Durango is an amazing place to live!
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8/25/2007
My husband and I are city slickers from Miami and Atlanta. We moved to Durango because of how amazing this place is. Bar none, this is the most wonderful place we have ever lived! We find that people are super friendly, open-minded to meet a stranger and just plain happy to live here. This is an incredible place to have small children because there is so much to do and almost everything seems to be walking distance or a 5 to 10 minutes ride away when you live in town.
The only drawback is that it seems incredibly difficult to make "good" money here. My husband is an engineer and I am an intern architect. The salaries really don't match up with the cost of living and the prices most houses are selling for. I have not seen one house below $318,000.00 (and that one being not even two bedrooms). That might not seem like a problem to most people, but who wants to work four jobs making a total of 90k a year to actually pay for the cheapest 2-bedroom house you can find when you have three kids? This place is amazing when it comes to quality of living; however realistically, the income is challenging. My advice is come here already with a great employment opportunity making more than 80k a year. There are great professional jobs (and plenty other simpler jobs not requiring a college degree) but I see many of them offering around 40k a year.
Durango is amazing and many people move here because they see "paying for their quality of life" as already being taken out of their salary. That is how amazing it is!
NICOLE | Durango, CO