Retirement In Montana

[mark6052]

JJM good points, gated communities are like dude ranches, they are not the real MT. but atleast there all hearded up in small areas. I gave up on Kalispel yrs ago, way to calif trendy. and very costly. my brother tried to find some property to buy there this summer, wow, I think he's staying in N ID. Golf? I hope I never get that old!

[JoeJoeMan]

My friend was telling me what Bozeman and Big Sky look like theses days, I havn't been that way in years. I used to live out that way, when they were putting the ski slope in it was..."oh this won't impact anything, we just want a ski slope, dah dah dah, lie, lie lie".....sounds those gate multi-million $ condos and Hollywood McMansions are eating forest fast than an August crown fire. There goes the neighborhood as they say.
Funny, but it use to be a regular guy could buy 10, 20 acres and make a little place for himself, a single lot in foo-foo montana will cost your more than that now. Yup, growth has really improved the 'quality of life' (a foo-foo term) around Montana. And yet we still have these 'growth-people' telling us it's our salvation.
Oh yea we needed to bring jobs to monanta, how many times you heard that one, politicians love that one. Well now we got'em, with the unemployment rate less than 4 percent. Yea to bad most of 'em pay the same thing they paid 10 years ago but it cost 10 times as much to live around here now. Yea that growth/jobs idea they (politicians) promised seems to have worked out just about as good as that deregulate electricty scam they shoved down our throats.
Hey I'm older and doing ok, holding my own, but I pity our kids who really have to deal with it. Let's hope they all have decent and well-off parents to help them, their gonna need it.

[YOU-CANT-EAT-SCENERY]

Originally Posted by JoeJoeMan

Hey I'm older and doing ok, holding my own, but I pity our kids who really have to deal with it. Let's hope they all have decent and well-off parents to help them, their gonna need it.

Man you ain't just kidding on that one. Heck, I couldn't even afford to buy my own house now, if I had to. And I've only had it for 5 years.

[fbcobrn]

Originally Posted by JoeJoeMan

Hey I'm older and doing ok, holding my own, but I pity our kids who really have to deal with it. Let's hope they all have decent and well-off parents to help them, their gonna need it.

That's already been happening in California for >10 years. I had my first house at age 23...My dghter and her family, at age 30, needed our help to buy a 70 yr old 2 bedroom house....and they both worked full-time. Thank goodness she had "decent" and "hard-working" parents who raised a hard-working, decent child who could live in less-than-plush 1100 sq.ft house without every convenience known to man. She was just happy to be out of apartments.

[2charlie]

Don't be so quick to insist that you want to live in the mountains. So does every one else. Thats exactly why I don't live out west anymore, but instead came out to the prairies of eastern Montana, what I call " West Dakota."
If what you want is true small town living, with security, neighbors that know you and care about you, but still have access to services, there are lots of choices.
Where I live, I never lock my car, couldn't tell you where my house keys are, can't remember the last time someone was robbed, etc. I live within walking distance of the courthouse, downtown shopping, swimming pool, hospital, senior home, 18 hole golf course, school, fishing dam, etc.
We may not have a MacDonalds or a WalMart, but I long ago learned to appreciate not having to put up with the bull&^$% that goes along with a city of much size.
I never have to wait in line, and businesses and clerks aren't rude because they truly value your business and your friendship.
Eastern Montana has many pockets left of what all of Montana was once like back in the fifties. Places like Scobey, Plentywood, Glasgow, Ekalaka, Circle, Sidney, etc.
And the Eastern Montana scenery grows on you. It sure did me. I was raised out west and love the mountains but now I appreciate the prairies just as much. Awesome grandeur in its own way.

[countess1166]

Did you mean retire? OR work? Red Lodge is the best for retirement.

[jimj]

Originally Posted by countess1166

Did you mean retire? OR work? Red Lodge is the best for retirement.

Stop digging up threads to spam so you can sell your house please