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Originally Posted by Crawford
I always noticed that Southern Californians own far more homes in Mammoth than Northern Californians. I never got that one. Maybe it has something to do with mountain road access from the Bay Area in winter weather?
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I assume for northern Californians you're talking about Tahoe instead? I'm not really convinced that it's any less up here, though it might be simply because so many northern Californians go farther afield to buy. My wife and I were a part of a three family group that owned a Tahoe cabin for a couple years before deciding to buy a place of our own in Jackson Hole.
Similarly, I know dozens of folks that own a second home up in far northern California (north of Redding) or places like Sun Valley, Idaho, Park City, or Big Sky.
If you're talking specifically about Mammoth, it's much easier for those of us up north to go to Tahoe (and the Tahoe area combined is an order of magnitude larger than Mammoth in ski resorts, population, other infrastructure, etc). From northern California you'd have to drive through Yosemite to get to Mammoth, which isn't a great option, especially in the winter (Mammoth is on the east side of the Sierras).