Here's why more and more people are moving away from Colorado
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Cost of living, politics and overall structural changes are a few of the reasons why more and more people are moving away from Colorado. Read the full story at cbsn.ws/3IE35mi
Back in the day, when I purchased my first home to live-in; that was Colorado in the early 1990s, first mortgages with rates of 8 to 9% and 9% to 10% were typical. People will have to accept the possibility that we won't ever return to 3%. If sellers must sell, home prices will have to decline, and lower evaluations will follow. Pretty sure I'm not alone in my chain of thoughts.
Home prices will come down eventually, but for now; get your money (as much as you can) out of the housing market and get into the financial markets or gold. The new mortgage rates are crazy, add to that the recession and the fact that mortgage guidelines are getting more difficult. Home prices will need to fall by a minimum of 40% (more like 50%) before the market normalizes.If you are in cross roads or need sincere advise on the best moves to take now its best you seek an independent advisor who knows about the financial markets.
Personally, I can connect to that. When I began working with a fiduciary financial counsellor, my advantages were certain. I got into the market early 2019 and the constant downtrends and losses discouraged me so I sold off, got back in Dec 2021 this time with guidance Long story short, its been 2years now and I’ve gained over $860k following guidance from my investment adviser.
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Actually, I've shuffled through a few advisors in the past, and “ Margaret Johnson Arndt” remains the most resourceful thus far. Her strategy proves profitable, and sustainable both in a bull & bear market. Most likely, her deets can be found on the net, so you can confirm yourself.
Insightful... I curiously looked up her name on the internet and I found her site and i must say she seems proficient, wrote her an email outlining my objectives. Thanks for sharing.
As a Texan that visits Colorado and other states often I can tell ya, every major city in America is facing the same changes. Homelessness, crime spreading out all over metro areas, ridiculous cost of living, influx of out of towners taking up space, a mass of huge overpriced apartment buildings. It's not a state or city issue, it's a country issue, America as we knew it is over.
That's why I'll never come back to America.
Thank you for sharing this. This has been my observations as well. Not only in America, but world wide, in many of the urban cities.
And why is this the case? One off the major reasons is that wages/salaries aren't high enough to support the cost of living. Some of the Haves have too much while many of the Have Nots have too little.
@@homedoghappiness 💯💪🏽
When the woke liberals take over it’s not long till they hang a “shithole” sign on the place.
The reason is government. Profit over people and add some corruption for the cherry on top.
There’s no more Colorado. It’s Colofornia.
That is a foolish remark
@@stevenburkhardt1963 dilate more
@@stevenburkhardt1963 That's a true remark that foolish people can't handle.
I’m still in Colorado and it’s more like Florado. So many Florida plates makes me wonder why?
Minnesota is following California as well.
The issue is not that growth funds cannot beat the S&P. The issue is that growth funds cannot beat the S&P index funds when you factor in costs and taxes. If a growth stock fund has a 2% annual fee and the index fund has a .03% annual fee, then the growth stock mutual fund has to beat the S&P by 2% every year to truly beat the S&P index fund. This is the problem that you aren't acknowledging that people have an issue with.
I hope to own a home one day. not quite long I started investing. I'm very curious already and need help on how to enhance and increase my returns. Any good investment tips will be appreciated.
I started out with investing on my own, but I lost a lot of money. I was able to pull out about $200k after the 2020 crash. I invested the money using an analyst, and in seven months, I raked in almost $673,000
I find your situation fascinating. Would you be willing to suggest a trusted advisor you've worked with?
Her name is “Sonya lee Mitchell” can't divulge much. Most likely, the internet should have her basic info, you can research if you like
I just googled her and I'm really impressed with her credentials; I reached out to her since I need all the assistance I can get. I just scheduled a caII.
Went to Denver for a job in 2015 stayed until 2020 and I have never lived in a dirtier, angrier, ruder, authoritarian city in my life. Every weekend we loaded up the Subaru and headed up the hill to Evergreen or Kittredge for coffee, lunch and a hike. The mountains and the cozy little towns up there are beautiful but living in Denver just wasn't worth it. No good Mexican food (not optional for a native Texan) unfriendly people, lots of road ragers, etc. I'm back in Texas in a small rural farming / ranching community where everyone waves, strangers strike up conversations, neighbors will bring you a casserole for no reason at all. I'll never leave Texas again!
LOVE MY STATE OF TEXAS! AM SO GLAD TO HEAR YOU DO, TOO!
There are similar rural communities throughout eastern and western Colorado. They're just not the typical stereotype for Colorado because they're not mountainous and much dryer.
But...there are "fresh" Mexicans all over the Denver area who work at Mexican restaurants...They are literally the same type of people working at those Texan Mexican restaurants. Maybe you chose restaurants in more affluent areas. They're definitely way too Americanized. Tex-Mex plagues Colorado as much as Texas as well. Real Mexican food is uncommon.
Thank you! I'm leaving California for Colorado first to save money. When the crash comes, and it will, I'll be buying land in Texas. My longtime dream
I'm a poor old woman but I will make it happen! Bout 2 years! Unless all them young ones in Greenville need a nanny. I'm nervous. Leaving my home so long, my grown kids. But I just can't wait anymore.
Denver is a DEMOCRAT city; you can't expect it to be nice. I've lived in Colorado for 42 years and can count on ONE HAND how many times I've been in Denver because it sucks.
Not if you look like a hippie, then you get angry stares.
I left. Born and raised in Colorado, leaving was tough. Too many people moved in, I would see road rage almost every day, traffic was was almost New York City bad, my house was worth an incredible amount of money. The traffic going into the mountains was terrible. Sometimes 6 hours from Vail to Evergreen. Now overcrowded. Not the same place I grew up in.
I miss the old Colorado though. Always will.
Suburbs are killing us. Poor land use and low livability. Driving us to extinction.
The result of voting blue.
Californians are doing the same thing to Idaho. There should be an additional property tax for californians moving to lower-income states. Idahoans can't afford to live in Idaho anymore. House prices literally quadrupled in the span of 5-6 years here.
We moved out 2 years ago, same reasons and wanted a more conservative area.
Yep and Realtors and apartment associations are going to lose a lot of money because of that! Goodbye
I'm from Colorado, born and raised here. The insanely high cost of living is Ridiculous!!! The middle class is truly vanishing from this state, and it's not just happening in the cities either. Here up in the mountains, there's almost only 2 kinds of people who live here: the very poor and the ultra-rich. I've known many people who had to move to another state because they got priced out of living here, especially within the last 2 years. And those who remain (who aren't ultra rich) crowd up into apartments with at least 4 other roommates to afford to live out here. And young people like myself just stay living with their parents well into their 20s, but I want to move out soon and want to actually have my own place without living in some crowded apartment. Colorado has changed A LOT from when I was growing up here. I'm grateful to have grown up here back when it was still pristine, peaceful, and less crowded, but Colorado is a totally different place now.
Colorado IS California 2.0
Interestingly when I go visit western SD it reminds me of the old Colorado.
Yep its serfs and nobles all over again, but with nicer views.
It is all over in the mountain west. I grew up in Wyoming and now live in northern WI. Not as beautiful here (but still nice), but way cheaper and WAY less traffic.
Colorado is California of the Rockies
It's funny, it seems democrats who preach about carrying for the poor are the very places the poor do the worst and the rich do the best.
I was born here (1970) and lived here my whole life. Imagine how much better it was in those decades. I've watched my home state turn into a shit show.
They start the story off saying they don’t know why people are moving then the next part they say they are moving from liberal cities to conservative rural areas. I wonder if that might have something to do with it.
More taxes, less freedom, officials that stand squarely on the side of violent criminals.
The attorney generals are compromised. In every state I have been in. 6 of them.
One came right out and bragged about it. Long story.
The officials are the criminals 😂😂😂
Bull
@@stevenburkhardt1963 cope
Move to Florida. They let violent criminals like Zimmerman walk free.
Because people are sick of toxic liberal politics
😂🤣😂 I need to move there.
@kd8199 Yeah, move to Denver, you can pay 1600 a month for a 400 square foot nook where a homeless person in a tent lives peeing 2 feet away from your head outside your window lol. I live in Denver btw and what I’m saying isn’t even a joke
@@rippindrummer666 - no argument from me on that. I agree about Denver. I am more of a fish, hunt, country guy here. I’ll live where I want without any suggestions from you. I like being free.
Then they will be outright mad when the treasonous fascist take over the country with dictator trump allied with Putin as they work to transform the US into Russia!!!
I lived in Boulder in the oughts and now when I go back I can’t believe how much it’s deteriorated - homeless tents everywhere and gaudy huge apartment complexes.
You did not.
I used to live in Colorado...beautiful place in Old Snowmass. 50 acres..built my own house. Than all the people from Cali arrived...drove up home prices but that wasn't the worse part. They bought their liberal ideas with them. They built bike trails (less than 1% of the population used), a valley wide transit system (to bring in their gardeners, house keepers and day workers from down valley), heated open bus stops (which makes no sense) , new rec centers, new everything....taxes went up and up and up. Mine with from under 2k to over 17k during this time. Every local I know was forced out of their home mainly because we just couldn't keep paying the increase in taxes. I knew people in Denver too. They all moved because of the drug use in the streets and the huge increase in those type of people after the legalization of weed. Another beautiful state that is dying due to the cancer of liberalism.
Cali.ppl? Mormons. Cali has gigantic mormon pop #s.
My brother in law says that there have been some changes in the area where he lives in Colorado. He went back home back in 2022. And I’m born and raise in California. So if there is anything is that it’s not getting better on neither side. My mother in law will be visiting Colorado next year. To visit her side of the family. I understand your frustration because here id something similar going on
Gee, you make it sound really wonderful.
Everything you said was SPOT ON, HEARTBREAKING, IT WAS THE BEST PLACE TO LIVE IN THE 90'S
Check out Alabama that's a real nice Republican state
I used to live in Colorado. But it's going down the same destructive path as California, New York, Illinois, etc. Why do people allow themselves to be tricked into voting for idiots.
Those who vote for these radical progressive socialists truly believe that they are going to get "Free Stuff". They do not know how Socialism works and by the time they do figure it out it's too late. Under Socialism everyone is EQUALLY POOR AND MISERABLE.
because they’re idiots themselves and believe.
They promised me a free waffle iron if I voted for em
A boomer who voted for Trump posting "Why do people allow themselves to be tricked into voting for idiots" has to be peak irony, the lack of self-awareness is STAGGERING
they're moving to Florida. maybe they're just tired of snow. why not move to Montana, Utah, or Idaho?
Pure greed and property taxes!
Vail - gentrification late 1980’s.
TABOR is to blame.
Property taxes are very low in Colorado than most places.
@@underground9260 yes, it’s not really the percentage it’s the value of the property.
Many thought legalizing pot would fix everything and CO would bankroll. There’s more homeless now than ever. These CA style policies are ruining one of the most beautiful states in the US.
Pot is hardly to blame. Plenty of other states have legalized without the homelessness issue that's common throughout much of the western states.
Yep-same with Seattle.
@@unnecessaryapostrophe4047 Somewhat true, although pot legalization was pitched as a gusher for tax revenues that would fund education and homelessness. Not sure about Colorado, but the black markets in Oregon and California are larger than the legit market with a corresponding M.I.A of tax receipts.
It's not the pot. I didn't vote for it-I was for the version that made it legal only to grow and possess for yourself, and I predicted that commercializing it would be a compound failure, but it's really not THE problem. The problem IS the whole package of left-wing policies, including coddling the homeless. It's like someone put a big sign up that says "Colorado has a bunch of suckers to pay for your lifestyle for you."
@@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman No, really. Pot didn't do that. The coddling of irresponsible people did. You hold people responsible, and they sink or swim with their dependencies (which are not generally significant with pot-not like alcohol and hard drugs-some people are easily habituated to bad behavior, not addicted.)
The big problem is the same Californicated model of taxing the crap out of the responsible to coddle the irresponsible (I grew up there, and this was like a libertarian escape-which could handle pot just fine without the other leftist crap.)
PS: BTW, Colorado DID handle pot fine when it was medical. I was a pain patient for years before it was commercialized (which took a couple years after the 2012 vote.) I do believe it was the rest of the leftist culture, which may have been very much associated with making the commercialization legal.
My grandmother is a Colorado native. Born in ‘34, raised 3 kids in Golden back in the 70s and 80s. She’s been priced out of her hometown because it’s too expensive now.
This place has changed. Crappy new overpriced developments everywhere. Working and middle class people being priced out of their homes. Now this state is just another California. Only the richest people can afford it, no affordable housing, more crime and drug problems. The state I grew up in will always hold a place in my heart, but I know the Colorado I knew and loved is just a memory now.
Yes and the funniest part about that is, the rich will choose not to move here because of the crime, homeless tents and dr*g addicts everywhere you look. Ppl from other States have no idea what a disaster this 100% Democrat govt have turned this State in to. Everywhere you look there is mass poverty. It's awful. I will move out of here and never come back here again, very shortly. This is not the great State where I was born and raised.
Sounds like current Oregon. People are done with the rainbow clan run cities
They are out of touch with reality.
Agreed. I live in Medford OR. Bad policies have migrated down south from Portland/Salem.
@@joncarbone Grants Pass
Buh bye then
@@snigs5T5 👈🍆🤮
Great little piece! I like how you have 2 people confirming that Colorado is going to hell in a hand basket. You got the resident that explicitly said so, and then you have the realtor who said that everything is great in such a desperate tone.
Everything is always unbelievably perfect for the lady house sellers.
Realtors have to lie with a smile.
@@mcsegeek1 that's called fraud. Here in California, lying like that is a crime that sends you to jail
Well, the former Coloradoan tells it like it is, has nothing to gain from it.
The real estate agent does have something to gain.
@@stephenmadison3401 "This is an on-fire garbage can...could be a nursery..."
(John Mulaney reference if you aren't familiar) 🙂
I was a runaway teenager in the mid 1970's who rode into Colorado on a motorcycle, and stayed a few years. The trees were green in the mountains, the roads were very easy to travel on. Cripple Creek was a ghost town, and Central City was just a laundromat and a liquor store. Real estate in Denver was cheap. I paid $90. a month for an efficiency apartment in the city. Castle Rock was the middle of nowhere, really. I went back to visit some friends in Denver a couple of years ago, and I just about puked as to what the area had become. Glad I lived there when I did!
I lived there from 1980 to 1989 and it wasn't much different than you describe. Part of me longed to move back. But after my last few trips up there to visit family and do some off roading that desire quickly faded. It is not the same place it was when I was a kid.
Its called "Californication".
Ah, the 70s. Just better, overall. Hipster libs, Californians, democrats haven't improved anything.
@@shaunwheeler3484 East Califukitup.
I hitch-hiked through there in the 70's. I agree.
We lived in Colorado for over 30 years. It was home.
We watched with disbelief as it became unlivable, extremely over-priced, over-crowded, unhappy place to live. We moved away to be closer to family members in another state out east. We found a great little town that feels like an early Fort Collins or Boulder next to a major university, we take care of my wife's father who lives with us, we found a perfect house that we could all live in and have our own spaces, we love the house we bought (for a third of what a comparable one would have been in Colorado). We feel like we might have a future here... that definitely wasn't the case in Colorado. Sad to say - we didn't shed a tear as we drove away.
What state if you don't mind me asking?
@@ericthorpe8548 if hes smart he wont tell you. Last thing he needs is more of you parasites following him.
Boy I cried when those mountains disappeared in my rear view mirror.
Let me guess: Asheville, NC
Moved here from Wisconsin for family reasons. We are in Loveland Colorado. This place it she worst place I have ever been to in my 28 years. I am leaving my family here and going home. No way could I live here for much longer.
As a ski writer, I spent a lot of time in Colorado. I have always felt the skiing is way over-rated, the people who work at and those who frequent the big resorts are pompous and snooty, the prices for everything are exorbitant. When I retired, I relocated to far northern Michigan, on the shores of Lake Superior. The skiing here is every bit as good as in Colorado but at a mere fraction of the cost for housing, lift tickets, dining out, you name it. And you don't have to stand in line for an hour to board a ski lift.
Dude, you're shooting yourself in the foot here. You hand out information like that and in six months you're gonna have a flood of what happened back in CO ruining your nice area and slopes.
I'm happy for you brother!!
Nobody prefers skiing in northern Michigan vs Colorado unless you’re still on the bunny slopes.
Come on man.
Good I say goodbye, Colorado is better off. We native Coloradans can't afford to even ski anymore because of you "trashplants".
What you describe is what I experienced in Europe, and the Europeans I have met agree. Want lower costs? Ski Cooper, Monarch, Powderhorn, Sunlight, and other smaller areas are magnificent.
Wow! I feel like I'm watching a video about my state--Washington. Same thing. Both WA and CO were the "hip" places to move to several years ago and lots of people were moving to both places. Now lots of people want out.
Why are they moving out?
The people moving out are doing so because of all the "hip" morons who moved in and ruined the place.
I used to love WA. I really wanted to retire there. Same policies as CA. Everything they raise your taxes to fix gets worst. It’s very sad. I know they don’t have state taxes in WA, but there are some local taxes and Seattle is just scary.
After 42 years in the Colorado Springs area my wife and I have moved the Texas. The feel of "freedom" is palpable. Down here the government doesn't look for ways to get in your way or how many new ways they can impose taxes, fees and penalties, they actually work at helping folks succeed. The final straw for me were the blatant actions that SOS Griswald took in Grand Junction and her dictate about no third party adducts in the case of a disputed vote. Simply put, Colorado has a one-party rule and we could not trust them anymore.
enjoy those Texas blackouts
Move to Mn if you want taxed on everything except the air you breath ( give it time) as Dems never found a tax they didn’t like.
Lived in Texas for the past 11 years. Completely the opposite of what you described. As a healthcare provider for 40+ years, having been licensed in no less than 7 states, I can say the healthcare for the poor is the worst I’ve ever encountered. Finding specialist care for my patients is a challenge. Many times they go without care for serious issues affecting their quality of life.
@@AuAdventures - feel free to make assumptions and spout off nonsense. Sorry bubba, my personal standards of care are very high. I stated my personal experience, not assumptions.
@@AuAdventures - you’ve asked a question that indicates an you made an assumption on your part. Who says I haven’t already broken out the checkbook many times over my 40+ year career. That doesn’t matter though. The real issue is other states have done their job to make sure their citizens get better care. Pretty simple. That’s what the thread was about. What’s nonsensical is you take a state issue and try to make it my individual issue. Move on. I don’t have time for your bullshit. BTW, don’t tell me where or not to live. I live where I damn well please. I’ll speak up about any issue about where I live too. You don’t like it? Then I suggest you scroll on by. 😂
My wife was born in Denver, as was her mother. I went through grade school, middle school, and high school in Colorado. We moved out in 2019 due to the politics. I worked with people who had moved to Colorado from California and Illinois, and they voted for the same people who ruined their home states. During the last few years we lived in Colorado, we called it The People's Republic of Eastern Kalifornia.
East Califukitup.
It was you that fucked it up and now your moving on to do it again, and blaming some "randos", look in the mirror
What a great description! You are so right.
More like Colofornia. We noticed the change upon the legalization of marijuana.
Colorado has been blue for a while for at least a decade now.
I grew up in Denver and left in 1998. I came back in April for a funeral and was shocked and appalled by what I saw. They have built on every piece of land. I use to love looking at the mountains now, you can't even see them for all of the cheezy buildings they put up. I literally didn't recognize the place.
I understand growth and change, but it should not come at the expense of they beautiful views nor for the sske of a dollar. The politics are a hot stinking mess! The homelessness is out of control. Crime is outrageous in areas that were prominent. I don't know how anyone can afford to live there.
It really broke my heart to see such a beautiful place go to hell in a hand basket.
Pagan devil worshippers destroy everything they touch. Democrats is how you know them.
I hear that its the same in Ft Collins too. Just build build build!
@@jimkeskey
Yup. I believe Ft. Collins is going to overtake (and absorb) Loveland, and soon, by the looks of it. Sad.
Florida the same you used to be able to actually see the ocean then all the condos came in the 80s you couldn't even get access to the beach anymore
If you really can't see the mountains, I suggest that you visit and optometrist.
I was born and raised in Northern Calif. I moved to Colorado 30 years ago to escape the leftist lunacy. 6 years ago I moved Texas for the same reason.
And now Texas is inundated with people fleeing the coasts in search of yet another perfectly functioning State they can tear down and destroy with their inane politics.
Texas seems to turning blue by 2028
Native Texan here.
Californian's trying hard to ruin Texas.
Turned Austin into a hell hole.
Denver used to be nice, but it is now a complete cesspool. The further you get from Denver, the nicer Colorado gets. Crime has rocketed up the last few years and people are getting murdered on the streets in "nice" areas. Stay out of Denver if you can.
It's crazy, the very politicians who claim to care about the poor have the rich doing the best and the poor doing the worst. It's almost like the left guts the middle class and pushed the rich to new heights and keeps the poor just above rock bottom by subsidising them to stay poor.
Perhaps you should go to red Grand Junction where meth is king and violence is statistically worse than Denver.
@@pestemmedico6369 So the entire state is a sh*thole? Just proved the point of the video.
@@pestemmedico6369 Grand Junction use to be nice
@@pestemmedico6369 Statistics are far too often distorted and misinterpreted; going by “statistics”, Douglas County had more crime reported than Denver County and anyone with a room temperature IQ would immediately correlate that to higher crime and not the fact that the police in Denver County hardly ever show up (often times not at all) to calls anymore after being downsized tremendously (I couldn’t even get an officer on the line after witnessing a stabbing on East Colfax). Point is that ever since Denver started going blue the problems here have increased tremendously and someone would have to be either daft or intentionally obtuse to not notice it.
I arrived in Boulder in the summer of ‘86 on my bicycle. The town was gorgeous, the weather was perfect and adventure beckoned around every bend.
On my second day in town I climbed the third flatiron with a guy I just met, we sat on top and marveled at the view and he said “ one day Denver and Boulder will merge, and you’ll be looking out at subdivisions all the way to Kansas. He was right.
As a kid I always wondered why they built DIA so far away from Denver. Now I know it's because they knew at some point Denver would stretch out at least that far in all directions. It's honestly sad.
Are you an author or something? Cause I liked how you told this story ( no sarcasm either I genuinely mean it )
@@jongallardo8006 Thanks, I’ve done some writing for small newspapers and studied writing for a semester in college. One day I might spit out a book.
Went to C. U. in Boulder in the '60's to '70's. Returned for a visit several years ago. It's been "Californicated". Talked with a local in Estes Park who moved up there from Boulder, he said you couldn't find a decent place to live in Boulder for under a Million. Stoners and the smell of marijuana pretty much everywhere.
I'm a Colorado native and boulder has always been a large seeping boil on the ass of Colorado.
At least it''s not Arizonarado.
Agree, those conservative republicans in that area are something else.
Quite simply, the Denver metro area has become East California. We have crime, and taxes going up, and apparently an appetite for more. We have local governments that are more concerned about ESG than making sound governance decisions for the wider polity. . We have a a state where 54 of the 64 counties are red, yet the population centers that are deeply blue driving policy. Our state is drowning.
it is the same in nys, 90% red but we get out voted by a couple of cities. everytime.
15 put of 17 counties in Nevada are red. The nutbag liberals in the other two counties screw everything up.
And Boebert is the answer? LOL.
@@mtnvalley9298 Yep. Simply because it makes you mad.
@@alkohall4185 90%? How did you get that? 90% empty counties? Voting is by people, not empty acres. Most people live in cities, especially in the West.
I lived in Colorado fro '77-'96, moved away and back to Colorado Springs in 2021. Since ive been back my car has been badly hit (hit and run) twice in parking lots. I've almost been run killed at intersections four times on my motorcycle. Seen human waste on the streets of Colorado Springs, and had my Backhoe stolen while I was at work, and an old friends son was caught in crossfire and severly injured. I thought I needed a change and returning to Colorado was the answer, but yeah, with the crime, traffic, bad drivers, open homelessnes everwhere. I always loved going off road and camping even that is spoiled by the trash others leave behind in the mountains. Yeah , Ive had my eyes opened. There's alot to love about Colorado and you can still enjoy it here, but its the contradictions, the sh** policies that have me occasionally thinking Colorado is in decline. The grass definately isn't greener here, but it never is.
I lived there in the late 80's (Air Force). I go back to visit friends once a year or so. It's just not the same and not for the better.
Oh it is green, but they are smoking it now. We left in 2020, miss the mountains but not the traffic. We call it Colofornia.
This is what we get when liberals are in charge. They only know how to destroy things.
"crime, traffic, bad drivers, open homelessnes everwhere"
You just described what the entire United States is becoming, moving to another state ain't going to solve it.
Go Figure---I wonder why! That first lady they interviewed is either clueless, a liar, or in denial.
She's a realtor.
My son was living in Denver paying 1650 a month for a one-bedroom apartment he moved Oklahoma got a three bedroom two bathroom house for 850 a month it's too expensive I grew up there now it's crazy to live there it's always been a tourist town State
and now he's in oklahoma. fail
I live in Colorado 1 bedroom 1 bath 750 a month
I'm in the process of moving to Oklahoma right now it's a good place to be
@@RobertMJohnson Nothing wrong with Oklahoma. Nice try.
@@judyvaughn761 I grew up in the Tulsa area. Great memories and many of my friends never left. Enjoy!
If you move to Texas, Tennessee, or Florida: LEAVE UR LIBERAL POLITICS AT COLORADO
They won't. The Coloradans tried saying the same thing to Californians, they won't listen. In fact, if my Colorado experience is any indication, they will revel in the fact that they are destroying your state and will derive great joy in watching you complain about it while knowing you won't do anything about it but hand them a ballot for them to "count".
There's no way we're gonna vote our way out of this. 🤷
Tennessee is being ruined by everyone with crazy conservative politics moving to it… and is now suffering from highly inflated home and land prices, crowded roads, overbuilt land, and homeless people everywhere.
@Lab Cat How do you figure? In Colorado, Democrat policies to hinder development in favor of "open space" have driven up housing costs. Democrat policies to protect the homeless from being moved along, and provide services that make being homeless more comfortable, and (most importantly) protect them from the consequences of their drug use, have attracted attract the homeless to Colorado. Democrat policies to encourage use of public transit by neglecting road expansion and road maintenance have caused massive amounts of traffic along with massive amounts of wasted money to build the public transit that people will never use.
These are the ways that Democrat policies have caused all of these problems in Colorado. How do you figure Republican policies have caused them in TN?
Also, how do you square your complaint about high housing costs and, in the same breath, over development, with your understanding of economic forces?
No. American citizens have the right to live anywhere in America they want and also have the freedom to vote for whatever and whoever they want.
Eventually with all the illegals being allowed to stay here they will all vote for the DemonicRAT Socialist Party of Death. It's just a matter of time that America will become a one party country. We are well on our way. It's heartbreaking,
We lived in Ft Collins in the mid ‘80’s. We’re recently retired and moving to Cheyenne.
NOT GOING BACK TO COLORADO! Beautiful state that I’ll visit regularly but won’t live there. It’s becoming eastern California.
you're retiring and were gonna move on costs basis anyways. Causation vs correlation, don't be disingenuous.
@@GonzoT38
Glad you know us better than ourselves.
YOU ARE WRONG!
Please don't move to Colorado, we have enough "trashplants"!!!
Not in my town of Cortez in SW Colorado. We have all the crazy Trumper MAGATs you could want.
@@olddirtbiker5088 Sounds like my kind of place, I'll take that anyday over the wokesters here in Commiefornia
"We live in an unbelievably perfect place." She herself must have just moved from CA. True, CO is better than CA and most parts of TX, but the politics, legalizing pot, rude people, new taxes, high cost of living, overcrowding, four hours on I-70 to go skiing...I moved out of state after 60 years here. Born and raised in the Springs. Just not the place it used to be.
The pot isn't bad but it brought the people here in DROVES. Ever since it's never been the same.
@@briannadickson2884 If you look at the states that have legalized pot they have all gone to pot lol. Governments like the revenue but it creates a ton of negative impact. Also states that generally legalize it are liberal in nature which contribute to the problems. That is they coddle the indigents and drug addicts. Many of those on the streets don't want to work. Liberal states attract homeless because they don't have to take ownership for poor life decisions. I live in New Mexico that has become a welfare state. So many young people on disability having allot of kids with tons so snap benefits. Half the state does not work and on medicaid. And they just legalized pot and things are getting bad now. I mean really ugly. I'm moving out next year. When the Governor campaigned here voter base were literally those that don't work, or pay taxes. But there are so many of these entitled POS's that they carried her another term. 4 more years of this crap and we will be as bad as Colorado. The Mayor of Albuquerque is even worse. the two together will spell doom.
I moved to Greeley CO in 2018 for family reasons from New Jersey. The traffic in the Denver area is as bad or worse than northern NJ or NYC. Denver is definitely the worst traffic area in the mountain time zone. I'm a long distance truck driver and travel all 48. And, I can't believe how horribly they take care of snow removal in Colorado! Some of US 85 between Denver and Greeley is like third world after a snow fall.
I was born in Colorado, still think of myself as a Colorado girl at heart, but a Colorado of the past. I was lucky to know it when I did.
Yep. I wish I would have realized years ago. I can't wait to get out of here now. And I am going to take a huge loss trying to sell now too. Because nobody wants to come here. It has the reputation of San Fran, LA, or Portland now.
My Old Man moved us out of Colorado in the 1970s because even then, it was getting too crowded and gentrified.
The rest of the Rocky Mountain/High Plains West stopped considering Colorado as truly part of the region quite some time ago. It’s basically California lite.
I recall Breckenridge during the 80s. Open fields and only 2 bars being The Mogul and Big Daddys. Cruised through there decades later and cannot even remotely recall the landscape but THATS progress. Oh yeah, a little Fox was trotting across a cross walk which was surreal.
It's just another place where everyone drives a car everywhere they go. No different from most places.
You can thank John Denver and his Colorado Rocky Mountain High for that change. Too many Californios moved in to get some of the high.
no It's California...period.
Called it `Calirado', beginning about 2005.
Unbelievably perfect place? There is no such place. Colorado is great I'm sure, but that woman sounds like an irrationally exuberant cheerleader for Colorado.
lol. She is such a left wing commie this is a perfect place for her.
Real estate agent talk.
She's a realtor, same as a used car salesperson.
Colorado IS a great place to live. But that realtor is clueless about why people are leaving. Costs are going up BECAUSE of idiotic political policies created by liberal Democrats, who are ruining Colorado. People are leaving for more Conservative places. Florida is only 0.7% less expensive, so it's not because of lower cost of living that people from Colorado are moving there.
Left Colorado for Texas about 3 years ago and it’s the best decision ever. The price of living is way down. Houses are twice as less. I do miss the mountains but not enough to stay.
Why are so many Texans in Colorado? Legitimate question.
@@neutralsportsfan17I never knew there was lmao but if I had to guess I’d say it’s cause Texas is a neighboring state.
@@neutralsportsfan17 because the same thing is going on everywhere. Rapid change and people think moving will solve they're problems but eventually every major city turns out to be almost the same when it all comes down to it
@@neutralsportsfan17 For the scenery
Well with the minimum wage of $7.25, things will be cheaper.
While watching this I commented to my BF that the reason Florida is appealing to certain kinds of people is because of the illusion that it is safer and cheaper. "Safer" meaning you dont see the homelessness...and What do you know, the last lady interviewed said just that.
Studied this in U.S. History college class in Wyoming, late 80's. The WOKE takeover was the conclusion back then. Don't think that's changed.
Let’s pray the woketards don’t “discover” Wyoming.
Cool My sister and I are both Polks
@@cadilacdesert … you mean Pokes, right? 😉
Colorado is one of the rudest snobbiest states I have ever been to. Pretty state though.
Omg the smugness from that first realtor was dripping through the screen, especially her last comment. Get over yourself honey.
Ugly too
I completely agree. 100% insincere. Will say anything to make a commision.
Relators really are their own worst enemy.
"freedom" (with air quotes) SMDH!
@@izifaddag8221 As I'm sure you know, that's a prerequisite to that "job"
I was raised in Colorado and left in 1987. I get back frequently to visit family. The changes are incredibly sad. My old high school has gone from being one of the best in the state (academically and athletically) to a war zone. It's so bad they fired all principals and teachers last year and required the teachers to reapply for their jobs. The growth and crime have destroyed many parts of the Front Range that used to be great places to live. IMO too many politicians in CO are on the far right and far left. There are no moderates and no sanity anymore.
1987, that's also when I ran screaming from EPC. Spent a few years up in Weld county and had to get outta there as well.
Import the 3rd world become the 3rd world
There is no far left properly represented in our country
If this fake country allowed the "fly over states" to be livable, it would affect the real estate value of the few places along the coasts where the venture capitalists live, and less people would be incentivized to leave home in the South and Mid West.
Was the high school in Aurora??? 😂😂😂
Colorado is so beautiful, too bad it’s ran by bad politicians.
Can't you get rid of them before it becomes another California?
Please hush your mouth. I lived in Oklahoma until I moved with my family to Colorado at age 17. The quality of life and opportunities in Oklahoma were horrendous, but here things are unbelievably better. The cost of living is bad, but don’t act like liberal politicians are ruining anything. If you think things are better run by Republicans, take a trip to rural Oklahoma and tell me how much better it is.
I am a CO native and have absolutely loved living here. But the influx of Californians moving here has been terrible. They move from CA because it’s a cesspool and they bring their garbage with them. I am looking for a job so I can relocate to another state soon. This state has gone from clean and safe to dirty and concealed carry necessary. The homeless panhandlers in downtown Denver is absolutely disgusting and scary. So sad to see what’s happening to this once awesome state.
And now they want to pass a law basically banning conceal carry.
In the early 90' I was in my early 30's, I would walk from Coors field, back to my car parked at Old Chicago , at 1am , by myself, never was worried or scared, I LOVED COLORADO, BEST PLACE ON EARTH, EVERYONE WAS HAPPY, BRONCOS AND AVALANCHE WINNING, NOW I WON'T EVEN VISIT, MAKES ME SICK
CO is an outdoor theme park. Insanely high prices for everything and get ready to wait in line for the privilege
Sounds like you should live in Montana.
Exactly the way I view Colorado, huge outdoor theme park no matter where you go,! ☺️☺️☺️❄️❄️❄️☕😊
It use to be affordable until all the privilege white liberals moved here and destroyed our state with drugs and ideology!!!
Reservations for Natl Parks ?
I moved away from Colorado about a year and a half ago. So glad that I did. The property taxes, the traffic, and the housing prices drove so many of my dear friends out of state. I moved to Colorado in 1970 and love love, love the state however, I’m thankful that I have moved. As of 71-year-old woman, cost of living and the property taxes on my home became overwhelming. I’ll come back for a visit, but I’m so glad that I moved here to Tennessee. The cost of living at property taxes and the cost of housing are so much less. Not to mention the people here are so so friendly and nice.
We moved to Colorado when I was 3. I lived here until 88-90 when I moved to NYC. I loved it there, but I missed Denver. I moved home. I've loved Colorado until crime, homelessness, random violence, largely ineffective/indifferent leaders took over. While I am a Libertarian, A64 started our decline. All the parasites and potheads moved in like it was a jailbreak. That's what started the decline...I'm sorry I voted for it.
Now, I'll be moving too. I know someone will comment, "Great! More for us!" Well, when the producers leave only the parasites are left. Who will be left to tax? I love Colorado, but it's been lost in the past 2-4 years...sadly, irretrievably. I'll miss it.
Well as they say, vote like your life depended on it. For too long people voted with their hearts and not their heads. These are the results we're seeing across the country. The problem is now that it's entrenched it will be nee impossible to fix. People are fleeing to save what's left. With that though it's a downward spiral where they left. Just look at NYC and LA. Both are one or two bad economical cycles away from a total implosion. Personally this can't happen fast enough. It will force these bad actors out and hopefully some sanity back into governance.
Funny, I'm homeless in California and work as much as I'm able to given my circumstance. I have nearly flawless attendance at work (except one day where a storm demolished my camp site) and I vape cannabis everyday. All of the homeless here that I see that don't work and just cause problems don't care about weed. They're alcoholics, meth heads, or junkies. All of the cannabis users I know work. I'm qualified for a better paying job but they all drug test for cannabis. Yea, I could quit, but why? All they need to do is call my current employer and my former employers for a solid referral. But it's not about that. It's about continued discrimination against cannabis users to keep their boot on our neck and then turn around and say, "See, these lazy potheads won't go out and get a job!" You know how many companies I've applied at or interviewed with and then walked out because their obsession with invading my personal life? Many. So now I live like this, a working guy living in a tent with no car who still makes it to work on time everyday and works hard. I save my weed for after work. If companies stopped being bigots I'd have a better paying job and an apartment but since this nasty little game continues I will do what I must to maintain my freedom to use cannabis in a responsible way. Nobody has the right to stew around in my urine and discriminate against me for what I do in my personal time. Yea, I'd rather be homeless than be treated like that.
@@dreaminez472 people lump the good people in with any bad. conservatives have a long history of treason but people will vote for them because they pander to demagoguery. It's why Putin gets so much support in russia.
That is the great flaw in one party leftist dystopias like Colorado, California, Oregon etc eventually they drive so many "producers" out that the tax base collapses, see Detroit and now Portland.
I smoke Pot sometimes abd I agree with you, too many potheads have tunnel vision and don't care as long as they can get stoned. They make it no longer fun for the rest of us
Liked the air quotes around Freedom. As freedom slowly erodes, some people mock those of us who value freedom. Don't know what you had until it is gone.
Go make some meth.
Exactly.
yeah... i noticed that. Tells you everything you need to know.
The reasons that the people gave for leaving Colorado is quite ridiculous considering those things are present in EVERY state. I live in Arizona, and I’ve visited several cities in California, Florida, Seattle, Nevada, I’m originally from Michigan, etc. and all those states have some form of crime, expensive cost of living, homelessness etc. so no matter where you go, you’re always going to run into those issue. I can even break down which state that I’ve visited/lived in has those attributes. Let’s start with the most ridiculous reason a person would leave a states
1. Homeless People: Any state could take this spot, but It’s ironic that California is in the top 4 states people are moving to from Colorado considering the fact that California is ranked number 1 for having has the HIGHEST homeless population in the country. I’ve been to San Francisco, and let me tell you, I’ve NEVER seen more homeless people in my life. Both sidewalks on each side of the road had lines of homeless people sleeping on the ground. Not only that, but there were also multiple human feces on the ground too.
2. Expensive Cost of Living: Literally every state could take the cake for this spot. Arizona used to be one of the most affordable states to live in 5-10+ years ago, but now, it’s just as expensive as the next state. A 2 bedroom apartment costs $2,000/mo to rent! California is notorious for their expensive housing, gas prices, food etc. California ranks number 2 as the most expensive states to buy houses.
3. Crime: Again any state could take this one, but Michigan’s crime rate is going up, and is increasingly becoming less safe to live in.
The moral of the story is that no matter where you move to in America, you WILL run into these issues, you can’t escape it, you especially can’t escape politics because EVERYONE is going to have a difference in political views no matter where you go, so again all of these reasons for leaving are ridiculous. Saying you just want a change of pace, or different weather, or different scenery is a WAY better reason to leave a state than to say you’re leaving because of “crime”, “politics”, “homelessness”, “expensive housing”, all things you will find in every state and can’t escape.
Obviously I do realize that yes more states than others have higher crime rates, or expensive housing, or homeless population etc. and I understand trying to find the state with the least of these bad qualities is important, but people shouldn’t make it seem like Colorado is the only state to deal with these issues, because it’s not.
Freedom does not need air quotations.
Glad you caught that too.
lol. I was surprised she didn't get censored. Maybe that's how to get around it.
My husband and I were natives. Politics and money are the main reasons we left. Too many people moving in and overdevelopment is also a big motive to leave. We lived in a mountain town that had become invaded by homeless, panhandlers and the crime rates were increasing. It’s a gorgeous state and leaving was extremely difficult.
Amber, I'm a retired senior in New England looking at Rifle...has that area gone bad? What general area were you in? (Don't say the town, if that makes you uncomfortable). I am also thinking of mountain towns...
Thanks in advance! 😀
@@mousetreehouse6833 why would you leave the New England area I hear that is the safest place to be?
@@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman yes, I live in the northern part, and it's drop dead gorgeous here. Unfortunately, the summer heat/humidity, plus allergies, are going to kill me (on top of other health issues, but those would follow me anywhere).
(Also, we do have homelessness and crime, but that is in the southern parts that are mostly liberal areas).
@@mousetreehouse6833 man I don't know about Colorado but I can tell you here in Northern California it gets like a 115 degrees in the summer.
@@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman We rarely get into triple digits, 85-95 is generally average summer temps.
My brother lives in Colorado. He despises the able bodied druggies that are always shaking down people for money. He has 4 kids and fears for the safety of his family if they go for an even out or fills his gas tank. It’s terrible. As soon as his youngest graduates college he’s moving away.
"The reason I moved is because in Florida they treat drug addicts, homeless and poor people in general like the trash they are". Every Conservative.
Sounds like a sensitive, cowardly snowflake.
@@simrdownmon6431
Ahhh...no...
@@mousetreehouse6833 oh yeah... don't try to hind behind the bush and pretend you're being all secretive when your butt is sticking out the other side for us all to see. One doesn't even have to read between lines to realize OP is scared of people not exactly like him.
Don't move to Texas we have more homeless then you can imagine .
My aunt just moved there last year from Michigan and loves Colorado. Guess it depends on your previous experiences.
And all the people in Colorado are moving to everywhere else and pricing us out. Mostly Texas and Flordia.
There’s no room at the inn.
I moved to Denver from the East. It is in the middle of the country with no significant body of water anywhere. It has a lot of transients and many issues with drugs. The cost of living is high but the salaries are not comparable. I live in Florida now but miss the mountains.
Too expensive...no one wants to live in a WEF Smart City LIBERAL...Polis, "this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated"
commute to Denver?...HORRIBLE DRIVE (no lights at night and serious snow/ice in the winter)...Perfect? Homeless EVERYWHERE!
My family left in the late 80's. Too many Californians were moving in, it became less safe. It was less attractive with the overbuilding and more expensive.
Crime and taxes are the top 2 reasons. It’s the same for every urban area in the country.
Not for red states like Texas and Florida. Crime is down, job markets flourishing, best housing markets in the US, cost of living is reasonable, etc etc etc. Simply put, everything woke turns to sh*t.
Im a Native, it's not the same place, everyone came from Liberal states to enjoy the better prices and legal weed. I miss the Colorado I grew up in...people were nice, polite and caring....now people flip you off, tents set up on the side of streats and people are rude. Half of my friends have moved due to liberal politics, bad schools, and too high of prices. Florida sounds great to me compared to the woke madness happening in Colorado.
Lol, a right wing "Aura reader".
@@heilseitan5838that's a typical judgmental moronic statement from a progressive leftist. One is not necessarily a "right wing" if one does not like what is going on in their place of residence.
@@colorocko1 Yeah, it's about as judgmental and moronic as calling me a "progressive liberal leftist" because I point out the irony of an obvious right winger promoting spirituality and spiritual ideology, or at least claiming to be about it, while being judgmental about Colorado's newcomers. And of course you're all right wing, it's a personality for you guys, you make it 1000% obvious with your judgmental attitudes and frequent use of buzzwords.
lol who is liking your responses? clearly they've never been to California. your generalizations are laughable
@@susank2019 you kindness shows your true character for everyone to see, lol. God bless you!
"Unbelievably perfect place."
Exactly what a realtor is expected to say. Everybody has their own version of "perfect."
she must be a liberal
Yeah, it's so "perfect" that I sadly felt the need to move out in 2020 after 41 years there due to all the negative changes.
My perfect place lets me do what I want and only pay for what I want and get. Ain't found it yet. Too many people want to tell you how to live and take whatever you got. Government loves to make you their slave.
The exact type of person who posts on Reddit. Ignores everything and just repeats “everything is ao amazing here” with their head buried in the dirt
Buh bye then
Exiles are streaming into Texas, as well. It is making the cost of affordable housing skyrocket.
What? People moving to another area raise costs? Shocking. I think you made my point and showed how ignorant most people are about how economics work, regardless of politics.
@@snigs5T5 IMO - You are not comprehending the issue. Of course, it causes prices to increase. In areas like California, Texas, and Florida long time residents can no longer afford their own housing. That, unfortunately, can lead to homelessness. Also, Texas property taxes are very high. Our yearly school funding is paid through them: there is no built in grandfather clause/exception, so they increase each year. Please consider having an open mind, and exchange ideas in a constructive manner.. Have a great day.
@@snigs5T5 Liberal policies are destroying entire states. Wake up.
Half the cars on Colorado highways have Texas plates. 2/3 of my old neighborhood was from Texas. I guarantee Texas is sending more people to Colorado than Colorado is to Texas... for now.
It's so sad seeing the current governor be so swift on his decrepit policies. The plastic bags being one. If you look into the money being made off of this policy it's astronomical. Walmart in our town doesn't even provide the bags for 10 cents, but will sell you the 77 cent ones. If the bags are so bad, just don't sell them. Your climate crises reasons go out the window when you monetize something that's supposed to be bad for the environment.
Misaligned politics (liberalism) and the awful traffic are reasons enough...
Im 42 lived here my whole life in Colorado and the past few years I keep looking for an exit strategy for the same reasons that these people were just talking about, main reason being priced out of my own state can't afford anything here anymore with the jobs/pay here.....👎
I personally as a former native of Colorado Springs, have witnessed a GREAT DECLINE each year I've gone back to visit. Mid west rural is much appreciated.
A decline of what? The mid-west has been sinking for decades due to the water tables and factories sent overseas by Walmart.
you can't be a former native unless you ceased to exist
TABOR = decline.
Midwest Rural is where people are content and happy and family oriented. Unfortunately, big cities that turn out garbage policies and angry people are creating a new landscape of our country, which is why you are seeing American disintegrate mightily in the last 30 + years
In 2021 we sold our house in Englewood for $440K, moved to southwest coastal Florida and bought a much bigger house with a huge yard for 270K. Recently, I checked on Zillow-Redfine and our Englewood house is estimated at $700K and our Florida house is estimated at $350K. I really don't understand why Denver Metro housing prices are skyrocketing like that.
A friend of mine moved from Colorado to Pennsylvania. She and her husband are engineers. They wanted to live somewhere with more water.
I'm trying to move back to the Midwest. What was heaven on earth to me just a decade ago has become unlivable.
Freedom is the main reason I’d leave the State.
Colorado is turning into Commierado in a hurry.
in which way?
@@aquaticsplashes #1
We are not a Democracy. We are a Constitutional Republic & democrats are changing everything we’ve ever been in the past.
Taking away the Rights of free men & women.
Democracies fail 100% of the time and devolve into communist/socialist regimes.
@@aquaticsplashesdrive from colfax and wadsworth to colfax and union and you’ll see why. Homeless filth everywhere, crime and illegal immigrants.
@@jray4131 what rights do you feel they are taking away?
@@aquaticsplashes The Second Amendment to the State Constitution as well as the Federal Constitution says “Shall not be infringed”.
Colorado has a Red Flag law which clearly violate both the State & Federal Constitution.
The Second Amendment was only made second by our forefathers because they believed, as I do, that redress of grievances was paramount to a civil society.
We don’t need to be like some of the old outlaws that shoot before talking out their grievances.
I was a 30 year native that moved to Texas.
1. Got a 3 bd, 2 bath home on 1 acre for the price of a condo in Aurora.
2. Not going to raise my family in "Cali-rado" with that fruitloop governor.
It's also very much grown in a corporate capacity. I used to admire the amount of small enterprises in the state. I visited last year and the crappy corporate chains had crushed a lot of that.
Pls don't forget the left politics and the RINOS, too. They made it the shithole it's growing into.
Lived there from 80-92, went back in 98 and it was a different place altogether. Haven't been back since.
don't blame ya for not coming back.
Your loss. 😊
I think this is realistic, relavant and heart wrenching at the same time. People everywhere are looking for this majestic place that exist no matter what the state is and the relatity is that it exists no where. The world is a changing place and it will continue when we value money over humanity, integrity and character. Most of all of us no matter the money want safety, shelter food and insurances that assist us in building a healthy life. No matter what your standing is and where you are, homeless and those who do not have will always be among us. It just boils down to the more you money you make the further you can move from them. Everyone take good care of yourselves and add a little beauty to someone else even if it is a just the beauty of hello.
Well it's too darn expensive to live here!
CBS keep doing more of these analysis. It is good to have transparency and shine a bright light on what is going on.
Anything cbs,abc,nbc, cnn, amd msnbc is fake it’s all Democrat lies
Yes, but they keep propping up Joe Biden and all the democrats. Kinda hilarious that liberal policies are causing these things, yet they rave about every democrat and demonize anybody with a R next to their name. It’s odd all these liberals want to run away to the rural areas and states like Florida with the supposedly cruel and viscous Ron Desantis, ha.
Movement to cities is slowing when populations have doubled in the last 30 years. You have to be braindead to not already know what's happening.
@@ceoatcrystalsoft4942 ignorance is bliss...look at the video again you might get a glimmer of understanding...
Yes, keep interviewing conservative lesbians.
I'm a Native™ that left for Oregon, after 40 years. No sense paying $500k+ for a starter home on the prairie, that is brown 9 months out of the year, due to no water. CO was great place to grow up. It has definitely changed for the worse.
It's because more states keep legalizing weed, so they don't need to go to the cold expensive state of Colorado anymore
During the pandemic, the Government was scarier than Covid.
Bwahahahahaahahahaha! Spoken like a true ignoramus.
@@snigs5T5 You're afraid of Covid...
@@bushrglobalists8742 good one, dork.
@@snigs5T5 GFY. You work for the government.
@@bushrglobalists8742 you caught me! Planted here to annoy luddite hermits like you!
Affordability and Colorado's political leftward swing are the same thing. Show me a political district run by Dems for at least a decade and I'll show you a housing market with limited supply due to overregulation and artificially higher costs due to taxation. There are no exceptions to this rule.
Ding ding ding! Right?
I have watched Colorado move from really great to a pathetic scene since 1988. Denver and Boulder were great places and now, not so much. I still love your state, driving the entire Front Range, back highways west of the Rockies...the last of small town America. I will still go to CO as I have extended family ties that live out in the boonies of Elbert and Franktown, but will always be disappointed in how fast these areas have crashed. Hopefully, the younger gen will step up. We will see. Love the state always.
A fellow Four Corner State citizen.
"Hopefully, the younger generation will step up." You do realize it's the younger generations being indoctrinated, right?
To all you leaving Colorado... don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out. Frankly, I am glad you are moving to Florida for it politics. That just shows me you are IDIOT REPUBLICANS that cherished your FREEDUMB more that the lives of your family and everyone around you. BYE BYE...
It’s only going to get worse, much worse.
Elbert and Franktown used to be the boonies about 30 yrs ago , not anymore . Urban sprawl
I seriously doubt the younger gen will "step up".
My grandparents have a house in Colorado and it’s such a beautiful state. I’ve always wanted to move there permanently.
It is a beautiful state, nothing like the mountains. I’ve been to the east and west coast but no place like home. COS
I was born in Colorado and spend considerable time there still because of family. The State of Colorado has gone from a conservative, red state (common sense libertarian-style conservatism, not Republican party "conservatism") to a nearly one-party rule, California client state (that is actually more liberal in some ways than California itself). The policies pushed and supported by the influx of political radicals has had a detrimental effect on the state. It has become an over-developed welfare state that is too lenient on a variety of issues, and it is steadily dragging the state down. Because of the military presence, Colorado Springs is one of the last bastions (city-wise) of common sense and even that is deteriorating.
Time for a real 3rd party... The Independent, moderate, constitutionalist party, & rank voting to break up the dysfunctional two extreme party system...I don't agree with extreme right, left, or libertarian veiw of " Every man for himself "...I believe a civilized society takes care of it's Elderly, it's Disabled, it's Veterans, & Children. I've paid into social security since the 1970's...want my money back when I retire...
military city as the last bastion for common sense… lol you probably lick boots
I am Colorado born and raised. I was ahead of the curve, leaving in 2006, for Arizona. But I didn't leave because of politics or crime or legalized drugs or the cost of living. I left because I hated snow and being cold.
I can totally get that!!! I would be moving west, except for the heat and lack of water!!! Instead, we just travel out that way.
A friend of mine moved from Philadelphia to Denver and she was shocked how bad the gangs were.
Oh, please. You have no idea how bad it is in Philly. Denver is Wally World by comparison.
White people talking about "crime" cracks me up.
@@zipalooie why?
@@PS987654321PS
I'm from Philadelphia. I doubt there's any neighborhood in Denver that is even close to the worst neighborhoods in Philly.
Philly is a diversity cesspool.
I moved OUT of Colorado 10 years ago. Crime, illegals, real estate is crazy, drugs ( not weed )
could it be they dont like paying 10 cents for every bag at the grocery / big box store?
I wanna get closer to Denver for the widespread feces. Also growing homeless encampments are the signs of true compassion. It is also good to know that when I end up homeless I can get better care and tents than when I was middle-class.
Yeah that's totally the plan. But don't look to the free market and big companies shipping jobs overseas, reducing benefits, and TABOR for squeezing the state budget as causes, no.
lol!! That's hilarious!
And don't forget about getting your car stolen so you don't have to put up with the insane gridlock highway traffic.
So you want to get better care like the homeless while you still have to relieve yourself outside? Weird. Doesn’t sound like they are getting the benefits some people are leading you to believe.
Love the sarc, tell us what you dont like about Colorado
@@snigs5T5 Tabor was the last bastion against Californication. Jared will make sure it's gone b4 he goes for Premier.
Y'all are welcome here in Texas, provided you don't try to bring your leftist politics with you.
Or your automobiles. We have plenty already.
I grew up in Colorado, Durango. I left in 2016 , the entire area was taken over by California's. They ruined it like a plague of locust . It's all just car lots strip malls and apartment buildings that no one can afford now .
P.S A few weeks ago I saw a car at the gas station with Colorado plates, I told the people I had left the Durango area in 1999 and they said a lot had changed and not for the best.
I'm leaving the state for Arkansas. Colorado's ludicrous liberal political environment has destroyed what was once an unbeatable place to live.
Bad politicians ruin cities.
Blue politicians ruin cities.
Democrats ruin everything
Colorado is beautiful and I can’t imagine living anywhere else.
I hated to leave CO but felt it was turning into a liberal cesspool. 6 years later it turns out my gut was right. Don't miss it at all.
You are doubtless enjoying Texastan, then.
Whereabout did you move
@@jeannerogers7085 Nope. Try harder.
@@jm-xg7lm Southwest. AZ.
Might as well name this state Colofornia. Lived here for 66 years and I am getting out this year! Get a load as to what we have as a Governor and Mayor.
We are East Califukitup.
I think that infinite growth is unsustainable, and we've built our entire society around the concept. I live in southern Colorado in a small city of 150k people with good proximity to nature. It's not an alpine resort town, but there are beautiful people and vibrant ecology here. Suburban sprawl is already affecting this place and I suspect it will get worse before it gets better. I don't mind the downtown density - a city plot is perfectly fine for me as long as I have access to a nature trail within walking distance. I think the real problem is the suburban-sized lots. They take more public resources per person - water mains, sewer, road maintenance, etc. Big real estate companies get incestuous deals with local politicians, providing the city with a quick shot of cash in exchange for maintaining unsustainable infrastructure down the line.
Just in case anyone things I'm bashing rural life - I think that rural plots are also great! They have their own septic systems and wells and are often only connected via electric and sometimes natural gas. It's just that suburban inbetween that gets me - all the connectedness of a city without the population density to sustain it.
I'm originally from Chicago and I've seen examples of great civic beauty and cooperation as well as redlining and rampant segregation and criminal taxation. I've seen entire business corridors go underwater due to an unfavorable economic climate. I've experienced public transportation and biking as well as driving around in a car all the time..
Colorado has a lot of hope. There's still so much beauty here. I feel that stewardship and sustainability are the way forward, and I feel that we will be able to improve things more readily once we get past this artificial political bullshit that's holding us all back. I appreciate I live in a state that doesn't seek to limit reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, or 2nd amendment rights, though I worry it may fall victim to the rampant tribalism we're facing as a nation. I just hope we can all see past our respective noses and work together to preserve and uplift this amazing place.
They moved to Colorado and California to break these States. Absolute disgust! Now they came to Florida... Florida is a MESS!!
They you mean liberals!!
@@rebeccaduncan6805 NO. I mean the malicious chaos and confusion from people like the few WE have in the Congress now making a spectacle of OUR Nation.
It's a free country, fascist.
Florida has always been a clown show. You'll take our White Flight boomers and you will like it! Lol
Agree 💯
They are wolves in sheep’s clothing and have become horrifyingly organized to include militia arms.