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Grand Junction, CO
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Sleepy, out of the way status fading
I’ve lived in Grand Junction for 18 years, but have been coming here (girlfriend, wife, family) since 1992. I think the biggest change or challenge for long time locals, I feel like I got here just as things started to change, is that GJ is no longer just a sleepy easygoing large-ish town. The kind of place where lots of people never locked their houses or cars. It’s still a great place, lots of great restaurants and now breweries and massive, massive amounts of outdoor activities. I think long time locals just kinda miss being an out of the way place (think undiscovered). But this is Colorado after all. It really has gotten a lot busier, and although not to big city standards, there’s a lot more traffic. Anyway, four stars for GJ for folks looking for a good place to live, maybe 3 stars from a long time local that is a little sad that we’ve been discovered.