Are there any cheap/middle class areas in Colorado? (Pueblo: new construction, move to)

[McGowdog]

Originally Posted by BornintheSprings

Mike is correct in his assessment.

Says a Colorado Springs honk.

If you want a real city, forget Colorado Springs and move to Denver.

Wrt the op, consider Cañon City area, especially near the orchards and vineyards on southeast part of town near Arkansas River and going towards Florence.

Originally Posted by BornintheSprings

Colorado Springs has come a long way in the past ten years. Its a midsize city its not Denver but it has lots of great amenities without the hectic bustle larger metropolises have.

Yeah, and now it's overpriced. Gone are the days of getting a nice place for 250k to 290k from what I hear. You can get a mansion for that in Pueblo County.

Does Colorado Springs have the Denver Broncos? Pro hockey, baseball, bball? Does it bring in concerts like what they get at Red Rocks, Fiddlers Green, Pepsi Center? Museums aquariums, zoos, etc?

Now your housing prices rival Denver.

I hate that parking lot that is I-25 between Denver and Springs too.

[BornintheSprings]

Originally Posted by McGowdog

Says a Colorado Springs honk.

If you want a real city, forgot Colorado Springs and move to Denver.

Wrt the op, consider Cañon City area, especially near the orchards and vineyards on southeast part of town near Arkansas River.

Colorado Springs has come a long way in the past ten years. Its a midsize city its not Denver but it has lots of great amenities without the hectic bustle larger metropolises have.

[unbeliever]

Originally Posted by McGowdog

If you want a real city, forget Colorado Springs and move to Denver.

If you want a real city, forget Denver and move to NYC.

[BornintheSprings]

Originally Posted by unbeliever

If you want a real city, forget Denver and move to NYC.

Forget NYC move to New Delhi India

[Mike from back east]

Originally Posted by BornintheSprings

Forget NYC move to New Delhi India

We could use a new deli around here..I'm not Jewish, but when near a deli, I could eat.

Meanwhile, back on topic please...

[McGowdog]

Originally Posted by unbeliever

If you want a real city, forget Denver and move to NYC.

Which ghetto, er borough?

5 million people commute into and out of Manhattan Island every day. If it was so liveable, they wouldn't have to take a subway to Yonkers every day.

NY City is a great place to visit with good planning, but we can't all live there, can we.

To be truthful, I don't give a flip about Denver right now and I don't give a flip about Colorado Springs.

They both have their own subforums and this ain't it.

[davebarnes]

Salida

[interloper1138]

Originally Posted by davebarnes

Salida

Salida stopped being middle class several years ago. Good luck finding a 2 bedroom rental for less than $1200 on local wages that average $13-$14/hour, most of which aren't full-time gigs. 1 bedrooms are nearly non-existent.

Salida is a terrific town with great character and wonderful people, but it's not middle-class unless you bought in before prices skyrocketed several years ago.

[TCHP]

But the Op wants to AVOID cities. He already feels Cos is too big and yuppie, which is surprising since he is coming from the DC area and a number of DC transplants I've seen post in here consider CO full of hicks. Reading through the earlier post that has been merged along with some other posts in other areas, the OP also wants low cost. Very lost cost. Willing to consider foreign countries low cost. And the possibility of a small organic farm effort. Oh, and no crime in this small town.

IMO, the combination of all those things isn't in Colorado or most places in the Rocky Mtn west, for that matter. We can hit on any combination of the requirements depending on locale, but not all of them at the same time.

[pikabike]

Originally Posted by TCHP

But the Op wants to AVOID cities. He already feels Cos is too big and yuppie, which is surprising since he is coming from the DC area and a number of DC transplants I've seen post in here consider CO full of hicks. Reading through the earlier post that has been merged along with some other posts in other areas, the OP also wants low cost. Very lost cost. Willing to consider foreign countries low cost. And the possibility of a small organic farm effort. Oh, and no crime in this small town.

IMO, the combination of all those things isn't in Colorado or most places in the Rocky Mtn west, for that matter. We can hit on any combination of the requirements depending on locale, but not all of them at the same time.

Exactly.

Dreamers need to cross the region off their list and consider more realistic matches.

Low crime, low unemployment rate, very low COL, and plenty of water for growing fruits and veggies do not go together in the interior west. Even if the human-influenced factors (the first three) change, the water limits will only get worse. Not better.

It is happening right now. Front Range growth skyrockets, and the dreaded 12-foot height expansion at Chatfield Reservoir, dormant for the last 6 years or so, now gets grasped in a desperate attempt to have developers' cake and eat it, too. And they will no doubt be willing to destroy other parts of CO to water the voracious beast. The negative effects of huge population growth (it isn't just more traffic) are the 800-lb gorilla in the room.

The US is a big country with big variations in climate, topography, and vegetation. Match what you want to what is there, because the OP's list is much more likely to fit a different part of the country. You want pineapples, don't try to grow them in North Dakota.