There is one town I like in Colorado: Rifle. All the rest not so much.
Colorado: Rifle
I live here five years now after 45 years in north central Florida (daughter is the reason). We live on a rock across from the Rifle airport overlooking I 70. Traffic rush starts east at 5 am, headed upvalley to Aspen and points on the way. Reverse rush three hour starts at 330 when everyone is stuck in Glenwood Springs.
There is no water, well water is frequently tainted with uranium, chromium, heavy metals, irrigation water is going to be scarce this year, there are no houses , lots of construction of cheaply built houses and tiny houses because worker bees have to live somewhere. Just about everyone with a half acre of land has RV campers with illegal rentals
The old bearded hunter crowd has gotten too old to hunt. The elk and deer have moved on from drought
And Garfield County is turning blue because the republican crowd has reelected the same retreads for the past 25 years.
Colorado has some amazing landscape. But too many people with too little time to bother to look. I”d leave but it would cost too much to move. I’m old.
Taxes are limited by legislation. But fees are not limited by anything. Government of idiots. And Xcel will rob you dark.