Help me find a new city

[pilotguyo540]

I moved from westminster colorado a year and almost half ago. It is part of the asphalt slab that connects denver to boulder. All suburbs in that area. Not really for me. The populace seemed to be about 80% douche bags.

I did a couple of years in AZ. I love it there (except the heat).

If Austin is too Kali, I would suggest avoiding any university town and its Kulture. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Bend is not a bad town. It is small. I think the Lancair factory is there if you are into planes.

[g5m]

I'd take Santa Fe off your list - it's Kalifornia lite, and annoying beyond belief.

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Reminds me of taking my daughter up to school there and reading in the local paper that the mayor had said that all the 'gringos should wake up with a gun barrel in their ear', or words to that effect.

[rattlesnake]

Santa Fe is probably just as bad as Austin. We call it Santa Gay here. Very Very liberal. Most resturants post no guns signs. There are much nicer spots in new mexico like the east mountains that are gun friendly. We just got a republican governor and booted 6 dems out of the state legislator, so gun rights should hold firm for atleast the next 2 years. There is no gun registration in NM. Background checks are only required when buying from a ffl dealer. The crappy thing is you gotta get a permit to conceal your weapon. Hopefully this new governer will make concealed carry a issue. I doubt it though. She did pledge to revoke the drivers licenses of the over 50,000 illegal aliens given out by democrats.

Sounds like AZ would be a great place to live. I would go to the higher elevation towns like flagstaff, because the summers are hell in the desert.

[austinN4]

Santa Fe is probably just as bad as Austin.

Yeah, I have pretty much ruled out Santa Fe and Boulder for that reason.

[kartoffel]

A gun-friendly college town at altitude, hmmm. Plenty of good ideas in the Rockies and the Southwest already so how about these?

Logan, Utah: pop. 50,000, elevation 4534 ft, home of Utah State U.

Pocatello, Idaho: pop. 52,000, elevation 4465 ft, home of Idaho State U.

Cheyenne, Wyoming: pop. 58,000, elevation 6062 ft, UW is not far away in Laramie.

[MichaelD]

Cedar City, Utah
Brigham City, Utah
Heber City, Utah
Roosevelt, Utah
Vernal, Utah
Tooele, Utah

Utah has the best Brady score in the nation... a perfect zero.

[BenBru]

I've spent a ton of time in Grand Junction, CO Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful... It's a college town, has a really cool downtown area, and everything outdoors you could ask for.

Plus you get to stay away from Denver, and Boulder...

Fort Collins would be my 2nd choice in CO, followed by the West side of Colorado Springs, maybe even up to Woodland Park, CO

[kartoffel]

Hey yeah, GJ isn't bad either. Close to Utah yet happily in the land of real beer.

Logan and Brigham aren't bad either, and real close to Idaho.

[LowSpeed_HighDrag]

Loveland Colorado is the perfect city IMO if you make more than 75k. On the plains, foothills, and mountains. Check out Jensen Arms if you ever make youre way up there, best gun store in the US.

[SouthPark]

Thanks, guys. Yes, Arizona is high on my list, specifically Flag and Prescott.

Working with a map and Wiki, the cities that more or less seem to meet my criteria are:

Arizona Flagstaff
Arizona Prescott

Colorado Boulder (probably too expensive and too political)
Colorado Grand Junction
Colorado Longmont
Colorado Loveland
Colorado Pueblo

Idaho Idaho Falls
Idaho Pocatello

Montana Billings
Montana Great Falls
Montana Missoula

Nevada Carson City

New Mexico Santa Fe (probably too expensive)

Oregon Bend

S Dakota Rapid City

Wyoming Casper
Wyoming Chyenne

Additional comments are very wlecome. Most important to me is a high quality of life; although, I realize that is very subjective.

When I get the list refined and narrowed I am going to start making visits to the short list cities.

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I got on this a little late, but I've lived in Colorado for 35 years and travelled around a lot.

Colorado at this time is very gun friendly with very good state laws. We have too many Left Coasters moving here so they can screw up Colorado as well. In your situation I would look at Pueblo and Grand Junction, the latter first. Wyoming is a pretty cold place in the winter and it's not for warm weather people.

Good luck.