Leaving CA behind. All of it!

[Timberwolf232]

Originally Posted by Reziac

Gods on stilts... what town was that?

http://www.city-data.com/city/Parker-Colorado.html To be fair you have to include http://www.city-data.com/city/The-Pinery-Colorado.html and http://www.city-data.com/city/Lone-Tree-Colorado.html because it's all really the same place.. (Most of it was our dirt bike riding, hiking and hunting grounds... Barely recognize the place now..)

That area is all considered "Parker". It was a great place in the late '70's and early '80's.

The thing that we have going for us in Montana is that there isn't a huge metropolitan area anywhere close.

When I moved out of Colorado the last time, it was all still one Area Code.. (303) I think there are at least 4 now.

[Reziac]

I was last through there in 1982. I don't remember there being much of anything til you hit the south edge of Denver.

PS. Dunno why but your links are bad in the HTML, had the word "forum" added to 'em. Should be

http://www.city-data.com/city/Parker-Colorado.html
http://www.city-data.com/city/The-Pinery-Colorado.html http://www.city-data.com/city/Lone-Tree-Colorado.html

I notice the population doubled in the past 10 years, and unemployment went up by a factor of five. Do you sense a theme??

The thing that we have going for us in Montana is that there isn't a huge metropolitan area anywhere close.

I think there's something to that. When a city gets big enough to start generating lots of strip malls, you're at a stage of generally negative impact on quality of life.

[Timberwolf232]

Originally Posted by Reziac

I was last through there in 1982. I don't remember there being much of anything til you hit the south edge of Denver.

PS. Dunno why but your links are bad in the HTML, had the word "forum" added to 'em. Should be

http://www.city-data.com/city/Parker-Colorado.html
http://www.city-data.com/city/The-Pinery-Colorado.html http://www.city-data.com/city/Lone-Tree-Colorado.html

I notice the population doubled in the past 10 years, and unemployment went up by a factor of five. Do you sense a theme??


I think there's something to that. When a city gets big enough to start generating lots of strip malls, you're at a stage of generally negative impact on quality of life.

Sorry about the links... Not sure what I did wrong... I clicked post link and pasted in the url as copied...

Yes Parker had a whopping population of about 300 + or - 50 when I first arrived there in '78.. Interesting you mentioned 1982, as there was a world class blizzard there that year, and all of us kids were happy to have all the snow days!

I sense the same theme! Went back for a funeral a year or so ago, and it was hard to see what people had done to the place.

[Reziac]

No idea on your links, might be some forum bug got tickled.

Yeah, 1982 was another Endless Winter -- whopping gigantic blizzard end of March, was still pouring rain in San Diego two months after it normally clears up for the spring (where I was headed in time to experience said blizzard enroute, all the way to somewhere south of SLC; came back by way of Denver, in another blizzard, a month later!), and in Belgrade we got snow and hail all through June.

Colorado must be wussy, we never had snow days in Montana, no matter how bad it got!

[mtndiva22]

darby are you for us????watching tv national geographic and darby MT is on and we love the small city were native californians and we hATE calif and all there dum laws CANT EVEN SMOKE AT THE BEACH NOW OR GET A TICKET AND GO TO COURT WITH A BIG FINE, WTF is going on with this world??? we are moving to motana we just dont know where to go or how to find a 4 bedroom 2 bath house to rent with big property for animals should we drive out there stay in a hotel and look or can we do this via internet? we live now in the mountains up in Big Bear away from the craziness of the city but were just 18 miles away and they come up here so is darby is nice place to go? will we find a house to rent there? i am a disabled veteran i need acess to a V.A. Hospital or the clinic is one near?

[ElkHunter]

Originally Posted by mtndiva22

darby are you for us????watching tv national geographic and darby MT is on and we love the small city were native californians and we hATE calif and all there dum laws CANT EVEN SMOKE AT THE BEACH NOW OR GET A TICKET AND GO TO COURT WITH A BIG FINE, WTF is going on with this world??? we are moving to motana we just dont know where to go or how to find a 4 bedroom 2 bath house to rent with big property for animals should we drive out there stay in a hotel and look or can we do this via internet? we live now in the mountains up in Big Bear away from the craziness of the city but were just 18 miles away and they come up here so is darby is nice place to go? will we find a house to rent there? i am a disabled veteran i need acess to a V.A. Hospital or the clinic is one near?

There is only one VA hospital, however there are several clinics throughout the state.

Veterans Administration
3687 Veterans Drive
P.O. Box 1500
Fort Harrison, MT 59636-1500
1-877-468-8387

Anaconda
VA Community Based Outpatient Clinic
118 E. 7th Street
Anaconda, MT 59711
Phone: 406-563-6090
Hours: 8:00am - 4:30pm

Billings
VA Community Based Outpatient Clinic
1775 Spring Creek Lane
Billings, Montana 59102
Hours: 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
FAX: 406-373-3520

Bozeman
VA Community Based Outpatient Clinic
300 N. Willson, Suite 703G
Bozeman, MT 59715
Phone: 406-582-5300
Hours: 8:00am - 4:30pm

Cutbank
VA Community Based Outpatient Clinic
Glacier Community Health Center
519 E. Main
Cut Bank, Montana 59427
(406) 873-9047
8 AM - 4:30 PM

Glascow
VA Community Based Outpatient Clinic
630 Second Street South, Suite A
Glasgow, MT 59230
Phone: 406-228-4101
Fax: 406-228-4104
Hours: 8:00 am - 4:30 pm

Glendive
VA Community Based Outpatient Clinic
2000 Montana Avenue
Glendive, MT 59330
Phone: 406-377-4755
8:00 AM - 4:30 PM

Great Falls
VA Community Based Outpatient Clinic
1417 9th Street South
Suite 200 and 300
Great Falls, MT 59405
Phone: 406-791-3200
Toll free: 877-468-8387
8:00am - 4:30pm

Havre
VA Community Based Outreach Clinic
130 13th Street, Suite 1
Havre, MT 59501
To schedule an appointment, call 1-877-468-8387.
To contact the clinic, call (406) 265-4304

Kalispell
VA Community Based Outpatient Clinic
Three Mile Professional BLDG
31 Three Mile Drive, STE 102
Kalispell, MT 59901
Phone: 406-758-2700
Hours: 8:00am - 4:30pm

Lewistown
VA Community Based Outpatient Clinic
629 NE Main, Suite 1
Lewistown, MT 59457
Phone: 406-535-4790
Hours: 8:00 am - 4:30 pm

Miles City
VA Community Based Outpatient Clinic and Community Living Center (CLC)
210 S. Winchester
Miles City, MT 59301
Main Phone: 406-874-5600
Clinic: 406-874-5675
Community Living Center: 406-874-5800
8:00am - 4:30pm

Missoula
VA Community Based Outpatient Clinic
2687 Palmer Street, Suite C
Missoula, MT 59808
406-829-5400 (Clerk/LPN)
8:00am - 4:30pm

[Montana Griz]

Originally Posted by Reziac

I was last through there in 1982. I don't remember there being much of anything til you hit the south edge of Denver.

PS. Dunno why but your links are bad in the HTML, had the word "forum" added to 'em. Should be

http://www.city-data.com/city/Parker-Colorado.html
http://www.city-data.com/city/The-Pinery-Colorado.html http://www.city-data.com/city/Lone-Tree-Colorado.html

I notice the population doubled in the past 10 years, and unemployment went up by a factor of five. Do you sense a theme??


I think there's something to that. When a city gets big enough to start generating lots of strip malls, you're at a stage of generally negative impact on quality of life.

Originally Posted by Timberwolf232

Sorry about the links... Not sure what I did wrong... I clicked post link and pasted in the url as copied...

Yes Parker had a whopping population of about 300 + or - 50 when I first arrived there in '78.. Interesting you mentioned 1982, as there was a world class blizzard there that year, and all of us kids were happy to have all the snow days!

I sense the same theme! Went back for a funeral a year or so ago, and it was hard to see what people had done to the place.

Re-reading the above quoted two posts compells me to show my own shock when I went back and spent some time in the Denver/Boulder/Front Range area in Oct 2010 after leaving that area in April 1980....after moving there in 1965!!!

We lived 3 miles up in the foothills in 1965 at 6950'......about 14 homes in the 1st three miles and then maybe another10 or 12 in the next 5 miles..
when we left in early 1980, there were probably 100 to 120 homes in that same 8 miles. Then I went back again in 2010..............My guess is that now there is 250 (or more) again in the same 8 mile stretch of Sunshine Canyon. Numerous incidents of domestic wells being contanimated by septic effluent from a neighbors septic system and leach field. Privacy all but gone due to close proximity of one house to another. We had 3 horses all the time we lived there.....I rented an 80 acre mountain pasture (1/2 mile away) from a long time local rancher in the canyon......my "rent was to keep all the fencing in good shape and keep tresspassers out!!!"

My impression of that particular area as well as every other "small town" between Ft Collins to Colorado Sprs.................has been over built and over-developed by at least a factor of (5). And the "influence", ideas and customs brought in from transplants from both coasts is "sadly apparent "virtually" every where you look. Sad, sad commentary on "what was (in the 1960s and half of the 1970s) a "nice, quite, slow-paced, friendly, area (Boulder County in particular).........not any more!!!! In 1965 and 1966 I used to ride my horse doen Sunshine Canyon into town on a Saturday morning, tie the horse off in front of a local restaurant, go in have breakfast then ride over to McGuckin's Hardware store......tie off.....go in buy a couple of items I needed and ride back up home. No horn-blowing idiots, just freindly folks that all waved as you rode by.................today>>>>>forget it.....not a chance in Hell I'd try that today!!!