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February 2008
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  Happy
Valentine's Day yesterday! And sorry that the newsletter
is late this week, we're busy working on the new and updated
Active Adult Living .com web site.Counting down the days till we launch the new site offering search capabilities by price, by location, or by amenities. We'll still give you ALL - in fact more information INCLUDING COMMUNITY WEB SITES on over 2,500 - when we roll out the new site we'll have over 3,000 - new and resale active lifestyle communities. As for this month:
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Focus on Colorado |
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Welcome
to Colorful Colorado!
That
is what you will see on billboards wh
It is believed that the first European
explorers to arrive were lead by Coronado
for Spain. He came north from Mexico in
search of the 7 cities of Cibola where the
s
The early economy was largely based around
beaver trapping. A single pelt could be
sold for up to eight dollars. After a few
years, though, the beaver population
dwindled and buffalo began to
be hunted.
Then mining became th
The average per capita personal income is
nearly $35,000 which puts it at 8th
in the nation. Denver has the highest
educated population in America. The state
income tax is 4.63% of a person’s taxable
federal income, regardless of the amount of
the income. The state does tax real and
personal property and the total amount of
the tax varies by city and county. Politically, the state overall is considered to be a “red” state. Denver and Boulder have traditionally been liberal and solidly Democratic while their neighbors to the south in Colorado Springs have been largely conservative and solidly Republican. The rest of the state tends to be somewhere in the middle and as a whole they all seem to balance each other out. Winters and summers are both mild with an average daily high of 43 in January and 81 in July. Snow can fall from September to May. The largest snowfall on record was 46 inches in the mountains. In fact, by April snow can measure up to 100 inches deep in the high country.
As to recreation, the state has tons of
things to do and see. There are 12,050
registered historic landmarks r Be sure to check out the active lifestyle communities listed on our website at: www.activeadultliving.com. Next month look for our special newsletter edition on Canada and our regular monthly issue on Arizona. Dee Chandler, Editor |
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Welcome again to Reader’s Corner! Welcome to this month’s Readers Corner and thank you to all who wrote in. I try to respond to every letter so if I missed yours, please let me know about it! This month’s letters were largely in response to last month’s column about the problems of finding a younger retirement community – meaning one that has an average population of persons around the age of 55. Evelyn from New York state pointed me to a site that some of you may find interesting. It is www.iconoculture.com. The site is actually aimed at helping marketers better reach what their idea of this market is. The site’s description of boomers does seem to reflect what I am hearing. Generally it says that this group will alternately scrimp and splurge to share the good life with loved ones, from kids to pets to aging parents. They favor indulgences on food, travel, creature comforts, fun fitness and a nice space for entertaining. Their focus is on health and “hipness” quotient to fight aging. In a related question, Blaine from New Jersey asked what the difference is in our categories of active adult, active lifestyle and 55+ communities. The answer really lies with the individual communities. Some are not age-restricted but promote a healthy, active lifestyle. Some are not really communities per se, but are neighborhoods near those active lifestyle amenities. While yet others are age-restricted and are almost little towns in themselves. So, I will put it to all of you reading this. Does the iconoclast website description accurately reflect what you are looking for? Have you found some communities that you really think reflect these attitudes? Please share your thoughts with other readers by writing to me. Maybe in doing so, we can help some of you find your dream community or at least maybe categorize communities a little differently to more specifically reflect what they have to offer. Till next time . . .
Dee Chandler |
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en you
enter the state. And it is so true. The
word “Colorado” is Spanish and means
red-colored earth. Along with that, the
state holds various impressive records. The
mountainous area of Colorado is six times
the size of Switzerland. It has more
“fourteeners” (those mountains 14,000 feet
or above) than any other state. The Dwight
Eisenhower tunnel is the highest tunnel in
the world and handles over 26,000 vehicles
per day. Leadville is the highest
incorporated city in the U.S. Denver also
has the largest city park system in the
nation with 205 parks on 20,000 acres. It’s
a great state to live in for those of you
who like to be outside or at least look out
at it. 
treets were allegedly paved in gold. He
must have been quite disappointed to not
have found it. Around 1800, Spain ceded a
vast area including Colorado to Napoleon
Bonaparte who three years later sold it as
part of the Louisiana Purchase. In 1806,
President Jefferson commissioned Zebulon
Pike to explore the new territory. In
Pike’s report back, he mentioned a tall peak
that he thought was unlikely to ever be
scaled. That was wrong – people race up it
every year. The first white settlers, over
50,000, came in 1859 during the Pikes Peak
Gold Rush. Coal mining soon followed.
However, mining is a boom or bust industry
and many small towns that were established
early on were soon abandoned. Those towns
that did make it found new life as ski
resorts or gambling towns. Colorado was
admitted to the Union in 1876.
e major economic factor
leading up to oil and gas finds. Denver and
the state prospered immensely until the oil
bust in the 1970’s and early 80’s. Today,
the state has a much more diversified
economy. The agriculture base is found in
corn, wheat and hay. The federal government
is also a major economic force and in fact
there are more federal jobs in the state
than any other metropolitan are except
Washington D.C. There are many important
federal facilities including NORAD, the US
Air Force Academy, the Denver Mint, and a
Supermax prison. The state also has a high
concentration of scientific research and
high tech industries. Tourism rounds out
the top industries. Part of the reason the
state has been so successful in diversifying
is its geographic location. Denver is
halfway between Los Angeles and Chicago and
the closest city of a similar size is
Phoenix, which is 600 miles away.
anging from
buildings to towns. There are 8
professional sports teams, 4 national parks,
211 scenic byways, more than 30 dude ranches
and 25 ski resorts. It is considered to be
the most skiable terrain in North America
and has the highest peaks in our nation.
Denver enjoys 300 days a year of annual
sunshine which is more than San Diego or
Miami Beach. As an extra bonus to that,
golf balls go ten percent further (but watch
out as the cocktails do, too). For those of
you who like really extreme sports, you can
now participate in “sledging” – which is a
strange combination of surfing, rafting and
swimming. Or you can go “zorbing” which is
an even stranger sport where you strap
yourself onto an inflatable, transparent
ball and roll down hills at speeds of up to
25 mph. Finally, you can visit the Ouray
Ice Park, which is the world’s first park
dedicated to ice climbing. On a related
note, it is interesting that with all these
sports that in 1972, the state became the
first and only state to turn down the
Olympics. 
