Looking for good communities to possibly relocate for my family. What are some good towns and communities?
Where are good spots of CO to raise a family?
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It's not nearly as good as Limon, but it's WAY better than Golden.
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Yes. We are expecting the first snows of winter any day now.
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Boulder is a great place to raise a family.
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Boulder has a Wal-Mart? I thought the lowest they got was Needless Markup? :skep:Boulder is a great place to raise a family.
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If they have a Wal-Mart, is it needlessly marked up?
Front Range:
Willow Springs - Tons of private biking/hiking trails out your backdoor, massive lots in the older subdiv.
Ken Caryl Valley - Tons of private biking/hiking trails out your backdoor, great elem school.
Golden - Most local trails are PACKED (even @ 10am on a weekday) but GCB makes up for it.
Evergreen - 5-10deg cooler vs. Denver.
Mountains:
Summit Cove - Killer trails out your backdoor + a great elem school. Though winter/mud season can be long at 9,200+.
Steamboat - Great biking, fly fishing, boating, skiing. Cold winters but the valley melts out early.
Willow Springs - Tons of private biking/hiking trails out your backdoor, massive lots in the older subdiv.
Ken Caryl Valley - Tons of private biking/hiking trails out your backdoor, great elem school.
Golden - Most local trails are PACKED (even @ 10am on a weekday) but GCB makes up for it.
Evergreen - 5-10deg cooler vs. Denver.
Mountains:
Summit Cove - Killer trails out your backdoor + a great elem school. Though winter/mud season can be long at 9,200+.
Steamboat - Great biking, fly fishing, boating, skiing. Cold winters but the valley melts out early.
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Can we just sticky ^^^this^^^ quote and be done?
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Wait. You have to be born/raised in Jersey to bash it? I call bull$hit.
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Cougars to ride.
Might want to look elsewhere for habitation. Our state is either flooding, buried in snow, on fire, or being swarmed by those pesky mosquitos. Just saying....
Not sure about the bike stuff but there are cougars to ride in Highlands Ranch.
Might want to look elsewhere for habitation. Our state is either flooding, buried in snow, on fire, or being swarmed by those pesky mosquitos. Just saying....
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Snow is poo. I'm shooting at all the cloud seeders that come within a 50 mile radius. Too bad the cheap fireworks don't work.
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You're not supposed to make serious commentary. Besides your facts are as bad as Fox and Friends.
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Lets re-do this whole area thing.
Aurora: Too dam far from the trails. Kids pack 9's and usually ride a short bus
Denver: If you're a metro sexual or think you need a fixie for performance, this is the place for you. Loft living is cool as *****, but the only place for kids to play is in a pile of dog poop. Clubs are fun if you enjoy abandoning your kids and think you're 25. Resturants are the best. You are still 20 minutes from the trails, but your BMW will fit in. oh, and there's a really cool bike shop there, Flowtron will fill you in.
Parker You could catch a flight to DIA from Kansas city from parker and be at the trails earlier. Ass. Its an upgrade from Aurora, but this is where road maggots are born.
Englewood/centennial This is for traffic lovers. This is where the cubicals of the technical cult are grown, and most riders that live in those dam things watch Tour De France on their computers and talk about riding
Highlands Ranch: Full of garage door people... They act like people of the corn, they just crawl out of their suburbs and slowly daze down C-470. Seriously, this place is like a minimum security prison.
Littleton: Compromise of cheap housing and close access to trails. Although the trenchcoat mafia and big box churches are the norm.
Ken Caryl: Cute place that make the californians feel comfortable. They seriously don't realize we're holding them hostage out there.
Morrison: well, you're getting closer to the mountains and within minutes of a trail. All of the metro area squeezes through the one stoplight like a tight sphyncter. Its ass, but everyone has to go through.
Lakewood Again, closer to the trails, but seriously, there aren't any real lakes there. The name suggests the complex they have
Golden Well hell, if you like 6 Open Space Parks within 10 minutes, a Bike park, a mountain town feel, then this may be your cup of tee. Lots of these uppity yuppies that love to be outdoors with their kids are the norm. The houses are built like *****, but no one actually lives in them. Coors is here, and the beer tastes like piss, unless you're a poor School of mines Student looking to knock off the brainier brain cells. (hint, I live here because my single track is a 2 minute ride away.)
Arvada: This place would be okay if they'd actually plan for the stupidity of public works. There are no road that go through this town. They all T-intersect causing worse blockage than a hemorid and corn in your poop. They draw you in with cute houses then f#k u up the butt with driving in circles. These pathetic life forms are striving to be like Highlands ranch and put a super highway through their homes so they can spend hours smashing pigs with pissed off birds on iphones.
Boulder LMFAO. This place is a future bottom of a lake. Its already full of scum sucking bottom dwellers, so we may as well flood the place. This place will draw in all sorts of outsiders, mostly east coast democrats and others seaking to get out of the mid-west bible-belt. Be forewarned, this place is so Liberal, that they've actually become closet republicans. All the hippies got out decades ago.
Westminster/thornton: Full of people that can't afford Boulder or Denver.
Fort Collins Lets be serious about this. This is a cute town that's written up in all the big mags that don't have a clue what their reporting (Like Fox News). Sure, its not part of the Metro Denver suck, but it will be soon. Its a great place to stay drunk on lots of beer, beat the kids and stick them in the attic claiming they went bye-bye with space aliens. This place has access to trails, but jeezuz, it takes a day to get to the ski slopes.
Genessee Well, if you have to have a mountain house near Denver this is good for you. If your kids decide they like Soccer, or if you need to go to the grocery store, you'll be burning more fuel than a hooker giving you a bad hummer. IF you like seeing a steering wheel, cracked windshield, and another rain storm coming, this is your place.
Evergreen Another version of Genessee, but with more trees and worse traffic.
Aspen Freggin utopia. But I think there's a 2 Jet minimum to live there. This place is nice because therere is a force field of epic financial proportions to keep those pesky rebels from screwing up the death star.
Rifle They make guns here, and gas.
Crested Butte <-nice. Lots of trails, expensive, but do it if you can. There is a manditory town bike per person.
Grand Junction Less people, fun riding. A little hickish, but hey, everyone likes to blow crap up and pull a throttle every now and then.
Fruita They used to make fruit there, but now they make trails for bikes. This place is known for the last liqour store before you enter Utah, so stock the F up before you head to Moab. Smokey and the Bandit make money between Fruita and Moab.
Limon: well, this is where SkardShtlss wants to move to but can't. He tries so hard to be a ******* but fails miserably, so they won't let him into the HOA. That's okay, because the HOA premiums include an old pickup, truck stop hooker and over priced gas. Oh, there are trails there, but no one gives a *****. You can shoot guns when ever and where ever you like.
What it all comes down to is this:
How long do you want your 'play' commute to be? NO ONE should ever care about their work commute. I can be on singletrack in 2 minutes (via bike), rock climb within 5 minutes (Via car), kayak on a great course, get drunk in down town Golden and walk home, see all my biking friends stirring about and pick up a ride with them at any given hour of the day. Everyone lives in a spot that suites their needs. The closer to the mountains and nicer houses equal more dough. Move a little east and you have your compromise. Our neighborhood is full of 30-40 y/o active couples, some with kids and some without. Great place to bring up kids. As is any given neighborhood scattered throughout the metro area. Figure out what you want in a home and lifestyle, then pick a spot. Our top requirement was "mountain town near denver with open space and close bike/rock climbing commutes" we found it. They exist all over the place. You'll find like people in your hood that balanced it all out. Most of them aren't from Colorado anyway. Get out here, we need cool people like you.
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Aurora: Too dam far from the trails. Kids pack 9's and usually ride a short bus
Denver: If you're a metro sexual or think you need a fixie for performance, this is the place for you. Loft living is cool as *****, but the only place for kids to play is in a pile of dog poop. Clubs are fun if you enjoy abandoning your kids and think you're 25. Resturants are the best. You are still 20 minutes from the trails, but your BMW will fit in. oh, and there's a really cool bike shop there, Flowtron will fill you in.
Parker You could catch a flight to DIA from Kansas city from parker and be at the trails earlier. Ass. Its an upgrade from Aurora, but this is where road maggots are born.
Englewood/centennial This is for traffic lovers. This is where the cubicals of the technical cult are grown, and most riders that live in those dam things watch Tour De France on their computers and talk about riding
Highlands Ranch: Full of garage door people... They act like people of the corn, they just crawl out of their suburbs and slowly daze down C-470. Seriously, this place is like a minimum security prison.
Littleton: Compromise of cheap housing and close access to trails. Although the trenchcoat mafia and big box churches are the norm.
Ken Caryl: Cute place that make the californians feel comfortable. They seriously don't realize we're holding them hostage out there.
Morrison: well, you're getting closer to the mountains and within minutes of a trail. All of the metro area squeezes through the one stoplight like a tight sphyncter. Its ass, but everyone has to go through.
Lakewood Again, closer to the trails, but seriously, there aren't any real lakes there. The name suggests the complex they have
Golden Well hell, if you like 6 Open Space Parks within 10 minutes, a Bike park, a mountain town feel, then this may be your cup of tee. Lots of these uppity yuppies that love to be outdoors with their kids are the norm. The houses are built like *****, but no one actually lives in them. Coors is here, and the beer tastes like piss, unless you're a poor School of mines Student looking to knock off the brainier brain cells. (hint, I live here because my single track is a 2 minute ride away.)
Arvada: This place would be okay if they'd actually plan for the stupidity of public works. There are no road that go through this town. They all T-intersect causing worse blockage than a hemorid and corn in your poop. They draw you in with cute houses then f#k u up the butt with driving in circles. These pathetic life forms are striving to be like Highlands ranch and put a super highway through their homes so they can spend hours smashing pigs with pissed off birds on iphones.
Boulder LMFAO. This place is a future bottom of a lake. Its already full of scum sucking bottom dwellers, so we may as well flood the place. This place will draw in all sorts of outsiders, mostly east coast democrats and others seaking to get out of the mid-west bible-belt. Be forewarned, this place is so Liberal, that they've actually become closet republicans. All the hippies got out decades ago.
Westminster/thornton: Full of people that can't afford Boulder or Denver.
Fort Collins Lets be serious about this. This is a cute town that's written up in all the big mags that don't have a clue what their reporting (Like Fox News). Sure, its not part of the Metro Denver suck, but it will be soon. Its a great place to stay drunk on lots of beer, beat the kids and stick them in the attic claiming they went bye-bye with space aliens. This place has access to trails, but jeezuz, it takes a day to get to the ski slopes.
Genessee Well, if you have to have a mountain house near Denver this is good for you. If your kids decide they like Soccer, or if you need to go to the grocery store, you'll be burning more fuel than a hooker giving you a bad hummer. IF you like seeing a steering wheel, cracked windshield, and another rain storm coming, this is your place.
Evergreen Another version of Genessee, but with more trees and worse traffic.
Aspen Freggin utopia. But I think there's a 2 Jet minimum to live there. This place is nice because therere is a force field of epic financial proportions to keep those pesky rebels from screwing up the death star.
Rifle They make guns here, and gas.
Crested Butte <-nice. Lots of trails, expensive, but do it if you can. There is a manditory town bike per person.
Grand Junction Less people, fun riding. A little hickish, but hey, everyone likes to blow crap up and pull a throttle every now and then.
Fruita They used to make fruit there, but now they make trails for bikes. This place is known for the last liqour store before you enter Utah, so stock the F up before you head to Moab. Smokey and the Bandit make money between Fruita and Moab.
Limon: well, this is where SkardShtlss wants to move to but can't. He tries so hard to be a ******* but fails miserably, so they won't let him into the HOA. That's okay, because the HOA premiums include an old pickup, truck stop hooker and over priced gas. Oh, there are trails there, but no one gives a *****. You can shoot guns when ever and where ever you like.
What it all comes down to is this:
How long do you want your 'play' commute to be? NO ONE should ever care about their work commute. I can be on singletrack in 2 minutes (via bike), rock climb within 5 minutes (Via car), kayak on a great course, get drunk in down town Golden and walk home, see all my biking friends stirring about and pick up a ride with them at any given hour of the day. Everyone lives in a spot that suites their needs. The closer to the mountains and nicer houses equal more dough. Move a little east and you have your compromise. Our neighborhood is full of 30-40 y/o active couples, some with kids and some without. Great place to bring up kids. As is any given neighborhood scattered throughout the metro area. Figure out what you want in a home and lifestyle, then pick a spot. Our top requirement was "mountain town near denver with open space and close bike/rock climbing commutes" we found it. They exist all over the place. You'll find like people in your hood that balanced it all out. Most of them aren't from Colorado anyway. Get out here, we need cool people like you.
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There's always Arizona... and southern Utah.
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IE's drunk.
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Nope. But this is the first beer I've had in 48 hours.IE's drunk.
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