks who claim to be liberal move to a western mountain state and after a while they mature into conservatives ! Also I have found that the areas that are dominated with liberals are also beyond any working persons range of affordability ! What do you want to do, pay a bank for the rest of your life just to be around a bunch of hippies ?

Remember the old saying: "A person who is conservative when he or she is young has no heart; a person who is liberal when he or she is old has no head."

I'm not saying I agree or disagree about conservatism and liberalism, since I consider myself neither and both--sort of a "hybrid" if you will.

I will say this: most of the Colorado resort towns full of trust-funders and urban refugees tend to be liberal; the rest of rural Colorado towns tend to be conservative.

[livecontent]

Originally Posted by jazzlover

Remember the old saying: "A person who is conservative when he or she is young has no heart; a person who is liberal when he or she is old has no head."

I'm not saying I agree or disagree about conservatism and liberalism, since I consider myself neither and both--sort of a "hybrid" if you will.

I will say this: most of the Colorado resort towns full of trust-funders and urban refugees tend to be liberal; the rest of rural Colorado towns tend to be conservative.

"A person who is conservative when he or she is young has no heart; a person who is liberal when he or she is old has no head; a person who does not question their beliefs, he or she has no courage."

If you never leave the "yellow brick road" and never explore other ways, you will not
Livecontent

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[Charles]

Originally Posted by Charles

I wonder how much a town's perceived (or even actual) political culture plays on a person's satisfaction with living there when compared to about five other attributes that town might have. I would think cost of housing, availability of jobs, commuting quality, amenities, infrastructure, even microclimate would have more of a bearing a person's quality of life. So what happens if the forum points to the most liberal, left leaning, tie dyed, grateful-dead-in-the-doctor's-waiting-room town and there are no jobs there? Is he still going to live there?

I'll bet this poster moves ends up moving next door to a bunch of John Birchers and lives happy ever after.

Just like these folks did:

Or another way of looking at it, the most liberal town in Colorado is probably only 5% more liberal than the most conservative town. It's probably irrelevant.

[DgoNative]

What do you mean by that Charles?

[Charles]

Originally Posted by DgoNative

What do you mean by that Charles?

There isn't much difference between a town perceived as liberal and a town perceived as conservative. (I deliberately used "perceived"; I think a lot of it is perception.) I don't "feel" that much different walking around in Berkeley than I would in San Diego - certainly not enough to offset any of ten or so other factors when deciding on a place to live (as is the context of the original poster).