Small cities in America’s Mountain West are booming
My wife and I traded living near a beach and lagoon in San Diego country for a small but nice house in a mountain tourist town (Sedona Arizona). That was back in 1998. Except for some time working as a contractor at Google in Mountain View and managing a deep learning team for Capital One in Urbana&#x2F;Champaign IL, we have lived a quiet life in the mountains since 1998.<p>One reason for my success in being happy here is that I accept the 1 1&#x2F;2 million tourists who flood through our town every year. I view them as good for our economy and go out of my way to offer advice on the hiking trails to people who are obviously visitors, easy to do since I like talking with people. A few of my friends are miserable because of the tourists, but they are just a fact of life.