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.