Quote Originally Posted by Weekend
your bound to be in high crime area for that price....decent 3 bedroom house in decent neighborhood will be atleast 175-200k
Agreed.

Only place you're going to find a house in Colorado (Denver area) for $80 - $100k is in the high crime area of Aurora or Denver.

$175 - 200k is the low end of decent middle class homes here. Spot on with the number too.

Which explains why I live in an apartment. I make a decent living but we're an old fashioned family of 4 and she's a house wife. I can't afford a house on a decent salary in this state. I've been begging her to move for years but her whole family lives here and she won't do it. We could live in the midwest on a 20 acre ranch with a 3500sq.ft house for $200k. Not that I'd buy that. I'm more into a 1500sq.ft. 3bd-2bath on 2 acres with a 60x60 shop/barn. About $100k - 130k in the midwest - and the same salary as I make now.

Colorado isn't a cheap place to live.