Also, it’s a different lifestyle in the mountains/ski resorts if you live there all year round with your family. Hard to explain but these kids dont have the sorts of activities that kids in towns/semi rural areas do.
For example, there aren’t soft plays, cinemas, bowling alleys etc that my kids have. Also there tend to be fewer kids in these areas so their friends tend to be of a much more diverse age group and often knock about with kids a few years older than them and do what they are doing. Plus, due to property prices out there, most people live in pretty small apartments so kids want to be out as much as possible.
This means that children there tend to go up the hill from a much earlier age and be it on skis or bikes etc and get used to the environment and it’s associated risks. When we lived in ski resorts I remember skiing with my friends kids when they were 4+ and the little buggers would hoon about like nutcases. Sadly they’re all 11+ now and leave us older folk for dust which is rather annoying. I really regret moving back to the UK just as my two were born because I would have loved them to have that kind of lifestyle. Far more fun and I find gives them the chance to develop at an early age.