We had someone call us FIB's in Michigan what is the technical term? To be honest he used the term in a derogatory way so as of now I'm not sure I like the term!
PS thanks for the info big time we are for sure country folks and want to ride out of our back door and live in woods and mountains. We hate traffic and lots of people. I write bids for my job commercial, state and federal life safety work. So I can work from home just need to find the right company to work for so I can have a solid company to work for.
Give me an idea where you would move if you had your choice. PS we also ride four wheeler's and do some boating but snowmobiling and snow is our biggest concern.
If I had my choice, I'd move down south. Near Wolf creek pass, or near Montrose, or near gunnison. They tend to get more snow, they tend to get it sooner.
FIB... that's an F'in Illanoise Bastird! My whole family is from NW burbs of Chicago (heading back there next week actually) so I embraced the term early
If you're an estimator, honestly if you're serious about moving, keep in touch with me. I do large scale commercial work here in the mountains, I know most of the commercial estimators for the GC's I deal with (I'm 05400, 09250 & 09500, and we also do steel trusses) I might be able to help you find work.
The Big players around here are pretty limited (a few are in Junction where riding is 50 mi away, but there's TONS of other stuff to do as well, and it's year round), and not sure most would allow telecommuting, I'm very lucky to work for who I do, but it's possible, especially if you're in a market they don't have anyone in. Where I'm at, I'm 5-10 min from riding, but I'm also on the corridor where the citiots clog the **** out of it every weekend, I LOVE where I am, but if I were to do it again, I'd have avoided the 50 miles of I-70 from Denver to Vail.
Like John said, not much riding from home, but easy enough to find property that's where you want to be other than that. Places where you can ride from home will likely be poorly maintained roads that you don't really want to live on around here.
Oh and "ain't broke" will change when you get here. Some folks come here thinking they want to ride trails, that changes in about a week. Nobody rides trails that lives here, ESPECIALLY down in those areas.
The Granby/ Grand lake area has a rice trail system too, but it's just access to ride the real stuff. That said, you can still have a blast on a short track, I ride a 141 (boosted) every day & love it, a 16x 136 would be a blast too!
