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Thread: Moving to Jackson: Yay or nay?
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06-26-2018, 12:15 PM #276
+1
former co worker of mine is in the JH area. seems to be doing fine. works at home and gets after it and makes a good living
you don't have to be poor to be a skier. if you don't have a marketable job skill, then yeah, welcome to the just getting by. skiing is for life, not having a career shouldn't be
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06-26-2018, 12:31 PM #277
You haven't been keeping up. Even doctors are bussing tables to afford a shared apt. with a communal bathroom down the hall. We're talking JH here. This ain't some VailResort, I-70 corridor Tom, Dick, and Harry ski town we're talking about! JH, land of the billionaires and trophy husbands!!
On the other hand, maybe something like this could work in JH, or any ski town. Why limit it to big cities?
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...less-tech-work
Other customers of the company may be troubled by an even more fundamental conundrum: where is their workplace – and what, by contrast, constitutes home? WeWork is slowly expanding into a new venture called WeLive, up and running in New York and Washington DC, set to open for business in Seattle, and also planned for Tel Aviv. If accommodation is proving hard to find, you need company, and your life as a freelance means you have no permanent workplace where you can meet like-minded people, here is a solution: a range of tiny studio flats and slightly bigger dwellings, built around communal areas, kitchens and laundrettes – in the same building as WeWork office space.
Four years after stories broke of employees who worked up to 90 hours a week living in camper vans at Google’s HQ in northern California, a WeLive-esque lifestyle will presumably take root at a new Google campus taking shape nearby, which will sit among 10,000 new “housing units”. Up the road, Facebook’s Willow Village development looks set to deliver something similar. Meanwhile, for tech high flyers lucky enough to have no fixed employer or workplace, as well as WeLive, there is an even more alluring option: Roam, which is pitched at “digital nomads”, and offers flexible “co-working and co-living” spaces in London, San Francisco, Miami, Tokyo and Ubud, in Indonesia."We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch
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06-26-2018, 12:36 PM #278
There is basically no land available that would make that project viable.
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06-26-2018, 01:04 PM #279
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06-26-2018, 01:16 PM #280
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06-26-2018, 01:25 PM #281Registered User
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Jrainey, I had never even heard of that place (and I have skiied in the Arlberg 3x). Google images says it's beautiful. Lucky bastard.
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06-26-2018, 01:25 PM #282
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06-26-2018, 01:30 PM #283
If your cool giving handjobs for scratch JH sounds great.
https://youtu.be/n3Eqq_vRXS4
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06-26-2018, 03:48 PM #284
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06-27-2018, 01:01 PM #285Registered User
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06-27-2018, 02:15 PM #286
has anyone met Greg in real life?
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06-27-2018, 03:46 PM #287Registered User
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If it's not close to your reality it doesn't mean it's not 100% true for others. It definitely rings true. You see what you want to see. Not saying you are wrong either, a lot of these rants don't apply to some of my friends there at all.....except for the alcohol problems, ha.
There's a lot of negativity in this thread, but I think the take-away should be: Yes, move to Jackson, but as a friendly warning it's not the nirvana you may expect in town. It's definitely the nirvana you would hope for in the mountains, so if you can easily ignore some bullshit down low for the lines up high, give it a shot.
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08-05-2018, 09:23 PM #288
just confirming the obvious...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mark...cid=spartanntp"We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch
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09-01-2018, 10:28 PM #289
Want to get out there this winter & spring and check out the scene for work and real estate...and just hang for a while, but suspect it'll remain as a terrific area to hang now & then. Property is bottom line dollars and cents...and the hotspots don't come cheap. Looking forward to visiting though....a beautiful area of country.
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02-16-2022, 03:00 AM #290Banned
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If it is so important for you to ski during the season constantly, then why not move closer to the Alps? These are the best mountains for skiers all over the world!
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02-16-2022, 10:34 AM #291Registered User
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Since this popped to the top, how is it in Jackson after the COVID migration?
Even harder to find housing?
WFH crowd still there?
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asspen - take all the comments about housing being hard to find in 2018 and then multiply it by 10.
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02-16-2022, 12:26 PM #293Registered User
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Moving to Jackson: Yay or nay?
Spilling over to the west and south too. Check out prices in Victor and Alpine.
There are a couple fine examples from 1 year ago that are now listed for 2-3 times what they were. It’s especially discouraging when some of those listings were maybe just barely affordable, and are now more than I’ll ever be able to buy.
Can’t last forever though. Another subpar teton winter will have people packing their bags.
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02-16-2022, 01:19 PM #295
Maybe, but unlikely. There are just a lot of wealthy people that want to live in the premium mountain locations. Sure, there will be some that don't like it, some that get called back to the office, some that are not as wealthy as they thought there were. But for everyone that leaves, two will fight to take their place.
There are now something like 10million second homes in the US. What I'm seeing as the new trend is that people live primarily at their vacation address and go to the other place only as needed.
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02-16-2022, 01:54 PM #296
The people who can buy into Jackson now aren’t tied to a single geographic region for employment; it’s a choice. Gonna be cold and don’t want to deal with it? Go to the beach house or fly/drive some place warm. A mediocre snow winter and/or a firy summer might change minds.
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02-16-2022, 01:57 PM #297
We will have both this year, the way things are looking…
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02-16-2022, 01:58 PM #298
Ain’t changing.
Once upon a time jh was dead in the winter.
Dirtbag cheap lodging. Think elk refuge. 49er. Etc.
busy season was summer.
It ain’t coming back.
It’s still an amazing valley. But the word is out. And the billionaires are kicking out the millionaires. Money is power.
They might do a little around the edges to make sure they have house cleaners and landscapers. But not much more than that.
Even today. The draw isn’t winter.
It’s no income tax. Amazing vistas. Occasional hikes or bikes. But mostly feeling Wild West. But not really being a cowboy. Since you’re in a five plus million dollar house.
It really sucks that the best resort in NA is trapped in a valley of money.. . .
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02-16-2022, 06:10 PM #299
Funny this thread rose from the dead. Out of curiosity I glanced at the current offerings.
I do ok, and 3 yrs ago when I was pondering, maybe I could have lived there. Now? Not a single listing I can afford, or even come close really. It's just a completely different level.
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02-16-2022, 06:46 PM #300
It’s fucked.
Kicking myself for not buying a house in TV in the 2009 recession. A real house. Over the pass. But damn nice for the money. Would have had to rent until my retirement. But damn. What a nice investment.
Or scraping nickels well before that to buy a condo in ghetto brook. I didn’t have nickels. But I wish I had scraped harder to get it.
It’s so fucked.
I know so many that were renting and moved away. Good people. But they gave up. I wish they had owned and at least cashed out. But no. They survived until they were forced out.
I also know a few that lucked out and got subsidized housing. Good for them. Lottery winners.. . .
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