The 13,000-person town of Steamboat Springs, has found itself in the middle of a housing crisis so serious that the local hospital is losing job candidates left and right due to the surging real estate market. The small mountain town, about a three-hour drive from Denver, cannot find a head of human resources for the city because the offered $167,000 salary will no longer put anyone in a position to buy a house in the area.The self-described cowboy ski town has been known primarily as an area where aspiring winter Olympians come to train among the salt of the earth locals who are by-and-large middle-income professionals.
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