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Off to Resorts, and Carrying Their Careers

August 13, 2007 /

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Time was you could tell the urban refugees in places like this: corporate achievers who quit the rat race to open a bed and breakfast or a candle shoppe.

Jim Moylan, a lawyer, moved from Chicago and runs his business from Steamboat Springs.

Jim Moylan represents a new tribe in this bucolic mountain town, named for its loud sulfur spring. Mr. Moylan, 59, is a lawyer who specializes in securities and commodities work. When he moved from Chicago in 2003, he did not downscale his career for the small town, keeping his secretary and associates in Chicago and his clients around the country. He conducts his practice by fax and e-mail, just as he did in Chicago.

By JOHN LELAND

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/13/us/13steamboat.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=todayspaper