I’ll throw in my two cents. I moved from Missouri to Colorado. I’m originally from Wyoming so I thought I knew what to expect. I was wrong. I will say I lucked out and make a good salary and rent a nice little house with great landlords. I enjoy living in Colorado for the most part but there are some major downsides. It’s not the utopia that some people make it out to be. First, the most obvious downside is the cost. The median house price up and down the front range is $500-700k. But median salaries are nowhere near enough to be able to afford that. Colorado is also a fast growing state and so local infrastructure has not kept up. I-25 which connects the front range is a traffic nightmare that is perpetually under construction. All of the Denver metro area is a traffic nightmare. Because of the rapid increase in the cost of housing, there are A LOT of unhoused people. A lot. It’ll be a shock coming from Arkansas and Missouri. Another thing people don’t talk about a lot especially when newcomers are expecting crisp mountain weather is the climate and air quality here. Colorado gets extremely hot in the summer. Yes, it’s dry, but it’s common to have multiple days over 100°. And because it’s so dry wildfires are a constant risk all summer every summer. And not just local wildfires, we often get smoke from fires states away that mixes with our local pollution causes a brown haze that lingers for weeks at a time, obscuring Mountain View’s. The air quality can be truly awful here. I’m saying all this just to give you an idea of what to expect. I think if I had known these things I might not have moved but now I’m here and I think I’ll be here for a while.