colorado or washington?

External Since: Apr 20, 2007 Posts: 58

we (my wife and i) have been musing over the various advantages of
relocating to either washington state or colorado.
we have visited and liked vashon/bainbridge/whidbey islands in washington,
as well as boulder and durango, steamboat in colorado.

i like colorado's 365 day fishing season (and all the trout), ski areas, and
other outdoor kind of stuff. washington has a lot going for it, too. i know
as far as riding goes neither will be quite as wonderful as northern,
california, with our mostly all year riding and endless twisty roads, but
i'm sure there are enough roads in washington and colorado, too.

if it was you who had to decide (we don't have to go anywhere of course, but
the the taxes in CA are high etc) and we could realize a nice windfall if we
traded our place into a more afforable real estate market.

any ideas, aside from the usual "my state is better than your state" stuff?

pardon the lack of caps but i just had carpal tunnel surgery.
jim
nx250
r1100rs

External Since: Jun 18, 2006 Posts: 891

"Jim S." <idunno.DeleteThis@youdunno.either> wrote in message
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> we (my wife and i) have been musing over the various advantages of
> relocating to either washington state or colorado.
> we have visited and liked vashon/bainbridge/whidbey islands in washington,
> as well as boulder and durango, steamboat in colorado.
>
> i like colorado's 365 day fishing season (and all the trout), ski areas,
> and other outdoor kind of stuff. washington has a lot going for it, too. i
> know as far as riding goes neither will be quite as wonderful as northern,
> california, with our mostly all year riding and endless twisty roads, but
> i'm sure there are enough roads in washington and colorado, too.
>
> if it was you who had to decide (we don't have to go anywhere of course,
> but the the taxes in CA are high etc) and we could realize a nice windfall
> if we traded our place into a more afforable real estate market.
>
> any ideas, aside from the usual "my state is better than your state"
> stuff?
>
> pardon the lack of caps but i just had carpal tunnel surgery.
> jim
> nx250
> r1100rs
>

Here is my experience, similiar but different. I've lived in Utah and the
Bay Area, roughly equivilant to Colorado and the NW, roughly, hehe.

There is a reason realestate is expensive in the NoCal to NW. I'll tell
why, in my opinion. You can't buy weather, Houston is hot and muggy, the
upper plains are damn cold in the winter. It doesn't matter the size of
your home.

The NW is different. It is all about the climate. SLC and CO have real
winter. The NW has chilly rain.

Me? I'd go back to NoCal in a minute, I love the rockies and the desert,
but I'd take the Pac West.