Young, affluent and in the family way

Toronto Star ^ | 17 jan 05 | TIM HARPER

[white trash redneck]

The gymnasium at Challenger Recreation Center is going full tilt, with youngsters sprinting up and down the court, heaving basketballs at buckets that tower over them.

On each side, proud parents, camcorders and digital cameras hard at work, record the exploits of their offspring, mothers alternately cheering and rocking infants in their arms.

Other kids are in the centre’s pool, its roller rink, its skating rink. In the summer, they flock to the baseball diamond and soccer field.

To understand the essence of George W. Bush’s America, one should make the journey to Douglas County, southeast of Denver, long one of the fastest-growing counties in the United States.

Demographers believe counties like Douglas will fuel future Republican victories, electoral wins assured in years to come by those tiny basketball scamps.

, dubbed the Red Diaper Brigade.

Those scamps are the raison d’être for Parker — a 41,000-strong Douglas County community of family restaurants, single-family homes, schools and playing fields — perhaps one of the most family-centric places in America.

The phenomenon has been called “natalism,” a theory showing — with remarkable predictability and clarity — that young, affluent, conservative families with the highest birthrates are raising broods of tiny Republicans who will keep their parents’ party in power.

They are people like 30-year-old Danielle Cox, who moved to Parker from Pittsburgh in 1999 with husband Jonathan, 36, to raise 4-year-old Maiya and 6-year-old Madison.

“We’re Republicans,” Cox says, relaxing poolside as her daughters play in the water.

“I guess our financial situation behooves us to be Republicans. We’re very concerned about tax levels. We were also both raised Republicans.”

But family, not politics, is the number one concern in her life. She wanted to find somewhere where her children could thrive, and she found it.

“Once you’re in Parker, you don’t leave,” she says.

Robert Ramsey, watching 361/27-year-old daughter Cassidy playing in the pool as he chats, is another member of the Republican army. Ramsey, a father of three, likes the schools, the student-to-teacher ratio and the relative lack of crime in the area.

“Don’t get me wrong,” he says. “The cheque-cashing place up the road has been robbed a couple of times, but you don’t have the major crime problems you have in other cities.”

He is Republican for a simple reason — he doesn’t like liberals.

“I’m not into same-sex marriage,” says the father of three. “I’m a member of the National Rifle Association.”

— I believe it’s my right to bear arms to defend myself and my family and the liberals would take that right away.”

Will he raise his kids to be Republicans?

“I would like them to make that choice,” he says. “But let’s put it this way, I won’t raise them to be liberals. I’ve seen enough.”

Clearly, there are reasons other than politics that draw affluent young families to Douglas County.

The median age in Parker is 30.7 years; the median household income is over $75,000 (all figures U.S.).

The community is 90 per cent white. Ninety-seven per cent of adult residents have at least a high school diploma and 45.3 per cent hold a bachelor’s degree or higher. Seventy-one per cent are married.

From 1996 to 2003, 5,863 new homes were built in the community and housing prices went from a median level of $113,000 to $204,700. Now, the median is approaching $250,000.

There hasn’t been a murder here since ..... well, no one can remember exactly how long ago that was.

And the sun shines 300 days a year.

“If we go more than 36 hours without the sun here, people start freaking out,” says real estate agent Jeff Andrews.

a Parker real estate agent.

The strong Republican showing in Douglas County, where Bush won 67 per cent of the Nov. 2 vote, wasn’t seen elsewhere in Colorado, which is more “purple” than solid red Republican.

But the Douglas County vote was typical of what the U.S. Census bureau calls “micropolitan areas,” a segment of the population not recorded before 2003.

A micropolitan area must have at least 10,000 residents but fewer than 50,000. And it must be far enough away from major metropolitan centres that families still feel they have space.

The micropolitan family seeks the wide-open spaces away from the suburbs, for the family and because these areas now attract service industries.

According to a study by the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech University, Bush won 474 of the nation’s 573 micropolitan areas, taking 61 per cent of the vote and likely tipping the election in the deciding state of Ohio, where he won 27 of the state’s 29 micropolitan areas.

Bush won nine of the 10 fastest-growing states, the exception being tiny Delaware. According to some estimates, he also won 97 of the country’s 100 fastest-growing counties.

If these trends continue, by 2010, congressional representation, and the presidential electoral college vote that mirrors that representation, will drop in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Iowa — two Democratic blue strongholds and two “purple” states that have swung back and forth in the last two elections.

Arizona, Florida, Texas and Utah, all solidly red Republican, are expected to gain electoral college votes in 2010.

Mayor David Casiano, a New York native who arrived here in 1988, says people don’t come to Parker because they are Republicans and coming here doesn’t make them Republicans.

Tracy Sherman, a Massachusetts native who is now Parker’s director of economic development, agrees. “People who are moving here have good values, sometimes spiritual values,” she says. “It’s really a throwback to the ’50s or ’60s.”

The natalism trend was spotted by Steve Sailer, who studied American fertility rates after the election and found the most fertile white women live in Utah, which was the only state where Bush received more than 70 per cent of the vote.

White women average 2.45 babies in Utah, Sailer found, compared with merely 1.11 babies in Washington, D.C., where Bush won 9 per cent of the vote.

The New England states where Bush garnered less than 40 per cent of the vote — Massachusetts, Vermont and Rhode Island — are three of the four states with the lowest white birthrates, Sailer wrote last month in The American Conservative magazine.

Bush carried the 19 states with the highest white fertility rate and 25 of the top 26, with highly unionized Michigan being the one exception to the rule.

In contrast, Sailer points out, Kerry won the 16 states at the bottom of the list, with the Democratic anchors of California (1.65) and New York (1.72) having quite infertile whites.

The theory won greater exposure when it was cited by conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks as a “little-known movement” sweeping America the United States — one to which politicians will have to pander.

“Natalists are associated with red America,” Brooks wrote in a December column, “but they’re not launching a jihad.

“The differences between them and people on the other side of the cultural divide are differences of degree, not kind.

“Like most Americans, but perhaps more anxiously, they try to shepherd their kids through supermarket checkout lines with screaming Cosmo or Maxim cover lines.”

Enter family-friendly Parker, with its 41 square kilometres of housing and commercial development and a view of the Rockies from every angle.

Its built-in development designs for schools and recreational areas, as well as an “anti-cookie-cutter law” that compels developers to build homes in different colours and designs, and even its soft-lighting ambience, lend it what Casiano calls “an attitude.”

Parker’s goal, he says, is to be a “full-service community with a small-town feel.”

And if Parker loses that feel, demographers expect young families to flock to other areas where space remains — there to raise their children and perhaps keep the Republican party in power.

[white trash redneck]

I can just heat that reporter gnashing his teeth as he wrote this.

Problem is, while conservatives are reproducing at a faster rate than lefties, the lefties are using two techniques to nullify this advantage. First, they are importing RAT voters. That's why they are against border control and voter verification.

Second, not every conservative family can, or wants to, homeschool its children. Unfortunately, from the time they start their education in first grade in the government schools, and on through their college education, these conservatives' kids' educations will be in the hands of committed lefties.

[Max Combined]

“I’m not into same-sex marriage,” says the father of three. “I’m a member of the National Rifle Association.”

Sounds like a reasonable guy.

[kittymyrib]

Well gee...the Dem Party of bull dykes, and fey gays, and abortion-loving single women isn't growing. Whodda thunk it.

[Ditto]

Unfortunately, from the time they start their education in first grade in the government schools, and on through their college education, these conservatives' kids' educations will be in the hands of committed lefties.

Look at the parents. They went through the Government school system filled with leftist propaganda since the 1970s, and they flatly rejected it. From the descriptions of the parents, I'd say the average educational level is 4+ years of college, yet they have managed to come through that and become highly family oriented and conservative.

Why? They rejected the "values" being foisted on them. They knew better. Young people, if nothing else, are great at spotting hypocrisy and mindless bias and they hate it and reject it. The leftist educational establishment has become so extreme and out of touch with their students that their hypocrisy, radicalism and intelictual silliness is impossible to conceal. These young parents went through their schooling, got their grades, established their careers, and flatly rejected every bit of leftist propaganda that had been shoved down their throats.

Don't worry about the leftist education establishment. They make themselves more and more of a joke among their students with each passing year. Think of how the Russians felt about Pravda under the old system and you see how the average American student sees the education establishment.

[Howlin]

“I would like them to make that choice,” he says. “But let’s put it this way, I won’t raise them to be liberals. I’ve seen enough.”

Heh. He got it!

[Millicent_Hornswaggle]

That's very funny, and sad, too.

[kemathen7]

From the tone of this article, you would think that Parker's citizens have lots and lots of kids for the sole reason of keeping the Republican party in power. Nah - they couldn't possibly be raising a family in a quiet, beautiful and safe place because that's their heart's desire.

I'm looking at buying a condo in Parker. Its a nice place to live.

[Theophilus]

hypernatalist reporting in.

[xsrdx]

Hmmph.. my Dad moved us to Parker in 1972, it's where I grew up and lived until 1985.

It's a much, much different place today - transplanted Californians are everywhere, most of them probably conservatives frustrated with Cali's continuing experimentation with socialism.

Still a great place to raise a family, although the cost of living is pretty steep.

[Knock3Times]

ping

[sasafras]

This article is the biggest piece of liberal hate trash that I have seen in some time. Makes republicans sound like simpletons or white robots. Here is one republican who thinks Bush is acting like a tyrant when it comes to social issues and is really just one step above Kerry (although it is a rather large step). I am not happy about Rove, Bush, McCain and infact much of the organized GOP but believe that they a world apart from our communist racist democrats.

[Tunehead54]

Sounds like a nice place. Is it high plains? Forested? Room for horses? Good skiing nearby? Thanks! ;-)

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Parker, Colorado

 

Profiles Parker, Douglas County, Colorado local houses, apartments, residents, hotels, hospitals, jobs, schools...

Back to Colorado, United States. Do you have any pictures of this city?   Planning a vacation? Current weather forecast for Parker, CO Population (year 2000): 23,558, Est. population in July 2002: 32,347 (+37.2% change) Males: 11,661 (49.5%), Females: 11,897 (50.5%) Elevation: 5868 feet County: Douglas Land area: 14.6 square miles Zip codes: 80134, 80138. Median resident age: 30.7 years Median household income: $74,116 (year 2000) Median house value: $194,600 (year 2000) New: Parker, CO residents, houses, and apartments details Races in Parker: White Non-Hispanic (89.5%) Hispanic (5.8%) Two or more races (2.3%) Other race (1.9%) Black (1.0%) American Indian (0.9%) (Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races) New: Political contributions by individuals in Parker, CO Ancestries: German (29.2%), Irish (16.5%), English (11.3%), Italian (7.8%), United States (7.2%), Swedish (4.3%).

For population 25 years and over in Parker

• High school or higher: 97.0%
• Bachelor's degree or higher: 45.3%
• Graduate or professional degree: 11.8%
• Unemployed: 1.3%
• Mean travel time to work: 28.9 minutes

For population 15 years and over in Parker town

• Never married: 18.4%
• Now married: 71.0%
• Separated: 0.8%
• Widowed: 1.7%
• Divorced: 8.1%

3.6% Foreign born (1.4% Asia, 1.2% Europe, 0.5% North America).

Nearest city with pop. 50,000+: Aurora, CO (12.5 miles, pop. 276,393).

Nearest city with pop. 1,000,000+: Phoenix, AZ (651.1 miles, pop. 1,321,045).

Nearest cities: Stonegate, CO (2.6 miles), Cottonwood, CO (3.7 miles), Grand View Estates, CO (4.2 miles), Foxfield, CO (4.9 miles), The Pinery, CO (5.4 miles), Heritage Hills, CO (8.2 miles), Lone Tree, CO (8.9 miles), Carriage Club, CO (9.1 miles).

Single-family new house construction building permits:

• 1996: 698 buildings, average cost: $113,000
• 1997: 678 buildings, average cost: $116,000
• 1998: 837 buildings, average cost: $123,400
• 1999: 1106 buildings, average cost: $138,500
• 2000: 844 buildings, average cost: $158,500
• 2001: 714 buildings, average cost: $171,400
• 2002: 457 buildings, average cost: $199,600
• 2003: 529 buildings, average cost: $204,700

New: Parker, Colorado business data: stores, dealers, real estate agents, wholesalers, restaurants...

Industries providing employment: Professional,scientific,management,administrative,and waste management services (17.1%), Finance,insurance,real estate,and rental and leasing (13.9%), Educational,health and social services (13.0%), Retail trade (11.0%).

Crime in Parker (2002):

• 0 murders (0.0 per 100,000)
• 1 rape (4.1 per 100,000)
• 4 robberies (16.2 per 100,000)
• 7 assaults (28.4 per 100,000)
• 127 burglaries (514.5 per 100,000)
• 496 larceny counts (2009.5 per 100,000)
• 34 auto thefts (137.7 per 100,000)
• City-data.com crime index = 146.2 (higher means more crime, US average = 330.6)

Crime in Parker (2001):

• 0 murders (0.0 per 100,000)
• 0 rapes (0.0 per 100,000)
• 5 robberies (20.7 per 100,000)
• 3 assaults (12.4 per 100,000)
• 154 burglaries (636.5 per 100,000)
• 389 larceny counts (1607.7 per 100,000)
• 27 auto thefts (111.6 per 100,000)
• City-data.com crime index = 129.9 (higher means more crime)

Average weather in Parker, Colorado

Based on data reported by over 4,000 weather stations

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Average temp. (°F)	29.9	33.7	39.3	46.1	55.4	65.5	71.4	69.5	61.2	50.2	37.8	31.1
High temperature (°F)	44.5	48.2	54.0	60.8	70.2	81.7	87.9	85.6	77.5	66.7	52.3	45.4
Low temperature (°F)	15.2	19.1	24.6	31.3	40.6	49.2	54.9	53.4	44.9	33.8	23.3	16.6
Precipitation (in)	0.5	0.5	1.5	2.1	2.7	2.0	2.4	2.1	1.4	1.1	1.1	0.7

 

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Normal climate around Parker, Colorado

Based on data reported by main weather stations

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Days with precip.	5	5	7	8	10	10	13	12	7	5	4	4
Wind speed (mph)	9.5	10.0	11.1	11.6	11.1	10.3	9.3	8.9	9.3	9.5	9.5	9.4
Morning humidity (%)	59	60	63	64	68	67	69	71	67	60	62	58
Afternoon humidity (%)	46	40	39	35	37	35	38	42	38	37	46	49
Sunshine (%)	71	72	72	71	70	75	76	75	77	76	68	67
Days clear of clouds	12	9	9	8	7	10	9	10	14	15	12	12
Partly cloudy days	8	8	9	10	12	12	15	13	8	8	8	8
Cloudy days	11	11	13	12	12	8	7	8	7	8	10	11
Snowfall (in)	5.3	4.8	9.2	6.6	1.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	3.3	5.4	5.1

 

Hospitals/medical centers near Parker:

• SCCI HOSPITAL - AURORA (about 14 miles; AURORA, CO)
• MEDICAL CTR OF AURORA THE (about 16 miles; AURORA, CO)
• SPALDING REHABILITATION HOSP (about 16 miles; AURORA, CO)

Airports certified for carrier operations nearest to Parker:

• BUCKLEY AFB (about 13 miles; AURORA, CO; ID: BKF)
• DENVER INTL (about 24 miles; DENVER, CO; ID: DEN)
• CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS MUNI (about 50 miles; COLORADO SPRINGS, CO; ID: COS)

Other public-use airports nearest to Parker:

• CENTENNIAL (about 6 miles; DENVER, CO; ID: APA)
• AURORA AIRPARK (about 16 miles; AURORA, CO; ID: 01V)
• FRONT RANGE (about 25 miles; DENVER, CO; ID: FTG)

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Local government website: www.parkeronline.org/

Colleges/universities with over 2000 students nearest to Parker:

• UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX-COLORADO CAMPUS (about 10 miles; LONE TREE, CO; Full-time enrollment: 3,098)
• COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA (about 16 miles; AURORA, CO; FT enrollment: 2,219)
• EMILY GRIFFITH OPPORTUNITY SCHOOL (about 23 miles; DENVER, CO; FT enrollment: 3,083)
• REGIS UNIVERSITY (about 27 miles; DENVER, CO; FT enrollment: 5,898)
• RED ROCKS COMMUNITY COLLEGE (about 29 miles; LAKEWOOD, CO; FT enrollment: 3,835)
• METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE OF DENVER (about 29 miles; DENVER, CO; FT enrollment: 12,938)
• UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT DENVER (about 29 miles; DENVER, CO; FT enrollment: 8,839)

Public high schools in Parker:

• PONDEROSA HIGH SCHOOL (Students: 1,651; Location: 7007 EAST BAYOU GULCH ROAD; Grades: 09 - 12)
• CHAPARRAL HIGH SCHOOL (Students: 1,495; Location: 15655 BROOKSTONE DRIVE; Grades: 09 - 12)
• DANIEL C OAKES HIGH SCHOOL (Students: 64; Location: 11722 DRANSFELT ROAD; Grades: 09 - 12)

Biggest public primary/middle schools in Parker:

• SAGEWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL (Students: 1,027; Location: 4725 FOX SPARROW ROAD; Grades: 07 - 08)
• SIERRA MIDDLE SCHOOL (Students: 798; Location: 6651 PINE LANE AVENUE; Grades: 07 - 08)
• PIONEER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (Students: 739; Location: 10881 RIVA RIDGE STREET; Grades: PK - 06)
• PINE LANE PRIMARY SCHOOL (Students: 700; Location: 6475 EAST PONDEROSA DRIVE; Grades: PK - 03)
• CHEROKEE TRAIL ELEM SCHOOL (Students: 695; Location: 17302 CLARKE FARMS DRIVE; Grades: PK - 06)
• MOUNTAIN VIEW ELEMENTARY (Students: 695; Location: 8502 EAST PINERY PARKWAY; Grades: KG - 03)
• PINE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (Students: 684; Location: 10450 STONEGATE PARKWAY; Grades: PK - 06)
• IRON HORSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (Students: 634; Location: 20151 TALLMAN DRIVE; Grades: PK - 06)
• PINE LANE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL (Students: 623; Location: 6450 EAST PINE LANE AVENUE; Grades: 04 - 06)
• NORTHEAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (Students: 569; Location: 6598 NORTH STATE HIGHWAY 83; Grades: 04 - 06)

Private primary/middle schools in Parker:

• JORDAN ROAD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL (Students: 244; Location: 9650 S JORDAN RD; Grades: PK - 6)
• PARKER MONTESSORI EDUCATIONAL (Students: 177; Location: 10750 E. VICTORIAN DR.; Grades: PK - 5)
• KINDERCARE LEARNING CENTER (Students: 79; Location: 10650 S PARKGLENN WAY; Grades: PK - KG)

Parker compared to Colorado state average:

• Median household income above state average.
• Unemployed percentage significantly below state average.
• Black race population percentage significantly below state average.
• Foreign-born population percentage significantly below state average.
• Renting percentage significantly below state average.
• Length of stay since moving in significantly below state average.
• Number of rooms per house significantly above state average.
• House age significantly below state average.
• Population density below state average for cities.

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Strongest AM radio stations in Parker:

• KOA (850 AM; 50 kW; DENVER, CO; Owner: JACOR BROADCASTING OF COLORADO, INC.)
• KMXA (1090 AM; 50 kW; AURORA, CO; Owner: ENTRAVISION HOLDINGS, LLC)
• KNRC (1150 AM; 10 kW; ENGLEWOOD, CO; Owner: NRC BROADCASTING, INC.)
• KLTT (670 AM; 50 kW; COMMERCE CITY, CO; Owner: KLZ RADIO, INC.)
• KEZW (1430 AM; 10 kW; AURORA, CO; Owner: ENTERCOM DENVER LICENSE, LLC)
• KKZN (760 AM; 50 kW; THORNTON, CO; Owner: JACOR BROADCASTING OF COLORADO, INC.)
• KCUV (1510 AM; 25 kW; LITTLETON, CO; Owner: PEOPLE WIRELESS, INC.)
• KADZ (1550 AM; 10 kW; ARVADA, CO; Owner: ABC, INC.)
• KRKS (990 AM; 10 kW; DENVER, CO; Owner: SALEM MEDIA OF COLORADO, INC.)
• KBNO (1280 AM; 5 kW; DENVER, CO; Owner: LATINO COMMUNICATIONS, LLC)
• KCBR (1040 AM; daytime; 15 kW; MONUMENT, CO; Owner: KLZ RADIO, INC.)
• KLZ (560 AM; 5 kW; DENVER, CO; Owner: KLZ RADIO, INC.)
• KDDZ (1690 AM; 10 kW; ARVADA, CO; Owner: ABC, INC.)

Strongest FM radio stations in Parker:

• KJMN (92.1 FM; CASTLE ROCK, CO; Owner: ENTRAVISION HOLDINGS, LLC)
• KQMT (99.5 FM; DENVER, CO; Owner: ENTERCOM DENVER LICENSE, LLC)
• KYGO-FM (98.5 FM; DENVER, CO; Owner: JEFFERSON-PILOT COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY OF COLORADO)
• KXPK (96.5 FM; EVERGREEN, CO; Owner: ENTRAVISION HOLDINGS, LLC)
• KJCD (104.3 FM; LONGMONT, CO; Owner: JEFFERSON-PILOT COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY OF COLORADO)
• KALC (105.9 FM; DENVER, CO; Owner: ENTERCOM DENVER LICENSE, LLC)
• KBPI (106.7 FM; DENVER, CO; Owner: JACOR BROADCASTING OF COLORADO, INC.)
• KOSI (101.1 FM; DENVER, CO; Owner: ENTERCOM DENVER LICENSE, LLC)
• KFMD (95.7 FM; DENVER, CO; Owner: CITICASTERS LICENSES, L.P.)
• KRFX (103.5 FM; DENVER, CO; Owner: JACOR BROADCASTING OF COLORADO, INC.)
• KXKL-FM (105.1 FM; DENVER, CO; Owner: INFINITY RADIO OPERATIONS INC.)
• KQKS (107.5 FM; LAKEWOOD, CO; Owner: JEFFERSON-PILOT COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY OF COLORADO)
• KLDV (91.1 FM; MORRISON, CO; Owner: EDUCATIONAL MEDIA FOUNDATION)
• KKFM (98.1 FM; COLORADO SPRINGS, CO; Owner: CITADEL BROADCASTING COMPANY)
• KBIQ (102.7 FM; MANITOU SPRINGS, CO; Owner: BISON MEDIA, INC.)
• KKCS-FM (101.9 FM; COLORADO SPRINGS, CO; Owner: WALTON STATIONS - COLORADO, INC.)
• KRCC (91.5 FM; COLORADO SPRINGS, CO; Owner: THE COLORADO COLLEGE)
• KSKX (105.5 FM; SECURITY, CO; Owner: OPTIMA COMMUNICATIONS, INC.)
• KKLI (106.3 FM; WIDEFIELD, CO; Owner: CAPSTAR TX LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
• KGFT (100.7 FM; PUEBLO, CO; Owner: BISON MEDIA, INC)

TV broadcast stations around Parker:

• K48FW (Channel 48; DENVER, CO; Owner: TRINITY BROADCASTING NETWORK)
• KWHD (Channel 53; CASTLE ROCK, CO; Owner: LESEA BROADCASTING CORPORATION)
• KDEV-LP (Channel 62; AURORA, CO; Owner: TIGER EYE BROADCASTING CORPORATION)
• KMGH-TV (Channel 7; DENVER, CO; Owner: MCGRAW-HILL BROADCASTING COMPANY, INC.)
• KDEO-LP (Channel 38; AURORA, CO; Owner: PETER B. VAN DE SANDE)
• KUSA-TV (Channel 9; DENVER, CO; Owner: MULTIMEDIA HOLDINGS CORPORATION)
• KRMA-TV (Channel 6; DENVER, CO; Owner: ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC BROADCASTING NETWORK, INC.)
• KTVD (Channel 20; DENVER, CO; Owner: TWENVER BROADCAST, INC.)
• KCNC-TV (Channel 4; DENVER, CO; Owner: CBS TELEVISION STATIONS INC.)
• KDEN (Channel 25; LONGMONT, CO; Owner: LONGMONT CHANNEL 25, INC.)

 

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[xsrdx]

Sounds like a nice place. Is it high plains? Forested? Room for horses? Good skiing nearby? Thanks! ;-)

Altitude is about 6000ft, it's actually on the edge of the Colorado eastern plains. It's not plains though, more like foothills, same terrain as Castle Rock and Colorado Springs.

World class skiing is about 90 minutes away.

Portions of the area are evergreen forest, but much of it is treeless. It's right at the confluence between the eastern slope of the Colorado Rocky Mtns and the Eastern Plains.

Lots of room for horses, and plenty of equestrian activity, if you have the money to play.

[Tunehead54]

Lots of room for horses, and plenty of equestrian activity, if you have the money to play.

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What? - I can't just go rope me a Mustang, break him and the turn him out to pasture and whistle him up for a ride? What in the heck is going on out there in the west? ;-)

Just kidding of course. Most of my family is in Prescott, AZ which is a great town in the mountains but RE prices are through the roof. We're in the Tampa, FL area and tired of the bugs, heat and cross-country trips just to see family. Thanks for your info!

PS: Around the west - what area do you like for open spaces? I'm lucky to have a few bucks to play with and can probably live anywhere - as long as I can access FR! :-)

[xsrdx]

PS: Around the west - what area do you like for open spaces?

Colorado is stunning, and on my short list of places to retire.

Colorado weather is actually pretty mild, generally much less brutal than states further North, or even Kansas. A big plus.

For pure wide open spaces, nothing beats Montana or Idaho, but you pay for it with wicked winter weather. Ideally, I'd winter in Texas or Arizona, and summer in Idaho or Montana. ....

With vacation homes in California, and the Bahamas....

Colorado is actually a pretty good compromise if you want to stay in one spot year round