Hello! My family and I just recently moved to Colorado last month from Massachusetts. I graduated with my BSN from rhode island college this past May and took my boards in Colorado once we arrived. The job market here seems to me to be the same as back home but a few more new graduate residency opportunities then I saw in the Boston area. The new graduate jobs here are definitely highly competitive and many of the hospitals appear to be looking for BSN graduates only. I've applied to two residency programs in Denver but won't hear back until beginning of August. How we looked as it before we moved out here is that right now it is hard to find a new graduate nursing Position everywhere so why not find a place where you would like to live and then the on will come. We live in a suburb north of Denver. It is absolutely beautiful here and the winters I've heard are nothing like the east coast!!! As far as states that are hiring new graduates, I've heard Texas and Oregon are hiring.