Colorado has become East California

pagetwo ^ | December 15, 2017 | Jon Caldara

[IrishBrigade]

‘Then you helped create the homeless/street bums problem.’

yep, exactly; everyone knows there were no bums before Colorado legalized pot...

[bboop]

Thank you, Doughty One. Yes, it is always California’s fault. How about your DOPE law, Colorado? How about the east coast libs trying to take over the state legislature. Really, really, it is Californians?? Get a life Colorado.

[IrishBrigade]

‘Our fore fathers were right , and wise , to see the dangers inherent in marijuana use’

of course, our ‘forefathers’ going all the way back to 1937, with the Marijuana Tax Act...

[Admin Moderator]

You also left out the date [December 15, 2017] and left the source field blank.

In the future, when starting threads, fill out all fields.

[lilypad]

This is from a couple of years ago when we had a place there. We have since sold. A few months ago one of these losers started that big fire 109,000 acres burnt.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_28267705/newcomers-costilla-county-lured-by-legal-marijuana-cheap

[beaversmom]

Excellent post. Believe me, I understand all of what you are saying. I told my native CA friend the other day how sad I feel of what is happening there. I have never stepped a toe in your state, but it makes me want to cry. It’s happening in my state, too, and I can do nothing to stop it.

I watched three good mini reports about the homeless and working homeless there in CA. For your possible interest. I’m sure you already know all of it, anyway.

High rents force some in Silicon Valley to live in vehicles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG0_KiM9Mv8

Making rent in Silicon Valley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dLo8ES4Bac

This LA Musician Built $1,200 Tiny Houses for the Homeless. Then the City Seized Them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6h7fL22WCE

I’m in the process of reading VDH’s book, Mexifornia. I really need to commit myself to it. I start way too many books and never finish.

[eartick]

Last year was the first drop this decade in people moving here from other states. At the same time, more people were leaving Colorado than ever before.

I am guessing that the reason for this is that Colorado has become too liberal for the people escaping from other States like California and Oregon.

The people that are looking for a red state, head to Texas.

The people that are looking for a sustainable job in a buyer friendly atmosphere, head to Texas.

[beaversmom]

Oh, I know. I hit submit before I meant to. Thank you very much for fixing it.

[DoughtyOne]

“;^)

[DoughtyOne]

Yes, it’s those things and more...

[colorado tanker]

Caldera is great. He is fighting the good fight against the Dem takeover of the state.

I work downtown and the place seems flooded with millenials most of whom I'm pretty sure weren't Trump voters.

[beaversmom]

This has been going on long before legalization. I think a lot of people on FR want to blame everything going wrong in CO on the dope law. I’m sure it’s contributed some in the last few years since it went into place, but it’s a symptom. Just like it’s not fair for us to blame all that is going wrong here on the CA influx. It’s easy to say it’s all about the dope. It’s quite complex. And my little brain is just trying to figure out some of it.

[beaversmom]

Maybe if they were like a lot of millennials, they didn’t vote for any one. And the hipsters might have voted for Trump just to be contrarian. ;)

[beaversmom]

Yes, I like Caldara, too.

[BluH2o]

Lived in Denver '67 until '75. We were gone over 30 years and returned in 2009. Lived in CA, CT, OH during that period. The front range didn't appeal to us anymore ... too crowded, so we ended up in western CO (Mesa County) where we now live.
Western CO is growing in population quickly, lot of new home construction underway.
A majority of the people moving here are baby boomer types, (now retired) from the front range of CO (Colo. Springs, Denver, Bolder, Fort Collins, etc.). They sell their homes in a hot market, at least for the present, and move 245 miles west.
Biggest reason ... to avoid the congestion of the front range.

[beaversmom]

The Western Slope is a great area. Are housing prices going up a lot?

[Boomer]

Gotta disagree with you on this one. California allowed itself to be the primary illegals destination. Colorado has been invaded by retiring Californians or those who were able to make a bundle off their home in CA to move to CO. Unfortunately where Californians go; they want to make their new state of residence just like the one they moved away from. This is where the problem happens.

I’d like to think conservative Californian’s aren’t like the leftist kind we know are like a virus but it takes a while to adjust to different thinking. I went through it back around 2000. I didn’t mean to bring any CA baggage with me but after living there for a couple of decades it took a year or two to slap the California out of me. That’s the good news. It does go away but it takes some time.

[colorado tanker]

:-))

[IYAS9YAS]

Where are they heading in NM? Santa Fe? ABQ? Or other parts?

Mostly ABQ, by impact. Not sure you could measure any impact on Santa Fe... How would you tell? No straws? Poop on the sidewalks?

[beaversmom]

Lol...Santa Fe is pretty foo-foo, isn’t it?

Parts of ABQ look nice. I have been there to see the petroglyphs a few years back, but I’ve heard so much of NM is on welfare. I don’t know much about Carlsbad, but very much enjoyed visiting the cavern.