Eastern Montana (Sidney, Augusta: to rent, brokers, how much)

[Bill7719]

Originally Posted by seven of nine

Very funny last paragraph! Welcome to the board. We are few posters here so hang on. Someone will come along. Would you be working from home so job location is not a problem?
Follow your heart, you only go around once.
http://www.city-data.com/forum/monta...endive-mt.html

Here is an older post to get you started.

Thanks seven of nine! That thread was interesting. I remember seeing Glendive and Miles City and liked them. Yes, I'd mostly be working from home via the Internet. But, as I'm also a photographer and will be getting started writing (want to write about the region, the Old West, a place where people still think clearly and logically, etc.), location could come into play a bit.

I'm definitely more interested in a location which has below 15,000 (below 10,000 would be even better) but with the above concern, something more centrally located may really be better.

But, I know that Miles City has more of a "cowboy" theme, which I like. Are there any areas that are geographically more central that also have a western/cowboy theme moreso than others?

[Bill7719]

Originally Posted by rickers

"Caesar Barakus the Zero" I'm laughing at that one, can I use it ?

Yes, PLEASE do. Obama has such an attitude of being royalty. When I was grudgingly watching the coronation, ooops, I mean inauguration, he had such an arrogant expression on my face (reminded me of depictions of Julius Caesar) that I emailed a friend with a subject line of "All hail Caesar!" This was about two minutes before the coronation happened.

I watched that clown giving one of his useless speeches a few weeks ago and noticed that he is incapable of remembering more than one line at a time.

It looks like he doesn't even know the first name of his defense secretary. Emperor Obama must have been thinking about nationalizing Microsoft when he was speaking today.

Pelosi is in need of her own teleprompter.

marketable Idea for a new bobble head doll. The head wont bobble but the head and eyes would go back and forth going from teleprompter to teleprompter while the mouth flaps away ! I like a politician who can at least look us in the eyes while spewing their garbage.

That was hilarious! You know, we are so fortunate to have a direct line of communication to the most important electronic device in history, the TOTUS. You might suggest that TOTUS consider developing a line of these bobbleheads. Barack Obama's Teleprompter's Blog

You will love Montana no matter where you move to and welcome to the board. Oh you'll see lots of Subarus here and I doubt if anyone can tell if the driver is liberal or conservative by looking at them unless the back is plastered with "save the gay baby whales" bumper stickers ! :

Thanks! And that's hilarious about the bumper sticker thought! I seriously wouldn't be surprised if I truly saw one of those around here.

[Bill7719]

Originally Posted by CatherineFrances

Conservatives and liberals drive ALL kinds of vehicles and some drive the same EXACT type of vehicle! Don't try to put people in a BOX because they drive x, y or z. Think outside of the box when it comes to any stereotype of R and L wing STUFF.

Parts of ND are nice too if you like the Badlands type of scenery.

Best wishes to you no matter where you go.

Catherine
Montana Territory for now...

Hi Catherine, oh I know that. I just mentioned Subaru because it was mentioned on threads here about people coming in with Subarus. I do have a very conservative friend here that also has a Subaru. You can't judge people by the car they drive and it's more like Rickers said about what kind of bumper stickers it has. (Of course, there could even be a liberal that actually does not have bumper stickers.) Too many around here are adorned with all things like "Tax the rich!" and various other socialist statements.

[Bill7719]

Originally Posted by Reziac

\ Unfortuately we're going down the same road to ruin as afflicted Rome in its final days.

Exactly!

[Redraven]

From one "transplant" to another potential one, welcome.
I came out from PA in about 1948. I have left several times since, but keep coming back.
One thing to keep in mind, Wyoming has a rather low sales tax, Montana has an income tax.
The day may come when we pack up and move to WY to get away form the income tax, especially if we go back to traveling. I just HATE paying State Income Tax on earnings paid in another State!

As for the Subaru issue, we used to have one. In a way, I wish we still did! We had an Outback Sport Utility Sedan (SUS). It was a great car!
Another thing that is mentioned sometimes is Birkenstocks. That doesn't apply, either. My wife wears them, as do a LOT of other people who are on their feet for long periods of time.

If you can handle a small town that may or may not have real high-speed internet available, Roundup, just 50 miles or so North of Billings, might be to your liking.

Oh, heck, if getting a job is not a problem, just put a Montana map on the wall and throw a dart at it. Wherever the dart hits, go there.
Even the cities like Billings and Great Falls have the Western flavor, more or less. Personally, I would stay away from Bozeman (college town), Missoula (college town), Kalispell (I grew up in that area, I can't stand it for more than a few days now), or Whitefish (it is close to Kalispell).
Billings and Great Falls have colleges, too, but they don't quite have the Academia attitude that Missoula and Bozeman have.
Miles City is an overgrown cow-town.
Billings is an overgrown cow-town with delusions of grandeur.
Great Falls has an Air Force base, wheat farms, and Charley Russell.
Come on out, prowl around some, and decide where YOU need to be!

[Bill7719]

Originally Posted by MTSilvertip

Eastern Montana is a fantastic place to get away from the crowds. Wide vistas under constantly changing skys playing shadows and light across the endless canvas of the high prairie.

A very moody place where it can be warm, sunny and welcoming one minute, black clouds, winds and hail the next threatening your very existance.

Furnace hot to blistering cold, dust, wind, snow, rain, a deficit of water, while at the same time no other place on earth can burst forth with carpets of flowers and green that are so vibrant with color they hurt your eyes carpet the spaces between the exposed rocky bones of the earth jutting out from the ground, reaching for the heavens.This is Eastern Montana.

Life on a grand all encompassing scale almost beyond human imagination. Completely removed from the pseudo-science hyperbole of the so-called environmentalists who could no more grasp the realities of life on the high plains than they could fly to Mars. It is real. Violent, gentle, soft and unbending, it is nature at it's finest.

The land itself humbles the efforts of man to tame a land once walked by dinosaurs that still come up from their millena old graves to bleach their bones it the summer sun.

It is a land that can spark the imagination, cower the unprepaired, destroy the strong and give divine spark to the weak. A place so remote you feel you are the only person on earth, yet so close to real nature it can overwhelm with the abundance of life that abounds in the strange forbidding land.

You don't challenge the high prairie with puny human creations and machines, if you wish to survive, embrace what the land is, not what you envision it to be. Adapt and you will thrive.

Just be careful of the gumbo, pack water, and bring your own job.

Wow, what beautiful writing. This is inspiring. The mental images produced, combined with what I saw last year, make me want to live there to see everyday life firsthand. This is the kind of land that would tame a person and allow them to experience at least a little bit of what the early pioneers experienced. The opportunities for photography and writing would be tremendous.

And of course, I absolutely love this: "Completely removed from the pseudo-science hyperbole of the so-called environmentalists who could no more grasp the realities of life on the high plains than they could fly to Mars." Escaping these people would be wonderful!

[rickers]

If we are going to go down like the Roman Empire then at least can we indulge in a few orgys and watch some lions chase down and eat some of the prisoners at Gitmo in a sports arena ? Please Please ?

[Bill7719]

Originally Posted by Timberwolf232

As for the OP.. Bill7719, come on out! As Montana has become "discovered", we might as well welcome the folks moving here have their heads on straight!

Thanks Timberwolf232. It's also nice to hear something like that. In this area, if I said the types of things I mentioned in the thread about not being thrilled with government waste and such (not to mention giving our Dear "Leader" a title appropriate to his obvious attitude that he is some sort of royalty) people would think I was crazy. I simply don't think like the Northeast "Matrix" or "Borg."

My intent to come out to MT or WY is to escape the insanity here, definitely not to bring it with me. I want to immerse myself in the region, not colonize it. I like the area, like the scenery, like the history, and like the fact that it's not totally taken over by the cancer that has taken over both coasts. (There are very beautiful areas here too, but the overall extreme liberal attitude takes away from that.)

[Bill7719]

Originally Posted by Redraven

From one "transplant" to another potential one, welcome.
I came out from PA in about 1948. I have left several times since, but keep coming back.
One thing to keep in mind, Wyoming has a rather low sales tax, Montana has an income tax.
The day may come when we pack up and move to WY to get away form the income tax, especially if we go back to traveling. I just HATE paying State Income Tax on earnings paid in another State!

As for the Subaru issue, we used to have one. In a way, I wish we still did! We had an Outback Sport Utility Sedan (SUS). It was a great car!
Another thing that is mentioned sometimes is Birkenstocks. That doesn't apply, either. My wife wears them, as do a LOT of other people who are on their feet for long periods of time.

If you can handle a small town that may or may not have real high-speed internet available, Roundup, just 50 miles or so North of Billings, might be to your liking.

Oh, heck, if getting a job is not a problem, just put a Montana map on the wall and throw a dart at it. Wherever the dart hits, go there.
Even the cities like Billings and Great Falls have the Western flavor, more or less. Personally, I would stay away from Bozeman (college town), Missoula (college town), Kalispell (I grew up in that area, I can't stand it for more than a few days now), or Whitefish (it is close to Kalispell).
Billings and Great Falls have colleges, too, but they don't quite have the Academia attitude that Missoula and Bozeman have.
Miles City is an overgrown cow-town.
Billings is an overgrown cow-town with delusions of grandeur.
Great Falls has an Air Force base, wheat farms, and Charley Russell.
Come on out, prowl around some, and decide where YOU need to be!

Thanks Redraven! It's great to meet someone here originally from my neck of the woods!

Thanks for the info on some of the areas. I definitely want to stay away from the academia attitude. Where I am, there are about nine colleges (counting public and private and including all community colleges) in the metro area. Between that and big government offices (local and state), I definitely want to avoid places with a heavy academia presence. It's sad I have to say this; I'm a proponent of lifelong learning, staying current on things, studying history, etc. But I cannot stand the academic attitude of elitism. Colleges claim to be places of "tolerance" and "diversity" but everyone must think in a liberal, politically correct manner or risk being ostracized. Try to express any dissent in a respectful manner on one of their major issues (redistributing money earned by producers, enviro-whackoism, confiscating guns, banning free speech, hating Christianity, etc.) and you're immediately branded a "hater," etc.

I remember Kalispell. In the summer time, I imagine there are constant traffic jams with Glacier NP being so close.

I do like Wyoming quite a bit as well (and yes, no state income tax is certainly attractive). One of the biggest concerns, however, is the cost of rentals (even simply renting a room would be fine). I don't intend to buy anything for quite a while because I want to really know an area before I determine whether or not to buy a home there. But, I'm basically sustainable, (not like a rich out of state person moving in to make real estate prices go out of site) and I've got to control costs everywhere. That too would be a factor on location decisions in Montana.

A conservative friend of mine has a Subaru Outback SUS. It's definitely a nice car!

I definitely like the idea of Roundup. It's a smaller city. Its location is great in that I could see some of the western areas plus some of the eastern areas with a drive of almost equal distance either way. High speed Internet would probably be important though for work. But, I can check into that.

[Bill7719]

Rickers, well, it looks like our great "hope and change" guy cannot even get members of his own party to agree with him on Gitmo. I'd love to see his party fall apart like Rome rather than the country. They might have control but since they're all about power, such power may ultimately ruin the party. It couldn't happen to a nicer bunch too!