What’s the best town for us?

My husband and I want to move out to the mountains, he prefers Colorado…I’m from New England and would love to be in the north east. We went to Hunter Mountain area to check it out as a potential future home. His one issue is not having the luxuries we do now living in a big-ish city. The way he words it is there’s nothing there. I disagree, with the mountains, nature, skiing/hiking, etc I think I would enjoy living there. I want to still work on introducing him to different parts of upstate and figured I’d ask the pros on what spot would be worth us checking out after trying to google and not finding out too much info.

He is a wakeboarder, a lake to boat would be awesome

mountains

Young adult population/easy to meet people

Good restaurants (we love Asian cuisine), grocery store, doctors, vet, farmers markets, fun weekend events

Shopping/cute cafes/walkable areas

Would be really nice to be within 2-2.5 hrs from NYC as I have friends and family there!

I appreciate the help!! 🤍🙏