Pick my new hometown!

[jokerthief]

Alaska? Are you nuts?

[ChipWrecked]

'Girdwood' otherwise known as 'Goodweed'.

OP, Sacramento is about 100 miles from Tahoe and about 100 miles from <strike> ThinMan </strike> the Bay Area.

Relatively cheap by Cali standards.

Which means the median home price is almost a half million [censored] dollars.

[w_alloy]

Its not for everyone, but some people like it for various reasons.

[Bukem_]

I was once on a mission to find since such a place. Unforunately, it doesn't really exist.

I was very pretty obsessed with snowboarding for awhile, and lived in Crested Butte and Alpine Meadows(though I rode as Squaw) for a few years. Also lived in summit county for a summer.

So... Summit county,CO very nice area, decent skiing, ok "professional jobs", close to major city, very cold, windy, and really not that much snow.

SLC Major city yes, good terrain, I haven't been there to ski, but from what I hear it gets hyped for good snow by tourists and magazines, but snow is really light, and doesn't do much for big mountain skiing.

Tahoe I live here now, its beautifiul, and squaw goes off. Squaw is easily top 3 in North America. Reno isn't much, but its a city and its close. Even bad snow years in tahoe crush most other areas good years.

Southern Cal BIg city, weak skiing.

Flagstaff decent for city and skiing dont know enough to really say.

Jackson and Crested Butte: no city. Otherwise very good.

BC Hard to get permit to live, otherwise very good(maybe best).

[dcasper70]

Check out eastern Massachusetts, within the 495/95 belt.

Plenty of industry, considered silicon valley east. Banks up the wazoo. Tons of skiing/beaches within 2 hours. Boston suburbs. Foxwoods is a 90 minute drive. Tons of pseudo-legal charity poker and home games.

Couple areas that are nice middle class towns:
Framingham/Natick/Wayland
Newton/Waltham
Reading/Wilmington
Braintree

[beta1607]

I recommend moving to Tahoe - but on the Nevada side for tax reasons.

[joshman1204]

I currently goto BC twice a year for the skiing but I dont think I want to live across the border.

how far is it from tahoe to places like san fran and LA?

[beta1607]

Tahoe is like 3-4 hours from SF and probably 8 hours from LA. The Lake there is awesome to go boating on during the summer.

[joshman1204]

Sweet so if i could find a town between tahoe and san fran then I could be 1 1/2 hours from either a beach or a ski resort!

are the beaches in san fran any good?

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

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Sweet so if i could find a town between tahoe and san fran then I could be 1 1/2 hours from either a beach or a ski resort!

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This is silly. Now you'll be driving 1.5 hours for anything you want to do. Live by Tahoe, then you can ski whenever you want and then you can go to SF on the weekend or overnight just the same.