Mountain Towns with Slow-paced living/lifestyle ? ? ?

[Birddogss]

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[jeff-fro]

Go for it!! I worked in hotel management for a long time and most of that time was spent in ski towns in Northern Cal and Snowmass co, if I could get back into it and the wife could get a good job I would move my kids up there in a heart beat!

I'm not an impulsive person, so hopefully the more I can plan right now the better it will go when time comes to make the decision. Problem right now is my wife is graduating from pharmacy school so we have to go find somewhere she can put that education to use. I have a feeling if I can find a clinical or consulting pharmacist job for her in the area around Carbondale that would be the big piece of the puzzle that would make the decision easy for us.

Hopefully my next thread may be a question of how to find a way to hunt and snowboard in Colorado and get paid to do it.

[Birddogss]

Hopefully my next thread may be a question of how to find a way to hunt and snowboard in Colorado and get paid to do it.

Use to get in 100+ days in a year boarding with my free pass I got working at the hotel

[Txdeerhunter243]

Telluride, Colorado

[Hawkpuppy 1]

I would say Lake City as well, but if you need somethign a little bigger, Gunnison is close.

Dave

[Uncle Saggy]

Not where you are looking but these small towns in the mountains of Arkansas are great.......Hawkpuppy.....cool avatar

[deer_hoyter]

Lake City, Creede, Carbondale would be my top 3.

[Wood Man]

I'm not really wanting to go much farther north than Denver. We will be needing to drive back to Texas some and anything near Yellowstone or farther north adds at least another 500 miles to the trip. But saying that, anything in Colorado will put me that much closer if I ever get to go to Yellowstone...

It's only two hours north of Denver but my company headquarters is in Laramie, WY. It has everything you are looking for. I spend a lot of time up there. I love it.

[shark79]

Gunnison/Crested Butte. Numerous wilderness areas (west elk,fossil ridge, maroon bells) and thousands of NF acres to hunt. Fly fishing is great and world class skiing.@

[texag93]

Pagoda Springs, South Fork, CO.

[ladrones]

I would go to Santa Fe. Then you can be close to a whole bunch of mountains.

[Bluesman]

I'll second Arkansas.
Somewhere near Mena:
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[Sticks&Strings]

Montrose,CO is a good sized town, and a more conservative town than most in CO if that has any effect on you. Close to telluride. My wife's friends dad has a ranch there that backs up to a NATL forest and while we were there we saw lots of elk and mulies.

[Burntorange Bowhunter]

You kinda painted with a broad brush.....if Breckenridge qualifies as slow and sleepy....you need not look any further. That is your spot. Great town. Further north I would go with Steamboat....more of a cowboy...Texas feel. For New Mexico.....Ruidoso is great but the snow is not always good so I would say Santa Fe or anywhere in the Enchanted Circle. Then there is Durango....lots of Texans in that area......hard to beat.

[Uncle Saggy]

I'll second Arkansas.
Somewhere near Mena:
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Hail yes... the Mena / Board Camp area is the prettiest part of the state.