OT: Hate to brag, but....

My son and future daughter in law love it in the Denver western 'burbs. Its getting expensive there however as everyone is moving to Colorado! My wife and I love visiting them there. They are looking to buy their first house in late Spring. 

10 of the coldest counties in the US are all found in MN...

@"purplefaithful" said: 10 of the coldest counties in the US are all found in MN...

I believe it. I experienced just how brutal it can be in Minneapolis on January 17th, 1999. The temperature was brutal too. Locals told me it was a heat wave. 

@"purplefaithful" said: 10 of the coldest counties in the US are all found in MN...

Pffft, folks in ND drive to the Cities in January to get a break from the cold.

How about “happiness” and physical, emotional well being as a metric?

Aloha.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/happiest-states

@"StickyBun" said: My son and future daughter in law love it in the Denver western 'burbs. Its getting expensive there however as everyone is moving to Colorado! My wife and I love visiting them there. They are looking to buy their first house in late Spring. 

It is damned expensive, especially for the mountain west. I live in a very affordable house in Arvada. But I have a house in the Berkeley neighborhood of Denver (NW Highlands) that I rent out for a ridiculous amount. I couldn't afford to buy that house now, nor could I afford to rent it. My new tenants just moved from San Francisco. Their monthly income is almost half of my yearly income. It's depressing and exhilarating at the same time. 

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"StickyBun" said: My son and future daughter in law love it in the Denver western 'burbs. Its getting expensive there however as everyone is moving to Colorado! My wife and I love visiting them there. They are looking to buy their first house in late Spring. 

It is damned expensive, especially for the mountain west. I live in a very affordable house in Arvada. But I have a house in the Berkeley neighborhood of Denver (NW Highlands) that I rent out for a ridiculous amount. I couldn't afford to buy that house now, nor could I afford to rent it. My new tenants just moved from San Francisco. Their monthly income is almost half of my yearly income. It's depressing and exhilarating at the same time. 

@"MaroonBells" said: In US News & World Report's latest ranking of the 150 best places to live, 4 of the top 5 are in Colorado....

https://realestate.usnews.com/places/rankings/best-places-to-live

Good.  Everyone from CA please move there.  Idaho sucks.

@"greediron" said:

@"MaroonBells" said: In US News & World Report's latest ranking of the 150 best places to live, 4 of the top 5 are in Colorado....

https://realestate.usnews.com/places/rankings/best-places-to-live

Good.  Everyone from CA please move there.  Idaho sucks.

@"StickyBun" said:

@"greediron" said:

@"MaroonBells" said: In US News & World Report's latest ranking of the 150 best places to live, 4 of the top 5 are in Colorado....

https://realestate.usnews.com/places/rankings/best-places-to-live

Good.  Everyone from CA please move there.  Idaho sucks.

lol, I have read that a lot of people from Cali are moving to Idaho. Are you finding that to be the case?

@"StickyBun" said:

@"greediron" said:

@"MaroonBells" said: In US News & World Report's latest ranking of the 150 best places to live, 4 of the top 5 are in Colorado....

https://realestate.usnews.com/places/rankings/best-places-to-live

Good.  Everyone from CA please move there.  Idaho sucks.

lol, I have read that a lot of people from Cali are moving to Idaho. Are you finding that to be the case?

@"1VikesFan" said:

@"StickyBun" said:

@"greediron" said:

@"MaroonBells" said: In US News & World Report's latest ranking of the 150 best places to live, 4 of the top 5 are in Colorado....

https://realestate.usnews.com/places/rankings/best-places-to-live

Good.  Everyone from CA please move there.  Idaho sucks.

lol, I have read that a lot of people from Cali are moving to Idaho. Are you finding that to be the case?

They should rename it Calidaho from what I've heard. Not sure if my facts are correct but I have heard Californians have moved there in droves.

best move we made was leaving California.

traffic, pollution, taxes, homeless, ineffectual / nonsensical leadership, corporate greed, assholes & narcissism...

We refer to So. CA. now as “concrete and assholes”

@"1VikesFan" said:

@"StickyBun" said:

@"greediron" said:

@"MaroonBells" said: In US News & World Report's latest ranking of the 150 best places to live, 4 of the top 5 are in Colorado....

https://realestate.usnews.com/places/rankings/best-places-to-live

Good.  Everyone from CA please move there.  Idaho sucks.

lol, I have read that a lot of people from Cali are moving to Idaho. Are you finding that to be the case?

They should rename it Calidaho from what I've heard. Not sure if my facts are correct but I have heard Californians have moved there in droves.

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"1VikesFan" said:

@"StickyBun" said:

@"greediron" said:

@"MaroonBells" said: In US News & World Report's latest ranking of the 150 best places to live, 4 of the top 5 are in Colorado....

https://realestate.usnews.com/places/rankings/best-places-to-live

Good.  Everyone from CA please move there.  Idaho sucks.

lol, I have read that a lot of people from Cali are moving to Idaho. Are you finding that to be the case?

They should rename it Calidaho from what I've heard. Not sure if my facts are correct but I have heard Californians have moved there in droves.

Every mountain state says that. Montana too. That will happen more and more as teleworking becomes easier and more common, especially when you can sell your 2BR in San Francisco for $1.8M and live like a king in Montana for a third of that. The only problem with Montana is there are no jobs there. But see above comment about teleworking. 

@"StickyBun" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"StickyBun" said: My son and future daughter in law love it in the Denver western 'burbs. Its getting expensive there however as everyone is moving to Colorado! My wife and I love visiting them there. They are looking to buy their first house in late Spring. 

It is damned expensive, especially for the mountain west. I live in a very affordable house in Arvada. But I have a house in the Berkeley neighborhood of Denver (NW Highlands) that I rent out for a ridiculous amount. I couldn't afford to buy that house now, nor could I afford to rent it. My new tenants just moved from San Francisco. Their monthly income is almost half of my yearly income. It's depressing and exhilarating at the same time. 

They rent in Arvada, live at a newer sub. called Village of Five Parks just off 86th Parkway. They like it there, I think he wants to stay close but housing prices will dictate. 

@"Viking1987" said:

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"1VikesFan" said:

@"StickyBun" said:

@"greediron" said:

@"MaroonBells" said: In US News & World Report's latest ranking of the 150 best places to live, 4 of the top 5 are in Colorado....

https://realestate.usnews.com/places/rankings/best-places-to-live

Good.  Everyone from CA please move there.  Idaho sucks.

lol, I have read that a lot of people from Cali are moving to Idaho. Are you finding that to be the case?

They should rename it Calidaho from what I've heard. Not sure if my facts are correct but I have heard Californians have moved there in droves.

Every mountain state says that. Montana too. That will happen more and more as teleworking becomes easier and more common, especially when you can sell your 2BR in San Francisco for $1.8M and live like a king in Montana for a third of that. The only problem with Montana is there are no jobs there. But see above comment about teleworking. 

hey knock it off  Montana is a horrible place over ran with horrible wild animals that will eat you .if the animals dont the locals will

Colorado is on my list of possibilities as I've enjoyed every trip there over the years. I'd been planning to move to downtown Minneapolis. However, the company I work for is finally starting to look at geography differently due to the pandemic so I'm waiting. If it's determined that I can do my job remotely on a permanent basis, I will be looking at everything differently (at least during the winter months). 

Editing because I just remembered a trip. We flew in early morning. First it was sunny with decent temps. It seemed like it was going to be a nice day. Then there was light rain. Then there was extreme wind and the rain was sideways. Then it flurried. By the time we left that evening, we were driving through giant snowflakes. 

@"Nichelle" said: Colorado is on my list of possibilities as I've enjoyed every trip there over the years. I'd been planning to move to downtown Minneapolis. However, the company I work for is finally starting to look at geography differently due to the pandemic so I'm waiting. If it's determined that I can do my job remotely on a permanent basis, I will be looking at everything differently (at least during the winter months). 

Editing because I just remembered a trip. We flew in early morning. First it was sunny with decent temps. It seemed like it was going to be a nice day. Then there was light rain. Then there was extreme wind and the rain was sideways. Then it flurried. By the time we left that evening, we were driving through giant snowflakes. 

Yep, that's Colorado. Saturday before Labor Day it hit 101 degrees. On Sunday, 97. On Monday, 93. Tuesday temps were in the 20s and we got 6 inches of snow. In just 4 days we set 3 records for heat, 3 records for cold, and 2 records for snow. And, of course, by the weekend it was in the middle 80s again. LOL. 

Couldn't live in lily-white Boulder.   

In my neighborhood community pool, I'm known as "white-chocolate THUNDER".  (our pool has BB goal, :) )

With no diversity in Boulder....Boulder/Diversity are strangers.  I guess the US Snooze/Whirled Report dis-regard "diversity".   How 80's.

https://www.dailycamera.com/2018/07/28/boulder-prides-itself-on-being-welcoming-to-all-but-its-citizens-of-color-tell-a-different-story/