Where is your dream place...

[IFjane]

Colorado.

Hopefully things will work to move there around 2010-ish... though I really will miss the East Coast.

Basically I'd love to live in a large town/small city that has a distinct main street/neighborhood feel to it. I'd like to be able to ride my bike everywhere in town, to have 'my local coffee shop' and 'my florist' and lots of mys. I'd like to live in a small quirky house with a little porch that has lots of windchimes hanging off of it.

I don't know if it exists, but I hope someday to find this town/house.... and hopefully find that it exists in Colorado or some other mountainous area!

K.

Kimmyt - that town does indeed exist in Colorado - I found it last summer and my dream is to live there someday. Very artsy/funky town, mountains, cycling & a river runs through it....it's gorgeous. Parks, (did I mention cycling?? ) and it seems everyone in town owns a cruiser - up to 50 parked outside restaurant/bars at night!

[Kimmyt]

Kimmyt - that town does indeed exist in Colorado - I found it last summer and my dream is to live there someday. Very artsy/funky town, mountains, cycling & a river runs through it....it's gorgeous. Parks, (did I mention cycling?? ) and it seems everyone in town owns a cruiser - up to 50 parked outside restaurant/bars at night!

Oh now you simply MUST tell! Unless you're keeping it a secret! alas, I'm pretty sure it's not near Colorado Springs.. but that would just be too easy!

K.

[snapdragen]

Oh now you simply MUST tell! Unless you're keeping it a secret! alas, I'm pretty sure it's not near Colorado Springs.. but that would just be too easy!

K.

Boulder maybe?

[five one]

Originally Posted by Kimmyt
Oh now you simply MUST tell! Unless you're keeping it a secret! alas, I'm pretty sure it's not near Colorado Springs.. but that would just be too easy!

K.

Sounds like Estes Park, possibly Steamboat Springs. Aspen WAS that way until the celebrities found it in the 70's. I worked there the summer of 1970. It was wonderful.

I grew up in Littleton in the mid-50's through the 60's. If I could have that place back again, I'd move in the heartbeat. It's grown too much, unfortunately. The core of the town I remember is still there, but it doesn't have the same feel anymore. Time marched on. I'd still move back, though. What's left of my family is there.

[IFjane]

Sounds like Estes Park, possibly Steamboat Springs. Aspen WAS that way until the celebrities found it in the 70's. I worked there the summer of 1970. It was wonderful.

I grew up in Littleton in the mid-50's through the 60's. If I could have that place back again, I'd move in the heartbeat. It's grown too much, unfortunately. The core of the town I remember is still there, but it doesn't have the same feel anymore. Time marched on. I'd still move back, though. What's left of my family is there.

five one - the problem with ski resorts is you have to pay resort prices to live there. Steamboat is nice, so is Aspen - I've spent time in both. I absolutely love Breckenridge. In fact, my son has a house there - but it's too expensive & too touristy. No, this small town is even better as far as I'm concerned....
(is the suspense building?? )

[IFjane]

Boulder maybe?

Sorry ladies - I've been offline since I posted earlier. The town is closer to the Springs than Boulder (both wonderful places, by the way - but not nearly in the mountains enough & too big a town for me).

ok....if I tell do you promise not to overpopulate the place before I get there?

[five one]

The chances of me getting back to CO permanently are nil, so feel free to divulge your secret place .

[IFjane]

The chances of me getting back to CO permanently are nil, so feel free to divulge your secret place .

Ok....it's Salida. Small town, wonderful place, right on the Arkansas River...I have photos but not with me. I'll try to bring some & share tomorrow. There's' a stage race there in July - I was there last year and it was fantastic.

[emily_in_nc]

Ok....it's Salida. Small town, wonderful place, right on the Arkansas River...I have photos but not with me. I'll try to bring some & share tomorrow. There's' a stage race there in July - I was there last year and it was fantastic.

That is SO interesting. While doing some internet research on "my perfect place" a couple of years ago, I fell in love with -- from very much afar -- Salida. On paper, it seemed to have everything. So when you wrote your first post about a town like that existing in Colorado, I thought "Hmmm...wonder if it could be Salida??" Everyone chimed in with their guesses...but who was right? Moi, the Carolina gal who has just barely been to Colorado (only to Cortez on the Grand Circle we did last spring).

Since my original research, DH and I have both decided that we require a warmer climate that Salida, but it sure did -- and does -- sound wonderful other than that, and I definitely plan a visit there one day. In the summer!

Emily

[Kimmyt]

Oh, yeah, do tell... odds are that it won't be a-happenin', since all the really great places are near no industry for either The Boy or I (I've noticed a trend that the more i like a place, the less industry there is go figure )

But maybe I can drive through it when I'm out there some time!

[Kimmyt]

Oh, yeah, by Monarch. I'd heard good things about that place! And good things about Monarch as well, being rather underrated/laidback/oldschool.

More incentive to take a ski trip there and check out the town!

K.

[IFjane]

Kimmyt - It's definitely worth a look if you can drive through sometime. It is right off Rt. 50 - don't assume the view from 50 is "it" - you must drive into the town to truly see what I'm talking about.

http://www.fourteenernet.com/salida/

[five one]

Whoo Boy! You've got to REALLY love snow. And cold. And altitude.

I checked the Chamber of Commerce website, though, and it looks like a great place. Sort of like Estes or Telluride without the tourists. I hope you can make it happen someday!