Have a couple of friends who retired to Minden or Gardnerville (can’t remember) not even a year ago. They absolutely love it and visit Lake Tahoe regularly. They actually kind of ran into running a tourist campground for trailers and RVs during the summer.
Yep, Minden is were I gas up and then cut over to the Kingsbury grade to come up the back side of Tahoe. Kind of high desert like. Will get some snow, but can be warm and dry in the Summer. My buddies work just opened a small Rubber plant there, talked about transferring, but I doubt he will.