The real barrier to entry is the (time & cost) flights and losing a day of riding due to the time change. Once there everything (with the exception of Switzerland) relatively inexpensive. The snow if definitely more variable than continental US. Another challenge is the overwhelming number of options, even the scale of the lift systems at the second rate "resorts" is kind of mindblowing. On mountain food is infinitely better
If you want to travel for snowboarding to mountain or west states, here's the first thing to do. This spring (best pricing on these passes is usually the spring before), try and make a general gameplan of where you might want to visit next year and commit to an Ikon or Epic pass based on which pass covers more of those locations. Then in the fall plan a couple of trips to resorts where that pass works (I have Ikon because I am at Copper and Mammoth several times a winter for my kid's competitions but Epic has a bunch of great options as well). You'll spend $800 to $1000 depending on what pass you get which is still a lot (and it sucks giving that money to Vail or Alterra) but that cost will be long sunk by next winter so your focus turns to transportation and lodging. Both of those are expensive as well but much more manageable without spending hundreds a day on lift tickets.
Ultra solid recommendations.
This season I was batting around ideas like going to Tahoe for a week, taking one day off work, and riding Sat/Sun all day, Mon/Tue night at Boreal (if not refreeze), Wed all day, Thur/Fri night at Boreal (if not refreeze) and Sat/Sun all day - good flight times.
Then I thought I might go to Brighton and stay on-hill. UTA + on-hill = much lower transportation expense. But nothing on-hill for less than like $300-$500/night was available. Because I could take like a two hour lunch, knock off at 3pm Mountain and ride until night riding closure. But if I'd booked this in late spring like you told me to, probably the more affordable options would be available.
Then I thought I could go to Alyeska, stay on-hill, but their lifts are 10a-6p, and so 1pm - 6pm with the four hour time change I could still work until 5.
The one drawback is I'd be picking a zone before knowing what the winter had in store. If I was booking a weeklong trip and roasting 5 vacation days in an El Nino, I'd want Wolf Creek maybe. La Nina, I'd want Targhee or BC Interior or something like that. Baker or Stephen's maybe.
Then I started looking at prices in Europe, and especially out of the Eurozone like Bulgaria, and I could swing like six weeks working remote, ride on good days and then work the afternoons/nights.