Nice! You make some very good points. But I prefer to live like this:
http://www.deervalleylodging.com/resort.php/DVL/OVERVIEW
[just kidding, I don’t live like that, although I do live just a few miles from there and do enjoy some great mountain resort skiing]
That place seems really nice.
I’m not into skiing myself, but skiing is, naturally, very popular in Sweden. There’s no classy skiing resort in the Stockholm area, but there are some really nice ones some hours by car away from the city.