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Reno, Nevada

Source: The Biggest Little City has Mount Rose, tech jobs, and all-you-can-eat sushi. Don’t worry, it still has slot machines, too.

POPULATION: 245,255

MEDIAN HOME PRICE: $326,000

MILES FROM A CHAIRLIFT: 25

generation of her family to grow up in northern Nevada, which is why she used to be so eager to leave. Her hometown enabled her to grow up skiing the nearby Sierra that loom over Lake Tahoe—but it also gave her a little too much proximity to what was, at the time, a place best known for not exactly being Las Vegas. “I guess growing up, Reno always felt, like, rundown, and hot, and

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