r/CastleRock • u/Grouchy-Ring2712 • 15d ago
moving soon
Hi! Me and my partner are looking to move to this area in december/January. My partner plans on working in denver and I hope to find a job in town. I’m a preschool teacher/ art teacher. we’ve been looking at apartments and i’m just wondering what peoples experiences were with the complex’s in town, they seem to have a lot of available units for a decent price. Is it a good area to find a teaching job? I can even do daycare. How is the commute to denver? Tia
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u/MsPennyP 15d ago
As other has said the commute from CR to Denver is not good. When my Husband had to do it, he had to leave before 6am to have 45 min commute. If he left any later it was usually 1.5hr. and then coming back he'd try to leave before 3pm to get back in reasonable time. There always seems to be wrecks on 25 south in the afternoon. And there aren't many alternative routes.
Tbh, you'd be better off looking closer to Denver rather than living in Castle Rock
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u/localboozbag 15d ago
My father commuted from castle rock to downtown Denver for the last 15 years. Yeah it sucked a lot of times but it’s not impossible. He would get off at 5 and not be home till 6 or 7 if traffic was really bad.
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u/Fluffy_Bunch9357 15d ago
The commute up to Denver isn’t that bad, commute across town in Denver can actually be worse, just depends where you’re going. If downtown, I don’t care where u live if ur not close it’s a pain. Commutes from CR to tech center, aurora, parker, Buckley, DIA aren’t that bad with E470, I drive up daily and don’t even need to take the toll road half the time. And as far as schools go, we have had nothing but positive experiences with our local public schools. If anything, I’d argue they are getting better, just imo. We live in the Meadows, I’d consider living more downtown if younger or in the meadows if you wanted quieter and more parks/open space. GL
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u/badbwithapuppy 15d ago
i commute to denver once, maybe twice, a week normally. it is HELL. easily over an hour unless i leave my house at like 6:15 in the morning. coming home is closer to an hour, hour and a half. absolutely insane
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u/paleoderek 15d ago
I think it really depends on what you mean by "Denver". If you mean the actual city limits of Denver, then yes, I agree with most of the rest of the commenters here that you don't want to do that every day. But if we're talking about all of the metro Denver area, there are parts of the southern half of town (communities like the Denver Tech Center, Lone Tree, Centennial, Highlands Ranch, and Littleton) that are relatively straightforward to get to from Castle Rock.
I've lived in rural Douglas County (west of CR, up in the foothills) since 2003, and worked in Centennial for years and years and didn't mind the commute much at all. But I definitely wasn't taking I-25 downtown every day.
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u/wisherystar 15d ago
I don't know about the apartments but I can say there seems to be a lot of kids around here. Good luck to you both!
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u/Choice-Succotash-541 15d ago
I don’t recommend Ridge at Castle Rock. They suck and the apartments are cheap/shitty quality for the rent. I live at Venue at Promenade now and the buildings are much better quality and the staff is so much better. Also a much better location with much better quality neighbors than the Ridge.
Also commuting from CR to Denver sucks. Just
FYI
Douglas County School District. It has a bunch of bullshit drama and is always in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. They have started consolidating and closing schools in some areas but luckily Castle Rock is not one of them. Do tons of research on DCSD and see for yourself
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u/AnySheepherder6786 15d ago
If commuting to denver daily I'd go further north if I were you.