I was shocked to see “Don't Californicate Colorado” bumper-stickers. At the time, California was still the "Promised Land". I had run out of money before I got to CA, so I stopped to make some money. ( I never made it to the left coast 'cause i figgered that there was something to the ads :"to get a good job, get a good education", so i went back to school.
My recollections of Denver and environs are that it was beautiful. Driving into the Rockies made me understand the meaning of the word ‘majestic’.
I'm sad that colorado got californicated.
I'm sure that was part of it, but not all the problems (IMO) were because of Californians. There were a lot of ghetto behaviors and attitudes trickling up to non-ghetto people.
At least the other ex-Californians I knew were interested in getting and keeping jobs. A lot of the people who already lived there were moochers of one sort or another.