Posted on 07/03/2020 4:44:28 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
One of my children is considering a move to Billings to take advantage of a good career opportunity. However, no one in our family or circle of friends has been there.
So I would really appreciate any input Freepers familiar with the area can provide!
Thanks much :)
*We have lived in Fargo and one of the kids lived in Grand Forks, North Dakota--may be some similarities for comparison....
LoL I thought you were in SF, NYC, or LA (Or Seattle, Chicago, Portland some place) and making the move...
Can’t really say much as NY and LA are the places I’m most fmiliar with! But I do wonder...What it’d be like...If...
Sanity...
Billings in a college town, which is never good. Montana in general is conservative. I live in North West Montana and love it.
Recently spoke a home appraiser friend who said he has never been this busy. Sadly it is NY, NJ, OR, IL and CA license plates. They are paying full asking price. I suggested he should tell them houses really are in bad condition.
Gunner
One of my Brothers lives in Billings.
H still likes it there although it has grown largely because of the oil boom.
Go.
Montana is the last redoubt
Movin’ to Montana soon
Gonna be a Dental Floss tycoon
Idaho is another. Especially Twin Falls. Not as cold as Montana.
LOL I am currently in the Chicago area...Eh won’t deny I am thinking about following child up there if they like the job ;)
...I have lived in Fargo, and my son did PhD for 5 years up in Grand Forks, so I am familiar with North Dakota...I miss trips up there—in the summer ;)
haven’t lived there.. been thru there...I heard there is a really nice Italian restaurant downtown....it has a big gas refinery there....it may not seem scenic at first....but the outlying areas should be awesome....Missouri River is near....no sales tax in Montana...wyoming only about 80 miles away, if that....
Thank you, Lucy! Love the pic ;)
Happy Fourth of July!
1. It is COLD in the winter and the winter starts in September and ends in May, with any luck.
2. They named a town JOE, after the San Francisco 49er JOE Montana.
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Since so few people live there it HAS to be a nice place...especially if you like snow.
Great Falls area or Kalispell area .
I would consider Cody WY .
We have friends in Missoula who would welcome more conservatives to that beautiful place!
“””...I have lived in Fargo, and my son did PhD for 5 years up in Grand Forks, so I am familiar with North Dakota...I miss trips up therein the summer ;)””””
Fargo native. Plenty of relatives up and down the valley.
Hellhole in the winter. Nasty spring flooding and then two months of mosquito season before winter again.
And the endless wind.....
When we lived in Tri-Cities, eastern Washington, we had a lot of folks who had moved down there from Montana and Wyoming - ‘because it was so much warmer.’ We were up from Los Angeles and an occasional 30 below, with 20 below average (hitting a high of 0) in the winter and 120 in the summer didn’t seem all that balmy to us. haha. I loved it there tho.
Came here for the Zappa reference, goes away happy.
One of my Brothers lives in Billings.
H still likes it there although it has grown largely because of the oil boom.
Yes, I have read about oil boom there...Just like Williston ND...Wonder if it is still booming with oil prices down—tho they are coming back.
Montana is seeing a flood of refugees from blue states. Be advised it is VERY cold there in winter. Montana may turn Leftist with all the inbound escapees wanting to soil Montana after they have soiled their home states.
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