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You just can't go back.
I lived here in Colorado when I was around 12 or so for 5 or 6 years, your childhood memories are clouded by time, and the experiences you had while young, remembering the great times, not so much the everyday life. I remember the wind in the pines, the beautiful mountains, the fresh air, this hasn't changed. Unfortunately, everything else has. There are people everywhere, homes crowded together, one facing one way, one another, junk cars between them, trash piles everywhere, no evidence of any building codes, the small mountain towns show evidence of business failures, boarded up buildings, it's just not even close to the beautiful place I remember. I wish I hadn't come back to see it the way it is.
Woodland park is a Hodge podge of businesses and slummy homes.
Cripple Creek really wasn't so bad if you can look past the many casinos, the city fathers insured the building of new structures on the main streets blended fairly well with the old. Many Casino's just moved in the machines to old existing buildings.
progress? I don't think so.
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