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Zihuanut
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I appreciate the advice I got on restaurants, so I thought I'd see what kind of tips I can get on some other basics.
Dry cleaning seems to be very expensive here. Maybe I started at the wrong place. I don't need it very often, but don't see why it should cost more than $10 for a pair of pants. Any recommendations for affordable dry cleaning?
Getting settled in means spending most of the time at Home Depot or Lowes. Once the moving part is done, what are the "Must Do" things I should put on the top of my list for the area? I hear Estes Park is an absolute must. And someone mentioned "a drive up along the Poudre River"? Is that a picnic kinda thing for the whole family?
I'll be back with more as I think of stuff.
Thanks in advance!
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Patrick
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would be helpfull such as the ages of your children and what you enjoy doing. I haven't lived in FC for some time but when my kids were growing up we enjoy hiking up to Arthur's Rock behind Horsetooth and to Greyrock, a short drive up the Poudre. We enjoyed snowshoeing and cross-country skiing in the winter. Estes Park is beautiful any time of year and packed with tourists in the summer. If walking isn't your interest, there's a beautiful drive up to Laramie, over Happy Jack Road to Cheyenne, and then back home on the interstate. It's a nice Sunday drive and you can have brunch at Little America in Cheyenne. Some of the urban bike trails are nice to ride on with your kids.
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nisperos
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I got a message from a new member, someone thinking about relocating to Fort Collins, asking about housing and lifestyle sites or on-line discussion groups to go to. As I've already posted some of my favorite real estate sites at the beginning of the real estate topic, I thought I'd post some more general Fort Collins information and links here, but if you are reading this, please feel free to add more info and more sites -- (and just go register if you need to do that first).
"Fort Collins, with an average of 300 days of sunshine per year, low humidity, and moderate winters, enjoys a mild climate year-round. The area receives approximately 18 inches of rain and 55 inches of snow per year. The average high temperature during the summer months is 85 degrees. In the winter months, it is 42 degrees." Info above taken from here: http://www.fcchamber.org/Sub_snapshot.asp
Also check out this site: http://www.ftcollins.com/demographics.htm )
The Chamber also has good employment info here: http://www.fcchamber.org/Sub_Employment.asp
Community Resources from the City of Fort Collins site here: http://www.ci.fort-collins.co.us/community/
Our City Library has a good short history of the area which will tell you about things like trappers, traders, Overland Stage stop, Oregon Trail, Native Americans, cavalry, abandoned military post, CO Gold Rush, lamb feeding capital, sugar beets (Great Western Sugar Company), religious and civic origins, agricultural college, arrival of the railroad, gas & oil fields -- later abandoned and more: http://library.ci.fort-collins.co.us/local_history/Topics/nutshell.htm
We are the home of CSU founded in 1870 as the Agricultural College of Colorado, opened in 1879, changed name to CSU in 1957. Go RAMS! (http://welcome.colostate.edu/)
We have an Old Town area. Main Street U.S.A. in Disneyland, California was inspired by Fort Collins’ turn-of-the-century downtown and Disney’s city hall, bank and several other buildings are near replicas of those structures in Fort Collins.
The City of Fort Collins has over 40 Park sites. Our 2 big parks, each with a lake, are City Park in the NW side of town and Fossil Creek Park in the SE part of town. We also have 3 indoor pools including 1 with a walk-down ramp, outdoor pools, an an indoor ice rink, walking paths through town, and a Senior Center: http://fcgov.com/parks/
The Cache la Poudre river runs through town and into the mountains and is Colorado’s only federally designated National Wild and Scenic River. We are right next to the foothills of the Rockies and there is a large 6.5 mile reservoir West of town called Horsetooth Reservoir located at an elevation of 5,430 feet. Also, along the edge of Horsetooth Reservoir is Lory State Park. Additionally, there is Watson Lake which sits in a valley of red rocks just northwest of Fort Collins.
AARP ranked Fort Collins as the #1 "dream town" for baby boomers: http://www.aarp.org/research/press-center/presscurrentnews/a2003-06-02-nr040103.html
Read how the Wall Street Journal profiled our town in 2001: http://www.shellyhill.com/wall-street.html
Near Red Feather Lakes, north of Fort Collins, attracting thousands of visitors a year from all over the world, The Great Stupa of Dharmakaya is the largest and most elaborate example of Buddhist sacred architecture in North America. After 14 years of construction, the Stupa was formally opened to the public in August of 2001. http://www.frontrangeliving.com/family-health/Shambhala.htm
Poudre School District is a two-time gold medal award winner for outstanding student test scores and graduation rates. There currently are 45 schools and 22,500 students within Poudre School District: http://www.psdschools.org/psdinfo/whoweare.aspx
Information on the Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra here:
http://www.fcsymphony.org/aboutus.shtml
Information on the Lincoln Center, our City Performing arts center here: http://www.ci.fort-collins.co.us/lctix/ (and peruse the Chamber of Commerce sites for info on other arts venues)
Budweiser Events Center, is a 7,200-seat center which in 2004 was named the world's No. 10 venue with 5,001 to 10,000 seats by Venues Today, a Los Angeles-based trade publication (yeah, joining the list which includes New York's Radio City Music Hall, London's Royal Albert Hall, and the Everett Events Center) http://www.co.larimer.co.us/theranch/bec/
Our local historical city streetcar (trolley) http://www.fortnet.org/trolley/
Well, there's a start...
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nisperos
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One more... a brag list on Fort Collins taken from a local realtor's page: http://www.coloradoluxuryhome.com/relocation.asp
" The Fort Collins Chamber reported in the past few years, more than 20 publications have listed Fort Collins as being the best place to live and do business. Here is a portion of that list:
College of Business at Colorado State University “One of (out of 237) the Best Business Schools”: Princeton Review (New York based education service company), 2006 Edition
One of 100 Best Communities for Young People: The Alliance for Youth, September 2005 (The Alliance for Youth announced that Colorado cities Loveland and Fort Collins together are winners of a first-ever national competition to identify 100 Best Communities for Young People. The winning communities are being celebrated for their commitment to provide health, safe and caring environments for young people).
One of America’s “Dream Towns”: Outside Magazine, July 2005
One of nation’s most highly educated workforces: Expansion Management Magazine, May 2005
#1 in nation for innovation: Coloradoan (according to Study), April 2005
One of the “50 Best Places to Live”: Men’s Journal, April 2005
One of America’s “Best Places to Live and Work’: Expansion Management, March 2005
#23 out of 200 for the best walking-conducive cities in America: American Podiatric Medical Association, March 2005
#133 out of 200 large metro areas as the “2004 Best Performing Cities’: Miliken Institute, November 2004"
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