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Being serious here guys!

Figured there would be somebody in the area who would actually know... I've found a few construction companies on line, and they say they are hiring, but you know how that goes.

I love my job here in CO, but I can not stand how crowded the state has become... Plus I cant se spending $900-$1300 a month for a decent apartment in a place I dont want to live... Thats the average here! From the listings I have recently found, outside of Knoxville I could be BUYING a 4 bedroom house on more than one acre of land for less per month than that!

 

Well I was going for around the Ft. Campbell area (Clarksville, Oak Grove, Hopkinsville) however (1) I want to be closer to the mountains, and (2) I want to be outside of the military towns, because jobs are harder to find, and the mix of people always moving in and out make it hell when they are not used to the area, weather, and traffic patterns.

Knoxville is a college town, so yes some of those problems will still occur especially close to the campuses. I can adapt to that with a little time. The mountains, granted nowhere near the size or elevation of the rockies are close... Really close. Going to the beach on a 3 day weekend is also doable from there, without all the hurricane risk of being closer to the ocean full time.


Dave, I could never see myself working LEO... Done the military thing for years, and that was enough! If I ever did though, I would let you play with the lights and siren as you are chasing your car... As long as "it NEVER happened! "


Don, you can understand my frustrations with CO these days... If you dont have a bike strapped to your Prius with anti gun stickers stuck to them, its like you dont belong here. High up in the mountains around timberline is great, its beautiful, mostly clean (so long as people dont throw their trash everywhere), but you can only get up there for a few months out of the year (if its not burning down), and the state and transplanted people are doing everything they can to keep people out of there. Other than that the whole 40 mile wide strip of land next to the mountains where the majority of people who live in the state call home SUCKS! I'm also not a farmer, so I dont go out to the east side much, unless I am at somebody's ranch controlling coyotes one round at a time.

So there you guys have some of my reasons for wanting to GTFO as soon as I possibly can. A couple years does go quick, thats why I started looking into everything already.

 

Rant accepted! It is 100% spot on...
Go camping way up in the CO sticks... You can spot the natives, and its easy.

The people who where born and raised here are, the people either in tents or small campers in nice clean campsites free of trash, not trying to disturb anybody. When they pack it up and leave, nothing but maybe a few wood chips is left behind, the ground is un disturbed, and all the trash even if it wasn't theirs is gone.

The liberal transplants are the ones who are camped with the GIANT RV or trailer, tarps hanging from the trees, trash thrown EVERYWHERE, and an ATV spinning doughnuts in a mud hole because its in the middle of the woods and nobody cares... They are also the ones ripping down fire roads and trails as fast as they can at all hours of the day and night as fast as they possibly can. When they pack up and leave, the trash stays, sometimes the tarps stay, the fire pit is left burning or smoldering, and the ground drainage is ruined from the bruised fruit on the ATV.

Sure there are a few bad or good apples either way, but most of the time that is how it is.

And yes in the cities, there are a ton of able bodied beggars on every corner wanting the money you worked for and they could have earned. Its sickening... Really!

 

I dont follow any kind of "sport"... Much more to do in life than watch a bunch of over payed millionaires play with their balls.

 

Thats one thing I miss about living down there... Here over a grand a year comes out of my check, and into Colorado's pocket! Then they want more and more for things like vehicle emissions which do absolutely no good, and I have to pay for stuff I dont use like our public transportation tax, its like $30 out of each check just so the state can run empty buses 18 hours a day.

 

Well I am sticking around the house this weekend, (the Jeep needs its annual detail job) if you guys want to come by...

 

Didnt know you had work trips to CO, Broomfield at that, because I am literally right down the street! Next time you're out this way send me a PM if you have any down time.

Comparing Tennessee to Colorado is like oil and water... Colorado is a bigger state, but the 30 mile wide strip of land where 80% of the people live is way too over crowded for me. Then you go down south, and even in a neighborhood, you have space between you and your neighbors... Here you are lucky to have an acre of land with your house on it, and it wasnt cheap if you do. The current house I have here sits on less than an acre, its a whopping 1500 sq feet, and has the 24X32 detached garage that the MINI calls home... Its market value is supposed to be around $240,000...
Yet the places I have been looking at down in TN. are sitting on 3+ acres, with an average of 2200 sq ft... Most are priced right around $190K!

 

That would be my reason for looking there... Still a lot of people, but different than the Commiefornia culture that CO has adopted.