commute between boulder and fort collins?

[hoodle]

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Anyone know what this commute is like? Is there an easy way to live halfway in between? Anyone juggling significant others in grad school at Boulder while you're in vet school at Fort Collins? ideas? (it's about 55 miles). Other thoughts on quality of living in Fort Collins vs Boulder etc would be appreciated!

 

[cyrille104]

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[lazyjayn]

Also consider that they won't accept "but I was snowed in" as an excuse for missing classes. You *could* live in one and commute to the other, but you'll need to have a place you *know* you can stay if there's a forcasted blizzard, 'cause that'll shut down the roads.

Be aware that the side roads get shut down pretty regularly in the winter, and that the traffic on I-25 is pretty nasty in the Denver direction pretty much whenever people are awake, and twice as nasty going to denver in the mornings, and coming from it in the evenings. There are towns pretty much continuously along I-25, all commuting to denver. *I'd* live in ft. collins, personally- I think it's more affordable than boulder, and grad school has a slightly more forgiving schedule.

Commute wise, tho- you'd be better off living on the outskirts of boulder- so that you're both going opposite the major traffic to and from school.

Or each living in your respective town and "visiting" on weekends.

j.

 

[cyrille104]

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[cyrille104]

double post

 

[RkyMtVet]

There are a few people in my class (myself included) who live part way between Ft Collins and Denver/northern suburbs in order to balance vet school with the careers of our significant others. Four live in Longmont; I live just north of Longmont in Berthoud. The five of us carpool in whenever possible, which seems to be 2-4 days per week depending on electives and evening club meetings. The Longmont contingent has about an hour commute door-to-door, a little less if not meeting to carpool. From Berthoud, without meeting the carpool, it takes me about 40 minutes. From these areas you're going against traffic --- north in the morning, south in the afternoon. We don't go on I-25; it's much faster and less crazy to take highway 287 to Taft (which turns into Shields in Ft Collins). Your SO's commute into Boulder from Longmont would be ~30 minutes; Berthoud would probably be more fair as far as splitting the distance equitably but it's a very small town and I don't know how important it is to you to have "stuff" close by. We've had a bad winter so far this year but the worst of it was over the Christmas break; so far the biggest problem any of us have encountered is missing the first class of the morning due to a longer drive time. The commute definitely makes it inconvenient to go in to the lab on weekends or do evening club meetings, but my SO is well worth the hassle 🙂 One final thought: I would NOT want to drive all the way from Boulder to Ft Collins or vice versa every day; it's doable when it's half the drive but the whole thing would be brutal. Hope this helps!
Christie
CSU PVM 2010

 

[hoodle]

Well, i haven't started applying yet (or as cyrille points out, getting in yet), so it's all a bit of a moot point. I'm just musing. Yes, I'd like to live with my sig. other. No, I don't want a hellish commute. Yes, the DVM/PhD program, quality of town, and skiing options are all highly attractive! Therein lies the dilemma.