Gary Kunzer discovered Salt Lake City when Deluxe Corp. transferred him there in 1998. When he retired from his operations manager position in 2006 he decided to stick around rather than move back to his hometown of St. Paul, Minn. He now splits his time between a variety of part-time jobs including golf teacher, ski instructor, and sales. "When you go skiing in Salt Lake you are truly in the mountains and when you come down you are in a truly metro area," says Kunzer. "Skiing is probably the best family activity people can ever do: I have 3 daughters in their 20s and they won't always talk with me, but they always ski with me."
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