When Allison Barnette spotted green rolling hills while driving north on Interstate 87 toward the Adirondacks last summer, it took about two hours before she called her husband to tell him she may have found a new place to grow their careers while raising their daughter to have an appreciation for the outdoors.
Barnette flew into New York City in August 2022 and made the four-hour drive to Essex County to interview for the general manager position at The Lodge at Schroon Lake, upstate New York’s…