Is Colorado a good place to live?
Never been. But it is probably the State I would most move to.
shareMy family is from Colorado. It's a great state, with both mountains and the plains. The people are educated and generally have money. No ghetto. Denver might have one but if they do it's small. The winters are harsh though.
Remember it's the Columbine state and that entails something about the angst there.
Columbine was just a one-off though.
Colorado seems way better than California though. Less "craziness".
I mention Columbine because I'd say Colorado represents the pulse of middle American culture better than any other state.
No ghetto. No hillbillies. Middle Amerika.
Columbine was culturally important: sort of Matrix meets middle America.
Lots of hillbillies in Colorado's rural areas. Plenty of free spirits and freaks, too. Colorado seems to attract them. I consider all of these attributes positive.
shareSure, there's the farmers. Both my grandfathers own farms in Colorado. But you don't have the type of rural hicks in the Rocky's which they have in the Appalachians and the Ozarks.
Colorado also has a bit of the cowboy spirit. But that's very different than a Southern redneck.