Ok, so I’ve gotten myself into a bind of sorts. Upon being honorably discharged from the Marine Corps, I took a job in Colorado Springs, Colorado and I am still here. Anyway, long story short, I got laid off here and started going to the community college here and am now at the satellite CU campus here in town. First of all, I would like like to say that I feel that, at least in terms of academics and professors, that the school is pretty good and I would give it an A for a letter grade. However, with that said and despite the fact that Colorado Springs is a beautiful/scenic town, I am not happy with the demographics of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Specifically, there is ZERO dating potential for a single man here in this town UNLESS you are an active duty Soldier or Airman (just like Camp Lejeune/Jax, NC was) because alot of women are looking for financial security in a serviceman’s paycheck. Moreover, most women who move here do so with their Army or Air Force husbands. I have met some other female student veterans in my classes, but, I kid you not, they are ALL already married. I have a 4.0 GPA so far this semester and I tend to excel academically, but I am socially isolated to the EXTREME and have grown tired of being this way due to being stuck here in this town. I applied to UT Austin last semester and was rejected due to them literally not having the space for out of state students because Texas has so many people. Moreover, I called OU in Oklahoma today and was told that the Yellow ribbon program which pays out of state tuition for veterans is FULL. I am about to the point where I just about ready to say F*** it and pay out of state tuition at either UT Knoxville, UNC-Asheville, or Western Carolina University since my family lives out there. Do you think that I would be making a mistake by moving back home and having to literally take out extra thousands of dollars in order to pay out of state tuition OR do you think that I should do just that for my mental well being? One of my goals upon leaving the Marine Corps was to be able to date and eventually start a family, but it isn’t going to happen for me so long as I stay in this “prison town”.
Sure there are women in Colorado Springs. the thing is that 90% of them are ALREADY married AND the women at my college only want to go out with guys that they went to high shcool with.