Colorado mountain town living

Re: Colorado mountain town living

• oughtonk member

  January 2014

  I'm a Colorado native so am curious what resort town and what neighboring town you're looking at.  You're definitely right that everything is crazy expensive in the ski resort towns, mostly vacation homes, condos and cabins that cost a lot even to rent.  I think towns like Frisco, Dillon and Silverthorne are good options, not sure on actual prices but they are in close proximity to quite a few of the major resorts (Breckenridge, Keystone, Copper Mtn).  Unless you're potential job is somewhere like Steamboat/Aspen which are much further away.

  
  

  Feel free to message me with any questions about the Denver area or mountain towns. Good luck with your interview! Colorado is beautiful and an amazing place to live, I don't envision ever moving away.

  

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• GMH1183 member

  January 2014

  @oughtonk thanks for the reply. It is actually in steamboat so quite a ways out there. DH and I went to vail on our honeymoon in 2009 and totally fell in love and have been on and off trying to get out there since. I'm a little apprehensive of the remoteness as well as the tourist aspect. I have lived in a tourist town before and the love hate relationship between the locals and the tourists was exhausting.
  
  Do you live in the Denver area or someplace more remote? Any thoughts or insights? I've never actually been to steamboat.

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• oughtonk member

  January 2014

  Steamboat is beautiful, it's my favorite place in Colorado.  The town just has something really special about it.  It's definitely touristy but I've always felt it's very different from the resorts and towns up I-70; a lot more warmth from everyone in general and it doesn't attract the same type of crowd.  

  
  

  I live north of Denver in the suburbs, but spend a lot of time in the mountains.  I think you have to follow your heart, I'm sure it would be a huge lifestyle shift but I personally would love to have my children grow up in a more quaint remote area.  Steamboat definitely doesn't feel as remote and is quite a large town with everything you would need close by, because it is out there you would probably want to live in town or on the outskirts.  I can't think of the actual mileage to the closet town but I do know it's very small and feels much more remote than Steamboat itself.

  
  

  Steamboat also gets a lot of snow compared to the I-70 resorts like Vail, Keystone, etc.  So definitely something to consider because it can be tough to get in and out over Rabbit Ears Pass during the winter.  I would see how your interview goes and of course if the pay would match up with the cost of living in Steamboat.  

  
  

  What careers are you both in? Denver is definitely booming from a job market perspective in the right industries.

  

  
  

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• GMH1183 member

  January 2014

  We desperately wanted to move to Avon after our honeymoon. But adding kids to the mix just makes decisions more complicated with having to think about a bigger house, schools, etc.
  
  We are both engineers. There are tons of jobs posted in Denver. But there are also tons of engineers in Colorado already. Denver is obviously a really desirable place to live so it is hard for an out of state resume to get anywhere when every job posting gets hundreds of in state resumes.

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