Oh and personally, I'd choose Colorado in a heartbeat if I were looking west, I'd love to be right along the front range.
I don't know how to do much of anything in the snow, basically because my neck of the woods is flat as the eye can see. There are places to hit "slopes" but I never bothered to learn, we don't have anything real exhilarating out there (save for Cedar Point, which is awesome mind you). But, if I were in Colorado, I'd be learning real quick. Winter is generally a drag here, a lot of gray skies and slushy snow. I do think the powdery snow is beautiful, but usually that means it's cold as hell. It does produce the benefit of constant snow-covered roads until the snows catch up, which I greatly prefer to the icy slushy yet plowed streets. Black ice is terrible. Powdery roads, oooo Imma have me some fun! Snow tires are great. In the end, I just feel if I'm going to experience winter, and a lot of snow, I want sunshine. We get it here from time to time, and some nice breaks in weather occasionally, but Denver area, they have a ridiculous average of basically, sunny skies for days. That's my kind of winter. And, so there's snow galore? And mountains? Sounds like a recipe for a good time, which keeps the winter doldrums at bay, something rife around here when we have far more gray cloudy days than even partly sunny during the winter months.
But it is a hopping place these days, the Denver metro is growing insanely. Tech there is booming. That's my kind of place. And there are drier prairie lands for days a fair commute away, if that was your choosing. Or plenty of remote land elsewhere, fertile too, especially west of the ridge if looking for ultimate solitude.
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