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Hey, anyone in CO use swamp coolers for house cooling? I hear mixed results, but do see them heavily offered at places like Lowes and Big R. Trying to see if they're worth it. I fully understand that AC is superior, but a whole house AC unit is financially out of my range right now, and the portable units we have fried an outlet last year from overuse.

Hey, anyone in CO use swamp coolers for house cooling? I hear mixed results, but do see them heavily offered at places like Lowes and Big R. Trying to see if they're worth it. I fully understand that AC is superior, but a whole house AC unit is financially out of my range right now, and the portable units we have fried an outlet last year from overuse.

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I do remember the most insane portion of that visit was when we tried to go for a float down the river in Golden. Since it was 2020, there was still much lock-down insanity about, although it was much better in Colorado than it was on the East Coast.

But they shut down the river for floating. We planned to ignore this insanity, as fuck it, it is a river, you ain't stopping us, but we only had two innertubes, and needed to purchase two more for all of us to float. We went to the tourism shop to go buy some, but apparently, out of solidarity with the lockdown order, they stopped selling them. It was pretty fucked up, fucking floating on a river outdoors was banned? Insanity.

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I came from the Portland area a few years ago, and it shocked me how few people here didn't give 2 fucks about masks or social distancing. It was refreshing. I hate a lot of shit about CO, but outside Denver, the people are generally down to earth

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That's pretty interesting. I always really did like Portland, spent a little time there when I was younger, couch surfing with students at Reed.I always thought it was a great city, or at least it was back then, but I am sure it is a dystopian Hell-hole now.

When I went on that road trip, it started with me flying into San Francisco, to meet my good friend in the bay area. It was pretty wild, as that was a summer of particularly bad wildfires in addition to the paranoia pandemic. But it was very enlightening driving away from the Bay, how people gave less and less of a shit about masking and lock down. Cheyenne was my favorite city we hit on that trip, people straight up did not give a fuck. Great city, excellent beef, and great bars.

What made you leave Portland?

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2 reasons, 1 I can't disclose for dox concerns, but the other was exactly what you said: dystopian Hell-hole. I lived on the Vancouver side of the river, and it was steadily bleeding into Washington after 2016. The final straw was the free-for-all drug law. I miss the weather, I miss the trees, I miss the water, I miss the cold and damp, but fuck if I hate the people there. Sadly: it's every state on the west coast now. I grew up near East Los Angeles. I've watched the steady decline over the decades. Once reason 1 for me moving to CO is resolved, I want to go further east. More than likely NW Arkansas. But I have to convince the wife, first.