Traffic and crowds! Miserable crowds everywhere and horrible traffic. This was a great place up until about the year 2000, then the crowds really started to come.
I'm a native to the springs. One of the largest issues I face downtown with all the growth is the audio pollution. Cars, trucks, motorcycles, construction ect... This used to be a quiet town and it's a drag strip at all hours now.
@@Techniquezander it’s definitely a mixture of a lot of growth. The switchbacks stadium is a big one, now up north with the ford Amphitheatre there’s crazy noise complaints up there. But it’s definitely changed a lot.
Lived in Colorado Springs off and on since the 80's. Finally left for the last time in 2004. Still visit from time-to-time, but my catalyst for leaving was the bad, bad, rude, careless, and selfish drivers... to be quite frank. 😬 Never have I seen so many cars just seemingly and randomly tipped over in a city in various wrecks. With the incredible speeds they drive, it does make sense. However, the scenic views in this city are incredible, there's no mosquitoes (strangely), and somehow I always feel like I'm "home" when I come back to visit. If the people were less cold and just changed their mentality, it would be an awesome place to live again. Until then, I'm staying up north (with it's own set of problems 😅).
I lived in Denver for 30 years right around the time the Denver International Airport (DIA) went through completion. Then there was the I-25 project and many buildings that surrounded it. The distance between Denver and Colorado Springs (CS) is around 50 miles and that was also done and it made CS more accessible. The offloads who couldn't afford Denver real estate market, then, flooded the CS! That's the main reason why CS affordability went down the tube. CS has a great outdoors but at a exhuberant cost.
@@seifazghandi1228 it’s definitely gained a lot of attraction the last decade. Made prices sky rocket in a short period. Now people are flooding Texas, OK, and florida.
The most negative thing about Colorado is the hail. Period. Especially as a home owner. Every video needs to talk about that because it is hardly mentioned. Every summer your car can potentially get totaled on any given day with little to no warning while you are parked at work and can literally do nothing but watch. Everything else is actually better than most of the country
@@LivingColoradoSpringsCO right but I don’t think special attention is given to the topic of hail. It needs to be its own thing aside from weather imo. That’s how serious it is
One thing a lot of Colorado Springs residents are actually NOT aware of is the extremely high number of prison parolees in COS! Especially around the southern part. That area, especially, seems to be more economically depressed! Homeless campsites up and down the Sand and Fountain Creeks. The city seemingly desires to put money into the north side for new, and saves the left overs for the south side. We have been resident since I retired from USAF at Pete! The very north end of Powers was absolute pasture land (from Constitution and north to the big curve) and far west as one could see! Now, housing and retails! Southside has practically zero opportunity for expansion, but on the north side, another story! Been here since 94, bought new in 97. Watched the crime rates increase as well! Too damned old to uproot and relocate. Kinda dependent now on the military commissaries and BX/PX’s. As a military retiree, my only advice is DO NOT use Carson for your healthcare. Use UCHealth instead! (They saved my life after Carson misdiagnosed!). Overall, Springs is still a great place to be. A lot to see and do! Plus: easy access to the mountains!
@@thedroneranger8966 very valid. City has grown tenfold since the 90’s and I think it’d be fair to say that’s probably why a lot of the money goes up north, since it’s new and that’s the only place to expand the city. North-Northeast. But it seems like that’s how a lot of “affordable” places in the US are these days. Then they have a massive boost in their economy and becomes unaffordable to a lot.
Traffic is a nightmare. I live on the north end and work downtown. Driving home takes twice as long and going to work. It started getting bad in 2016 and gotten horrific over the past two years.
I wouldn't move to Colorado. I live on the west coast, my one bedroom apt is almost $1700 a month, and I now live in the hood. This area use to be nice. Makes it hard to save money when 60% of your income is going to rent.
You can save money by moving. I used to live in “the hood” in LA. In 2010 I was paying more for my shitty apartment there than a nice place in most other parts of the country. Leaving was the best decision I ever made
Of the 4 major cities of CO -- Boulder, Denver, Colorado Springs(COS) and Pueblo -- COS is the only one that could be said to lean conservative (65/35 maybe?), although Pueblo (a surprise to me!) MAY be slowly moving in the red direction. Also, COS has 4-5 military bases, so lots of active duty Army and Air Force people there, and military retirees/veterans as well. It has a very nice main VA clinic there facing Pikes Peak and Garden of the Gods -- the clinic building (built a few years ago so it's fairly new) looks kind of "ski lodge" in its design. But for sure, liberals will LOVE Boulder and Denver -- no doubt -- if you can afford the even MORE expensive housing market there (more so than COS), Boulder probably being the MOST expensive major city. Other expensive cities/towns are the ski resort areas, like Breckenridge, Steamboat Springs, Vail, Aspen, Crested Butte...but even places like Dillon and Frisco are pricey as well. For MOST of us, visiting those places is nice but living there full-time is only a dream. Even condos there are $400K-500K and higher. Homes $1M and more easy. Many are multi-million. But the views are outstanding as those ski towns are very scenic summer and winter both....they're just kind of "out in the sticks" so you have to drive a while to get to a major city (and inclement weather/snowstorms permit). ;-) As for apartments, COS has LOTS of nice upscale Class A apt complexes, new/newer, and more being built even now. You can get a nice 1/1 (1-bed/1-bath) apt in a number of upscale Class A ("luxury") complexes for $1450-1650/mo, so they have come down big-time since I was there (October 2022) when MY rent (for a 3rd lease-renewal) was going up 14% ($191), then they went up to ~$1800/mo. Rents since then have dropped $300-400/mo and have been there for a while now. BUT, you have to pay on top of rent utilities (gas, electric, water, sewer), a garage if you want one (if attached it's included in the rent with "selected" apts, a detached garage is maybe $125-150 extra per month -- or pay a smaller amount for a carport), but COVERED parking is PREFERRED...one reason is CO's infamous hailstorms! Don't ask how I (and many other Coloradans) know this. ;-) Yes, some of those complexes are still high rent-wise -- month-to-month rents are OUTRAGEOUS ($2500 to over $3K even for 1/1 apts!) -- but some of those more expensive complexes are also the best resident-rated complexes: Get a 12-13-month lease (the cheapest it's gonna get!) and you're fine at those or the slightly cheaper but still full-amenity Class A ("luxury") complexes. I keep a running list of ~25 complexes I personally would feel good living at (I've lived in 2 of them myself, and both times were nice -- no complaints) to keep track of rents there (am in West TX now, but hope to move back to COS come late 2025 so I need to keep on top of apts there, but will be looking to BUY a property then, but only IF the housing market (AND mortgage interest rates!) become more affordable. If not, I may still move back to COS but rent at one of those mentioned upscale/luxury apt complexes and just STAY there (as I DO miss COS). Life could be worse... As mentioned, right now $1500-1600/mo will get you quite a few 1/1 (1-bed/1-bath) choices in one of those VERY nice complexes. As always, shorter leases quickly get pricier. AND as probably everywhere (not just in CO), rental rates can vary DAILY, so it depends on when you move there what you will find re: vacancies and rent rates. As for the southern part of the city (the SE quadrant, the COS airport area, or even farther south towards Widefield/Security/Fountain), that's not the better part of the Springs if you can afford elsewhere in the city. The NE quadrant is mostly new & growing. While there are other parts that are pretty decent -- various single-family homes, town-homes and condo "enclaves" here and there -- I'd say most of the nicer/newer apt complexes are to be found in the NE quadrant. Home builders are in this area, too (Banning-Lewis Ranch is huge), so COS is moving E towards Falcon...almost there now -- and NE toward the Black Forest area: Pretty pricey homes there in Black Forest (but HUGE lots, too, and in the woods (pine trees): Have at least $1M in your pocket just to start LOOKING there. But in Banning-Lewis Ranch and Wolf Ranch (a bit older community but still nice and still building northward (around Wolf "Lake"), you can find town-homes/carriage-homes (mostly new) for just over $400K and even some (duplexes) for well under 400K -- starter homes or for downsizing also. And in nice, upscale new subdivisions/communities. Banning-Lewis Ranch has a fairly new subdivision called The Retreat -- single-level homes (no stairs!) -- which is an "active lifestyle" 55+ community. Town-homes, carriage-homes and The Retreat have HOA fees, true, but you get quite a few amenities for the money (clubhouse, pool, tennis, events, etc). And Banning-Lewis even has some some schools. And LOTS of neighborhood trails to walk/jog/bike. I don't know of ANY town-home community in COS -- be it new, newer or older -- that does NOT have HOA fees (at the very least to cover landscaping care & snow-removal), so if you don't want a HOA you'll need to find a single-family/detached home (new, newer or older), even though SOME of those have a HOA also. One is a covenant community, and it's HOA is VERY high, but home prices there are low so maybe it balances out. However, most older homes/communities in COS don't have HOA fees. -- BR
It’s hard talk about this without sounding like a smug coming from Mass .i have paid this 2000 bucks for one room apartment since I was like 20 -2007 . the perception of affordability I have it’s pretty good :) . people just needs to keep up with life , I move a lot for work and I have seen it . all the time the natives always complain it’s natural growth .
No that's still too expensive and I'm from this place and paying that much money on a 1 room apartment is absolutely insane. Go live in Alabama or Texas where your dollars will stretch far more than this dump. Cheap, guns, morality, and no homeless potheads that break into people's cars.
Traffic is a nightmare too and the WAY people drive. I'd say a very angry population.
We've experienced this as well
Traffic and crowds! Miserable crowds everywhere and horrible traffic. This was a great place up until about the year 2000, then the crowds really started to come.
@@jeffreyallen1290 just depends what part of town you’re in.
I'm a native to the springs. One of the largest issues I face downtown with all the growth is the audio pollution. Cars, trucks, motorcycles, construction ect... This used to be a quiet town and it's a drag strip at all hours now.
@@Techniquezander it’s definitely a mixture of a lot of growth. The switchbacks stadium is a big one, now up north with the ford Amphitheatre there’s crazy noise complaints up there. But it’s definitely changed a lot.
Kansas has a great view of Pikes Peak! Everyone should go there…
@@NoName-rg3np 😅 I wouldn’t recommend it but there’s a place for everyone
@@LivingColoradoSpringsCO Kansas has amazing scenery and culture! way better than Colorado! And homes are affordable! Sounds like a win-win!
lol there’s literally nothing but flat fields last time I saw
@@ryanrodriguez1234 maybe when you look west you can still see the mountains? 🤔
I WAS BORN HERE, PEOPLE ARE GREEDY, COLORADO USE TO BE A NICE PLACE TO LIVE. WE ARE NOT USE TO THIS, IT'S AWFUL...THANKS.
@@debragonzales5387 why do you say people are greedy? Housing market?
BECAUSE THEY ARE.
@@debragonzales5387 oh. Ok. Thanks for the insightful explanation. 😂
Lived in Colorado Springs off and on since the 80's. Finally left for the last time in 2004. Still visit from time-to-time, but my catalyst for leaving was the bad, bad, rude, careless, and selfish drivers... to be quite frank. 😬 Never have I seen so many cars just seemingly and randomly tipped over in a city in various wrecks. With the incredible speeds they drive, it does make sense.
However, the scenic views in this city are incredible, there's no mosquitoes (strangely), and somehow I always feel like I'm "home" when I come back to visit. If the people were less cold and just changed their mentality, it would be an awesome place to live again.
Until then, I'm staying up north (with it's own set of problems 😅).
I lived in Denver for 30 years right around the time the Denver International Airport (DIA) went through completion. Then there was the I-25 project and many buildings that surrounded it. The distance between Denver and Colorado Springs (CS) is around 50 miles and that was also done and it made CS more accessible. The offloads who couldn't afford Denver real estate market, then, flooded the CS! That's the main reason why CS affordability went down the tube. CS has a great outdoors but at a exhuberant cost.
@@seifazghandi1228 it’s definitely gained a lot of attraction the last decade. Made prices sky rocket in a short period. Now people are flooding Texas, OK, and florida.
The most negative thing about Colorado is the hail. Period. Especially as a home owner. Every video needs to talk about that because it is hardly mentioned. Every summer your car can potentially get totaled on any given day with little to no warning while you are parked at work and can literally do nothing but watch. Everything else is actually better than most of the country
@@cxerphax1 this is very true. We talk about this a lot
@@LivingColoradoSpringsCO right but I don’t think special attention is given to the topic of hail. It needs to be its own thing aside from weather imo. That’s how serious it is
No actually the worst part is the price!
@@yerboythaplug that definitely plays a huge part too.
Hail? Hail is tge worst thing about Colorado? You have lived a charmed life!
One thing a lot of Colorado Springs residents are actually NOT aware of is the extremely high number of prison parolees in COS! Especially around the southern part. That area, especially, seems to be more economically depressed! Homeless campsites up and down the Sand and Fountain Creeks. The city seemingly desires to put money into the north side for new, and saves the left overs for the south side. We have been resident since I retired from USAF at Pete! The very north end of Powers was absolute pasture land (from Constitution and north to the big curve) and far west as one could see! Now, housing and retails! Southside has practically zero opportunity for expansion, but on the north side, another story! Been here since 94, bought new in 97. Watched the crime rates increase as well! Too damned old to uproot and relocate. Kinda dependent now on the military commissaries and BX/PX’s. As a military retiree, my only advice is DO NOT use Carson for your healthcare. Use UCHealth instead! (They saved my life after Carson misdiagnosed!). Overall, Springs is still a great place to be. A lot to see and do! Plus: easy access to the mountains!
@@thedroneranger8966 very valid. City has grown tenfold since the 90’s and I think it’d be fair to say that’s probably why a lot of the money goes up north, since it’s new and that’s the only place to expand the city. North-Northeast. But it seems like that’s how a lot of “affordable” places in the US are these days. Then they have a massive boost in their economy and becomes unaffordable to a lot.
How much it snows? LoL as a former Chicagoan this snow is a joke. Feels like a vacation, it snows and melts the same week.
@@worldmedic3187 as a former Arizonan, it snows a ton! 😂 all about perspective.
Traffic is a nightmare. I live on the north end and work downtown. Driving home takes twice as long and going to work. It started getting bad in 2016 and gotten horrific over the past two years.
@@dangeles95 very true. We’re close to woodmen/marksheffel area. Been a nightmare the last couple years.
See ya!
@@TheSlaf 🤣
This is the kind of people moving in now
I wouldn't move to Colorado. I live on the west coast, my one bedroom apt is almost $1700 a month, and I now live in the hood. This area use to be nice. Makes it hard to save money when 60% of your income is going to rent.
Rising costs is definitely one of the reasons of why people are leaving.
You can save money by moving. I used to live in “the hood” in LA. In 2010 I was paying more for my shitty apartment there than a nice place in most other parts of the country. Leaving was the best decision I ever made
@@Fnnggjji Please don't make this place another hood in LA.
Of the 4 major cities of CO -- Boulder, Denver, Colorado Springs(COS) and Pueblo -- COS is the only one that could be said to lean conservative (65/35 maybe?), although Pueblo (a surprise to me!) MAY be slowly moving in the red direction. Also, COS has 4-5 military bases, so lots of active duty Army and Air Force people there, and military retirees/veterans as well. It has a very nice main VA clinic there facing Pikes Peak and Garden of the Gods -- the clinic building (built a few years ago so it's fairly new) looks kind of "ski lodge" in its design.
But for sure, liberals will LOVE Boulder and Denver -- no doubt -- if you can afford the even MORE expensive housing market there (more so than COS), Boulder probably being the MOST expensive major city. Other expensive cities/towns are the ski resort areas, like Breckenridge, Steamboat Springs, Vail, Aspen, Crested Butte...but even places like Dillon and Frisco are pricey as well. For MOST of us, visiting those places is nice but living there full-time is only a dream. Even condos there are $400K-500K and higher. Homes $1M and more easy. Many are multi-million. But the views are outstanding as those ski towns are very scenic summer and winter both....they're just kind of "out in the sticks" so you have to drive a while to get to a major city (and inclement weather/snowstorms permit). ;-)
As for apartments, COS has LOTS of nice upscale Class A apt complexes, new/newer, and more being built even now. You can get a nice 1/1 (1-bed/1-bath) apt in a number of upscale Class A ("luxury") complexes for $1450-1650/mo, so they have come down big-time since I was there (October 2022) when MY rent (for a 3rd lease-renewal) was going up 14% ($191), then they went up to ~$1800/mo. Rents since then have dropped $300-400/mo and have been there for a while now. BUT, you have to pay on top of rent utilities (gas, electric, water, sewer), a garage if you want one (if attached it's included in the rent with "selected" apts, a detached garage is maybe $125-150 extra per month -- or pay a smaller amount for a carport), but COVERED parking is PREFERRED...one reason is CO's infamous hailstorms! Don't ask how I (and many other Coloradans) know this. ;-)
Yes, some of those complexes are still high rent-wise -- month-to-month rents are OUTRAGEOUS ($2500 to over $3K even for 1/1 apts!) -- but some of those more expensive complexes are also the best resident-rated complexes: Get a 12-13-month lease (the cheapest it's gonna get!) and you're fine at those or the slightly cheaper but still full-amenity Class A ("luxury") complexes. I keep a running list of ~25 complexes I personally would feel good living at (I've lived in 2 of them myself, and both times were nice -- no complaints) to keep track of rents there (am in West TX now, but hope to move back to COS come late 2025 so I need to keep on top of apts there, but will be looking to BUY a property then, but only IF the housing market (AND mortgage interest rates!) become more affordable. If not, I may still move back to COS but rent at one of those mentioned upscale/luxury apt complexes and just STAY there (as I DO miss COS).
Life could be worse...
As mentioned, right now $1500-1600/mo will get you quite a few 1/1 (1-bed/1-bath) choices in one of those VERY nice complexes. As always, shorter leases quickly get pricier. AND as probably everywhere (not just in CO), rental rates can vary DAILY, so it depends on when you move there what you will find re: vacancies and rent rates.
As for the southern part of the city (the SE quadrant, the COS airport area, or even farther south towards Widefield/Security/Fountain), that's not the better part of the Springs if you can afford elsewhere in the city. The NE quadrant is mostly new & growing. While there are other parts that are pretty decent -- various single-family homes, town-homes and condo "enclaves" here and there -- I'd say most of the nicer/newer apt complexes are to be found in the NE quadrant. Home builders are in this area, too (Banning-Lewis Ranch is huge), so COS is moving E towards Falcon...almost there now -- and NE toward the Black Forest area: Pretty pricey homes there in Black Forest (but HUGE lots, too, and in the woods (pine trees): Have at least $1M in your pocket just to start LOOKING there.
But in Banning-Lewis Ranch and Wolf Ranch (a bit older community but still nice and still building northward (around Wolf "Lake"), you can find town-homes/carriage-homes (mostly new) for just over $400K and even some (duplexes) for well under 400K -- starter homes or for downsizing also. And in nice, upscale new subdivisions/communities. Banning-Lewis Ranch has a fairly new subdivision called The Retreat -- single-level homes (no stairs!) -- which is an "active lifestyle" 55+ community. Town-homes, carriage-homes and The Retreat have HOA fees, true, but you get quite a few amenities for the money (clubhouse, pool, tennis, events, etc). And Banning-Lewis even has some some schools. And LOTS of neighborhood trails to walk/jog/bike.
I don't know of ANY town-home community in COS -- be it new, newer or older -- that does NOT have HOA fees (at the very least to cover landscaping care & snow-removal), so if you don't want a HOA you'll need to find a single-family/detached home (new, newer or older), even though SOME of those have a HOA also. One is a covenant community, and it's HOA is VERY high, but home prices there are low so maybe it balances out. However, most older homes/communities in COS don't have HOA fees.
-- BR
Still cheaper than LA
@@chrisjovan664 it sure is
It’s hard talk about this without sounding like a smug coming from Mass .i have paid this 2000 bucks for one room apartment since I was like 20 -2007 . the perception of affordability I have it’s pretty good :) . people just needs to keep up with life , I move a lot for work and I have seen it . all the time the natives always complain it’s natural growth .
@@AlexMar-r that’s fair. Perspective is definitely something to consider.
I wouldn’t say it’s natural. Natural progression in nature is sustainable. This growth isn’t.
No that's still too expensive and I'm from this place and paying that much money on a 1 room apartment is absolutely insane. Go live in Alabama or Texas where your dollars will stretch far more than this dump. Cheap, guns, morality, and no homeless potheads that break into people's cars.
@@iLikeTigerz101 😂 worth considering.
Rent/mortgage have outpaced wages, it's very easy to research that fact. People aren't complaining just to complain.