Colo Springs is weird. Fantastic setting. Right up against the mountains, in the shadow of Pikes peak. But is a terrible place. Basically just all sprawl, suburbs, strip malls, and a power plant right downtown., traffic is always bad, no real culture to speak of (maybe excepting the Broadmoor).
Fully agree. Best parts are Woodland Park, Green Mountain Falls areas near by.
Please continue to spread the word to all your friends in California, New York and Texas that Colorado sucks and the weather is miserable 6 months out of the year.
My family moved there and it’s all a bunch of retired white military stuck up Covid fearing nuts. Screw that. And the poster above is right. Wearing all that clothing sucks a$& just to go outside. It’s 70 degrees here in CA and 12 in CS. Colorado sucks and enjoy your snobby skiing, that’s not even real exercise and add sitting in traffic and overpriced resorts. Screw that. Hope more of CA goes there, as a lot of you aren’t as smart as I am to have a home In CA. Hahahhahaha……
You can live in outdoorsy areas in the US and find 4-600K houses a lot of places that don't have winter.
I thought that too before I was in my mid-40s or so.
I moved from CA to CO after the age of 40 and love it. Winter is my favorite now. I would run in 30 degrees over 80 degrees anyday but it takes all kinds.
I moved from CA to CO after the age of 40 and love it. Winter is my favorite now. I would run in 30 degrees over 80 degrees anyday but it takes all kinds.
Californicator
I'm in California, too. I skied last weekend, then drove home in under and hour and it was 70 degrees at my house. And I no longer go to Stapleton or whatever it is now and have the airplane de-iced.
I'd rather none of you Colorado folks move here, there's enough of us here already. I only wish I'd thought of this when I was freezing my butt off in Castle Rock 30-some years ago, rather than ten years back.
Colorado Springs has the most evil vibe of any place east of Salt Lake City. There are hundreds of nutjob tinhat cults there. Every single one of the so called "pastors" and "religious leaders" from the Springs is a criminal of some sort: grifter, pedophile, sex trafficker, wife beater - and usually all of these.
Sure...For 6 months everytime you leave the house you have to swaddle yourself in layers of bulky, uncomfortable clothes and waddle around like a duck with your nose dripping while you slip and slide on the ice/snow getting to your car and then sit shivering waiting for the heater to kick in. are you a masochist?
You obviously know nothing about the climate in Colorado Springs.
Yeah, I have a friend who "scored a deal" on a rental for about $700/month. However, he didn't check out the neighborhood, and there were about 2 shootings per week and gangs controlled it after dusk. He ended up leaving it within a month.
I live in Colorado and have lived in Colorado Springs. For nature access it is awesome, garden of the gods, barr trail, the 24 nearby, etc.
other than that, the place is really really weird. It is a town struggling for identity. You have a few main factions: military, ultra-evangelical groups (highest concentration of them in the world here), tech/defense contractors, homeless, etc.
there are also way more homeless than you’d expect. Entire parks are overrun. I’m saying this as someone who lives in Boulder now, the springs is worse on that front
it never struck me as clean, there is a lot of traffic, and crime continues to get worse. I don’t understand how it was rated 2nd honestly
COS is overrun (really bad) with homeless. Move to Castle Rock/Pines or HR or some of the northern Colorado cities of you need to live in a community in eastern CO. Absolutely DO NOT move to Denver or COS if you value your sanity and livelihood. Who wants to move to a city anyway nowadays, but some solitary property in the mountains.
I lived in COS for years and loved it. The running is amazing, it is what you make it I suppose. Visited recently and was very disappointed in the increase in homeless people in the parks and on the paths. They have done some lovely renonvations to some of the trails and parks, but its negated by the all the homeless camped out everywhere. Even Monument Valley Park had a couple tents in the bushes. Most places I used to run alone I would hesitate to do so now. I understand homelessness is a multi-faceted problem, but it's pretty out of control in some places and really a shame.
Sure...For 6 months everytime you leave the house you have to swaddle yourself in layers of bulky, uncomfortable clothes and waddle around like a duck with your nose dripping while you slip and slide on the ice/snow getting to your car and then sit shivering waiting for the heater to kick in. are you a masochist?
60 tomorrow on Christmas Day for those of you that have to dress to waddle like a duck.
Shorts and T shirts for normal Colorado Springs runners.
I live in Colorado and have lived in Colorado Springs. For nature access it is awesome, garden of the gods, barr trail, the 24 nearby, etc.
other than that, the place is really really weird. It is a town struggling for identity. You have a few main factions: military, ultra-evangelical groups (highest concentration of them in the world here), tech/defense contractors, homeless, etc.
there are also way more homeless than you’d expect. Entire parks are overrun. I’m saying this as someone who lives in Boulder now, the springs is worse on that front
it never struck me as clean, there is a lot of traffic, and crime continues to get worse. I don’t understand how it was rated 2nd honestly
I was there for a weekend last year and this description matches my experience. Place is weird. Lots of hipster crap but with military walking around. Seemed awkward for everyone involved.
Sure...For 6 months everytime you leave the house you have to swaddle yourself in layers of bulky, uncomfortable clothes and waddle around like a duck with your nose dripping while you slip and slide on the ice/snow getting to your car and then sit shivering waiting for the heater to kick in. are you a masochist?
60 tomorrow on Christmas Day for those of you that have to dress to waddle like a duck.
Shorts and T shirts for normal Colorado Springs runners.
Winter running in Colorado Springs is almost always great. I'm returning to running after about a month of doing approximately nothing (largely because of some pretty serious wounds and a severe allergic reaction to an antibiotic), and running on dirt trails with temperatures in the high thirties, wearing nothing but shorts and shoes (no socks), is much easier on me than running in hotter (or much colder) weather on hard surfaces. And importantly, ice and snow generally melt and evaporate quickly here; there's not a lot of slipping and sliding on ice or snow. Temperatures in recent months have ranged from about -10 to about 100, but extreme weather almost never lasts long. During the summer, afternoon rains (and sometimes hailstorms) are common, but tend not to last long at all, so if you don't want to run in the rain (or hail), it's easy to work around those situations, either by running a bit earlier or just waiting out the precipitation.
I've lived in Colorado Springs for over thirty-five years. During most of that time, I could have lived pretty much anywhere in the U.S., and that's especially true these days. But I've chosen to stay here.
One more thing: Someone earlier made a comment that the "cost of living" is, as I recall, an output rather than an input, and there is "a reason" that an area is cheap; you get what you pay for. That's an extremely unsophisticated economic analysis. Far more useful is to figure out what your personal priorities are and what you're willing to pay or not pay for various aspects of living. Many of the most expensive areas would be hellish for me at any price.