“Isolation from cities” is all bonus.
Was working with a company consulting in Bar Harbor one winter.
Walked into the only open restaurant we could find. Sat up at the bar and turned to the patron in the next seat.
Who answered our greeting withe the words:
February is suicide-month.
Being a ski bum seems like a great idea when you’re in your twenties. Then one day you’re in your thirties or forties and realize you’re still making almost nothing working in a restaurant or running a ski lift and now have few prospects for a better life. Plus, drugs and alcohol are a big part of the ski bum lifestyle, which is certainly not good for long term mental health. The author of the piece wants to blame it on anything other than poor decision making.
Factors leading to the rise include MARIJUANA, the transient way of life on the slopes, financial instability, isolation from cities, and a lack of decent mental healthcare investment from tourism-focused local governments.
I wouldn’t really call Grand Junction a ski town.
Cape Cod in winter claims its share of victims, as well.
When one puts their faith in people, places, things, drugs, and activities, one will invariably be disappointed.
When one puts their faith in God, one will invariably be uplifted.
That's because the locals can't afford a lift ticket much less housing.
The suicides result from a feeling of personal failure as skiers realize they will never be able to ski the bumps.
They think we baby boomers are “F’d” up. Mommy and Daddy’s money is all these little bums have. New cars, vacations 24/7/365, their back pack, water bottles, cellphones and their Panda Express bowls. They have no friends except the idiots on their social sites. They have no patriotism. They have no real education. They have no history. No religion. No goals. No REAL flag to stand up for. They have no country. They live in the “clouds” to “stay safe”. No wonder they are all suicidal.
The world is a cruel place. The better you have it, the more the random setbacks, tragedies, and outrages stand out without any good explanation.
People need something to look forward to, a better tomorrow. Eventually the godless materialists realize that life is a downward spiral that can only end in pain, humiliation, and death.
You need faith that defies the stark, cold realities of life.
I have an idea…let’s open up hundreds more Drug Dispensaries!
The jab?
“’I lost five people in 18 months’: Chilling mystery behind America’s ski town ‘Suicide Belt’”
Throw God out of your country and guess who shows up.
Oh, and leave it to NPR to think that grape growing, dusty dry and Grand Junction is a resort ski town.
Good riddance.
Is this a new phenomenon ?
He said most of the other workers there were from Australia and at the end of the season, they return to Australia and return to jobs working at the ski resorts there.
He and the others are in essence professional ski bums who have worked at resorts all over the world.
Resorts relying on these workers typically provide them with free ski passes as well as low rent dormitories for the season.
“ experts, high-altitude party towns in the Rockies”
Like cities in the clouds
Could people possibly be any more ignorant about the difference between altitude and *elevation*?
Everyone knows that it is because of 2 things: global warming and Trumps fault.