Mmmm, Fort Collins!

[cjsmith]

Climate information for the closest big city, including humidity - looks very nice (note to folks suggesting stuff: humidity is a deal-killer for Rob)

Home prices as affordable as Boise

Multiple airports nearby

Denver, slightly less than an hour's drive, is a hub - direct flights to most anywhere in the continental US

Pretty: near beautiful mountains, green things grow even in summer

Excellent veterinary program (now if only I were sure I could prepare myself and gain admission)

I think that this is what I meant, without knowing it at all yet, when I said a few days ago that "Boulder" or the "Boulder area" was on our list.

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[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

humidity is a deal-killer for Rob

A man after my own heart. :-)

While it has a lot of cool things to see and do, Denver itself is nuts, IMHO - too big, too much traffic. However, the rest of the northern front range is awesome. I'm looking there (at NCAR in Boulder) or something similar for a post-doc a few years down the road.

now if only I were sure I could prepare myself and gain admission

I'd bet you can, if you can swing the prep time.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Denver itself is big, but there's a lot of smaller stuff nearby which is worth looking at. Boulder has suburbs that might be affordable, Fort Collins could be nice, and there's also a kite-tail of smaller stuff to the south of Denver. We might take a couple of trips just to figure out what we're looking at!

The prep TIME is of course the big issue. The oldest student ever admitted to the vet program in Fort Collins was 45. The average successful applicant has a year's worth of experience working with animals in veterinary and other (humane society?) settings. Then I have at least two years of school to beef up my chem and bio foundation. And we're not moving out of here for probably another year. Adding it all up I'll be 44 when I'm ready.