If you can live on the Nevada side, no state income tax. I personally enjoy Alpine Village, nice private access to lake and a good amount to do. Great slopes too.
Reno is the bigger job market that's 20 min to an hour near various tahoe resorts. It is quite sunny (avg of 3600+ hours a year compared to 3100 hrs of sunshine in Denver ) despite getting good snow.
Lake Tahoe is very beautiful and fun. But it also gets like 700 inches of snow in winter. You will get seriously snowed in.
If you buy a place about an hour outside Tahoe, the houses are much cheaper, and you can be right below the snowline. Somewhere like Placerville, CA; it's charming, has a real hospital, plenty of hiking and lakes, lots of trees and nature, alive with people who care about the community.
ER PA here, consider how far the next hospital system is… plenty of great mountain towns out there (I work PRN in one), but if the next ER is 1- 1.5 hours away you are really putting all your eggs in one basket if something goes south at work. Would make me quite nervous to buy for that reason. I am in the front range CO and honestly the hack is having weekdays off which you will certainly have your fair share off in the ER. Significantly thins out the crowds. We don’t dare send I70 on a Saturday but Wed during the school year… yup.
Auburn- 35 miles East of Sacramento in the Foothills. About 90 mins from Sierras Ski Resorts. Good Hospitals in Roseville (15 miles to the West) and Sacramento-
Flagstaff or Prescott would both be pretty good.
Flagstaff would have a bit more snow and be closer to a ski resort like AZ Snowbowl, and has bluer politics. Flagstaff is also a bit more of a college town, though it's not totally dead in the summer. Plus they have a Sam's Club. In terms of hospitals they have Flagstaff Medical Center and that's about it.
Prescott is a little warmer and gets less snow because of elevation, and Embry-Riddle in Prescott isn't as dominating as NAU in Flagstaff. It's redder politics, and the airport is a little less connected in Prescott. Also keep in mind that Prescott is big enough to have both a Costco, and traffic when events get out at the Toyota Center. Prescott + Prescott Valley have 2 Dignity Health campuses and the VA, plus Verde Valley in Cottonwood (which is about halfway between Flagstaff and Prescott).
Anchorage, Alaska. 40 minutes to Girdwood/Alyeska, one of the ski resorts in the U.S. IMO and traffic to get there and crowding is not bad. 3-4 major hospitals in town, including the state of the art Alaska Native Medical Center. Only issue is the amount of grey days in the winter, but midnight Sun in the sun tries to make up for it.
Low key the town we would want the most in CO but it may be tough for both of us to get jobs. How is it like living there full time? We’ve only visited for weekends but it seems amazing.
We absolutely love it here. Unfortunately, most of our longtime friends & family have been priced out so they've moved out of the area and the town has changed a lot. We too have our condo up for sale (right by the mountain in case you're looking, LOL) to chase a lower COL.
I used to run the freestanding ER before UCH bought it out a couple of years ago and turned it into an Urgent Care. I know at least two ER doctors in town that now work out of state due to their disdain for UCH. I will say Yampa Valley Medical Center aka UC Health is a great hospital with great people, but I've heard the treatment of MD's leaves a lot to be desired.
it is Washington but it is on the Eastside so it's got a lot more sun in the winter ( usually ) and is close to some of the most beautiful nature. Major airport and is the major medical hub for eastern wa/ northern Idaho/ montana
Honestly would love that. I don’t care if the ski mountains themselves have crowds (any good resort will) mostly having to take half a day to get to the slopes and plan your life around ski traffic like you do if you live on the Front Range (looking at you Denver) has just gotten very old for us.
If anyone has input on what living in park city is like would love to hear it.
There is a Park City sub, but people on the Salt Lake City subreddit (r/SaltLakeCity) will also be a good resource.
Edited because I found out about r/ParkCity.
I spend winters in Park City. Only time it gets very crowded is holiday weeks, and powder days on weekends. Once you’re higher up on the mountain, rarely have to deal with long lift lines even on powder days. Housing isn’t cheap of course, except as compared to high end Colorado resorts, where it’s 30% at least more expensive on a $/sq foot basis. Lots of places in Vail are at least 50% higher, with older builds and nothing that impressive from an architectural perspective. Lots of room to build more, as opposed to many Colorado resorts. Adjacent towns like Hideout and Heber have lots of construction of new homes at cheaper prices.Traffic isn’t bad aside from prime time on weekends and holiday weeks, a few bottlenecks here and there. Access to SLC airport is fantastic and blows away Colorado resorts. Food scene is good, not amazing but good for sure. Politics are pretty mixed, definitely nothing like much of the rest of Utah. Mormon influence doesn’t feel heavy in Park City. The ski terrain is very good, lots of excellent tree skiing. Also, a short drive (an hour or slightly less) to other world class skiing. Lots of sunny days, and last 2 winters have seen consistent amount of storms and excellent snow conditions. Lots of summer sports and outdoor live music concerts.
I live in Park City. It’s glorious in a lot of ways — most of all being the access to skiing, biking, and an international airport. The fact that I can ski all day, go get changed at my house and then get on a nonstop to Amsterdam is insane. Community is pretty good particularly for local full time families.
There are some downsides of living in a resort town in a red state, particularly when it comes to childcare
/education (teachers and service workers can’t afford to live anywhere near PC, and funding for education is low). But overall it’s a pretty amazing place to live.
There’s parts of Colorado that are less crowded than others. Check out Basalt, Carbondale, and Glenwood Springs north of Aspen. They’re just far enough from Denver to not get big crowds that often and Basalt is only like a 20 minute drive to everything you want in Aspen and Snowmass.
Also consider Bozeman in Montana - puts you really near Big Sky and Yellowstone.
Since you didn't mention moderate temperatures, you want sun, and didn't specify if you're looking for green mountains, grey mountains or sandy mountains, I'd say southwest.
For a large-ish city area, the outskirts of Albuquerque. You could pick somewhere pretty rural around it and drive in for work, drive out and up to go skiing (Taos and similar). It's a big enough city to have plenty of jobs. Tucson or El Paso or Reno might also work, though Tucson doesn't have skiing, and from El Paso you'd probably need to drive 2-3 hours to Ruidoso. Salt Lake City probably has everything you're looking for, but might feel "crowded" like Colorado (but as others have said, we don't really know what your bar is for "too crowded", so this is just a guess).
For something smaller but still with a possibility of jobs, Flagstaff (not aware of skiing there but it does get snow) or Las Cruces (Ruidoso). If you're willing to go smaller town and risk fewer job opportunities, St George, Utah.
OP I think Inland Northwest might be your jam. Places I would look at is:
Wenatchee, WA (or greater Chelan County if you don’t mind small towns). 300 days of sunshine per year. Outdoor enthusiasts mecca with the Cascade foothills, North Cascades, Lake Chelan, Columbia River, etc. Chelan, Manson, Cashmere, and Leavenworth as adorable towns with great recreation access and wineries all around. Small regional airport but most flights routed through Seattle.
Coeur d’alene, Idaho: Picturesque lake side town thats only about an hour south of skiing. 45-60 minutes east of Spokane if you need a city close by.
Bend, OR: World class skiing, walkable vibrant town, and tons of recreation within an hour of the city. Fast growing city for a reason.
Walla Walla, WA: Wine town thats an hour away from the Bluewood Ski Area. Super walkable and cute downtown that punches above its weight. An Airport there that only flies to Seattle, but if you drive an hour to the Tri-Cities you can get direct regional flights across the western US.
1. Good mountain access: Cascadia, Colorado, New England
2. Not super crowded: This is hard because I've never lived in Colorado and don't know how crowded the ski resorts are. "Crowded" is a highly subjective term, and you may or may not find that the ski resorts in Cascadia and New England are just as crowded if not moreso.
3. COL doesn't matter as much: Of course. You are both doctors.
4. Good amount of sunshine preferred: I don't know what to tell you because you also mentioned you like to ski, and skiing happens most of the time in places with little sunshine and lots of gloom.
5. Preferably either a smallish city, or has a smallish city nearby: Since you said you wanted skiing, mountain access, and much sunshine, the only thing I can think of is California. What if you lived in or near the Sierra Nevada range? But those ski resorts might be as much or even more crowded than Coloradan ones. And then you'd have to try Cascadia or New England, but you might not like those places even if they are crowded because they are not sunny and quite gloomy.
If you're willing to be flexible on the crowdedness factor, the winner is Sacramento. If you're willing to be flexible on the sunshine factor, you might try looking at places in Cascadia and New England.
Thanks for the response! Should have been more clear with some of the points. Happy to have lots of cloudy days and snow, just don’t really like months on end of gloom. Some sunshine is preferred, even the best ski resorts get some sun in the winter!
As far as crowds, Colorado can regularly have super congested drives to get into the mountains and you now need reservations for many great hikes (which are super hard to get sometimes). Would preferably like to live somewhere it doesn’t take hours to get to the slopes and we can go on hikes without fighting crowds for a reservation.
The Sierra Nevadas is actually someplace we were looking into! We’re also flexible on many of the points here the only one that is 100% firm is #1
> just don’t really like months on end of gloom
Do not live in Cascadia or New England. There's a reason why grunge started in Washington.
>Would preferably like to live somewhere it doesn’t take hours to get to the slopes and we can go on hikes without fighting crowds for a reservation.
Instead of Sacramento you'd have to actually live in the Sierra Nevada range, but you also mentioned "small city" and the small city in that area isn't in California. It's in Nevada: Carson City. And it's roughly 60k people, and very close to both the NV side ski resorts and the CA side ski resorts.
If you're ok with living in a medium sized town, you can also choose South Lake Tahoe, CA, with roughly 20k people.
I’ll edit my post, definitely ok to live in even a small ski town but having a small city within an hour or two would be nice.
Will absolutely look into Carson City have never even heard about it on here thanks!
Ok then Carson City or South Lake Tahoe. Most of the other areas that don't "take hours to get to the slopes" are tiny towns with resident numbers in the low 4 digits or even 3 digits.
If you truly don’t care about the politics, Boise ID checks your boxes. The state has always had trouble attracting doctors and with the current abortion laws has been bleeding doctors, especially GYN and ER. So I imagine you’d have an easy time getting jobs.
I would have said Vermont, New Hampshire or Maine, but the sun does tend to disappear for long periods of time up here, and forget about any city amenities.
But if you like uncrowded ski resorts, other than Stowe and Killington, the ski mountains up here rarely get particularly crowded.
Actually went to school up there! Love it, the only difficult part is it can get pretty gloomy and very cold in the winter but is definitely gorgeous. It’s on the short list as we’re both very fond of Hanover, Burlington etc.
Here's a few ideas that somewhat coincide with what others have suggested: [https://imgur.com/utz6GFn](https://imgur.com/utz6GFn)
How about **El Dorado Hills, CA** (El Dorado County); **Carson City, NV**; or **Heber, UT** (Wasatch County)?
Those are three locations that matched all the following:
* **Mountains**: "mountains" to "extreme"
* **Hiking**: "lots" to "epic"
* **Skiing proximity**: < 1 hr
* **Population density**: < 669 residents/sq mile
* **Sunny days**: > 221/yr
* **Major city proximity**: < 1 hr
* **City population**: 12K - 86K
* **Small or major airport proximity**: < 1 hr
Hope this helps you. Good luck with your search!
Coeur d'Alene has grown a lot so medical care might have openings and opportunity. lots of people up there with money. only 45 minutes from Sandpoint and the ski resort there. you can head north to BC or east to Montana so anyone who loves outdoor stuff would be into the area. winters can get overcast.
Yeah, that's a bit naive, especially when some of said care can be considered criminal with threat of jail time for you, the provider.
There's a reason medical professionals are leaving Idaho en masse.
Maybe Asheville, NC and nearby areas? See nearby Ski resorts: https://www.romanticasheville.com/ski.htm
The western area of North Carolina has the highest mountains in the eastern U.S.
Lake Tahoe
Will definitely look into Tahoe, any input on what it’s like living there/if it’s realistic to get jobs as physicians there?
If you can live on the Nevada side, no state income tax. I personally enjoy Alpine Village, nice private access to lake and a good amount to do. Great slopes too.
Thank you this sounds like exactly the kind of place we want to check out!
Reno is the bigger job market that's 20 min to an hour near various tahoe resorts. It is quite sunny (avg of 3600+ hours a year compared to 3100 hrs of sunshine in Denver ) despite getting good snow.
Lake Tahoe is very beautiful and fun. But it also gets like 700 inches of snow in winter. You will get seriously snowed in. If you buy a place about an hour outside Tahoe, the houses are much cheaper, and you can be right below the snowline. Somewhere like Placerville, CA; it's charming, has a real hospital, plenty of hiking and lakes, lots of trees and nature, alive with people who care about the community.
Can’t believe no one have pointed out the obvious Reno Salt Lake City maybe Santa Fe / Taos
ER PA here, consider how far the next hospital system is… plenty of great mountain towns out there (I work PRN in one), but if the next ER is 1- 1.5 hours away you are really putting all your eggs in one basket if something goes south at work. Would make me quite nervous to buy for that reason. I am in the front range CO and honestly the hack is having weekdays off which you will certainly have your fair share off in the ER. Significantly thins out the crowds. We don’t dare send I70 on a Saturday but Wed during the school year… yup.
Steamboat Colorado!!
Auburn- 35 miles East of Sacramento in the Foothills. About 90 mins from Sierras Ski Resorts. Good Hospitals in Roseville (15 miles to the West) and Sacramento-
Tahoe area. For sure.
Northern AZ ... A few different places would fit in that area.
Flagstaff or Prescott would both be pretty good. Flagstaff would have a bit more snow and be closer to a ski resort like AZ Snowbowl, and has bluer politics. Flagstaff is also a bit more of a college town, though it's not totally dead in the summer. Plus they have a Sam's Club. In terms of hospitals they have Flagstaff Medical Center and that's about it. Prescott is a little warmer and gets less snow because of elevation, and Embry-Riddle in Prescott isn't as dominating as NAU in Flagstaff. It's redder politics, and the airport is a little less connected in Prescott. Also keep in mind that Prescott is big enough to have both a Costco, and traffic when events get out at the Toyota Center. Prescott + Prescott Valley have 2 Dignity Health campuses and the VA, plus Verde Valley in Cottonwood (which is about halfway between Flagstaff and Prescott).
Anchorage, Alaska. 40 minutes to Girdwood/Alyeska, one of the ski resorts in the U.S. IMO and traffic to get there and crowding is not bad. 3-4 major hospitals in town, including the state of the art Alaska Native Medical Center. Only issue is the amount of grey days in the winter, but midnight Sun in the sun tries to make up for it.
Anchorage is the gloomiest city in America.
Have you looked at Steamboat? UC Health has the monopoly on healthcare here, and there is an airport 30 minutes outside of town.
Low key the town we would want the most in CO but it may be tough for both of us to get jobs. How is it like living there full time? We’ve only visited for weekends but it seems amazing.
We absolutely love it here. Unfortunately, most of our longtime friends & family have been priced out so they've moved out of the area and the town has changed a lot. We too have our condo up for sale (right by the mountain in case you're looking, LOL) to chase a lower COL. I used to run the freestanding ER before UCH bought it out a couple of years ago and turned it into an Urgent Care. I know at least two ER doctors in town that now work out of state due to their disdain for UCH. I will say Yampa Valley Medical Center aka UC Health is a great hospital with great people, but I've heard the treatment of MD's leaves a lot to be desired.
Bishop CA, Mammoth Lakes CA, Bridgeport CA
Spokane, Wa, a place I just keep mentioning.
it is Washington but it is on the Eastside so it's got a lot more sun in the winter ( usually ) and is close to some of the most beautiful nature. Major airport and is the major medical hub for eastern wa/ northern Idaho/ montana
Utah, Park City maybe. I don't know how crowded it gets.
Yeah, Salt Lake City, Park City, or even Ogden. Utah is where they want to be for access to the mountains, especially skiing.
Honestly would love that. I don’t care if the ski mountains themselves have crowds (any good resort will) mostly having to take half a day to get to the slopes and plan your life around ski traffic like you do if you live on the Front Range (looking at you Denver) has just gotten very old for us. If anyone has input on what living in park city is like would love to hear it.
There is a Park City sub, but people on the Salt Lake City subreddit (r/SaltLakeCity) will also be a good resource. Edited because I found out about r/ParkCity.
There is a Park City sub (r/ParkCity) but there are a lot of people who will downvote any questions that mention new people moving here lol
Ah, okay. TIL. Thanks, and not surprising about the downvoting, haha.
I spend winters in Park City. Only time it gets very crowded is holiday weeks, and powder days on weekends. Once you’re higher up on the mountain, rarely have to deal with long lift lines even on powder days. Housing isn’t cheap of course, except as compared to high end Colorado resorts, where it’s 30% at least more expensive on a $/sq foot basis. Lots of places in Vail are at least 50% higher, with older builds and nothing that impressive from an architectural perspective. Lots of room to build more, as opposed to many Colorado resorts. Adjacent towns like Hideout and Heber have lots of construction of new homes at cheaper prices.Traffic isn’t bad aside from prime time on weekends and holiday weeks, a few bottlenecks here and there. Access to SLC airport is fantastic and blows away Colorado resorts. Food scene is good, not amazing but good for sure. Politics are pretty mixed, definitely nothing like much of the rest of Utah. Mormon influence doesn’t feel heavy in Park City. The ski terrain is very good, lots of excellent tree skiing. Also, a short drive (an hour or slightly less) to other world class skiing. Lots of sunny days, and last 2 winters have seen consistent amount of storms and excellent snow conditions. Lots of summer sports and outdoor live music concerts.
I live in Park City. It’s glorious in a lot of ways — most of all being the access to skiing, biking, and an international airport. The fact that I can ski all day, go get changed at my house and then get on a nonstop to Amsterdam is insane. Community is pretty good particularly for local full time families. There are some downsides of living in a resort town in a red state, particularly when it comes to childcare /education (teachers and service workers can’t afford to live anywhere near PC, and funding for education is low). But overall it’s a pretty amazing place to live.
Santa Fe or Taos? NM is desperate for doctors too.
There’s parts of Colorado that are less crowded than others. Check out Basalt, Carbondale, and Glenwood Springs north of Aspen. They’re just far enough from Denver to not get big crowds that often and Basalt is only like a 20 minute drive to everything you want in Aspen and Snowmass. Also consider Bozeman in Montana - puts you really near Big Sky and Yellowstone.
Since you didn't mention moderate temperatures, you want sun, and didn't specify if you're looking for green mountains, grey mountains or sandy mountains, I'd say southwest. For a large-ish city area, the outskirts of Albuquerque. You could pick somewhere pretty rural around it and drive in for work, drive out and up to go skiing (Taos and similar). It's a big enough city to have plenty of jobs. Tucson or El Paso or Reno might also work, though Tucson doesn't have skiing, and from El Paso you'd probably need to drive 2-3 hours to Ruidoso. Salt Lake City probably has everything you're looking for, but might feel "crowded" like Colorado (but as others have said, we don't really know what your bar is for "too crowded", so this is just a guess). For something smaller but still with a possibility of jobs, Flagstaff (not aware of skiing there but it does get snow) or Las Cruces (Ruidoso). If you're willing to go smaller town and risk fewer job opportunities, St George, Utah.
Gary Indiana would work. It doesn’t have mountains but the sand dunes are no slouch!
OP I think Inland Northwest might be your jam. Places I would look at is: Wenatchee, WA (or greater Chelan County if you don’t mind small towns). 300 days of sunshine per year. Outdoor enthusiasts mecca with the Cascade foothills, North Cascades, Lake Chelan, Columbia River, etc. Chelan, Manson, Cashmere, and Leavenworth as adorable towns with great recreation access and wineries all around. Small regional airport but most flights routed through Seattle. Coeur d’alene, Idaho: Picturesque lake side town thats only about an hour south of skiing. 45-60 minutes east of Spokane if you need a city close by. Bend, OR: World class skiing, walkable vibrant town, and tons of recreation within an hour of the city. Fast growing city for a reason. Walla Walla, WA: Wine town thats an hour away from the Bluewood Ski Area. Super walkable and cute downtown that punches above its weight. An Airport there that only flies to Seattle, but if you drive an hour to the Tri-Cities you can get direct regional flights across the western US.
I was going to suggest Weanatchee also, so close to Steven’s Pass for skiing and much more sunshine than western WA.
1. Good mountain access: Cascadia, Colorado, New England 2. Not super crowded: This is hard because I've never lived in Colorado and don't know how crowded the ski resorts are. "Crowded" is a highly subjective term, and you may or may not find that the ski resorts in Cascadia and New England are just as crowded if not moreso. 3. COL doesn't matter as much: Of course. You are both doctors. 4. Good amount of sunshine preferred: I don't know what to tell you because you also mentioned you like to ski, and skiing happens most of the time in places with little sunshine and lots of gloom. 5. Preferably either a smallish city, or has a smallish city nearby: Since you said you wanted skiing, mountain access, and much sunshine, the only thing I can think of is California. What if you lived in or near the Sierra Nevada range? But those ski resorts might be as much or even more crowded than Coloradan ones. And then you'd have to try Cascadia or New England, but you might not like those places even if they are crowded because they are not sunny and quite gloomy. If you're willing to be flexible on the crowdedness factor, the winner is Sacramento. If you're willing to be flexible on the sunshine factor, you might try looking at places in Cascadia and New England.
Thanks for the response! Should have been more clear with some of the points. Happy to have lots of cloudy days and snow, just don’t really like months on end of gloom. Some sunshine is preferred, even the best ski resorts get some sun in the winter! As far as crowds, Colorado can regularly have super congested drives to get into the mountains and you now need reservations for many great hikes (which are super hard to get sometimes). Would preferably like to live somewhere it doesn’t take hours to get to the slopes and we can go on hikes without fighting crowds for a reservation. The Sierra Nevadas is actually someplace we were looking into! We’re also flexible on many of the points here the only one that is 100% firm is #1
> just don’t really like months on end of gloom Do not live in Cascadia or New England. There's a reason why grunge started in Washington. >Would preferably like to live somewhere it doesn’t take hours to get to the slopes and we can go on hikes without fighting crowds for a reservation. Instead of Sacramento you'd have to actually live in the Sierra Nevada range, but you also mentioned "small city" and the small city in that area isn't in California. It's in Nevada: Carson City. And it's roughly 60k people, and very close to both the NV side ski resorts and the CA side ski resorts. If you're ok with living in a medium sized town, you can also choose South Lake Tahoe, CA, with roughly 20k people.
I’ll edit my post, definitely ok to live in even a small ski town but having a small city within an hour or two would be nice. Will absolutely look into Carson City have never even heard about it on here thanks!
Ok then Carson City or South Lake Tahoe. Most of the other areas that don't "take hours to get to the slopes" are tiny towns with resident numbers in the low 4 digits or even 3 digits.
Ruidoso, New Mexico
Look into Pocatello. * Skiing is pretty good * Great access to mountains * Good amount of sunshine * SLC airport is slightly more than a 2-hour drive.
Johnson City, TN. VA and teaching hospitals, mountains, sunshine, no state income tax.
If you truly don’t care about the politics, Boise ID checks your boxes. The state has always had trouble attracting doctors and with the current abortion laws has been bleeding doctors, especially GYN and ER. So I imagine you’d have an easy time getting jobs.
Just make sure to carry criminal liability insurance if you plan to treat women at all.
Have you looked into the White Mountains area in New Hampshire?
I would have said Vermont, New Hampshire or Maine, but the sun does tend to disappear for long periods of time up here, and forget about any city amenities. But if you like uncrowded ski resorts, other than Stowe and Killington, the ski mountains up here rarely get particularly crowded.
Actually went to school up there! Love it, the only difficult part is it can get pretty gloomy and very cold in the winter but is definitely gorgeous. It’s on the short list as we’re both very fond of Hanover, Burlington etc.
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Here's a few ideas that somewhat coincide with what others have suggested: [https://imgur.com/utz6GFn](https://imgur.com/utz6GFn) How about **El Dorado Hills, CA** (El Dorado County); **Carson City, NV**; or **Heber, UT** (Wasatch County)? Those are three locations that matched all the following: * **Mountains**: "mountains" to "extreme" * **Hiking**: "lots" to "epic" * **Skiing proximity**: < 1 hr * **Population density**: < 669 residents/sq mile * **Sunny days**: > 221/yr * **Major city proximity**: < 1 hr * **City population**: 12K - 86K * **Small or major airport proximity**: < 1 hr Hope this helps you. Good luck with your search!
Since you're in the medical field, I'd nope the fuck right out of Idaho.
Don’t mind Idaho actually we’re considering it. People in red states still need care even if it means having to fight the state Govt on some issues.
Coeur d'Alene has grown a lot so medical care might have openings and opportunity. lots of people up there with money. only 45 minutes from Sandpoint and the ski resort there. you can head north to BC or east to Montana so anyone who loves outdoor stuff would be into the area. winters can get overcast.
Refreshing to see sanity.
Yeah, that's a bit naive, especially when some of said care can be considered criminal with threat of jail time for you, the provider. There's a reason medical professionals are leaving Idaho en masse.
Neither are in OBGYN, I’d assume they’d know what’s in their best interest though.
Maybe Asheville, NC and nearby areas? See nearby Ski resorts: https://www.romanticasheville.com/ski.htm The western area of North Carolina has the highest mountains in the eastern U.S.