Anyone else think Colorado sucks?

Seems like you have been moving around quite a bit. It is possible that you are searching for something totally illusive to you and frustration is having its way with your happiness.

I went to College in the Denver/Front Range area and loved it. Boulder, Loveland, Estes Park... What more could a person want? I have met many people that always comment that the places they left were better then the one they are in. These folks are never happy and neither are those around them.

We currently live in Alaska and if you think Colorado is bad, try a cold dark winter in the frozen tundra. Luckily our time here is short, job related transfer, and we look forward to our next assignment. By the way, Alaska in the summer is a literal paradise, equal to or at least close to Colorado.

Personally you need to find some reality in your life real soon as Colorado has everything you're missing but you have to leave the house to find it. As for education, the eastern side of Colorado, especially the Front Range, ranks above many of the other places you listed as prior points of residence.

As for why you should stay, don't. Go where you're happy if that place really does exist.

Why Colorado Sucks

Even get's worst... now they legalize trafficking drugs there.

Colorado is a mixed bag in my view, with ups and downs like any State:

*On the upside, it's now a Blue State and currently has larger import mix of Americans (West/Midwest/East) than most other States, and places like Denver are developing a totally unique culture because of it. Also, it's far cheaper than NY, Chicago, Seattle, or any major city in California.

*On the downside, the State in general is far too brown & dry for my tastes (not nearly as bad the ugly desert environment of the further western States though). Also, I do agree about the music - Denver, while a decent-sized city, has incredibly backward, small-town taste in music (and has far too many Juggalos and Deadheads...ugg).

As for education, you are woefully incorrect: Denver ranks in the top 4 most educated cities in the nation, with none of the other locations you mentioned rivaling it, other than Seattle at one point in the recent past. And you include Las Vegas? - seriously? It is FAR worse than Denver, and has to be one of the biggest white trash locations anywhere in America, similar to southern "cities" in terms of education.

As for the changing weather, I hold the opposite view - variety makes a place better, not worse. I'll never understand people who prefer the monotonous singular season of places like coastal Southern California over four seasons....the variety is like getting a totally different world every 90 days, vs. having to look at the same thing over & over, day in and day out. To be fair though, I suppose the winters could be hard if one is old and arthritic or such. But for most, the old saying still holds true: winter is only miserable for those who don't know how to dress themselves.

you should move! and go back to LA.