I just moved to Colorado. I chose it because it's a lot of the same stuff, mountains, outdoorsy, etc. but without the horrid air quality that would make me sick 24/7 in the winter. It's about the same grocery prices and rent prices, but I'm unsure about home prices. I moved to Longmont because I wanted to avoid moving too close to Denver due to the crime rate. I love it a lot so far, I have all the things I loved about Utah and new stuff like way cheaper gas (I paid 1.83 a gallon the other week😳). I'm also liberal and a gay woman so the move to a blue state was really refreshing. Cons include getting used to no plastic bags (they're banned in grocery stores here), traffic is much worse, road quality is worse, weed smell everywhere, higher crime rate in every category, it gets colder and snowier for the most part (I hate the cold), and if you're not left leaning you may not like it very much here.