Understood about the front range, coach, but I need access to a job market and DW's family is in Denver so being on the other side of the Rockies would be inconvenient. Having watched the space between Denver and Boulder fill in in a poorly managed and at times downright ugly manner in the last 15 years, I agree that growth could stand to be managed better. I keep expecting limited water supplies to be a check on growth, but it never seems to happen. Suspect that by the time it does, the old joke about the water supply will be true:
The bad news is that in XX years we will all be drinking recycled sewage.
The good news is that there won't be enough to go around.