My daughter lives and works in Durango, in southwestern Colorado. She loves it there, and we love visiting her. That town is kind of in a higher real estate bubble than other areas in southern Colorado. Gorgeous scenery around there.
Good for her. From what little I know about Durango I’m not surprised you all love it. I call the stretch from there to Del Norte the land that time forgot.
Pagosa’s nice but not cheap either and when you Google map the affordable property listings they’re pretty far from town when you consider how sketch the road could get in the winter. That and it isn’t exactly cheap to buy a house in town either.
The area in general isnt going to be undiscovered for much longer.
There’s no Whole Foods anywhere, yet. But there are new businesses that are indicative of change.
Compared to every other mtn town in the west the area’s a steal.
The only 2 bed condo in Telluride under 2 mil. 1.9 lol. They’d bought it 4 mos ago and then jacked the price by $250k. Wtf.
There was some other town in Washington or Idaho where it was a full on superfund site and still expensive.
Or Bozeman Montana where $500k = zero listings/access denied
I read on two occasions on the TGR forums where people said as good as the skiing was at insert name of big mt here it was too crowded too expensive too played out etc and despite living there for 20 years they were over it and leaving for a small town with a small ski area nearby.
That said life in the valley isn’t for everyone it’s always windy, can get really cold at night, and there can be large snow accumulations in short periods of time (72”/36 hrs). People leave.
I was very tempted to purchase in the Ghost Mine Ranch just so I could say I lived there.