Welcome texans! Most Colordans could care less who moves here, im here for it, seeing nightlife boom and the mountain vibes should be for everyone! Again Welcome!
Biggest differences that I have noticed; 1. Yellow lights are 3-5 seconds too short. 2. Parking lots are over-engineered. Lanes and channels to direct traffic instead of open concrete with paint. 3. Road/intersection design is a 'challenge'. 4. The Denver metro is not a 'foodie' area, but some decent restaurants can be found. 5. Houses have a tendency to have small rooms. Be aware that a 2500 sq ft house may feel tight because of it. 6. Colorado has a Hail Session. Be aware of it.
I’m 21 and I’m Born and raised in Texas. I’m waiting to finish school to hopefully move to Colorado or just any colder state 😭 the heat gets worst and worst for me ever year I CANT DO IT NO MORE
You will miss that warmth from November thru May... when you shoveling snow from your car to get to the store. That's right it snows in May. Denver calls it Spring😂 Speaking of car because you will need one, the insurance is expensive. Welcome to Colorado.
The only thing holding me back from leaving Texas and moving to Colorado is that altitude sickness. I found a place but coming from 500ft to 5k feet is apparently crazy.
Thank you for watching. Have you stayed in Colorado more than a week? The altitude sickness does subside. We’ve actually had a few clients who’s initially had it and it was gone in no time.
@@ColoradoLife4u ive never left texas before and stayed in the same city. im glad to hear it can go away i just dont wanna be the rare 1 percents that die from it lol.
I wonder if driving is actually fractured in because personally, some other people and I know what it’s like to be in Houston with no car, (metro, walking, bike). It is a lot but once you get used to the metro and biking, you’ll be okay in almost everything. im trying to get some knowledge in it.
Thank you for watching. If you live in and near Denver you can easily get away with no car. Also keeping close to a commuter rail station helps with living in outer cities and commuting to Denver without a car.
We don’t have all four seasons but we do have one short, and two longer seasons. Kinda cool with a few cold days and HOT!, then there is Really damn HOT!!!
Hello C C thank you for your comment. We enjoy the four seasons here in Colorado. The cold winters seem to make you appreciate the warmer months even more ☺️
Better than driving on snow 🌨 packed roads for 6 months. The state depend on the drivers to pack the snow down. If were lucky will get sand. Car insurance is double what TX.
For Texans who are thinking of moving to Colorado, consider the following to see whether moving to Colorado is worth it or not: 1. If you prefer cold weather to hot weather and you despise hurricanes, go with Colorado. If you prefer hot weather to cold weather and do not mind hurricanes, then stick with Texas. 2. If you love the outdoors and love to go camping and hiking and rock climbing, go with Colorado because Colorado is better for these things than Texas. If you love being in the desert or in big cities like Austin or Houston or Dallas, then stick with Texas. 3. If you despise traffic jams especially going to work, go to Colorado because there isn't many traffic jams in Colorado compared to Texas. If you don't mind traffic jams, then probably stick with Texas. 4. If you are liberal/progressive or a Democrat, go with Colorado because Colorado is a blue state. If you are a conservative or a Republican, then stick with Texas because Texas is a red state. 5. If you love lower property taxes, go with Colorado. If you do not mind the high property taxes in Texas, stick with Texas. 6. However, Colorado has a higher cost of living than Texas. If you do not mind paying a high cost of living, go with Colorado. If you like a lower cost of living, then stick with Texas. These are some things to consider whether to decide to move to Colorado or not. Think very carefully about whether the move to Colorado from Texas is worth it or not.
Good video, but I would say it gets really expensive to move to Colorado, housing is way more expensive there, Texas especially Houston has this annoying thing called weather which comes with tornados and hurricanes, and means of transportation are quite deficient.
Thank you for watching! So gas is only one part of the equation in transportation, I’m curious what the difference in auto insurance is between Texas and Colorado….
@@ColoradoLife4u our rates are always going up now because of flooding. We have many cars that are totaled out because of flooding, causing our rates to go up.
Texas...Oil tycoons, things are apparently bigger, a show called Dallas my Grandmother and Mom used to watch, another show called Fixer Upper, and Illegal border crossings! That is about as hard as I have looked into Texas! Even though Colorado has lettuce burgers I would still choose it over Texas! Still using the speak easy wall I see!! Great Video...Looking forward to the next one!
How did fracking not make the list? That's the reason we are leaving Texas! We used to be surrounded by 1200 acres of cows. Over the last 7 years the oilfield has moved in and now its nonstop big truck traffic, diesel engines, a constant low droning noise. You cannot enjoy the peace and quiet because it no longer exists. Plus stepping outside and smelling rotten egg and chemical smells. The land owners that are doing this don't even live out here!! Oilfield works 24/7 365.very frustrating! Now we have 35 acres in Colorado, just trying to get something on it is proving super expensive and difficult as the "road" to our place is no more than a jeep trail lmao... no big trucks gonna bother us up there! All the people we've met, businesses we've established in our town so far have been amazingly nice ,happy people! Hope to be there permanently in the spring of 24... Oil field The people The heat Texas is just too damn big! Everyone is in a huge hurry all the time!
Thank you for watching. Fracking is something we haven’t been told from many who are choosing to move to Colorado from Texas. Number 1 reason was the heat.
The prop tax average comparison isn't a good metric. As you noted TX has a _lot_ of rural counties that will skew that. Most people in TX live/want to live in and around the MSAs and those property tax rates are _dramatically_ higher than _anywhere_ in CO - 4 to 6+ times higher. Also, a better comparison for home prices would be to look at an average of the MSAs, and particularly price-per-square-foot. Texas for the most part doesn't have basements so all foundations here are sunk costs without any additional value and basements always have the lowest build cost per square foot. Consequently, the homes here are much smaller, in many cases, way, way smaller (CO has the 2nd largest average home size in the US). TX just looks bigger because they are sprawled-out ranch style which just adds more (useless) roof and foundation costs. So price alone isn't a good metric. It would be better to compare what you actually _get_ for your money. Basically if you need any large amount of space (have 2+ kids, etc.), TX housing costs can become oppressive rather quickly. Especially the carrying costs with the property tax rates. The steep roof pitch comment had me scratching my head a bit. Not that you can't, technically, have any kind of roof anywhere but such homes are typically located up north - because snow. When you see it down here it's mostly someone paid extra for it, mainly for looks - it's almost always non-liveable space (unlike up north) and most of it not even functional as attic storage. It's just for show. The transportation costs in CO are higher than TX due to the gas prices. CO has limited access to refining, so the gas has to be shipped in from far away.
FYI, I have a Democratic gay friend from college who is an accountant and used to live who used to live in Texas for 7 years to take care of his grandparents but moved to Aurora, Colorado in early summer of 2023. The final straw for him with Texas was the landslide re-election of Greg Abbott over Beto O'Rourke. He no longer felt happy, safe nor welcome (sometimes he was picked on for being liberal and rarely for being gay) in the state of Texas. I recently talked to him via Zoom last month and he told me, "I am pretty happy living in Colorado. Moving to Colorado away from Texas was the best decision of my life."
I currently live in Texas but I don’t like it very much but it’s alright I’m checking out Colorado because I have a interest. I hate the 100 degree weather here. Texas will never be my home and I will not accept it as home. I’m born and raised in Cali so California will always be my home.
Jeff thank you for your comment. The denver metro has definitely come up in regards to being foodies from our experience. I’m sure there are many places that can one up us though. Thank you again and thank you for watching! 😃
@@ColoradoLife4u … still loving my decision to have moved in Denver metro from DC metro area! I hope the food scene continues to evolve and progress out here - expensive and good looking do not mean great food. It’s all about the taste, and evolved palette. Btw, you guys are awesome, I watched you back in the east coast before relocating. Thanks for all you do!
Two mentions of bunless burgers and soda water. I think you mean carbonated water and there's plenty of that in the grocery store. Bunless burgers is not common, you should just get a salad
Thank you for watching, yeah soda we’ve learned soda water is called different things in different states from our travels. Bun-less burgers are definitely different from a salad. Personally we like cutting a bell pepper in half and using that as a bun.
To say you’re a foodie from Colorado is laughable. Texas had a top 5 cuisine in the Us and Colorado is easily bottom 5…. Midwesterners can’t cook. That said, wonderful state!
Point made Texas does have a few foodie cities including Austin and Houston. But a 2023 article from travel.usnews has denver ranked at #13 on the list for best foodie cities in the US. travel.usnews.com/rankings/best-foodie-destinations-in-the-usa/
Leaving Texas for Colorado🤣🤣🤣wht a cryin joke just tell them we’ll keep their seats reserved here in the long star state or should I say jus “WARM” being as though they’re not going to experience much of it in Colorado Especially when they learn tht they’ll have to adapt to shoveling snow off their cars something us southerners arent use to doing🤷🏻So we’ll just see how long it will take for the both of you to do a video of all the people leaving Colorado🥱🤦🏿♂️💯
Thank you for watching, we’ve learned that there are two types moving out of California. Those who want a change of scenery that’s more affordable than CA and those who don’t like how things are being ran in CA.
@@ColoradoLife4u I asked where is everyone in Denver they said if you want to leave in peace go to the mountains . I’m headed somewhere around Avon or even aspen
Welcome texans! Most Colordans could care less who moves here, im here for it, seeing nightlife boom and the mountain vibes should be for everyone! Again Welcome!
Thank you for your comment!
Biggest differences that I have noticed;
1. Yellow lights are 3-5 seconds too short.
2. Parking lots are over-engineered. Lanes and channels to direct traffic instead of open concrete with paint.
3. Road/intersection design is a 'challenge'.
4. The Denver metro is not a 'foodie' area, but some decent restaurants can be found.
5. Houses have a tendency to have small rooms. Be aware that a 2500 sq ft house may feel tight because of it.
6. Colorado has a Hail Session. Be aware of it.
I’m 21 and I’m Born and raised in Texas. I’m waiting to finish school to hopefully move to Colorado or just any colder state 😭 the heat gets worst and worst for me ever year I CANT DO IT NO MORE
Hello thank you for watching! So the people we’ve moving to Colorado from Texas, cooler weather is one of the top reasons.
You will miss that warmth from November thru May... when you shoveling snow from your car to get to the store. That's right it snows in May. Denver calls it Spring😂 Speaking of car because you will need one, the insurance is expensive. Welcome to Colorado.
hopefully you guys are ready for your first winter here! it gets colddddddd
Thank you for the comment! Oh we are natives to Colorado, definitely have experienced the cold 😂
Moving from Austin to Denver area, number 1: Outdoors number 2: Weather rest is washup.
Thank you for the comment!
The only thing holding me back from leaving Texas and moving to Colorado is that altitude sickness. I found a place but coming from 500ft to 5k feet is apparently crazy.
Thank you for watching. Have you stayed in Colorado more than a week? The altitude sickness does subside. We’ve actually had a few clients who’s initially had it and it was gone in no time.
@@ColoradoLife4u ive never left texas before and stayed in the same city. im glad to hear it can go away i just dont wanna be the rare 1 percents that die from it lol.
I wonder if driving is actually fractured in because personally, some other people and I know what it’s like to be in Houston with no car, (metro, walking, bike). It is a lot but once you get used to the metro and biking, you’ll be okay in almost everything. im trying to get some knowledge in it.
Thank you for watching. If you live in and near Denver you can easily get away with no car. Also keeping close to a commuter rail station helps with living in outer cities and commuting to Denver without a car.
We don’t have all four seasons but we do have one short, and two longer seasons. Kinda cool with a few cold days and HOT!, then there is Really damn HOT!!!
Haha thank you for watching. When I was stationed in Fort Hood it felt like we were on the sun 😂
I’m a CO native but the cold weather has pushed me to TX. Im now trying to convince my family lol.
Hello C C thank you for your comment. We enjoy the four seasons here in Colorado. The cold winters seem to make you appreciate the warmer months even more ☺️
You will not like the hot in Texas and it is getting hotter. You will be running your A/C for months on end. I'm a native Texan so I know.
Better than driving on snow 🌨 packed roads for 6 months. The state depend on the drivers to pack the snow down. If were lucky will get sand. Car insurance is double what TX.
For Texans who are thinking of moving to Colorado, consider the following to see whether moving to Colorado is worth it or not:
1. If you prefer cold weather to hot weather and you despise hurricanes, go with Colorado. If you prefer hot weather to cold weather and do not mind hurricanes, then stick with Texas.
2. If you love the outdoors and love to go camping and hiking and rock climbing, go with Colorado because Colorado is better for these things than Texas. If you love being in the desert or in big cities like Austin or Houston or Dallas, then stick with Texas.
3. If you despise traffic jams especially going to work, go to Colorado because there isn't many traffic jams in Colorado compared to Texas. If you don't mind traffic jams, then probably stick with Texas.
4. If you are liberal/progressive or a Democrat, go with Colorado because Colorado is a blue state. If you are a conservative or a Republican, then stick with Texas because Texas is a red state.
5. If you love lower property taxes, go with Colorado. If you do not mind the high property taxes in Texas, stick with Texas.
6. However, Colorado has a higher cost of living than Texas. If you do not mind paying a high cost of living, go with Colorado. If you like a lower cost of living, then stick with Texas.
These are some things to consider whether to decide to move to Colorado or not. Think very carefully about whether the move to Colorado from Texas is worth it or not.
Thank you for the comment
Boulder county is where its at, fort collins is good too,
Hello thank you for watching!
Good video, but I would say it gets really expensive to move to Colorado, housing is way more expensive there, Texas especially Houston has this annoying thing called weather which comes with tornados and hurricanes, and means of transportation are quite deficient.
Thank you for watching. Colorado has definitely increase in affordability over the last 10 years.
Transportation cost is lower here because gas is always cheap. We make a lot of gas here.
Thank you for watching! So gas is only one part of the equation in transportation, I’m curious what the difference in auto insurance is between Texas and Colorado….
@@ColoradoLife4u our rates are always going up now because of flooding. We have many cars that are totaled out because of flooding, causing our rates to go up.
I’m from Texas and my husband and I are moving to Colorado next year!!
Ashley thank you for watching! Will definitely be a change in climate, all four seasons is fantastic. Let us know if we can help in your journey 😃
Texas...Oil tycoons, things are apparently bigger, a show called Dallas my Grandmother and Mom used to watch, another show called Fixer Upper, and Illegal border crossings! That is about as hard as I have looked into Texas! Even though Colorado has lettuce burgers I would still choose it over Texas! Still using the speak easy wall I see!! Great Video...Looking forward to the next one!
Thank you for watching!
How did fracking not make the list? That's the reason we are leaving Texas! We used to be surrounded by 1200 acres of cows. Over the last 7 years the oilfield has moved in and now its nonstop big truck traffic, diesel engines, a constant low droning noise. You cannot enjoy the peace and quiet because it no longer exists. Plus stepping outside and smelling rotten egg and chemical smells. The land owners that are doing this don't even live out here!! Oilfield works 24/7 365.very frustrating! Now we have 35 acres in Colorado, just trying to get something on it is proving super expensive and difficult as the "road" to our place is no more than a jeep trail lmao... no big trucks gonna bother us up there! All the people we've met, businesses we've established in our town so far have been amazingly nice ,happy people! Hope to be there permanently in the spring of 24...
Oil field
The people
The heat
Texas is just too damn big! Everyone is in a huge hurry all the time!
Thank you for watching. Fracking is something we haven’t been told from many who are choosing to move to Colorado from Texas. Number 1 reason was the heat.
You said it, super expensive.
@@khudson4901 summer of 24 and still not up there:(
The prop tax average comparison isn't a good metric. As you noted TX has a _lot_ of rural counties that will skew that. Most people in TX live/want to live in and around the MSAs and those property tax rates are _dramatically_ higher than _anywhere_ in CO - 4 to 6+ times higher.
Also, a better comparison for home prices would be to look at an average of the MSAs, and particularly price-per-square-foot. Texas for the most part doesn't have basements so all foundations here are sunk costs without any additional value and basements always have the lowest build cost per square foot. Consequently, the homes here are much smaller, in many cases, way, way smaller (CO has the 2nd largest average home size in the US). TX just looks bigger because they are sprawled-out ranch style which just adds more (useless) roof and foundation costs. So price alone isn't a good metric. It would be better to compare what you actually _get_ for your money.
Basically if you need any large amount of space (have 2+ kids, etc.), TX housing costs can become oppressive rather quickly. Especially the carrying costs with the property tax rates.
The steep roof pitch comment had me scratching my head a bit. Not that you can't, technically, have any kind of roof anywhere but such homes are typically located up north - because snow. When you see it down here it's mostly someone paid extra for it, mainly for looks - it's almost always non-liveable space (unlike up north) and most of it not even functional as attic storage. It's just for show.
The transportation costs in CO are higher than TX due to the gas prices. CO has limited access to refining, so the gas has to be shipped in from far away.
Hello thank you for your comment and thank you for the information!
Please move back. Thanks ✌️
Thank you for watching. If you’re familiar with our channel you know we are multi generational Coloradans, never lived in Texas.
Gas prices are a little cheaper in Texas. Car insurance is ridiculous. We have hail, and drivers are terrible.
Hello thank you for watching, what are gas prices in Texas right now?
I’m watching this as I’m moving from Houston to Denver right now lol
Haha welcome! Thank you for watching and let us know if we can help with any Real Estate needs 😃
@@ColoradoLife4u Yeah can I find a house making 90K?
We are leaving Houston a well but we are going to Colorado Springs
Plus I hate this $500 light bill
@@miklovelka2957how you liking it now ?
FYI, I have a Democratic gay friend from college who is an accountant and used to live who used to live in Texas for 7 years to take care of his grandparents but moved to Aurora, Colorado in early summer of 2023. The final straw for him with Texas was the landslide re-election of Greg Abbott over Beto O'Rourke. He no longer felt happy, safe nor welcome (sometimes he was picked on for being liberal and rarely for being gay) in the state of Texas. I recently talked to him via Zoom last month and he told me, "I am pretty happy living in Colorado. Moving to Colorado away from Texas was the best decision of my life."
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Colorado drivers are by far the worst out of these two and there’s literally actual rankings by US DOT saying so
To be fair…. There might be some truth to that and at the same time denver metro is a melting pot of many different states.
I currently live in Texas but I don’t like it very much but it’s alright I’m checking out Colorado because I have a interest. I hate the 100 degree weather here. Texas will never be my home and I will not accept it as home. I’m born and raised in Cali so California will always be my home.
Hello thank you for watching. Texas is definitely hot, it says something when we were sent there to prepare for Iraq 😬
@ColoradoRealEstateFamily, Hate to break it to you, Coloradans are not “foodies.” This comment said with much love. :).
Jeff thank you for your comment. The denver metro has definitely come up in regards to being foodies from our experience. I’m sure there are many places that can one up us though. Thank you again and thank you for watching! 😃
@@ColoradoLife4u … still loving my decision to have moved in Denver metro from DC metro area! I hope the food scene continues to evolve and progress out here - expensive and good looking do not mean great food. It’s all about the taste, and evolved palette. Btw, you guys are awesome, I watched you back in the east coast before relocating. Thanks for all you do!
Texas has highest utility bills in the Nation - sadly it’s not adding to that
Interesting we did not know that…. Thank you for sharing!
Two mentions of bunless burgers and soda water. I think you mean carbonated water and there's plenty of that in the grocery store. Bunless burgers is not common, you should just get a salad
Thank you for watching, yeah soda we’ve learned soda water is called different things in different states from our travels. Bun-less burgers are definitely different from a salad. Personally we like cutting a bell pepper in half and using that as a bun.
To say you’re a foodie from Colorado is laughable. Texas had a top 5 cuisine in the Us and Colorado is easily bottom 5…. Midwesterners can’t cook. That said, wonderful state!
Point made Texas does have a few foodie cities including Austin and Houston. But a 2023 article from travel.usnews has denver ranked at #13 on the list for best foodie cities in the US.
travel.usnews.com/rankings/best-foodie-destinations-in-the-usa/
Leaving Texas for Colorado🤣🤣🤣wht a cryin joke just tell them we’ll keep their seats reserved here in the long star state or should I say jus “WARM” being as though they’re not going to experience much of it in Colorado Especially when they learn tht they’ll have to adapt to shoveling snow off their cars something us southerners arent use to doing🤷🏻So we’ll just see how long it will take for the both of you to do a video of all the people leaving Colorado🥱🤦🏿♂️💯
Thank you for watching. You sound pretty Texas proud, there are many great things to love about Texas.
I just wanna go with there is no people from California
Thank you for watching, we’ve learned that there are two types moving out of California. Those who want a change of scenery that’s more affordable than CA and those who don’t like how things are being ran in CA.
@@ColoradoLife4u I asked where is everyone in Denver they said if you want to leave in peace go to the mountains . I’m headed somewhere around Avon or even aspen
We wouldn’t recommend those areas to meet your goal. We would recommend the western slope Grand Junction down to Montrose.
@@ColoradoLife4u yes ,grand junction is one of my picks the other was around boulder or Fort Collins .
Stay the hell out of Colorado
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