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Wait until you hear back from those jobs and their starting salaries and if this is a career worth pursuing.
You millennials are so annoying, moving from city to city based on "falling in love with the mountains" but not considering what's important: YOUR FUTURE CAREERS.
And you wonder why millennials complain about not being able to afford homes.
Wait until you hear back from those jobs and their starting salaries and if this is a career worth pursuing.
You millennials are so annoying, moving from city to city based on "falling in love with the mountains" but not considering what's important: YOUR FUTURE CAREERS.
And you wonder why millennials complain about not being able to afford homes.
There is much bigger reason that Colorado is experiencing such major growth, and it's not the mountains. The mountains are certainly a sweet added bonus, though.
There is much bigger reason that Colorado is experiencing such major growth, and it's not the mountains. The mountains are certainly a sweet added bonus, though.
I was citing his reason quite literally. In reality, it can be a plethora of shallow reasons. The only reason that counts is your career.
That was my first post in any forum. Thanks for the helpful response!
If you are working from home, I wouldn't live in either Indianapolis or Denver. CO Springs or Utah is a much better option.
As a lifelong CO native, I'm antisocial, hate transplants who invade my national forest, drive a never washed 92 Subaru with way too many miles, have six dogs that pee all over the sidewalks and my backseats, own an AR 15, and live in a cloud of weed smoke.
Actually, as a CO native, I think there's several things you have to desire in order to make this (the front range) be the true place for you:
1. Mountains AND national forest. I know it's kind of a duh, but these two things are big pulls that are hard to get elsewhere in the country. It's not simply being outdoors, cause CO forests and grasslands are pretty lame, it's the big, wide open views and open space to do things on.
2. Desire to live in an arid climate with snow. If you don't like snow, we get too much of it for you. If you do like snow, cool! Most of the time, it's pretty dry here, not quite a desert, but it's sure no temperate forest climate like Missouri. Right now I think we're officially in a drought again.
3. The need to use DIA, the airport, a fair amount.
4. Weed and microbrews. Both are a big part of CO.
If these aren't big positives that you would utilize, I don't think CO would be quite worth it IMO.
Also it's much easier to live in an apartment in Denver than a SFH. SFH's have really really tight inventories while there are a good number of apartment choices.
As a lifelong CO native, I'm antisocial, hate transplants who invade my national forest, drive a never washed 92 Subaru with way too many miles, have six dogs that pee all over the sidewalks and my backseats, own an AR 15, and live in a cloud of weed smoke.
Actually, as a CO native, I think there's several things you have to desire in order to make this (the front range) be the true place for you:
1. Mountains AND national forest. I know it's kind of a duh, but these two things are big pulls that are hard to get elsewhere in the country. It's not simply being outdoors, cause CO forests and grasslands are pretty lame, it's the big, wide open views and open space to do things on.
2. Desire to live in an arid climate with snow. If you don't like snow, we get too much of it for you. If you do like snow, cool! Most of the time, it's pretty dry here, not quite a desert, but it's sure no temperate forest climate like Missouri. Right now I think we're officially in a drought again.
3. The need to use DIA, the airport, a fair amount.
4. Weed and microbrews. Both are a big part of CO.
If these aren't big positives that you would utilize, I don't think CO would be quite worth it IMO.
Also it's much easier to live in an apartment in Denver than a SFH. SFH's have really really tight inventories while there are a good number of apartment choices.
Sounds like much of the same things I could get down here in NM with a lower price tag. With the exception of Santa Fe and Taos of course. As for apartment supply in the Denver area, that seems to be doing nothing to bring prices down to levels I'm used to seeing. $900-$1200+/mo?!?!? Seems like I teleported back to SoCal again. Don't want to deal with that again.
This might all seem acceptable to some clean cut, man or woman in the tech or otherwise, educated field. But for a guy that's still currently driving trucks for a living until I figure out another life path, this would be more than out of the element.
Unless I really have to take that linehaul driving job in the Henderson area, I'm keeping my focus centered on Albuquerque or even the west TX snoozefests of Lubbock or Amarillo.
Of course now I'm getting more bites than ever in regards to certain trucking jobs in Colorado than anywhere else I've applied it seems. Resigned to my fate and whatnot. I guess the only upside is the amount of bars in the Denver metro. Get off of work and enjoy a fine way to drown out the sorrow.
Life is bigger than a job. Your overall quality-of-life depends on so many other factors.
Thank you! I wish more people felt this way. Work to live, don't live to work. When I'm on my death bed I will not be looking back at my life and thinking,"I'm glad I worked 60+ hours a week and rarely took vacations in order to get so far in my career." I will be proud of how I experienced the world and had time for my family. If more people had this mentality, the overall mood would improve in this country and it'd be a more pleasant place to live.
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