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Traumasaurusrecks t1_iuvq3bv wrote

Reply to comment by CO420Tech in First-Time Visit to Colorado [2268 x 4032] [OC] by remyron

Seriously. Gentrification ain’t no thing for the outsiders till it comes through your town like a tornado. Rent tripled in a decade. Stanford is doing studies on Colorado because of how fast the people that made this place is getting pushed out. I feel pretty sad seeing Colorado in these forums. I get i - it’s pretty, but it is basically the tragedy of the commons and the system of people (corporate or individual) out pricing locals is sickening.

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CO420Tech t1_iuvy1on wrote

I'm a native and my family's been here since the 1850's so I feel ya. And you're not lying about the rent - the apartment that I rented in Denver across the street from Rose Medical just 20 years ago was $500 then, and is $1700 today. I used to have a dream of buying a little cabin in Marble, CO where it is beautiful but out of the way enough that a 2-3 bedroom cabin on 2-3 acres of land maxed out around $45-60k, but now they cost more than the 4 bedroom house we live in down in Denver and the land has been parceled down to 1/2 acre lots like the place is a real town instead of a glorified mining camp. Ludicrous. There isn't such a thing as an inexpensive mountain property now, even in towns where the median income is maybe $20k, unless it is a 1970's single-wide trailer. There are still some affordable properties in CO, but they're either scattered over a network of county roads across the Great Plains, or in hellish, isolated shitholes like Cortez. The only place along an interstate that is still affordable by any definition is Pueblo (because... gross. Pueblo is nasty), but even they're feeling it. You know things are bad when people have to move to fucking Pueblo to own a house (seriously, fuck that place with a cactus. God I hate it so much. Seriously, Cortez's motto should be "Cortez - At Least We're Not Pueblo").

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Front_Beach_9904 t1_iuw6fjt wrote

Florida was reasonable 5 years ago. Now I’m being priced out of my home state.

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ramblejambler t1_iuy6fhc wrote

I keep wondering...where are we supposed to go? As we're getting priced out of locations. I've lived all across America by this point. I want to find my forever home. Yet coast to coast the rent is just insanity incarnate. What you get for the price is someone's chewed up slipper. Not sure what to do.

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Front_Beach_9904 t1_iuyjdnt wrote

I’m out of ideas too my man. I was working 60 hours a week before the pandemic to get by. Now even that isn’t enough

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ramblejambler t1_iuykhb9 wrote

Plus side, big/small and anywhere in between if you're not in the upper class you seem to be eating shit right now. So you're not alone.

We scraped everything we could out of our lives, and pretty much live like monks now. Had to move to a lower cost of living place, but we're getting priced out of that too. So I'm thinking Midwest next, but damn I'll miss land features (unless we move to an area with those).

p.s. - Good luck and keep your head above water!

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Front_Beach_9904 t1_iuym5yc wrote

You too man! Maybe we should start looking at other countries

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ramblejambler t1_iuyphbj wrote

Been wanting to, no lie. Only catch is my girl has a medical condition and she gets her treatment here. So the whole things been a mess. If I had the chance? SE Asia for sure. 10/10.

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