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This This is the outside podcast.

If you have to ask how much it costs to live in Aspen, Colorado, or Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

You probably are also secretly asking yourself, should I move there?

And it's a natural question.

I recently caught a glimpse of some of the trails that our contributor Patty O'Connell runs on near Aspen,

and my first thought was how staggeringly gorgeous they were, and how

jealous I was. Jackson Hole is a place I try and visit friends in every other year or so,

and it's hard to sip hot cocoa and watch the elk migration without thinking, what would it

take to live here? Unfortunately, one of the perennial never-ending stories

were also always covering it outside

is the increasing inaccessibility of these kinds of high alpine communities.

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