Congrats soxbox on starting your final year! You must be so excited! I know two of your classmates actually, both from salt lake city, you might know who im talking about 🙂. I do have a question for you, my fiance and I are starting to look for a place. Are there any neighborhoods you would recommend or stay away from? We are coming up next weekend and we just want to take a loot around to get a general idea of where we might want to be.
Thanks!
eringobraugh, I am pretty sure I know who you are talking about
🙂 Are you guys planning on buying or renting? Are you moving here with dogs or plan on having dogs while in town? There are some really nice dog parks that it could be nice to live near if you have a dog...
Overall, FC is super fun. Tons of parks, dog parks, bike paths (you can pretty much all over town on your bike (though sometimes the cars still petrify me), and as previously mentioned, tons of restaurants! The city is pretty clean and overall pretty safe. Obviously it is a college town, so you will have the idiotic drunken college crowd to deal with the closer you get to campus.
I moved into a condo I rented online (sight unseen except via pictures (I lived in MA)very scary!) and am still here 3 years later. I am about half a mile from the NW corner of campus. So I do have to deal with the drunkards... but really its not so bad.. and its usually only Thurs-Sat night. My place is rather small, its a one bedroom, wood fireplace, everything included besides electric and cable, and I pay $550.
So as far as where to stay away from, there is only one area that comes to mind... it is North of Old Town off of College but still in FC city limits. There is a large trailer park and some sketchy apartments. I am not sure if it has a name but I would avoid it
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There are other things to keep in mind when looking... even if something is only like 2-3 miles away and you are like, oh that is so close, be aware that sometimes it can take 20 minutes to drive those 2 miles! I live 2.5 miles from the VTH and if I try to get there for 8am, I have to leave not a minute later than 7:40 and still that can be cutting it close. Granted, when I have to get there at 6:30AM, I can make it in like 6 minutes
🙂 Oh... and Fort Collins SUCKS at plowing. I am from the Northeast and we would get some good snows, and the plows actually came and plowed... here, they only plow the school bus routes. It is horrible. So those times, the 2 mile drive can take 30+minutes
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Someone had also mentioned the train. OMG, I hate it. It runs directly through town. If you live on the West side of it, hopefully you will not have to deal with it in regards to getting to school, especially since they should be opening a brand new parking garage soon that is on the West side of the tracks.
If you look North of campus, that area is considered Old Town. There is the actual town part itself with all the shops, restaurants, and bars, but then there is a neighborhood surrounding all of that. Lots of quaint little houses there and you would be close enough to walk to downtown.
Sorry for the rambling
🙂 I am on spring break and its weird to not have anything to do!!!
