Have Any New Yorkers Made The Move To Fort Collins?

[abordele]

Moved from upstate NY this past Feb, I love the mnts but really miss the water, lakes and the ocean. Also people are nice though, everyone is super active. Places in Colorado though FoCo is probably one of the best. There is stuff to do, but it is not snobbish like Boulder, or some of the ski resort towns. Does not have the charm of the east which is both a good and bad thing. It is a totally different scene. One is not better then the other it just depends on what you like more! Good luck!

[Wherewillitland]

"Quote:
Every once in while, I remember New York, especially when it is raining here; especially when it snows; especially when it is rarely humid. When I smell sauerkraut, I think of NYC. If I hear a New Yawk accent in the crowd, loud and demanding--my mind returns to New York. The many musicals and operas, that I attend at our the Denver Center for Performing Arts, brings me back to NYC. The rare times I get in a cab now brings back the sounds, the horns, the noise of the streets of "the city".

Now, when I leave Colorado; I feel imprisoned by lush and forested land and yearn for wide open vistas and the mountains beyond; and when I am decending into DIA, I see home, I see the wide spaces, the mountains and when I am again on the plains, I can catch the whiff of cows, the fields and the hear the western breezes; and that odor is the smell of home--Colorado.
This, honestly, brought tears to my eyes. Walking down Fifth Avenue past The Plaza, past Tiffany's, past the yelling man on the corner this morning on the way to my office, I wondered, "Can I leave this place?"

The answer? I will never leave. There is room enough in my heart to love more than one place and perhaps, feel as though more than one place is "home," but I know that NYC will never leave my soul, nor I hers. "
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well, im glad some people like NYC. For me, it scarred me and I have to get away from here and hopefully I can heal what has happened and how I saw myself crumble here and feel like Im getting swallowed by this hyperactive chaos warzone.

Im sure once I get away from here my memories will become more clear and the better sides to this city will be remembered more easily.

[Sockeye]

Originally Posted by abordele

Moved from upstate NY this past Feb, I love the mnts but really miss the water, lakes and the ocean. Also people are nice though, everyone is super active. Places in Colorado though FoCo is probably one of the best. There is stuff to do, but it is not snobbish like Boulder, or some of the ski resort towns. Does not have the charm of the east which is both a good and bad thing. It is a totally different scene. One is not better then the other it just depends on what you like more! Good luck!

If you want to appear like someone who's lived in Ft. Collins for more than a few years, you'd call it what it is, or "Collins". FoCo?? Sounds like something drummed up by a developer or realtor on the city council.

[Rumblebelly]

Originally Posted by Sockeye

If you want to appear like someone who's lived in Ft. Collins for more than a few years, you'd call it what it is, or "Collins". FoCo?? Sounds like something drummed up by a developer or realtor on the city council.

We called it "The Fort".

[Sockeye]

That works, too!