Colorado Small house/cabin with land??

https://www.google.com/maps/place/1...230779876da44!8m2!3d39.0975316!4d-106.0879343
There are several like this in the North as well. Mainly because there is little to no winter access and the daily commute becomes difficult in the winter months.
Prolly shitting in a bucket too.

 

Not seeing anything electric. But the description says ice cold water from a spring and a water heater with a shower. In the bedroom picture you can kinda see a kitchen sink through the door way so I would say there's running water. Probably has a propane tank. Just set up solar and a battery bank and your good.

 

Thats bitchin

But the girl will want TV But for me I'd roll with no Electric

 

I never thought I'd want to leave either... But come 2025 it may be so damn packed, I'll have no other choice.

I did my freshman year of college in the Black Hills area in South Dakota, it might be where I flee to.

 

Just gonna throw this out as an option. Albuquerque has a few high-tech industries that may need someone of your talents. Traffic is pretty tolerable and you can be out of town in minutes as opposed to hours. East side of the Sandia mountains can be more remote but you can be downtown in 30-45 mins. It is definitely drier and browner than CO but the food here is fantastic and people are friendly. Unfortunately they also have the problem of trashing the forest here, too, which I just don't understand. As mentioned earlier, NM is a gun friendly state and I don't see that changing any time soon.

That said, ABQ has a high poverty rate and is going through a high property crime phase. Once we're rid of the current tone-deaf mayor and his lapdog police chief this October, and get the attention of the "catch-and-release" judicial system by voting out some judges, the crime rate can start getting back to normal (well, normal for here). People are pissed and things will change. It's just a matter of how much and how long.

If CA, CO & TX continue to become over populated I can't help but think NM's time is coming to take some of the overflow. But then I've been expecting it for 30 years, so there's that.

 

My girl wants to be close to TX, shes from El paso. we are going to El paso in Sept . New mexico might be a good choice.

I want someplace green lol

 

I don't mean to single you out or pick on you specifically (and none of what follows is directed at you), but whenever this topic comes up, I have to say this is one of the... most nonsensical questions people ask. People move here for the same reason(s) they don't move to bumfuck Kansas (or Kentucky, or Louisiana, or Egypt for that matter). It's a desirable place to live if you're looking for certain things, many of the things you like in the first place. I don't understand why so many people move away from here.

We should throw up a sign though, Colorado is closed, everyone who moved here (after I did, of course), GTFO. And if you want to pull the 'native'/born here card, well fuck that too. Not even getting into the Native American thing, you go back far enough and your family moved here from somewhere. A person's place of birth doesn't give them any more right to live somewhere than someone else, and if you think so then may your next three incarnations be born in Bumfuckistan, a 90th percentile populated area of China or India, and Siberia, in that order. If you're really good during those lives, you can come back your fourth in California.

If you want to talk overcrowding and increases in population, well my first question is do you have kids? Because if so, STFU. It's happening everywhere and at all scales. In Fort Collins, there's parts of town that 20 years ago all you could see were ag fields in any direction and are now subdivisions. You can bet anyone with a farm or rural house in those areas was bitching about new development and people moving in and things changing (which has happened everywhere, like forever - wherever you think you're going to move to in order to get away from it? You're just going to cause/contribute to it there ). Wellington is the new Fort Collins is the new Boulder when it comes to pricing and population, and you give it another 20 years and there'll be another level to that. The best you can hope for is to shoot for what you want during the window you'll be alive and living there, and anticipate rapid growth if you're on the 'edge' of town or even a little ways outside of it.

/rant

 

No offense taken I honestly am just curios. I am for sure no better than anyone because of where i was born. I have plenty of transplant friends and they have every right to be here just like me that is why America is great. some people move for school, work, closer to family, outdoor recreation, or other. most people i meet move her for the outdoor recreation. I have a few friends that have family in CO so that is why they moved to CO. I just wanted to ask the question.

 

I have been to Colorado a few times when I was a kid it was beautiful from what I remember. Every-time I see trip reports here or see it on TV it makes me want to move. The cost of living here is getting out of hand.

I totally understand wanting to put up a (Colorado is closed ) billboard I want to do that here.

 

You remember wrong *Whistles innocently*

This place sucks. Total dump.

 

buddy I have some bad news for you. My commute in Denver is about an hour for 12 miles, and it takes 2+ hours to get anywhere in the mountains from Denver when you factor in weekend traffic.


Seriously, it regularly takes me 4+ hours to get to/from vail on the weekends now due to traffic. I used to be able to swing it in 2.

 

Good luck to all who want to move here.

I've lived on the Colorado Front Range for 15 years, and plan on retiring far, FAR away from here when the time comes.

You can have the traffic, the hour-long waits at restaurants and the month-long waits to get in to see your doctor.

There are still some really nice areas here (Telluride comes to mind), but I can tell you right now that if you work a 40-hour job of any stripe you won't be able to afford it.

 

My personal story, the short version, my family took a road trip when I was 7 or so that hit Yellowstone, Tetons, RMNP and all the 'natural' tourist traps the Springs has to offer. I was hooked (I'm originally from IN, the flat part or one of), and from that age I knew CO was where I was going to live. I probably would have gone to school here, but having a parent at a local university meaning auto-half-ride as well as it having a good program for what I was going to do (ha, like that stuck), meant it would have been kind of stupid and even more expensive than school was if I had. But as soon as I graduated, here I came.

I've had all kinds of dreams of 'living in the mountains', but once you get this close you learn more about what that means. I still don't know how so many people manage it, particularly the ones not near towns - at least those that don't ranch or whatever. I didn't mind Denver, and where I was really, but work made me move to FtC. Now I'm at a point where I could or should leave it, and I don't really want to because it checks so many boxes for me that most other places don't. What it really comes down to is money though - affording the housing and the lifestyle (by which I mean long commutes and other day to day practicality things, not how much you shop or go out drinking). I could afford the cabin in the mountains, but probably not what it would take to live there (remoteness and work), meanwhile I can afford to live here on the front range, but the house not so much.

@Jerry311SD You're going to want to carefully research what areas you consider in general then, because from what you've mentioned so far about cost of living, it isn't much different here in many places.

That commuting... man, Denver and 70 in the mountains are so much worse than even when I got here, and that's despite both the impact of T-REX and the benefit when it was done. I remember it took me two hours to get from south Denver to north Denver on 25 a year or two ago, and that wasn't during rush hour or bad weather or anything. However, a lot of people complain about traffic and roads in my local area, and even when I was in Denver, and I have to say... I don't know what they're talking about, because they've never seen it bad. Though I will say in recent years College/287 has become more and more of a slow cluster that even I'm starting to notice.

LOL. I was up there one summer, saw this old historic house being moved. I later looked up the lot it went on or came off of, can't remember. It was 1.2 million. I love visiting Telluride, Ouray, Silverton (even Steamboat) and the like, but man I don't know if I'd want to actually live there with all that tourist/ski based economy. I suppose if money didn't matter... I'd certainly pick one of those over Aspen/Vail/etc. I think it would be interesting to live a year or two in a place like that, just to learn what it was like. Moreover I'd just like a thorough understanding of who lives there and what they do for a living to be able to afford it (and where everyone that works there but can't afford to live there actually lives).

 

Ugh yeah these too. Before I had good insurance I couldn't even find a doctor who would take me as a new patient when I moved across town.


I've been in Colorado my entire life but I think I want to move somewhere else sooner rather than later.

 

For me, Denver=Cali. I can't stand the traffic. I only go when I HAVE to.

Heading to Leadville today for a Daddy/daughter camping trip. I love the mountains. It's where I belong.

 

Doesn't bother me that I can't find a doctor... Doctors are for the weak

*Arm falls off*

 

Ain't this the truth.

In 3 nights of camping this past weekend I've never seen so much human excrement with toilet paper just sitting on the surface. I'll always clean up campsites as best as possible but there's no way I'm picking up someone else's shit. Literally.

Oh, and I literally had to pull off the side of the trail and let a 24, yes 24, UTV caravan come down the hill. Because I saw them passing another vehicle by pulling up and over untouched alpine tundra. Of the 24, maybe 7 waved at me. Rather than return a wave I just shook my head.

And you know I'm a nice guy. So it must have been super serious business.

 

Fuck dude, I went camping not too long ago and it was nuts. There was trash EVERYWHERE and a large group stayed up partying until 3-4 AM. They didn't get much sleep because they were up at 7AM to shoot off a couple hundred rounds.

Like you said people were ripping everywhere (off trail and closed trail) on dirt bikes and UTVs.

It's really frustrating me

 

What a bummer.
I guess i'll keep looking.

Maybe New Mexico

 

Just need to convince my company to let me WFH full time so I can move to MT/NM/AZ/SD haha