[quote=bearishgurl][quote=smshorttimer]I also must have lift-serviced skiing within a couple of hours of my home, so Florida is out for me.[/quote]

wow, smshorttimer, where do you live? I’m seriously thinking of retiring here . . .

http://www.laketahoerealestateblog.com/2010/06/15/south-lake-tahoe-ca-real-estate-news-2010-home-sales-to-date/

. . . where I will be minutes from a gondola and lifts . . . on a free bus line!

There are SO MANY GOOD DEALS in S. Lake Tahoe RE right now. I sure wish I could buy an older home there and put it into rental service until I am ready to move in myself![/quote]

Good for your carbon footprint! I haven’t really studied places such as SLT with that in mind. I can say that I have a family member who lived in Tahoe, and he was very much a North Shore guy. I’ll leave it at that, as I have spent very little time on the South Shore.

I’m in North County (I leave a clue every time I post), so most of my snow time is in the San Gabriels and San Berdoos.