Why are people from Montana so nice?

[stan4]

The farther you get from the east/west coasts, the nicer the people are. It's really strange, but I think it has to do with being crowded and having to fork over tons of money for itty bitty living spaces.

[MSPLove]

Originally Posted by J3Ginger

In reference to Minnesconsinite's post, I must say that I somewhat agree with her. I grew up in the South and moving to Montana was a huge culture shock. I have also struggled in making friends, which was tough since I moved out here solo. However, I am grateful to Montana because it is where I met my husband (who is a Montana native)!

Yeah, I'm grateful for the experience of living there in that nowadays I think nothing of a four-hour drive to Madison from where I currently live. Whereas if I had never moved, I don't think I'd be as brave to try out new places.

I think, again, it's more of a Great Falls thing on the whole than a Montana thing, although I noticed similar rudeness in other areas of the state. Like when I was on Greyhound coming back to Great Falls after a vacation to the midwest years ago. My bus was about to leave and the cashier was chatting with a local. This was in Lewistown. She was purposely ignoring me for a while, and then ringing it up slowly... knowing I was one of the bus passengers. For no reason other than to be difficult, and juvenile. She was a middle-aged woman. Some things they do and say just make your blood boil. And make your jaw drop. Like, "Did that just happen? Why?" In my mom's odyssey of finding employment upon arriving in MT, she got a similar job to the one she had at home, and was promptly sexually harrassed. The next job, she was yelled at and chewed out in front of a crowd of people like a four-year-old by her boss. Both things had never happened to her in her life. I mean, I can name off example after example... but overall it's something you just have to experience for yourself from a newcomer's view. Some of the proof is in the pudding based on some of the responses to me right here. (I'll just let them stand and speak for themselves.)

Now that I'm back home, little things occur almost daily out in public to remind me how much friendlier my home is. I say silent thank yous everyday.

[Reelcheeper]

Originally Posted by Minnesconsinite

I don't believe they are.

I dealt with rude people the whole time I lived there. Finally moved away in October 2010, for good. I called Montana a couple weeks ago to deal with some random business, and got the snarkiest most sarcastic woman on the line. She totally fitting in with the attitude I dealt with in Montana for several years.

I got off the phone with the old feeling that I was back out west again... . I made sure to take a few deep breaths, and shift my vibration after I was done talking to her. I wasn't taking any of that garbage out into public a few minutes later. (Sure enough, it was back to normal a few minutes later. Random stranger made a joke as we were passing each other out in the parking lot at my grocery store.... .)

I could sit down and make a list of incidences of rudeness, dating all the way back to when I first moved there and began attending school. (There was a disrespect toward teachers that wouldn't have been tolerated where I'd previously lived. That's one example.)

On the whole I found it much more difficult to make friends all the years I was in Montana. Since I've moved away and back to my homestate (refer to the right side of my name), I haven't stopped making friends.

Anyway I notice it more in Great Falls, where I lived, than in Montana on the whole. I personally find an anger in people I can't describe, and an immaturity in the adults... which is passed down to the kids. Montana was the first and only place I saw a very small child/baby roll his eyes at me....
lmao.

It's all perspective, but I personally couldn't be happier to have moved away.

I could be wrong, but Montana seems like a place where sociopaths would want to move (that would explain why I am interested in moving there).

[ElkHunter]

Some people have had bad experiences in Montana. Not everybody. But their personality plays a big part. So take it for what it's worth.