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Old 07-07-2019, 02:48 PM
 
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Does anyone have any speculations on where the next "it" Colorado mountain town will be? -- A mountain town that may currently be affordable, but 20 years from now it will only be for the rich like Aspen, Vail, or Boulder. Other examples outside Colorado include Bend, Oregon, and Bozeman Montana, which have both become much, much more expensive over the last ten years.

 
Old 07-07-2019, 03:22 PM
 
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Pueblo - Colorado's alpha city.
 
Old 07-07-2019, 04:17 PM
 
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Palisade, Grand Junction
 
Old 07-07-2019, 04:28 PM
 
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Pagosa Springs
 
Old 07-07-2019, 04:29 PM
 
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Ranch Exit.
 
Old 07-07-2019, 05:16 PM
 
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Aspen, Vail are "mountain towns". Both in the mountains and town size. Boulder, Bend, Oregon, and Bozeman Montana are cities. Were towns at some point in fairly distant past. Small cities by many people's standards, verging on too big by others.


"A mountain town that may currently be affordable, but 20 years from now it will only be for the rich"?

Already there or probably will be in near future depending on standards: Carbondale, Durango, Eagle.

Durango is in La Plata county, which has about 55,000 people now. Head to 80k in next 15-25 years. That is the main mountain town / smallish city which might become a much bigger It mountain city.

Grand Junction? Probably will continue to grow some and get more interesting. Not sure how much, how fast. It Mountain place? You decide.


Small town size but getting more affluent: Salida, Pagosa Springs, Rifle / New Castle, Granby, maybe Kremmling, maybe Paonia, maybe Meeker, maybe Bailey.

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Old 07-07-2019, 05:20 PM
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Salida
 
Old 07-07-2019, 05:46 PM
 
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Pueblo - Colorado's alpha city.
And I thought you'd pick Burlington, after another recent thread.
 
Old 07-07-2019, 06:31 PM
 
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Aspen, Vail are "mountain towns". Both in the mountains and town size. Boulder, Bend, Oregon, and Bozeman Montana are cities. Were towns at some point in fairly distant past. Small cities by many people's standards, verging on too big by others.


"A mountain town that may currently be affordable, but 20 years from now it will only be for the rich"?

Already there or probably will be in near future depending on standards: Carbondale, Durango, Eagle.

Durango is in La Plata county, which has about 55,000 people now. Head to 80k in next 15-25 years. That is the main mountain town / smallish city which might become a much bigger It mountain city.

Grand Junction? Probably will continue to grow some and get more interesting. Not sure how much, how fast. It Mountain place? You decide.


Small town size but getting more affluent: Salida, Pagosa Springs, Rifle / New Castle, Granby, maybe Kremmling, maybe Paonia, maybe Meeker, maybe Bailey.
Granby? Meeker? Bailey? Kremmling? Not in my lifetime. Rifle/New Castle? If you are questioning Grand Junction as a mountain town, you have to question most of your list too.
 
Old 07-07-2019, 07:00 PM
 
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Fruita, Grand Junction, Palisade, Gunnison, Pagosa Springs, Ponca Springs, Salida, Monarch, Monte Vista, Del Norte, Buena Vista, Crested Butte and most any place not already jammed full and the further from Denver the better.
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