Colorado, Utah, or Arizona

[joshbru970]

Looking at moving the family out west sometime in the next few years.

My fiance is from the AZ desert and doesn't like the cold a lot, otherwise I'd be looking at WY.

Due to job opportunity and my affinity for mountains over desert we have it narrowed down to Northern AZ, think anywhere within like 1.5 hours of Flagstaff, pretty much anywhere in Colorado, and around the Salt Lake City region of Utah.

I've been to CO and AZ a good bit so I know a little about what is there, never been to Utah so I don't really know anything about it. I was really thinking CO was the place but with the growth and the "Californication" I've heard about I am starting to look more closely at the other 2.

If you wanted to be able to get the family outside as much as possible, have decent hunting/fishing, and not be in too large of crowds all the time but not be too far from "civilization" (fiance demands that for some reason) which would you pick?

It is all perspective - colorado has 5.6 million people and most of them are around denver. You could live in a farm town in northern colorado and its basically wyoming with better healthcare. look anywhere northeast or southeast of denver and youll be fine. my favorite town which i will be moving to is steamboat springs, a ranching town and loves the outdoors and hunters. Look at spots just across the border from arizona/nm and it will fit your bill, hotter in summer, almost high dessert like flagstaff and snow and access to mountains in the winter/spring...

 

[WCW]

If you love the outdoors, you’ll love Utah.

 

[Buffinnut]

We are also trying to figure out where to go long term. Trying to get away from the massive population of the Phoenix area. We have been thinking Idaho Wyoming or maybe Montana. Spent the summer in billings for work and didn't love it. Hoping to explore more this year and find an area that feels right

 

[Jaker_cc]

We are also trying to figure out where to go long term. Trying to get away from the massive population of the Phoenix area. We have been thinking Idaho Wyoming or maybe Montana. Spent the summer in billings for work and didn't love it. Hoping to explore more this year and find an area that feels right

Livingston, Ennis, Dillon.... Helena was cool, but I really like SW Montana. If my gf didn’t have her dream career here in Texas I would be a Montana resident and never look back.