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....
There are two smaller than average sized oil refineries in Billings. There are also a few natural gas facilities in the area.
The weather is on par with ND. Same goes for the wind.
House prices spike in the summer and fall as out of state people buy, then the prices fall all through the winter into spring as those thin skinned persons decide they are not up to living there.
The weather can be especially brutal down near the river due to the extra dynamic of the humidity/moisture when it’s cold. Having worked everywhere there is oil and having worked them all seasons, Billings is not any worse than others. This goes for all points of the compass.
I always get a kick out of hearing the locals of place doing their shpill on others, either they say it’s the worst place on the planet, or it’s not as bad as some other places being compared.
I laugh at all of it. Weather is weather.
It.Simply.is