Recent content by flyoverstate

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/colorado-new-law-insulin-price-cap-drug-prescription/ I am not an insulin user, but I know people who are. CO is aggressively confronting pharma companies on several drugs.

Scheduling your recreation around traffic is literally the definition of having to schedule your life around traffic patterns. On the Front Range, it isn't just skiing that has to be scheduled around crowding, it is hiking, mountain biking, fishing, basically any outdoor activity. And there is...

I am a 1960 baby and amongst my co-workers and former co-workers, it was the most common birth year by a wide margin. It always seemed very strange to us that the number of people born in 1959 or 1961 seemed to be about half of the 1960 babies, while statistically they should have been very...

Keep in mind as you decide where to live is that not all "ACA" plans are equal. They vary literally county-to-county. The county I live in only has three possible providers and a handful of plans, and one of the providers is thought to be on the brink of pulling out of our state (Colorado)...

The sales tax factor is tough to weigh up front, sales tax not only varies by state, but by county and municipality, at least in Colorado where we live. We live in an unincorporated area. The sales tax in the surrounding towns is 8%-9%, but we pay only 4.5% (state+county) on anything delivered...

As I approach retirement (63yo, retiring within a year), I have more conversations with peers about retirement finances. My jaw drops when they tell me how much they pay their advisors. We will spend less yearly on all of our vacations than some of my friends spend on advisors each year...

We used to live in a relatively LCOL area on the Colorado Front Range, but it transitioned very rapidly to HCOL. Also, it became mega-crowded and mega-aggravating to live there. Sometimes by staying put, you end up "moving" involuntarily! Keep that in mind as you plan. Look 20 years out...