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We used to live out there and a recent vacation trip back woke up our homesickness. The two main reasons we moved to Maine no longer exist so we are considering relocating back again.
I do design with Softplan, Project management up to half a million, and need to gete entirely away from carrying a hammer because of degeneerative disc disease. Maybe a large builder or architectural office has a position or maybe there is high demand for remodel/restoration work.
When we were there before, there were far too many GCs talking poor boy talk and keeping wages too low to live on.
Any suggestions – anybody out there?
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Piffin,
I have heard that Durango is growing. I haven't been there in 10 years since I went to college there, but I have heard that there are things happening down there. Last time I was in Montrose (96) I didn't see a lot of building going on but that could have changed. I also heard somewhere that Gateway was starting to grow. The guy that started the discovery channel just built a mansion down there. I am on the front range and know of a few GC's that moved down to Durango, but don't know how they have fared. SW Colorado is a great place to live and work, if you can make it.
Cole
*Piffin, got a lot of family in the Montrose- Ouray area they keep wanting me to come out and work there(carpenter 20 yrs.) but ALL of the work is in Telluride and you must commute. Plenty of work at that dead end canyon but housing prices are astronomical and renting is near impossible. Some of them go an hour and a half each way. Good luck and if you run into any Cassidy's around there it's a good chance they're my kin, I got seven girl cousins with a whole lot of kids.
*Any relation to Butch Cassidy? Hear he knocked over his first bank there.That's the way the work was when I was there fifteen years ago. with commute it was a thirteen hour day for eight hours of pay. But if I can do work as a designer, it's mostly at this computer instead of as a commumter. A few hours to meet the customer and measure the job leads to fifteen to thirty hours of design time.