Where to live in MT

[montanadeeanna]

My dad's side of the family is all from Malta. It always amazed me when we would go visit Grandpa and our names would appear in the paper the next week for doing so.

Malta is definitely anything but unfriendly! The people are what make the town, because there is not much else going on. It's good old time entertainment, rodeos, ropings, the Phillips Co. Fair. It has changed very little in my 38 years, I like that about it, and it probably never will.

[rickers]

Originally Posted by boybrady

Rickers did you actually get out of your car?
Malta is certainly not unfriendly but it is very small, it was probably instantly known you were an outsider (even without seeing your plates)

I live on the highline and have had Montana plates on my rig for the 12 years I've lived in Montana.
We like all the towns along the highline as well as the people for the most part. We went to a fast food joint in Malta and some local family butted in line in front of us at the counter. That is the only town that I've run into rude folks in all the twelve years I've lived here. Maybe they were outsiders and not locals. I just thought Malta was a bit strange compared to the other towns here along the highline.

[Reziac]

Originally Posted by montanadeeanna

My dad's side of the family is all from Malta. It always amazed me when we would go visit Grandpa and our names would appear in the paper the next week for doing so.

That used to be the norm everywhere, until a place got too big for most folks to know most other folks. "News" was mostly what people we knew did, not what strangers across the globe did. -- Some of the old farm-town newspapers are now online in North Dakota, and it's fun to read this sort of thing from a hundred years ago. Once in a while you run into a long-ago relative that way.