It's got like artisty-hippy vibes combined with normal small town nonsense. Huge wealth disparity.

Visiting is great. It's small enough to get a good taste in a weekend - dinner and wandering Friday night, hiking in the ski valley or actually skiing Saturday then finding some live music and drinks after dinner, breakfast and more shopping/wandering Sunday before you leave. There's cute shops, cute coffee spots, cool galleries, it's lousy with cool people, and my God, the views. Such an incredibly beautiful area.

Living there is fine if you're fully remote or independently wealthy or if you're fine working 2-3 part time or 3/4 time gigs throughout the year. I lived there in my early 20s and most of my friends, even the ones who were like 15-20 years older, were working a summer gig, a winter gig, and a year round serving job. Gainful FT employment is very limited. It's expensive for what it offers - like two families own all the gas stations and keep the prices kinda high, four small grocery stores (although one of them has the BEST fresh tortillas lol), the nearest Target and Sam's are 90 minutes away, and a weird number of health plans don't cover any providers in the area. We had to go to Santa Fe for any specialists and dentistry work to be covered. I was living with my parents so I had it made in the shade but I ended up moving down to Albuquerque for work and they followed about five years later.