Review of Sun Valley, Idaho


Sun Valley....a love/hate relationship!
Star Rating - 9/7/2007
Absolutely beautiful. Nice people. Amazing skiing...all types of recreation for anyone and everyone. Summer temperatures are perfect. It's sunny more than 250 days per year...who can argue with that while skiing powder dumped the night before. Having a whole mountain to yourself while it's dumping snow....thinking you might have found Heaven on Earth!

Too expensive...cost of living in no way commensurate with salaries...salaries WAY below national average. Groceries outrageous, horrible produce! Sure, you can get great gourmet foodstuffs, but can you get bananas that don't turn brown after you bought them green, literally two days ago?! People leaving for greener and more affordable pastures making the town of Ketchum almost a ghost town...very sad. Businesses come and go...literally in months or weeks. "Affordable" housing...can't even think of anything to say about this.

Visit often, the mountain is never crowded...maybe a bit at holidays but all of the high speed lifts take care of most wait time. It's beautiful in the summer, fall even better...spring isn't even as bad as most mountain towns. Just don't make a serious effort to make a living here or raise a family if you don't come with deep pockets...heck, even half-full pockets cuts it!
Cynthia | Ketchum, ID
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