Kalispell winter

[MTSilvertip]

Originally Posted by snowave

It's happening everywhere in the mountain west, so don't think it's any longer just unique to Montana.

It isn't unique to Montana, and with the wuhan flu panicdemic, more folks are trying to flee cities all across the country driving up prices in rural areas pretty much everywhere there is a rural area.
Just getting worse as now with computers, they can go anywhere there's a good internet connection.

People that want to live rural and farm or ranch are being completely priced out.

[Exwyocowboy]

Originally Posted by nowhereman427

Kalispell is getting to be more expensive $$$ and crowded.

This is not a new thing. Kalispell has been overpriced since Y2K

[NDak15]

Originally Posted by MTSilvertip

It isn't unique to Montana, and with the wuhan flu panicdemic, more folks are trying to flee cities all across the country driving up prices in rural areas pretty much everywhere there is a rural area.
Just getting worse as now with computers, they can go anywhere there's a good internet connection.

People that want to live rural and farm or ranch are being completely priced out.

Wuhan flu huh?

Originally Posted by Exwyocowboy

This is not a new thing. Kalispell has been overpriced since Y2K

Was that when Kalispell was discovered?

[Exwyocowboy]

Originally Posted by NDak15

Was that when Kalispell was discovered?

I suppose it went onto the survivalist map about then. But that end of the Flathead and Whitefish have been the playgrounds of the noveau riche since the 60's.

[wamer27]

Originally Posted by Exwyocowboy

I suppose it went onto the survivalist map about then. But that end of the Flathead and Whitefish have been the playgrounds of the noveau riche since the 60's.

I met a guy in his 80’s or so in Deadwood last December who’s born and raised in Whitefish. He said the town’s “breaking point” was when Iron Horse Golf Course/club was put in. A bail bondsman I friended at a bar in town also agreed with it (not because I was arrested and needed him ) The guy I met in Deadwood had to move because he couldn’t afford the town anymore. Found some other small affordable place hours away and wasn’t too happy about having to do it.

[NDak15]

Originally Posted by Exwyocowboy

I suppose it went onto the survivalist map about then. But that end of the Flathead and Whitefish have been the playgrounds of the noveau riche since the 60's.

The survivalist map?

[Plainswalker]

Unfortunately, housing prices are rising everywhere, including the affordable "Midwest" without the wages following.

4 Years ago you could find a decent small house for $120k where I'm at in Iowa (where the jobs are), and now those same houses are going for $200k-$300k. There is a disgusting amount of condos and zero-lots being sold for that amount or more.

Of course a beautiful area with mountain scenery is going to demand prices similar, especially in the internet age where you don't have the fear of a commute.

[thedwightguy]

I fly out of Kalispell often (except 2020, of course). And I've had vehicle work done there, spent some time in town. Walked from the airport out off the highway, was immediately p/u by driver that dropped me at an intersection five miles toward town, then p/u again and offered a ride the rest of the way. That hasn't happened IN MY LIFE. And while it was raining, I didn't even have my thumb out. Talk about nice people.

BUT Montana and Kalispell seems to be a place where you either have money, or have almost nothing to work with. Lots of ranches three/four generations deep that probably NEVER had a mortgage, or govt. employees well retired with cash flow, or second/third generation small business, but all the rest? Struggle to and for work of some kind. Keep that in mind. Service is great everywhere, and is what I miss most about not living in the USA.