She made the bus so I'll make this fast:
1. My parents live here and I don't like nor speak to, my parents. My mother crosses the street to avoid talking to me. That's a positive encouragement right there to stick around.
2. There is ONE newspaper, and it's a really sad representation of both publishing and journalism. There isn't anything else for the writer or journalistic-minded. Nada. They have the phone book, the paper, and the major web site producer. I know- I worked there for two years (thinking I could come in and grow and change things- HA!) and it SUCKS!
3. I had to drive 100 miles RT for a $0.33 skein of embroidery floss. 100 miles. Nobody in town has it.
4. We have 2 grocery stores, and 1 Walmart. If they don't have what you need- you evidently don't need it. Ever.
5. Rent here is astronomical. The median home price is nearly a half-million dollars. You have two choices:
a. Spend over 60% of your income on a decent, clean place to live that is owned by someone out of state who has 3 houses.
b. Spend 30-40% of your income on a rat-hole that has housed thousands of college kids and is only being held up by the paint, and is owned by someone in town that has 10 houses they ignore.
..............there is a joke here: "You know you live in Durango when you work 6 jobs and live in a $100,000 house you don't own with 5 other people also working 6 jobs, or you have no job and live in one $1,000,000 house you own with nobody else around."
6. We do not have a fabric store within 50 miles. We do not have a craft store within 50 miles.
7. I buy a strand of beads from Hong Kong for $1.50 + $3 shipping and wait 3 weeks for them to arrive. I go down on main street to the one bead shop we have and pay $30 for 1/3 the strand of those same beads.
8. Gas prices are at or just below that in Aspen and Vail.
9. Housing prices are the third or so highest in the state.
10. Incomes here vary between the retired snowbirds ($$$$) the mega-bucks who came here with money from elsewhere ($$$$$) and those who work and live here ($$) and actually live outside of town due to the cost of living in town (or they go with that joke from above).
11. We have crappy asian food (other than Thai- and there's ONE. If she's closed, you're out of luck)
12. We have crappy mexian food (the tourists like it though)
I have more list...but this is depressing!
1. My parents live here and I don't like nor speak to, my parents. My mother crosses the street to avoid talking to me. That's a positive encouragement right there to stick around.
2. There is ONE newspaper, and it's a really sad representation of both publishing and journalism. There isn't anything else for the writer or journalistic-minded. Nada. They have the phone book, the paper, and the major web site producer. I know- I worked there for two years (thinking I could come in and grow and change things- HA!) and it SUCKS!
3. I had to drive 100 miles RT for a $0.33 skein of embroidery floss. 100 miles. Nobody in town has it.
4. We have 2 grocery stores, and 1 Walmart. If they don't have what you need- you evidently don't need it. Ever.
5. Rent here is astronomical. The median home price is nearly a half-million dollars. You have two choices:
a. Spend over 60% of your income on a decent, clean place to live that is owned by someone out of state who has 3 houses.
b. Spend 30-40% of your income on a rat-hole that has housed thousands of college kids and is only being held up by the paint, and is owned by someone in town that has 10 houses they ignore.
..............there is a joke here: "You know you live in Durango when you work 6 jobs and live in a $100,000 house you don't own with 5 other people also working 6 jobs, or you have no job and live in one $1,000,000 house you own with nobody else around."
6. We do not have a fabric store within 50 miles. We do not have a craft store within 50 miles.
7. I buy a strand of beads from Hong Kong for $1.50 + $3 shipping and wait 3 weeks for them to arrive. I go down on main street to the one bead shop we have and pay $30 for 1/3 the strand of those same beads.
8. Gas prices are at or just below that in Aspen and Vail.
9. Housing prices are the third or so highest in the state.
10. Incomes here vary between the retired snowbirds ($$$$) the mega-bucks who came here with money from elsewhere ($$$$$) and those who work and live here ($$) and actually live outside of town due to the cost of living in town (or they go with that joke from above).
11. We have crappy asian food (other than Thai- and there's ONE. If she's closed, you're out of luck)
12. We have crappy mexian food (the tourists like it though)
I have more list...but this is depressing!
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