I know two things about Montana.
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.
Since so few people live there it HAS to be a nice place...especially if you like snow.
LOL—Like your Large blue font...COLD and SNOW!
Child went to school up in UP (Upper Peninsula, Michigan) ...likes cold...Likes cross country skiing...
Actually Marquette MI (where went to school) is north of Billings—but I suspect Lake Superior may have a mitigating effect on temperatures in MI...
I bet you were one HECK of a ice hockey player!
Marquette is considerably colder and infinitely more snow than Billings
I have no truck with Billings but there are much better places in Montana to live scenery and people wise
A bit further west unless you own a large cattle spread or oil patch then the vast plains of eastern Montana will suffice
My brother lives in TC
I’m UP familiar and my son snow cave camps on that high ridge west above Marquette when he can and it is extremely cold at
The Mt Arvon escarpment is bitter in January
The western slope of the glacier park like Cut Bank is the coldest part of Montana I’m fairly certain....the western slope like Whitefish ...a lovely place...gets an inversion