how did you end up in colorado? (Boulder: college, office)

[cobmw]

Charles

You've made a good point. We should have moved closer to Denver. We reacted too stronly to the bad conditions in CA. We convinced ourselves that we had to get away from the metropolitan way of life. I thought that a msa with 300,000 people would give a good mix between country and city. But for us it doesn't. We miss many of the conveniences that we left behind and that are found in Denver. As for the country part it's overrated in my opinion. Country is nice to visit but I use the conveniences found in a metroploitian area more than I enjoy the counrty. Country can always be visited on weekends. We're committed to keeping the kids in the good school here so I'll have to wait a few years for my move back to civilization.

[LisaCACO]

we came to colorado last year from CA (san jose to southern CA then CO). we've been trying to think of where to move to for the last few years, since we figured we had to leave CA - CO was the only state that was on the list, lol. we wanted a state with a cheaper cost of living, lots of sun, no humidity, better air quality, friendly people, slower pace of life, schools you can actually send your child to, inexpensive housing and a place where my child could actually play outside with other kids rather than just have pre-arranged play dates.

So here we are, happy as clams .

[HighlandsGal]

I came here for a change.....always wanted to live somewhere else and my boyfriend's brother and sister are out here. I love the outdoors and the fact that Denver is big city, but doesn't feel like it......

We are happy here and will stay for awhile.....probably until we start a family in a few years and then we will move back east to be closer to our families. I think his brother and sister will also eventually move back east

[BigCheeze]

Very similar story to the rest of California's that posted. Born there, grew to hate a place I loved. Wife and I were looking to move, her company offered her a job here, offered me a job as a contractor (then never came through... Gotta love Big Blue), so we moved.

As many said, best choice we could have made. So far we are loving it here.

[katmoney]

boyfriend got offered a job at a small start-up out here. We always loved the outdoors and snow sports, and were sick of being in Chicago all our lives. Came out here in September and haven't regretted it since!

[ryanek9freak]

I haven't moved yet, but I was born in COS, and I still have lots of family there, and i've been offered a really good job there too, so it's a nobrainer, compared to northeast Ohio, which blows.

[Mikieo415]

Originally Posted by ryanek9freak

I haven't moved yet, but I was born in COS, and I still have lots of family there, and i've been offered a really good job there too, so it's a nobrainer, compared to northeast Ohio, which blows.

Are you talking about Ashtabula County, home of covered bridges? I can't understand why you would contemplate leaving Ashtabula...

I used to live and work in Ashtabula county. It was miserable.

[esya]

My dad came out here in the 1920s on a wheat threshing crew, always swore he'd return, and they did after they had six kids. I stayed and stayed, met my husband who came out here to college to get away from the Bronx. We left once--to Illinois-- for his grad degree, had a choice of jobs for him in Detroit, California, New Jersey, and Washington DC. We had three little kids and I was not interested in a second wave of new nursery schools, elementary schools, doctors, dentists, and making friends, so we came back here. Both of us have some family here. Next year, my last one leaves home and I really hope to do the same. I have had enough, except the views out my windows are pretty nice. I'll put up a photo.

[livecontent]

I left Western New York, near Buffalo in 1970. Went in the Army; away to College, worked in New York City; worked on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. Texas was the big draw and I went to Dallas/Ft. Worth. Had a younger sister in Boulder, a brother in Denver---why not, Dallas was not the greatest. Came up here in the late 1970s with few possessions. Time goes by, more possessions, a house, more reasons to stay--parents move here in the 1980s with a younger sister---again more reasons to stay.

Parents and siblings still alive and here. Sometimes I pass, a local high school and imagine that I went to that school and I have lived here my whole life--It is a strange feeling. Is is good to be here??? It is certainly home; it is comfortable and familiar. The past is becoming a distant memory and I no longer know how it is to feel like a New Yorker.

I am now at the age that I have no desire to go and live in other places--I have no energy, maybe because of age, disability and contentment---I have accepted Colorado and the people. There is something to be said for staying in an area and just living instead of striving to become--that is what comes from getting old--acceptance.

It has been a long time in becoming, but my sucess is that I have learned to
Livecontent

[randdowens]

I was leaving Wolf Creek to go back to Dallas and my car broke down in South Fork. The parts had to be ordered and took 3 days to get in. My car is fixed now and I'm still here--14 years later!!!!!!!! I'll never buy a dependable car again--it may get me to where I didn't want to go!!!!!!