Possible job move - aurora co area

I am looking at tossing my hat in for a job in Aurora Colorado area while keeping my current home in Colorado Springs.

Right now I figure I would to the "safe" thing and rent something in a normal commute area before doing anything more serious.

Other than a lazy-boy chair, cheap tv, computer with internet access is what I am looking at, ok maybe toss in a normal size bed. Thinking that living off I-70 in the boondocks might work for me. No kids, no pets, and the other is living in Texas...I wish I could join her there, but things happen in life.

And no, not even thinking of living in Denver, and rather not live in Aurora unless it is the "right" thing to do.

Have to go pretty far out to find anything that is affordable. Aurora is a pretty big and diverse place.. where about would you be working?

If you look east of Aurora you’ll find some more rural and conservative options that are much cheaper... the commute would be easy peasy too even if you opted to go out as far as Byers. Go check out Strasburg.

Like others have said, Aurora is a big place, so don't discount the entire town before you even get there.

nope this is not a want ad; but more like am I an idiot thinking about this

The area is by the Raytheon complex. . . and out east is what I was thinking...even a trailer park would almost work for me.
I guess I always wanted to be one of those trailer folks I saw in the last Star Fighter.

If it's a good fit, not stupid at all. I've never lived in Colorado Springs, but a lot of it reminds me of Aurora when I go down there. Looking at a map, you could live pretty much anywhere in the entire Denver metro area and it'd be a closer commute than from the Springs. As far as drive-wise goes, somewhere East of 470 would be ideal, as you've already noted.

I live about 10 miles north of Bennett. At 6am, it takes me about 40 minutes to get to South Aurora, and another 10 to get into DTC (Arapahoe and I25ish). Bennett has a King Soopers, a couple auto parts stores, fast food, a couple pizza places, and a small town cafe, in addition to the Liquor store that takes FFL transfers.

There is a trailer park in town, with places to rent.

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Originally Posted by 00tec

I live north of Bennett. At 6am, it takes me about 40 minutes to get to South Aurora, and another 10 to get into DTC (Arapahoe and I25ish). Bennett has a King Soopers, a couple auto parts stores, fast food, a couple pizza places, and a small town cafe, in addition to the Liquor store that takes FFL transfers.

There is a trailer park in town, with places to rent.

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Yep. Is the trailer park still for sale? Plus, if you live in Bennett, you can wave to all your friends on their way to, and from CRC every weekend.

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Originally Posted by Irving

Yep. Is the trailer park still for sale? Plus, if you live in Bennett, you can wave to all your friends on their way to, and from CRC every weekend.

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Dont think the whole thing is for sale. They did just move in like 4 new trailers, but parked them about 15 feet apart. Immediately put up "for rent" signs.

Oh, and they just put a shitload of fiber in the ground. I will have fiber to the home this spring. The trailer park will probably be HFC.

there is relocating support if I go for the job - but just can't see for the life of me getting another big house and such - or a large apartment. I have not even talked on the phone to HR or provided an updated resume after I got the e-mail asking if I was interested.......but I figured I put my toe in to see how things are.

The real bad thing; all the goodies I see for sale here are now closer for me to check out.

If you live in El Paso County District 11, please hold off a move until you can assist in voting out Michael Merrifield. :)

Be wise and ask about internet support in your area of interest in relocating out east (watkins, bennett, strasburg, byers) and verify.

I moved in 2010 between bennett and strasburg and called the local telephone company (TDS communications) and they said they provided service to my area. They did NOT provide service then and finally just this year got ISD service to my area. I was forced to get a microwave antennae connection for internet through Bijou Telephone Co-op. It's ok, not fantastic (10meg down, .75 up) for $75/mo. I was on the 7.5meg down and .5up plan, but you could not stream any media without a lot of buffering and interupts. You also need a clear line of sight to the microwave tower located in strasburg. Weather will interrupt it about 2-3 times a year.

Bennett is supposedly better as they use a different provider. Strasburg is ok, not steller. IF I had known what the internet situation was going to be like ahead of time, I would not have moved here.

Traffic is surprisingly good into Denver/Aurora as I70 is CDOT maintained and plowed. You start hitting real traffic at the I70/I225 interchange at rush hours. It's 40 minutes for me to way south Aurora (think southlands mall) via watkins road and 25 minutes to the Anschutz medical complex at I225 and 6th ave.

Bennett population still has to pay into the Clean air act tax for your vehicle license renewal, strasburg and further east does not. Taxes are higher in bennett, lower in strasburg (8% vs 3.8%). Both have Fire Depts, but all police is done by Adams County sheriffs. Bennet has about 8 fast food stores, king soopers grocery, couple restaurants, couple auto parts, couple of hardware stores and a bunch of thrift stores. All other towns have 1-2 restaurants, maybe an auto part shop, gas station and that's it. Schools are better in strasburg than bennett. Housing types and quality has an edge in strasburg, but bennett makes up in that category by being cheaper.

Do your recon of the area first, thouroughly.

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Bennett internet is Comcast and ESRTA (https://esrta.com)

Good information, and thank you all for providing it.

I was happy that I was sitting down when I spotted the first sets of ads from Apartment hunter on the cost associated with a studio appartment.
Some of the prices were over 2x easy over my old house payment.

Can you rent your house?

The short answer is no on rent the house....my comment on what apartment rental cost was more sticker shock over the last 2brm apartment that I rented in Col Spings, versus a studio apartment in Denver area.

I live near Colfax and Tower. Decent enough neighborhood, but the cost has gotten out of hand in the last 10 years. My wife bought the place for $79K in 1997, the neighbors next door with the same floor plan just bought theirs for $240K...

Raytheon is at roughly 4th and Buckley (across the street from Buckley AFB), or about 4 minutes from here. Watkins, Bennett,, and Strasburg might all be decent alternatives in terms of commute. As mentioned by others, Aurora has good parts and bad parts.

Well, if you are going to rent, be aware that the definition of "bad parts" in Aurora is anywhere in walking distance of an apartment complex.

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Well, if you are going to rent, be aware that the definition of "bad parts" in Aurora is anywhere in walking distance of an apartment complex.

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lol, almost true. You have got to be really careful which part of Aurora you decide to settle in. Spent 17 years at buckley and hampden. Probably about 4 years too long as the neighborhood went to shit with crappy section 8 next door and gang graffiti showing up occasionally.

Pricing on housing has gone nuts. It's a way that the MJ growers can use their cash as banks wont deal with the MJ industry. They put cash bids in on any property and then flip, rent, sell as a form of soft money laundering. They buy just about anything. This combined with massive amounts of people relocating here drive the price up. It's the new northwest states "californication" of Colorado. I can only hope that since California passed recreational MJ that some of these new imports go to cali.