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If you dont want to meet Rupert and Zsara, you had better cross Meribel and Courcheval off your list, as they are entirely populated by them! Tignes has a better cross section of society and some good nights out, but it looks like somone dumped Tower Hamlets on the side of the mountain. Val Thorens is pretty much entirely populated by Scandies on their gap years, and french chavs on weekend breaks, and is not somewhere i would want to do a season - i did 2 seasons in Meribel, and 2 in Val D Isere, and 3 in Colorado, and also lived for a bit over on the Swiss side of Portes De Soleil.
Personaly if i were you i would go for Morzine in the Portes De Soleil, a lot of the top Brits and European Snowboarders are based there, freeriding is epic, parks are awesome, and its a proper town with a good scene. Also only an hour or so from Geneva.
Having said that Meribel is a great place to do a season too, although there are a lot of public schoolies, most of them are there to shred, rather than just spank daddies money, unlike Val D Isere where they are more interested in getting pissed than skiing/boarding. I t has one of the best Saisonaire communities out in the alps, and has some epic terain over the 3 valleys.
I never had a proper job during any of my seasons - the ones in Europe i funded by having a car out there, and doing transfers - pretty much only worked on Saturday and Sunday, and would make charge 250 euros for a trip to Geneva and 200 to Lyon which undercut the cabbies, always making sure i had a fare each way, so 2 trips a weekend with 4 fares made me about 800 euros a week - i came back in profit each season. I was pretty hooked up in the resorts, so never had a problem as someone always had a mate/parents etc etc who needed picking up, or reps would get me to tke punters who had got too pissed and missed their coaches.
Local cabbies didnt like it if you cut into their business,(i know a couple of lads whose legs were broken by local cabbies when they openly touted for business) but as long as you only did it for tour companies and mates it was alright.