You should check out Boston. Tons of tech jobs and way closer to skiing. When I studied in Cambridge we were only 2 hours away from skiing at Waterville, door to door even on weekends with "thick" traffic. There's a reason so many skiers are "Massholes." That quick jaunt up I-93 is fantastic.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Harvard+University,+Cambridg...

Also my dorm in Boston to Sunday River which is a huge ski area in upper Maine was just about 3 hours.