Morzine, the overdeveloped…

Morzine is a small French mountain town with a huge growth problem. 

For someone who’s been totally out of this place for more than four years, it’s obvious that growth has been unbridled by allowing to build on every available square foot that a big real estate bubble is not just growing wild, but had the case always it, getting very close to bursting! 

Will this really happen like it might in my own Park City hometown? I think so. Already, locals in Morzine are clamoring about traffic, parking and soaring real estate prices, plus also the bad taste a British invasion that’s already seeping into that postcard-perfect mountain community. Right now, the pressure’s still building, but how high can it go?

 American ski towns are fortunate to have much more space to play with so the feeling of overcrowding and over-something is far less pervading, but Morzine breathing room is now very close to be suffocating and quite impossible to undo at that point of extreme development. 

Will that chase future visitors away? Probably not because all other French ski resorts are for the most part in the same predicament, but it will make everybody, visitor and locals alike, profoundly bitter, constantly unhappy and terribly unfulfilled!