I live in a shit community where everyone is a freeper except me

[Colorado Progressive]

and the peeps who live up above us (they are from Boulder!!!!) I hate it and want to move, but the real estate market is so dead I cant even sell my friggin house! Plus, where the hell would I go? Canada? I have so little faith in this country, can anyone save me?

[SeattleGirl]

1. Well, that sucks.

You could move to Seattle. It's pretty progressive here.

:hi:

[Colorado Progressive]

3. But I am worried about the SAD thing! and the expensive real estate! nt

[SeattleGirl]

10. The housing bust has finally hit Seattle, and prices are falling.

And you can always get one of those special lamps for SADS folks.

Besides, on sunny days (and we actually DO have a lot of them), this is one of the most beautiful places around.

[pokerfan]

25. Living in Seattle

“Living in Seattle is like having a beautiful girlfriend, but she’s sick all the time”

[reyd reid reed]

2. Nah...they're not *all*

freepers. It's just that sometimes it seems like it.

Mostly it seems like it.

Okay...so a lot of 'em are. But they're still dwindling. I hope.

[Colorado Progressive]

5. Maybe they dwindle. I bought wine last night and started discussing

how we went to Italy last year, and wine, and how Bush with a swastika for the S was spray painted all over the walls of the vatican. Apparently the vatican just figures "well, close enough!". It was very disturbing the way Europeans dont like us. I wish more Americans would travel....

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear Colorado Progressive!

Well, don't come to LA!

The prices here would curl your hair, truly!

Though they are falling just a bit...

However, there are a good number of progressives here in my neighborhood...

Plus it's pretty here, near the beach!

:hi:

[Colorado Progressive]

6. LOL my parents were both surfers, Redondo and Hermosa!

I was there many times as a kid, I genuinely feel their heartbreak at the destruction of their homeland. My dad used to live on Hermosa beach and let their greyhound run the stretch up to Redondo pier!

[huskerlaw]

7. Colorado Springs?

My Dad used to live in Broomfield, and any time we ventured down to CO Springs, I was completely. creeped. out.

That city is SCARY.

I thought the rest of CO was fairly purple though. With the obvious exception of highly-blue Boulder. :shrug:

[Colorado Progressive]

8. You are pure genius! I grew up in western Denver burbs....

never occured to me that there was such a hellish place as the Springs. We moved to Woodland Park so we could be in nature, but it is scary what we ended up with!

[rockymountaindem]

9. That was a bad move (and a bad pun by me)

Teller County is one of the most Republican counties in the entire state, and that's saying something. Woodland Park is probably the epicenter of the RW-Libertarian population in the whole state.

As for me, I grew up in the Springs and still live there when I'm not in school. If you stay long enough, you'll learn to deal with it.

[Colorado Progressive]

12. HA! After 7 years I am positive I will never learn to deal with it!

I cant tell you how much I miss living in Denver/Lakewood and having discussions about real things.....KUDOS to you for having survived this as a Dem!

[reyd reid reed]

16. You've just gotta come

outta Teller County. The rest of it...well...it's bearable. You even learn to laugh and point at the doofuses.

[huskerlaw]

11. Ah!

Yeah...Woodland Park. :scared:

Actually, I've never been there, but I had a friend who lived in Manitou Springs. I'm assuming they're fairly similar.

Lovely view...scary-ass neighbors! Yikes.

[Colorado Progressive]

13. No no nooooo! Manitou is this this tiny little town where libs congregate,

you drive through it (its beautiful) and see all maner of left wing bumper stickers. Woodland Park is unfortunately up the hill, where you find toothless Ron Paul zealots and a freakload of rightwing psychos, plus a few desperate dems who just want their state parks clean.....

[huskerlaw]

14. Really??

Interesting.

My friend lived there about 10 years ago, but he HATED it. With a passion.

Though come to think about it, I don't remember if his hatred had anything to do with politics, lol. And I guess, 10 years ago, it probably didn't. Since we were still happily Clinton-era and all. ;)

[rockymountaindem]

29. Well to be fair, Manitou only has about 5,000 residents

It's a separate municipality surrounded by a whole county of right-wingers. The only other Democratic enclave is the very small downtown of Colorado Springs. But, things may be turning around with the declining (but *not* dead) influence of Focus on the Family nationwide and increasing military dissatisfaction with the Iraq war.

[reyd reid reed]

15. The Ron Paul

zealots are all over the place. They were at the corner of Woodmen and Academy over the weekend. Dunno where else...

They're creepy.

[Colorado Progressive]

17. Did you notice the "this truck barely runs and I haven't had a shower in a week "

thingie? Is that what the campaign runs on?

[reyd reid reed]

18. Runs on spit

and baling wire, near as I can tell.

[fudge stripe cookays]

24. God, you too?

I was up there just after Labor Day, and had never been more creeped out by a place in my life!

The "Focus on the Family" Visitors Center sign on the highway was my first clue :puke: (like they were proud of it being there), and all the women at the airport with their little "Air Force Academy Class of 200__" tote bags disgusted me. They reminded me very much of the Plano and Frisco soccer mom snots I'm used to down south.

My hotel clerk gave me the shittiest room in the hotel (with a view of a roof), so needless to say I couldn't wait to get the hell out of there.

[rockymountaindem]

30. You should try living there

Keeps you on yer toes.

But seriously, at least you missed the sign that faces north on I-25 which informs you that as soon as you enter El Paso County (aka, "the Springs") that you're now driving on the Ronald Reagan Highway. Every time I come back from Denver I boo when I drive by it. One time I saw some people having their picture taken with it by the side of the road. At first I was rolling my eyes but then I realized that they had a Kucinich sticker on their car and upon closer inspection I *think* they may have all been mooning it.

As for the Focus on the Family sign, well, let me just say that's my exit, so I don't live far from there. All I can say is, if they're all going to come up to see FoF, at least they have the sign there so they'll get off the road and maybe buy lunch in our city. God knows our idiotic city government won't collect taxes so whatever sales tax pennies we can scrape up are appreciated.

I can understand your reaction having come from out of town, but living in El Paso County isn't all that bad. It's just kinda weird sometimes.

[fudge stripe cookays]

31. Oh I saw it.

I flew into the Springs and drove north to Denver (thought I was going to get to visit a cousin in Pueblo but didn't).

Sorry. If I have to live in creepy places, I'll stick with Texas. I got lotsa yalla dawg buddies there. At least it's a creepy I'm used to. Co Springs freaked me out even more than Idaho. And that's saying a LOT.

[Colorado Progressive]

34. Every time I see that highway sign I think "Does that mean it has no clue where its going?"

heh.

[Rambis]

27. Focus,focus, focus

just not on the family;)
I couldn't live there no way!

[SteppingRazor]

33. I lived in Colorado Springs for 4 years. I liked it.

I found plenty of like-minded people. :shrug:

But then, I was in high school back then, and you don't find as many freepers among that set.

[Jamastiene]

19. I know the feeling.

I live in an impoverished area where I can barely make enough money to live here much less save up to move to a nicer area. If they don't offer decent jobs, how am I supposed to get the fuck outta here and go somewhere with decent human beings who are not FReepers? That totally sucks. I hate being trapped with these people.

I know the feeling.

[Colorado Progressive]

20. Exactly..being trapped! nt

[Jamastiene]

21. It makes you feel like you can't win for losing.

Any FReeper areas are like that from my experience. They seem to want to make everyone stay right near them so they can enslave people to their way of doing things. It's depressing as hell. Sometimes, I think I'd do anything, anything to get out and never have to come back. People who aren't in this situation just don't understand. They never can, it seems.

[njdemocrat106]

22. I feel for you

I'm in the same predicament: deep red county in a fairly blue state. Being a Democrat or a liberal here is the exception rather than the rule.

[TrogL]

23. Come to Canada

There's plenty of work here and the Freepers are a lot less annoying.

[Cabcere]

26. I hear ya.

:( My parents aren't (mom's a Democrat & dad's a registered Independent, but votes Dem most of the time), but pretty much everyone else is, including my little brother (he's 16 and works for a hardcore Repub during the summer). It's pretty annoying. Most of the people are actually pretty decent human beings - just totally ignorant ("I vote Republican because I/everyone in my family always have/has," that sort of thing), but there are more than enough racist/Freeper assholes, too. :shrug: I don't know what to tell you, except that I feel your pain. :hug: Peace.

[Colorado Progressive]

35. You are sweet!

:hug:

[Connonym]

28. That's why I come to DU

it restores my faith in humanity. It's reassuring to find local people here on DU.

[av8rdave]

32. Hey...you just described my state!

[u4ic]

36. I just met a family who relocated from Colorado

to here in Alberta.

You have my sympathies. Even the red-neckiest Albertan still hates Bush.

[Colorado Progressive]

37. Thank you for your sympathy!

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