Which one is the best place to live if you have money?
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Colorado mountain towns
Which one is the best place to live if you have money?
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Estes Park
estes park is nice
the wind is crazy though
If you have a shit ton of money, Aspen.
Southpark
Colorado is a joke state. Everything sucks. Mountain town life is lonely and boring. Nothing is open late. The only thing to do is get drunk in the middle of nowhere and hope you don't get mauled by a bear. Denver is riddled with crime. Worse crime stats than Chicago right now. Front range towns are lame lifeless urban sprawl with zero character or public urban spaces. And then eastern Colorado is just nothing as far as your eye can see with a few little meth towns sprinkled every 30 miles or so.
I've been stuck in the shittiest parts of bama all my life. Colorado was fricking heaven. The most beautiful place I've seen on Earth. I felt so much more free and safer. Yeh Denver was ass and Colorado Springs is fun for a couple hours, but thoes fricking mountains are amazing.
Every moron from east of the front range (like 75% of the US population) says the same thing upon seeing their first real actual mountains. Also it's full.
I was a sales manager in Denver for 6 years and every time we had an opening we'd get hundreds of applications from Midwesterners trying to move to paradise. Colorado is spoiled. If you didn't buy a house pre 2010 you're too late.
>lovely and boring
that’s the best part. I just want to live in peace in a charming mountain town that gets a shit ton of snow.
it shouldn’t be so small that there are no stores around at all.
bonus points for BLM land right next to it so can shoot stuff.
while not in colorado, I’m interested in park city, UT and Heber, UT as well as Spearfish, SD
Manitou and Boulder where pretty fun but can get very busy and pricey.
Do people actually think this looks good?
>fat mutts
>fat women
>BLM
>expensive
Why would anyone want to live there instead of like a KING in SEA? Getting pussy 24/7 and saving money.
Colorado has the lowest % of fat chicks (and also one of the lowest %s of Black folks, gee I wonder if they're correlated) in the country.
Every single resident of the town in OPs pic is a rich trust fund kid that has a personal trainer, personal ski instructor, etc.
LOL cope the west is dead look at this place as proof the white man needs to go to SEA to have any hope of a future.
>the west is dead go to monkeyland where the average IQ is less than the average temp in F but at least the brown chicks put out amirite
>but at least the brown chicks put out amirite
yes. and its cheap.
don't respond to obvious trolls, moron
Colorado is the slimmest state in America, and the mountain regions are the slimmest part of Colorado. Fitness is a lifestyle out here. Our obesity rates are on par with SEA.
Colorado mountain towns are 80+% White, with European-dominant Latinos making up most of the remainder. Lots of natural blonde hair and other signs of top-notch European genetics.
The pristine highland climate of Colorado is far, far superior to the filthy, crowded, sweltering tropicality of SEA. Living your best life at 8000+ feet of elevation, surrounded by strong, healthy, high-achieving White people cannot be compared to being a degenerate coomer KING and spending all your time drinking and fornicating with dirty, impoverished SEAmonkeys.
Homie I live at 9500 feet and life here is...shall we say, love-it-or-hate-it. We are in a food desert and everyone in my town is malnourished. Most people earn money through the informal economy and spend it on bread, canned food and weed. There is no sense of community. We tell ourselves things were better before the pandemic because that hurts less than admitting the truth. Not a soul here lives "the Colorado lifestyle" unless that means frantically sourcing and splitting wood every day all summer just to stay alive in the winter.
We do fit the stereotype by being dog lovers though.
spics and nigs are allergic to high altitude alpine towns, thank god
except peruvians and bolivians
mountain beaners aren't coming here so I'm not worried about it.
Not yet they aren't but they will come eventually
You answered your question OP, Telluride is where everyone who has money lives in Colorado.
I have been to almost every mountain town in the state and I will not tell you my absolute favorite, but runner up is Boulder with Salida as an honorable mention. Crested Butte is incredibly beautiful as well but it's full of stuck up people.
I really like Evergreen. Mountain town but you're only about 25 minutes from Denver. If you want to be more remote, Steamboat Springs is incredible if you can afford it. Has a small airport which is convenient to save a 3 hour one way drive to DIA.
I've heard Durango is pretty cool but have never been.
Durango is very cool, but it's a small town and it's pretty remote. I went a couple years ago and it was amazing.The skiing is world class and there are some awesome towns nearby like Telluride and Ouray. But it's a 4 hour drive to a major city, and that city is Albuquerque. And Albuquerque sucks. 100 percent you should visit Durango and go ski and hike. But would I live there? Nah.
If money wasn't an option, I'd want to be somewhere north off I-70 like Vail or Brekenridge. I've heard that boulder is amazing too, but I never made it up that far.
I greatly prefer Durango to Telluride or Ouray. Durango is a fun party college town. It's just a fun laid back place to go downtown and it happens to have a lot of history and pretty good scenery. It's also larger than the other two places so there's more variety and the economy is based around more normal things.
Telluride is in an absolutely stunning location with top notch skiing but is ruined by the absolute snobs that live there. It's full of insanely rich new englanders and if that couldn't be worse half of them are eco fanatics who will lecture you for killing the earth because you used a plastic water bottle. Everything costs a ton of money for mediocre service too.
Ouray is kinda cool and very pretty but it's boring and there's not much to do there besides going to the hot springs pool.
Boulder is naturally beautiful and full of schizophrenic hobos and literally insane politicians who want to make Boulder the next San Francisco
I was born in Durango, my family still lives there. I live in Hawaii because I have to be by the ocean to be happy, but Durango is absolutely beautiful and I love the culture there. Awesome bars, restaurants, the mountains are gorgeous, great skiing in Purgatory, rafting, etc.
Hey, so I am thinking of going to Denver to see a rodeo (I am German and never seen anything like that), what's a good one between 20 and 30 July? And what else can I do nearby, I don't have too much time. I am thinking Red Rocks Theatre and maybe Garden of Gods, how is that?
>Which one is the best place to live if you have money?
Depends on what you want. If you can live in a mediocre to crappy house then there are relatively cheap places (still 3x the price what you'd pay in the midwest) sprinkled all over. You also have to decide how much mountain you want and how rural you want to get and most of the cheapest stuff is down in the Sangres and San Juans where the state is poor and has a wee bit of a meth problem.
>I have way too much money and want to live in a Ski town
Any of them, but especially:
Aspen/Snowmass
Steamboat
Vail
Breck
>I have too much money and I want to be near Denver
Estes Park
Boulder outskirts
>I'm not THAT rich and I can be hours away from Denver
Pagosa
Leadville
Meeker
Most of the High Rockies
>I'm not THAT rich, but I have to be close to Denver
lol
Basically, anywhere both alpine and nice is expensive as shit and if you haven't lived at altitude before you might not like it. The growing season in Leadville (10,177'; highest incorporated community in the US) is about 75 days and it's not uncommon to have overnight frosts into July.
Douglas County Fair. Runs July 28 (really the 29th because the 28th is a half day) to August 6. It's also the only one in that time frame that's not hours away by car from Denver.
>And what else can I do nearby, I don't have too much time. I am thinking Red Rocks Theatre and maybe Garden of Gods, how is that?
Garden of the Gods is also a fair bit south of Denver, too, outside of Colorado Springs. Personally I like the Denver Museum of Nature and Science because it has tons of dinosaurs, and the aquarium isn't bad either. The Tattered Cover is a good used book store and Denver has an ungodly amount of craft breweries. Also, if you somehow decide you want to buy a bow and arrow one of the best archery shops in the country (RMS Gear) is in Wheat Ridge. You could also go to a gun range and rent a gun if that tickles your fancy at all.
thanks. The archery store sounds interesting but I am not sure if I could get that through customs haha
>The archery store sounds interesting but I am not sure if I could get that through customs haha
It's worth going just to check the place out, really. They've also got a lot of knives and other sporting gear.
if you have money then all the ski towns are equivalent, and within those ski towns you have ritzy areas, slightly less ritzy areas, and poorer areas where the workers live
what about vail? or its just a vacation spot?
Its just a ski resort. Dead city in the summer.
It's pretty much dead in the summer
Vail exists for two populations: the tourists who visit it and the people who work to earn money from said tourists.
Tell me about Telluride. If money wasn't a problem I would definitely move there. Besides the cost of living there what are the bad things about it?
Also what are the best similar towns to it?
Is Red Cliff the best kept secret town? It is a super comfy little town
Estes Park is a traffic-clogged crossroads collection of tourist traps catering to the hordes of park visitors who stop by. I spent a night there last year. Lake Estes was cool, though. It is very tough to get into RMNP, and RMNP is basically the entire reason for Estes Park's existence.
Telluride is amazing and chill, one of the coolest towns in the world. If you hate traffic and love nature, it is a great place to be, but you are very far from "civilization".
Breckenridge is full of uber-fit buttholes, but has world-class skiing, amazing mountains and a wonderful river path through the heart of town. At 9000 feet, the climate is never hot up there. Lately it has been downright cold!
Frisco is more of a "down home" mountain town with a tranquil Main Street, very close to I-70 and Silverthorne's traffic-snarled commercial district.
Idaho Springs is next to I-70 as well, but has a lively, walkable main street. I found it surprisingly appealing.
Georgetown is also next to I-70, but tucked at the bottom of a hill. It has a very rustic feel.
Buena Vista is my town. It is rapidly growing, less pretentious than the ski towns, and has amazing recreational opportunities.
Salida is the sunniest and warmest town in the Colorado Rockies. It is being rapidly gentrified. The town center is miles from the principal highways, so it is quiet and walkable. Lots of art and nature here.
Manitou Springs is one of the most beautiful places on Earth, with a great funky vibe. Very different from Colorado Springs, despite being only a few miles away.
Gunnison and Alamosa are crossroads towns with lots of traffic, serving large rural areas. Neither of them are close to the mountains.
I've only spent a little time in Crested Butte, but if you want wealth, isolation and pristine nature, it is top-notch. It has the coolest summers in Colorado, reportedly.
Aspen is the "smallest big city in Colorado". I plan to spend some time there next weekend, checking it out.
What do you guys think about Fort Collins? I make decent money and like outdoorsy things, but would never live in Denver and am getting tired of the springs.
Fort Collins is nice but you have the same population issue as Boulder: uppity "leftists" that haven't been slapped by reality yet but speak authoritatively on matters in which they have no experience. They can vote, sadly
Do people in Colorado like hockey?
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why does this image look fake as hell
Because you're so poor you can't fathom living in a place that beautiful
You can't see it in the photo, but there's a huge waterfall at the end of the valley. You can see it from most of town. It's an incredible location for sure.