Montana is the BEST State

How are the property taxes? They are ridiculous in Pa.

Worse than Texas? Insane there

Woot, woot! It is a good state!

There is a Super Volcano near by and also Mount St. Helens could happen again

Kinda high in Montana since there's no sales tax. I'm a 4th generation Montanan. Wages are low and property prices are high in the NW where I'm from. Had to move away to make a living. Just bought some property with my brother, and am working on a tele-commute snowbird plan. Florida in the winter and Montana in the summer!!

June - Sep, most stephanietly.

other months, sucks to be you.

loser's

Tell that to my chickens, they are under a mylar tent in the barn with a heat lamp and still got frost bite on the crowns. If it gets up to 0 it is a warm day this week.

We lived by Flathead Lake for awhile, it WAS nice. But too cold for me. I Oregon now (although I am currently snowed in).

I lived in Somers and Kalispell. :) Now of all the God awful cold places I'm in Minneapolis!!

I will be living in Montana in the next five years. Love the place

Is flathead valley community college still in kalispell?

Yes, it is.

I grew up in Montana, went to school with the same 28 kids K-12. Wonderful childhood in a very small town, great people! Unless you marry a rancher or go to college to be a teacher, there's really no way to make a living there, unfortunately. I had to leave when I was 20. A few years back I decided to leave IL and when determining where to go, I eliminated Montana as an option due to the caldera risk and lack of work, but I consider myself a Montanan and still miss it!

You all better show up at the march in Whitefish on the 17th unless you want to see Montana become Detroit.

Get Lost.

Go to Yaak.

WHAT ABOUT IDAHO

Yes but they aren't downtown. The campus is north on Hwy 93 just north of Reserve Dr.

Montana, where men are men
and half the women are too.
and the sheep are nervous
LOL

West fork of the Stillwater is some pretty trout fishing. Good boots a plus

You have to give up something to live in Montana and 9 times out of 10 it is money.

Yes as my Daddy used to always say.. "You can't eat the scenery."

As far as risk goes, I figure what are the odds a caldera event would occur in next 40 years? Mt. St. Helens was far smaller than a super-eruption, but I was 200 mi NW when it blew and didn't get anything but a dusting after it had already traveled around the world.

Since a distance of 450 miles and the Continental Divide is between NW MT and Yellowstone, I think it would be a pretty safe place. Anything more than that and who cares.

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If you like fucking cold.....
I was looking and Butte Montana was -29 the other day. Too cold.

Yeah but its been close to zero this week in Seattle and 19 degrees in Atlanta. Minneapolis has had a mean temp of zero for about 3 weeks now. Not to mention wind chills.

Hey Miss Scarlett. Don't forget Libby and Coram! Bigfork was my home town. Been Stuck in MN/WI for 17 years now. Like MacArthur...to Montana I shall return...not as refugee but as victor!

The worst state to be when ww3 starts; all the ICBMs are parked there, it's going to get vaporized by russians and China.

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Beautiful country - from the temperate rain forest in the west to beautiful grasslands for most else. I really enjoyed working and driving all over that HUGE state.

In the middle of the country so plenty of time to launch. all they hit is empty silos

Hey if any of you like history.... My ancestors came to MT during the gold rush of the 1860's. Ol' Uncle Levi ran a mule train from the mouth of the Columbia to the gold mining camps. One of my ancestors wrote a book on the adventures of some of my family. They left Lyndon IL in 1850 for the California gold fields and it includes excerpts of my GGGrandfather's diary during their crossing.

It also covers his brother drifting up into MT and claimed he was in the audience when they hung Henry Plummer. Anyhewww I have this 75 page book and committed to transcribe it this month. If anyone wants to check it out, I'll post it online.

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Sure!

It's a very cool snapshot of life in 1850's and 60's. Slang words and and all. Some great stories worthy of reading.

I'm revamping my home office and thought I'd make that my first project.