The Monos Are Moving to Denver

[J-P]

Fountain, CO.
Black Forest, CO
Avoid Denver and ski towns.
Check out Ft. Carson and nearby ranges.

Yeah, I lived in Black Forest. Great place despite the situation with the rest of the state. Too far from Denver if that is where he is working though. And nothing available under $500K+ at this point. Fountain, meh I wouldn't live there. (and even farther from Denver).

El Paso county (Colorado Springs area) is the last large conservative hold out in the state. Not that that means much any more since Denver dictates the vote of the state but if I had to live in a larger area for work that would be it.

Ski towns are nothing more then pot vacation locations now. We owned a place up at Keystone but after the weed was legalize we had nothing but issues with rentals around us being pot parties every night so we sold the place.

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[Bubbado52]

I had to do the same 40 years ago. Left all the family back in Florida and came to Georgia. Swore I would return one day. Didn't happen. We established ourselves and thrived. Good luck!!!

 

[Alphacpa]

My niece lives in Parker. Highly recommend as the lifestyle is great. Negatives include housing cost and weather. Denver is a bit of a housing bubble now and cold, snowy winters last 7.5 months. The aging parents are likely the most troubling issue with the relo.

 

[Alphacpa]

I'm outside of Macon, but yes. I still go out to Colorado often as my office is out there. I miss it for about a day then I am over it.

It's the stuff I mentioned before (taxes, cost of living etc) The granola hippies, the general rudeness of people. My kids would say please, thank you and hold doors for people out there and they would just be amazed because nobody does it. Not that there aren't good people but the knuckle heads out number them by far.

I still see more homeless out there then I do even in Macon. More people begging on every corner for money. The pot has been a very Bad thing for Colorado IMO. While it is making money for someone (who I don't know because I don't see it going back to the economy) in general I think it's been a bad move for the state.

It was going to be out "forever" home but it got so bad (and getting worse) we packed up our 3 young kids, sold our properties and moved here. The Macon area was not our first choice but we needed to be near Robins AFB for work and wanted land so that's what drove that.

Obviously a lot of people are okay with things out there, as one who likes his freedoms (as much as one can these days) it was Not a place for us. The stupidity being forced on the people from the left out there is just too much anymore.

And if that isn't enough, I was out there a couple weeks ago and it snowed so there's that Lol..

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Hey I moved from South Forsyth to Bonaire 25 miles south of Macon and 5 miles from RAFB. We love our new home here and don’t miss the traffic!

 

[brutal]

My niece lives in Parker. Highly recommend as the lifestyle is great. Negatives include housing cost and weather. Denver is a bit of a housing bubble now and cold, snowy winters last 7.5 months. The aging parents are likely the most troubling issue with the relo.

I should find the pic of the Christmas day we were all in shorts. Seriously mild winters here for the most part - compared to the north.

 

[boneboy96]

Hey I moved from South Forsyth to Bonaire 25 miles south of Macon and 5 miles from RAFB. We love our new home here and don’t miss the traffic!

Dang man...didn't realize you had moved. Hope U R doing ok.

 

[gyppo]

If you are skilled at your job, 30 weeks is no brainer. Atlanta is the hottest job market with a reasonable cost of living. Denver is not bad though. The climate in Denver is awesome. Not much colder than Atlanta. Living outside Denver is not crazy expensive.
You will have to deal with the smell of weed everywhere.

Probably by September....

About three weeks ago my Director, who lives in Massachusets and my Manager, who lives in Louisiana decided to make a surprise unannounced visit to Atlanta to have a mandatory meeting with the 5 remaining members of the Atlanta Team.....we got like 12 hours notice.

Those kind of visits are never good, right?

So I went in on my day off expecting to be RIF'd....what they told us was only a little bit better. Started out telling us the Atlanta Ops Team was being shuttered but they value us as critical employees, YaDa YaDa Yada (insert more platitudes here). My heart skipped a few beats but it wasn't really a surprise. The writing has been on the wall since my current employer bought our company and even though management had said time and again that Atlanta would always be a core location for Ops, it was clear that the business model would not support three core locations. Corporate lackeys lie all the time..... So between the three core locations it was inevitable that one would be shuttered. Then they gave the five of us three options.

1. Find a position inside my current employer in the Atlanta office on another team (there are only 2 jobs listed here, sales or customer service, and I would not be happy doing either)
2. Take a relocation package and choose to remain on the team but move to either one of the other two core locations.....either a swamp in Louisiana or to Denver 1500 miles away from family. The relo package includes a paltry sum to move...
   
3. Accept the standard RIF package which for me would be 30 weeks pay (based on my 15 years time in title) and a hearty pat on the back for a job well done (here's the door, don't let it hit ya on the way out).

Last week my current employer paid for us to go and check out Denver. Well they covered the hotel and rental car for the week, we had to spring for air fare. We liked it but housing is CRAZY expensive out there. Mrs. Monos and I discussed checking out the Louisiana swamps as an alternative but aside from my current employer there is no other supporting industry for me to fall back on should they still choose to RIF me down the line. Denver, at least, has many employment options other than my current employer. We decided the Louisiana swamps were out as an option.

We have to make our decision final on July 11th so unless a miracle happens in the next few days, it looks like the Monos clan will probably be moving to Denver at the end of August or shortly thereafter.

This kinda sux BUT it could also be really good. I mentioned that there are only 2 job listings for the Atlanta office....well as of this posting there are 187 job listings in Denver for various groups within my current employer so the potential for eventually changing departments or moving up to an engineering role is greatly enhanced out there. There are two offices to choose to work from. One is in the north and one is in the south of Denver. In the last week we drove around 500 miles checking out Denver proper and the surrounding suburbs near those offices, with a side trip to Colorado Springs on the fourth to relax, decompress, see Pikes Peak and be tourists. I think we will choose the southern area but we can't be sure until we sell our condo here and see what is on the market out there. That writing on the wall I was talking about earlier told us to go ahead and sell our rental property in Paulding County in April so we got ahead of that one.

Mrs. Monos will be moving away from her parents just as her Father starts dealing with early onset Alzheimer's and well,,,,My Mom turns 90 this year and is no spring chicken herself. She's slowing down, and my brother is no real support mechanism for her. Southern boys and their Mama's, this is not an ideal solution...I will worry about her, and she will not even consider moving.

Cheers! It could be worse, right???

 

[GeauxLSU]

Denver or south Louisiana? That would have been an easy decision for me. But, well... you know.
Denver 30 years ago? Heck yeah. Today? No way. Good luck. Hope it all goes better than wished.

 

[Mr. Booshie]

Private sale BG checks suck, I may have to run a fire sale on a few pistols here before I go to thin the herd. I have a few nice Berettas I don't shoot all that often.

Who’s gonna want to buy guns that are in a lake somewhere from a tragic boating accident?

Maybe freshwater mermen?

 

[Smoothie]

The climate in Denver is awesome. Not much colder than Atlanta.

If Atlanta had mountains it would be a big ski destination too. Same weather.