Moving from Chicago burbs to the burbs of Denver.. (Boulder: sales, vehicle registration)

[rolo99]

Is there more than one type of sauce? I've always had a tomato-based sauce, but I'll take anything.

Pierogis too, please, any filling also.

Thanks!

-A polish food starved Denverite.

[zbysiu23]

Hi
Anybody lives or knows:

POLO CLUB ?
LITTLETON ?
EVERGREEN ?
HILL TOP ?
ENGLEWOOD ?
CHERRY HILLS ?
CHERRYCREEK ?
CASTLE ROCK ?
CASTLE PINES ?
BELCARO ?
BOW MAR ?

We would appreciate any comments or help in organizing / rating the above suburbs from best down..maybe narrowing the list??
Which would be the nr. 1 ?

Thank you for your help..
CHRIS

[2bindenver]

Originally Posted by zbysiu23

Hi
Anybody lives or knows:

POLO CLUB ? a nice neighborhood
LITTLETON ? a city, or unincorporated northern Douglas County & unincorporated southern Jefferson County
EVERGREEN ? a nice city
HILL TOP ? hilltop, one word, a nice neighborhood
ENGLEWOOD ? a city
CHERRY HILLS ? a nice neighborhood
CHERRYCREEK ? Cherry Creek, two words, a nice school district
CASTLE ROCK ? a nice city
CASTLE PINES ? a nice neighborhood
BELCARO ? a nice neighborhood
BOW MAR ? a nice neighborhood

It would be eaiser to tell us what you are looking for.

[Katiana]

Originally Posted by TeamFoster

Cherry Creek, Littleton, Douglas County, Jefferson County, These are districts I am familiar with. They are all on either the south or west side of town. My polish friend lives in Broomfield which is near Boulder, but we really haven't talked about the schools there. I do know they have a good reputation. I don't know how to do links here but there is a website called schoolperformancemaps that shows all of the ratings by school. My kids went to Littleton schools. I have family that have kids in the others. One goes to a private school.

Boulder Valley Schools have a great reputation. 3 of the 6 "community" high schools plus one charter school are on Newsweek's list of best high schools. I tend to take such lists with a grain of salt, but nevertheless. . .

[zbysiu23]

Well what we are looking for is a place with great public schools, where one could get a house for half a mill or more with 1-2 or more acres with maybe older trees maybe bordering with park area ..some privacy yet safe...already sounds like a dream..he he
well more or less...
Chris

[Katiana]

Originally Posted by zbysiu23

Well what we are looking for is a place with great public schools, where one could get a house for half a mill or more with 1-2 or more acres with maybe older trees maybe bordering with park area ..some privacy yet safe...already sounds like a dream..he he
well more or less...
Chris

I won't say it's not doable (mainly b/c someone will come on and disagree), but it will be difficult. Not the price range, the sky's the limit here, but the 1-2 acres with older trees bordering a park? Not so much.

[2bindenver]

bordering a park & 1 or more acres?

I think if you had a acre or more it would be a park

[bhcompy]

Originally Posted by zbysiu23

Well what we are looking for is a place with great public schools, where one could get a house for half a mill or more with 1-2 or more acres with maybe older trees maybe bordering with park area ..some privacy yet safe...already sounds like a dream..he he
well more or less...
Chris

I would look in south parker, or further south.

pradera, the pinery, etc all have some bigger lots and nature parks/areas. just looking at one new home in the pradera development right now thats listed at 899k and is on one acre. i visited the elementary schools there(northeast and mtn view) and was very pleased. but then again, i dont know if you mean by "half million or more", maybe that means 500k to 600k, which would rule out pradera, but there are some other nice homes with bigger than normal lots in parker and south that came up in my home search

[TeamFoster]

Originally Posted by zbysiu23

Thanks,
I do appreciate the response...
Any particular schools or school districts that you have had in mind???
I would be grateful for any suggestions..
We do enjoy camping as well so that is great..
Thanks again

go to www.schoolperformancemaps.com

That site will give you information regarding how schools are rated. In general schools in Colorado tend to be rated highly.

[zbysiu23]

...just looked at some of the houses in Parker... some of them have decent size lots...very nice...well being from Illinois it is not as much the price of property that concerns me ..is the taxes etc..
I wonder how much would be property taxes for a $899000.00 ???