Skiers: If You Could Move Anywhere... ?

riverc0il said:
The bigger issue around here is the wind (though the humidity does suck). That NW gets funneled and rips through this area. I can deal with cold, but combined with that bitter wind, it can be quite taxing around here in the winter (especially when the snow sucks!). I lost a lot of weight recently, my body doesn't tolerate the cold like it once did... gusty cold is brutal.

I'm happy where I am right now. But as soon as our mortgage is paid off and my skiing skills begin to degrade due to old age, I'm moving south. Not "south" south. Just out of the mountains. Someplace I can bike ride mostly year round (I'll ride in the 30s or warmer). When I am retired or early retired with extra cash to burn, I'll pre-position in hotels for the big storms. At this point, I pretty much only ski when there is fresh snow any ways, so being close isn't helping much in that department.

Wherever I end up, I definitely prefer rural and hills. Sometimes I miss the city... then I drive through one and that sets me straight right quick.

The whole idea of retiring to a mountain village at a ski area is overly romanticized. It probably works for some people, especially those that truly find community in their new digs. But the people in your life are more important than the places in your life. And living somewhere can take the shine off compared to just visiting, familiarity breeds contempt, and all that... There is something to be said for wanting to be somewhere, hard to make it keep being amazing once you arrive.
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Well said!!
Going to spend my winters south. Plan on skiing for the most part in March and a week out west.
 
riverc0il said:
But the people in your life are more important than the places in your life. And living somewhere can take the shine off compared to just visiting, familiarity breeds contempt, and all that... There is something to be said for wanting to be somewhere, hard to make it keep being amazing once you arrive.
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Agree. I think there's something to be said about being happy where you are. The grass isn't always, and most times, not greener in the other pasture.
 
Campgottagopee said:
The grass isn't always, and most times, not greener in the other pasture.
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At Belleayre the other day, I was speaking with the nice lady at customer service in the upper lodge. She mentioned having moved to the Catskills several years ago after living most of her life in Texas, followed by California and Nevada, if I understood correctly. I asked how she ended up in the Cats. She mentioned visiting and appreciating how comparatively unspoiled the region was -- no chain or big-box stores, restaurants (not even McDonald's), pleasant people, etc. -- so she moved there.

An instructive story as we often see our part of the U.S. to be, as my father used to say, "a great place to be FROM!" After moving to Colorado in 1980, he always denigrated NYS and thought that out west was heaven on earth. I disagreed and said that every place has its + and -.
 
I love living in the Hudson Valley. I probably wouldn’t move somewhere specifically for skiing but would love to visit a few places for a month or two, maybe three, during the height of the season. Three places come to mind, Cooke City, Montana, Stanley, Idaho and Vallorcine, France. Could see myself in those places for a month in the Summer too.
 
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