Dave,
There ARE many good people in Colorado. I know a number of them. Some are native (including close relatives) and some are not native. Colorado, at least the Front Range and Eastern inter-mountain areas, is simply suffering from overpopulation and over building. Too many people like to be in or near paradise and there is not enough space to go around, especially when a lot of it is vertical or nearly so.
I won't bash any particular non-Colorado area for contributing to the 'problem' as people from all over have settled there. I probably know as many folks who have moved out of Colorado as have moved into the state. With the mobility of @#$%&'s, politicians and other 'forward' thinkers, there will be no havens any where in this country from lunacy in the very near future, Colorado or elsewhere. Long insulated from the big-city woes like gangs, rampant drug-trafficking, etc. even eastern Iowa is becoming an extended suburb of Chicago and St. Louis. So it isn't just happening in Colorado.
Long gone is the laid back, friendly, western atmosphere that used to make Colorado's Front Range area a pleasure to visit. Multitudes of us tourists and an influx of new residents from elsewhere have denigrated and changed the cultural fabric. Certainly the negative elements are in the minority, but the shear numbers moving there puts the negative folks in the spotlight. I, like Rick, expressed relief at not presently being a resident of Colorado. That in itself should not be taken as a slap in the face to ALL Coloradoans, unless of course, you agree with Mr. Berhens and co. which I am sure you do not. Please don't take personal offense if I say I am glad that I don't live there. Actually I may be doing the problem a (very) small favor by not adding numerically to it.
I am not speaking for Rick Steele here, just offering some thoughts on my own comment earlier in this thread.
