Colorado used to be a beautiful state. Then the Californians discovered that they could sell their 1200 square foot ranch for over a million dollars and buy a McMansion here for that same amount. Then the McMansions took over, Californians took over, and Colorado went to pot (literally). People moved here for the view, then someone else moved into their view. It used to be horse pastures, cows, and open land. Small towns were truly small towns, and people knew each other. Now I drive with my kids and show them where horses and cows used to be, where Bandimere Speedway was in the middle of nowhere and now they are being put out of business by people who moved next to a speedway then complain about it. The cow pasture across from Bandimere I'm sure has it's days counted.
Colorado Springs was far away, now it's connected with houses and chain restaurants. When we moved here, in 1976, our relatives back east thought we had Indians on the runway when we landed. Now there's no mistaking Colorado is now overrun, ugly, and has ugly "leadership". The mountains are dotted with super houses and neon chain signs, small, quaint towns are now tourist traps (I'm looking at you, Boulder and Golden), and the homeless people are out of control and EVERYWHERE. We live miles out of town, and still get them in our area. legalizing drugs was an awful idea, turning Central City, Black Hawk, and Cripple Creek into gambling towns was disastrous.
I've been here most of my life, and I can say that although I don't support a boycott because we own a family business here and I don't want to lose it to the chains, I totally understand anyone who does Boycott Colorado.
Boycott the ski areas, and anything that the government gets a kickback from. I know we have to pay sales tax to the government, however please don't boycott small businesses. Colorado is truly a shit hole though. Not worth visiting in my opinion.
We own a business in a suburb of Denver, so the only way a boycott would hurt us is if people saw our name online, which has the city name in it, and decided since we are in Colorado they will not buy from us. We have zero tourism at our shop, so a tourism boycott would be fine. It's if people extended it to buying anything from Colorado that we would be hurt.
I feel for you, my dear anon. I know what you are talking about. We been there several times because of relatives and travel and recreation. It was very beautiful. I hear you.
Colorado used to be a beautiful state. Then the Californians discovered that they could sell their 1200 square foot ranch for over a million dollars and buy a McMansion here for that same amount. Then the McMansions took over, Californians took over, and Colorado went to pot (literally). People moved here for the view, then someone else moved into their view. It used to be horse pastures, cows, and open land. Small towns were truly small towns, and people knew each other. Now I drive with my kids and show them where horses and cows used to be, where Bandimere Speedway was in the middle of nowhere and now they are being put out of business by people who moved next to a speedway then complain about it. The cow pasture across from Bandimere I'm sure has it's days counted.
Colorado Springs was far away, now it's connected with houses and chain restaurants. When we moved here, in 1976, our relatives back east thought we had Indians on the runway when we landed. Now there's no mistaking Colorado is now overrun, ugly, and has ugly "leadership". The mountains are dotted with super houses and neon chain signs, small, quaint towns are now tourist traps (I'm looking at you, Boulder and Golden), and the homeless people are out of control and EVERYWHERE. We live miles out of town, and still get them in our area. legalizing drugs was an awful idea, turning Central City, Black Hawk, and Cripple Creek into gambling towns was disastrous.
I've been here most of my life, and I can say that although I don't support a boycott because we own a family business here and I don't want to lose it to the chains, I totally understand anyone who does Boycott Colorado.
Boycott the ski areas, and anything that the government gets a kickback from. I know we have to pay sales tax to the government, however please don't boycott small businesses. Colorado is truly a shit hole though. Not worth visiting in my opinion.
We own a business in a suburb of Denver, so the only way a boycott would hurt us is if people saw our name online, which has the city name in it, and decided since we are in Colorado they will not buy from us. We have zero tourism at our shop, so a tourism boycott would be fine. It's if people extended it to buying anything from Colorado that we would be hurt.
I feel for you, my dear anon. I know what you are talking about. We been there several times because of relatives and travel and recreation. It was very beautiful. I hear you.