Thank you very much!!

@@LivinginMontana1 If folks move in and try to change the land or cannot adjust to the realities---show them the door. Do NOT allow them to stay. It is that simple. I lived in Wyoming for a time and the same concepts apply there as well.

It's happening here in AZ too! People from California, Oregon, Washington and other states moving here. Really hope they don't try changing this state like states they have left!

@@robertwatson818 So you are saying to round up and expel Americans if they have hard time adjusting? Jesus that's pretty inhumane.

@@caroloneill4760 Arizona is already a lost cause

👍🏻Very well said sir👍🏻

I read a great one- when you come you're not a missionary, you're a refuge

There should be a law if you moved out of state you cannot vote for 5 years on local elections. I think 5 years might be a little long but it gives people enough time to adapt and look at things from the locals perspective.

AMEN!!

When in Rome...

And probably that car would stop and join the conversation.

10+ years ago I cycled from WA to PA. As I went through MT I was able to cycle down the middle of I-90 w/o a car insight. Took a selfie to share with others. Love MT and hope to be one of the lucky people to move there when I retire and blend in.

Talking to who ?

I lived in Idaho for 11yrs..2 miles outta town no cell service..ive walked down the main road and no vehicles for 1 1/2 hrs...but 90% of the time they stop and ask if I need a ride..my eyes are tearing up as I write this...i miss it and will be back

😂

I love these ranch ads and big lake houses and they ALL show the places in the summer. How about seven months of winter along with three months of tough sledding???!

"I think the best way to show how winter life here is to show them." That's the general idea, yes.

Really ❤😳

Do you have tips? Like how to be self reliant enough? For example, a food garden, a few chickens etc?

​@@justsomejusstsome89942 months growing season ...your chickens will be ate by predators.... it can be 30 below in the morning Chinook 3 to 4 hours in total black ice after 4:00 p.m. so you have to have a whole new set of tires with steel studs

Wow, you're actually right

​@@oz9063 Yo, it's the dude who made me like Montana.

It's the Moving to Montana Hashtag #MovingtoMontana that directed the traffic to this post. Me being a Montana resident finds that scary. This was a spot on video of how we live in Montana.

There are over a million people in Montana now but of course, winter will come!!

😂 all the ‘interested to move there’

I am sorry to hear it is being ruined already.

I'm from so cal just checking out Montana. If I ever decide to move there I'm gonna do my homework. Like the guy said winter is bad for city folks there's no Walmart home depot close by. You've got to be ready mentally and physically. Not sure but very old people from California won't make it there. It seems you have to be in shape mentally and physically.

larry trejo I would recommend living somewhere like Laurel, where I was raised, so Billings is only about 20 mins away. Yellowstone river is great, not too much wildlife, but the wilderness is easily accessible. Red lodge ski mountain is only and hour or two away, Clooney dam lake about 45 min, and the Interstate near for further travel.

That sounds like a real nice place.

The Lawyers have destroyed this nation.

And just like here, the people you're describing are one micro fraction of a percentage of the populace. Hence why it's easy to romanticize - most people don't know anyone who lives like that personally unless you're also from the country/bush.

That is not true. In Europe almost everybody own rotary fixed wing

Australia is like the desert version of Alaska to me. Almost nobody lives there except natives and most of the territory is so vast that it’s near incomprehensible in both places. Both are super cool places on earth.

Where in NE Pa do you live, Pam? My parents are from Bradford County and we still have kin living there.

Lmao Pam I’ve been looking to go out in that neck of the woods. Specifically to get away from curbs street lights and the annoying hustle and bustle of suburbia and urban areas. Don’t worry if and when I come I won’t be looking for street lights or curbs. I just want a homestead and self sufficiency.

I live there too. Tried to do? Kiddo, have you been to the Poconos lately? They've done it. We had a police force of three people, one police car. They closed at nights and weekends Now they have a force to rivel a big city and the laws to boot. They came in from N.Y. and N.J. to get away from the crime and taxes. Well, guess what? They brought it with them. They took over the local political systems, Then squeezed out the locals. Then proceeded to make it just like where they came from. That's the problem, It's like a cancer. They kill where they're at then move on to a healthy environment and take over and ruin that. Over and over.

Here in rural Virginia people come from the city to live in the country and the first thing that they do is add more exterior lights to their house and keep them on all night. Then they try to get street lights installed and the road repaved and widened with drain pipes installed in the ditches. If they wanted a suburban neighborhood then that's where they should have moved.

Right on. Cant stand pansy ass city folks who move to the country and then try to "get involved" in everything.

Amen brother. I’m in California, from Utah.

And for full disclosure there were some great places in CA. Even L.A. but as a kid in the 1960s. To Sac area mid 80s for EMT/ER training; mtns around Georgetown/Cool were very nice but the city fundamentally scared me off forever.

Hello Donald , I've lived near to the Lake District, the most beautiful part of England, about 900 Square miles which is visited by more than 15 million (!) most every year and quite obviously far smaller than parts of Montana. The most of those '15 mil.' centre themselves in three small main towns of Ambleside, Keswick and Windermere ... the souls of those places have long since been erased in lieu of monetary gain and the 'property game' ... As one of your country's native elders stated some time ago ... " Only the mountains and the wind remain the same " Be well .

Problem is liberals want to impose their ideology where ever they go. It's like a cancer. Oregon, Washington, Colorado. Large towns in Idaho. They feel they are 'entitled'.

Me too, I'm in LA and I would never try to change another place. I don't quite understand how they're changing it. Are they opening yoga studios and coffee bars?

What?! In MT? Dairy? wow I guess we have 400 or so dairy farms.

@@SaintSaint I was on a plane dropping into Kalispell on my way back to Canada. Two kids sitting with me are fifth generation ranchers. We're talking about John Deere tractors costing 500 grand US dollars. Helps to have a homestead that has NEVER had a bank mortgage. That's really the issue: Montana is NOT inexpensive, and there's either ranch families with no debt or you're just scraping by. Helps to have a certified Trade, preferably Red Seal. Or a govt. job with benefits.

I live in town now, but I would gladly take a place out in the woods even if it meant driving an hour to a major town like I used too.

That's ROUGH.

Hell yeah

I live in a rural area. and though we did need a few things like better medical I personally resent people coming here and ruining it "where they came from" and our BOS are so stupid they fawn over the shiny city money. they LEFT "where they came from" so WHY reproduce it?? Changes come with a price and some prices aren't worth it.

M G yes agree but I think we lost Bozeman to liberals unfortunately

I hear North Dakota is nice....

Katrina Gunther which is very sad. Such a pretty area.

collinsfriend1 amen

Love the Montana state and its really cold weather and a lot of snow but still a nice place for people who want to live in PEACE.

Not much problem. Too cold for most people, hard, hard winters

Pray, Montana is a cool little place. I could totally live there.

In a lot of places around the country there are "twin cities" but here in the west, Montana and Wyoming are like "twin states."

Me too. Hey it could be a movement!

What can you leave to a 21 year old trying to live in the country side. (I’m going to homestead)

This is 100% true. I laugh watching stuff like the 1923 because I still have my great great grandfathers memoirs from the late 1800s and early 1900s and he had his ranch in a similar area as to that show. Many of the scenarios shown in that show are no where near as brutal as they actually where. No one would leave cattle rustlers alive. You would shoot them where they stood. And if you decided to put a noose around their neck you would make sure they did not survive. That was everyone. My grandfather shot at cattle rustlers and they certainly shot back. When my grandfathers rivel arrived with a posse of men to kill him my grandmother had to take up arms to ensure he did not die. No shots were fired because she was able to get behind them and hold them up. Of course she and my grandfather were outnumbered so they just left. My grandfather then was arrested in town for attempted murder and got out of court because of his evidence of "You know me and what I have done for this town and you know that that man is a scumbag that lies cheats and steals cattle" that was enough considering my grandfathers rival had a reputation for killing folks with only 1 eye witness who backed up his story of "he drew on me" Not to mention when they tried to steal my grand fathers cattle he dropped one of his handguns on my grandfathers property. But that was the times. It was rough back then and while you have less of the gunslinger type of stuff, you still have the 8 months of winter 1 week of spring if any, and a few months of summer where it randomly snows. All of this while you have to maintain power, food, and your main trade to pay your property taxes. It is also important to note that due to the size of Montana that the industries are limited so you need to have a wide variety of skills to make it in whatever industry you go into whether its logging, ranching, working for the railroad, or perhaps one of those cushy city jobs that you may not be able to attend due to being snowed in because there is not a lot available. Also do note that in many places like livingston wind is not reported until it reaches over 50 mph and that the wind used to literally blow houses down and trains off the tracks. Not to mention the occasional tornado. Not to mention the unpredictability of the Yellowstone river which may just randomly take away a large chunk of your property if it decides to flood or change paths. But if you decide to just move to one of the cities or towns then life is a bit easier, but still awful weather 8 months out of the year without the benefit of freedom or a big economy so why are you moving up if that is what you want to do?

This comment says it all. Thanks for your proper insight. All the way from nyc.

My dad used to drive truck too. He said winters in that area and the midwest are pretty bad. Gets so cold that you don't shut the truck off at times.

Winters in the Adirondack mountains with 10 20-30 below, one day 50 below when I was leaving work at four. Is even more brutal than where my family was at in Wyoming.

Yes yes yes true

@@janetpattison8474 Yes, I went out X-C skiing at - 43 F back in the 70s in the Adirondacks. You could ski right on over the roofs of the lake camps on 15 feet of snow. I’m back in upstate NY now and the winters are too warm !! I miss the old predictable snow and ice skating. The cold also keeps out the riff raff who want a lazy life. The one thing about WY and MT winters is the wind. That would get to me. I spent 3 winters in Chicago and that was bad enough. It would be worth it though for that gorgeous Montana country, and people who are self-reliant.

I drive trucks over Montana mountain passes every day -- it's a shit show of out of state drivers.

Well PUT

Good advice, here.

madness?

@@stellabluelulu if you have to ask you are part of the problem.

When I lived there it was 80 miles one way (160 miles round trip) to a Walmart or Target! And that was in a tourist area.

I feel you , It feels like i was born a couple decades too late in Florida to enjoy the beaches and some space + affordable housing. Now everyone's moving here especially Northern retierees and New Yorkers so now everythings becoming harder to afford for some locals

Same.lake tawakoni area and Montana has always been in my thoughts.I’m already 15 mins away from a true grocery store.but I feel slowly strangled by the influx of people

Like locusts consuming the earth

Change is the only constant in life,.

I'm in Texas. I agree... Texas just isn't Texas anymore... But, from what I've seen, I don't think it's just the people who have moved here from other states who are to blame. I know plenty of people whose families have been here for many generations who don't care about the land, the history, the culture... I'm trying to figure out if there's a state or region where I can move where people treat the land with respect and hard work and community are still valued.

A good philosophy, thanks for sharing. Greetings from Calgary :)

I remember things such as this from my childhood in the 80's. It's sad that this tradition has been forgone by so many.

That just sounds beautiful :)

Are the Swedes getting the same respect from your newly arrived guests? How’s a place like Malmö going these days?

I LOVE your way of living!

Right you are! This is far more important than many people realize. It should be the first thing to consider, especially for anyone who is retired and already older whether or not you already have health issues.

That would be my number one concern. Great point.

Yeah living in MT if something really was life threatening they’d fly them to places like Seattle

Or even an emergency. If you’re 30 minutes from groceries you’re probably at least 30 from help.

@laurie Walker, Montana actually has some of the most available high quality healthcare in the country. The budget subsidized by the government for Montana per person is extremely high and thus there are many large hospitals with extremely low quantities of patients to serve. It is one of the easiest and most affordable places to get the highest quality care in the country

Great info!

Montana has a massive collection of backroads and forest service roads and trails that go in and around mountains and wilderness. That combined with the fact that we have a tiny population means really sparse roads everywhere

So true 😁

That's his driveway....

@,Cassidy I KNOW YOU DON'T REALIZE HOW NICE THAT REALLY IS ! I LIVE IN NEW MEXICO I HAVE A SMALL FARM AND NO TRAFFIC NONE IM TUCKED IN A SPOT WITH SOME BLUFFS AND HILLS BUT IT'S VERY NICE ,I DO OR AM OPEN TO A SWEET FARM GIRL IM A SINGLE FATHER SO IF YOU ARE OR YOU KNOW ANY THAT MAY BE LOOKING ID LIKE TO AT LEAST GET TO KNOW THEM 😁😘🇺🇸🙏

"Montana traffic" appears at the 2:35 mark.

Amen Amen Amen

O not us

Yep. Painful to see it happen but happen it has. 😫

I immediately subscribed! Not often you find a pair of reality check Realtors.

Remarkably, straight-up honest. (That was refreshing. Thank you.)

Love his straight forward no BS

My mom's family settled in flathead. I remember visiting my grandma in Kalispell. They were always blue dog dems, now she can't stomaches what they have become and has to reckon with the changes between rural democrats being completely eclipsed by crazy urban mindsets.

Yeah, this is awesome candor. I loved 6:30. Entertaining thoughts about moving out west. That’s exactly the attitude I want to see-and to see someone who is not too shy to express it.

First move here in a Jan w/o much cash or firewood but able to posthole up into woods to hack up an old deadfall over a week or two ... quite inconvenient/labor intensive than turning a thermostat! Got that right.

Very good way to say it

The only thing that sounded difficult was the snow. Having a road blocked due to snow can be tricky for groceries. Other than that....24 miles away from a grocery store isn't bad. I live in Texas where you have to drive an eternity for everything.

I drove from Bozeman where we flew in, and went to east glacier. We then spent time over in west glacier. Stayed in Columbia Falls and Whitefish. It was beautiful, but driving up and back was amazing the open land! 80mph speed limits and hardly a car on the road. Loved it, but I doubt I would make a winter. Lol.

​@@Michael-qy1jz Winter is honestly scary. Even on major interstates near descent sized towns there are almost no plows or deicer. And everyone still drives the speed limit.

Really

That’s right

I went to Montana for an elk hunt and easy 2 hours without seeing a gas station. Not used to that being from upstate NY and almost ran out of gas. Other hunters told me Wyoming was even more desolate though. So probably Alaska then Wyoming then Montana

Yet did you vote for two of the biggest east coast developers into Montana politics? Gianforte and that other guy? Just asking for a friend.

Every place has that. I grew up in a small oil producing, farming town along the beach in Southern California. It became known as surf city. Then all these out of staters, including those from Montana, moved in, and started crowding out and raising the land and housing prices. They made it so bad that they pushed working man out.

@@normpaddle Jersey Greg and Maryland Matt the weasel. Gianforte has a thing for killing animals that have been treed. Also wanted to keep people from using the river in front of his mansion in Bozeman. Montana used to be a purple leaning state - or at least had a more balanced political scene. Last couple years it has gone tin foil right.

That isn't just Montana. That's everywhere liberals move.

I'm a 6th gen as well. Let's keep this state great. God bless you man.

Georgian here who is going to be working out there till November. Why do you need cat litter if you don’t mind me asking.

Also is 4x4 a must have or would I be fine with a 2WD tacoma.

Funny, I lived and worked in San Diego for about yrs. I worked in a restaurant. The LEGAL Mexican immigrants that had gone through the proper channels to get their citizenship, seriously spoke worse about the ILLEGAL immigrants than anyone I’ve ever heard! I swear😳 I was shocked- but that’s exactly why they moved here was to be an American - they were VERY proud of their accomplishments and I’m telling the truth they did not like the ones sneaking in! It pissed them off!

Excellent points I was born in 1948 my grandparents immigrated from Poland my parents would not even teach me the Polish language because they wanted me to be an American how times have changed

She's like my grandparents and great grandparents from either side! Grandma from the Basque Country may have spoken Basque with some of her family who came over too. But she was adamant that her kids would learn English, and didn't use Basque much around them! She and her family who came here from the South of France, wanted to assimilate, they even 'Anglicised their names! So did my those on my Dad's side, they changed their last name slightly to seem more English! They came from the German-speaking countries like Prussia!

I’m from Mexico, I’ve living here for 15 years. I see a massive problem with people migrating to this country. from all over the world. These people don’t have a small clue about why this country is SO GREAT! Then, these migrants have kids and these citizens vote for the same socialist/communist ideas once their parents fled from!!! USA will eventually become a mix of Europe/SouthAmerica/Asia :( We need to learn history! Is SO IMPORTANT!! For the sake of the world LEARN!!! Susan wise “The Story of the World” series books are great :)

Love Boortz

Omg! What is wrong with people!!! LOL!

Lolol 😂

I see this as scary because that stupid woman will vote

She should get a rifle or buy rattlesnakes to run the deer off.

I don't get it....what's wrong with the invisible fence collars?!😵

I think that if People Prepare for example to do their Shopping Every 3 or 4 or 6 months of everything they Need; that it won't be So bad, the problem is when they have to Drive So Far every week just to Get Groceries and toilet paper and Soap.

Why not use a snowmobile with a sled?

@@jacobari6371 Cars and trucks have to go to town on the road. Plowing snow is something we do as needed. If one has money enough to buy the place, spend money on a skidsteer with a plow and be done.

I saw that billboard!

Sounds as though more billboards with the same message should have erected in the cities of Montana as well as their small towns.

Well said Benjamin.

I like that brother.

You sir, such a good story teller. Thanks for that narration.

Beautiful

Sounds wonderful to me. It's a life I would appreciate but beyond my reach these days.

commanderdavey - Here in Kern County, Home of the Okie based Country Sound, we call these folks do-gooders. Such folks have heaved themselves into our state in such great numbers few cannot communicate with one-another. Small children of ethnicity must translate for the older family members. Its common as the wind blows here. Illiteracy is so bad, the elementary schools cannot even began to cope with such overwhelming numbers of what I call needy. Over one third to half of every one single classroom has diabetes, inhalers, medical limitations mandating a full time county aid worker with them. Country of origin; Equator. The unspoken issue/s are each tribe coming too California’s cities hate one another, do not speak the language, as well as have differing cultures. Its amazing to see and hear third an fourth graders go at each-other as hate spews from they’re tongues. California has allowed this horrendous cross cultural mass divide to such a pandemic degree even medical personnel and other first responders cannot communicate with so many non-English speaking people. Jobs disappearing, coming here to work they claim. Doing what? Filling job Vacancies at NASA at Edwards Air Force Base? Robotics Technicians? Blue collar jobs requiring certification? Licensing? The ability to read write English? NOPE. Hardly. I’m tired of the lies. Political correctness is destroying our entire country. I could fill every comment section of this page with horrid California state destruction all from within. Meaning, by political progressive elites living behind great security walls in Palo Alto, huge estates by the coastal regions. ALL speaking down to us peons of the working class dictating how we must be prepared to give more, while learning to live with less. HORSESHIT! Who fights for us the common man? I feel beat-down as a Native born resident. I broke bread with many a hard worker from the farm industry to the Oil industry. Picked up Merle Haggard many a time to help get his drunkin’ ass to his hotel room. Todays drug addictions rule over all available first responders capabilities. I know full damn well the Fonda’s bought up a huge patch of ranch land, moved in, then immediately set in trying to change or lure big $$$ into the community. I series Yellowstone I believe points this out. Its a modern version of old way melding into new progressive corporate greed ways. The Indian tribe thrown in just to make the full guilt complete. Sorry- I am on a free writing binge. I love my state, even my states flag. I love the geography it offers up. Its vast deserts too High Sierras... I happen to feel the Native who’s being pushed away. I mean nothing. As nothing here has meaning, other than, wheres the unlimited bread basket United States Movies have shown the world for decades? Yes! They come because Hollywood is the teacher 👨‍🏫

It’s called Arizona.

Same problem in North Carolina they come from New York, New Jersey and wanna change what we have to New York and New Jersey. insane!!!

It is what has happened in Denver. Rural Colorado is still good. But, Denver and the suburbs is mini-California.

I believe it’s called insanity - doing the same thing over and over, hoping for different results.

@Evey Hammond so true!

Bring some warm weather with ya too

Mint julep?

Moved to Montana with my family about 10 years ago from the Florida panhandle. Just to let you know, they pretty much lack manners here (at least what we call manners) You know, yes ma’am, no ma’am, holding the door for a lady, or saying excuse me. I’m not saying they’re flat out rude at all, they’re just a bit peculiar, and not what we’re used to. Oh, and forget the sweet tea. Lol 😂

That's because you are an outsider and probably not trying to fit in my in-laws live in dillon we visit a couple times a year and enjoy the place for what it is and get along with almost everyone but I'm a guest there and act like it don't leave wherever you are and try and make wherever you go like home

I’d rather die a fast death in Idaho than a slow death in San Francisco

@@sfdvr2; True, either way; if nature doesn't Kill you; then the two-legged VICIOUS Animals of the City will.

*OR ANYWHERE ELSE FOR THAT MATTER!!!*

Paul Flannigan I didn’t hear him ‘politicize’ the meaning of the changes he was referring to. Rural living does NOT mean any color, be it Red or Blue, when it comes to surviving a bear attack, for instance, or giving someone a helping hand during a weather event. I sure hope you’re not one of those who may be screening or putting up filters before you help someone in need. Wonder how you would feel if someone would ask your preference on ANYTHING before they would help you.

Hey neighbor

Amen!

Ditto!

I hope it doesn't happen to ya'll like it has in Texas. They started with the big cities. Then they hit the small towns and rural areas. No maatter where they go they want to change things. Now they are dividing up the big ranch lands and selling them into small tracts. Getting harder to farm, ranch hunt and fish here. Especially hunting.

i hope and pray for yall. i've lived in L.A., D.C. phoenix, AZ. houstan, TX. they can have the big cities!! those people are so screwed up mentally, it's terrible, arrogant, self centered, greedy, i could go on, but yall livin in the great northern states, yall know what lifes about. i miss the west. please protect the wide open i call it cowboy way of life.

Fortunately my Town is quite small and these People are facing resistance like they never expected. Those of us who were born and raised here are banking on Winter to get rid of some of them (these clowns have no idea), others will leave because we have no Shopping Malls or fancy Restaurants and the remainder will learn that their bullshit is not welcome here and they need to fit in with us, not the other way around.

What changes are they making that are unwelcome?

We keep trying to run up the thermostat in AZ but it isn’t working!

John Boyle im moving there this winter from the city! 🤣

Pretty much how we feel in the U.P. of Michigan

🤔

Not really. There are plenty of restaurants and bars.

Yes, that’s why you come here...

Ya...maybe in two dot....im in Superior and even we have a restaurant (it sucks...but still) and 2 bars....

@@mindyharwood5992 Not like a city. Thank you. N u DO spend lots of time alone especially if u live up fairly high back in the mountains. Thank you again for your opinion.

Stand up for your state. Please!!!

As an NC native, I relate to this

haha I'm actually from the same area. I wasn't born here but have basically lived here all my life apart from the first 2 months of it. Things really have changed in that time frame. On the one hand, I don't mind people from different places moving here. Keeps things fresh imo. But on the other hand, I REALLY mind the increase in traffic/aggressive drivers, unfriendly attitudes (though thankfully it's not all that common to come across in my experience but it's also just because I don't get out and about often), and cost of living, though that one was going to happen regardless with inflation. I do wish the area would stay relatively unknown and that the population count would stay as is but I know it's not gonna happen, especially with how fast growing and hot the area is for tech and business and all that. And I _really_ hope the crime rate doesn't go up.

Unfortunately when you point out how life used to be in the past a lot of people's first responses to point out all the negatives. They Overlook the positive such as low crime rates you can leave your doors open you actually knew who your neighbors were they help each other out a neighborhood was quiet nice.

I also live in this area and resent the new comers when they say how cheap everything here is … from hairdressers to housing … well not anymore. They sold their small houses up north for big money and drove up the prices of housing here. Also, can’t help it but feel that often they look down on locals….I myself am an emigrant that embraced this culture, love the local twang, shrimp and grits, collard greens and sweet potatoes and am forever humbled

My parents, family and friends that are born and raised San Diegans are all leaving California. We have had enough of the liberal lunacy in this state. We were going to try and hold out longer, but when Covid hit, it really opened our eyes to how far gone this state is. We truly believe its a lost cause. Good luck in figuring out what you are going to do my fellow San Diegan. We will truly miss this beautiful city.

They've been doing it since the early 90s. They ruined main street of the town of my earliest memories, Ennis, in the Madison Valley. I know a lot of the locals were totes fed up with the changes they'd brought in with their city planning and zoning ordinances (Ennis has a population of 800, tops, in a county of 6000). I just hope they all grew some cojones and voted the b***ds out next elections and returned to sanity. Alas, the aunt and uncle I communicated with there a lot back then are both gone, so I no longer hear anything from them.

I was born and raised in San Diego. My husband is from Philipsburg, MT. We spend a lot of time up here and the Californians have already driven the prices sky high and instituted all kinds of rules and regulations. We had talked about retiring up here someday but my husband says they've ruined it, which is sad.

@@SoCalianSD1 If I can get out, I won't miss San Diego one teeny tiny, bit. In my eyes, there is no such thing as a 'beautiful city'. Then again, I was raised rural and only hit the city when I was young and wild. As a kid I was rural enough that there was nothing to do outside of immediate family and to top it off, I was an only child. Friends were in school only. No one lived close enough to visit or hang out with. I was bored stiff. My best friends were my dogs and cats. I spent my free time alone exploring the wilderness with them. When I moved to the city, it was exciting. There was so much to do it was mind boggling. But back then, I was a wild young adult. The only thing I can say about city life is that it gave me the opportunity to become what I always wanted to be. A singer in a band. At 64 years old and doing that since I was 20, I'm tired of that too and was pushed into forced retirement, thanks to CoViD-19. Plus, I am no longer that wild crazy girl. All I want is to get as rural feeling as I can get, with no neighbors only feet away from me, no screaming traffic or planes, or emergency sirens, and no legal way to protect myself from 'bad guys'. I WANT OUT!!! I'll never look back if I can GTF out of here! You can miss San Diego and city life all you want. I won't. Not one iota.

@@TipsyMarlinTravels I agree with you, but to only a point. It isn't always Californians changing places. It's also the insane population growth and changing attitudes, even among locals. Yes, people moving from one place to another does skyrocket prices but that can happen within a state. Just look at what happened in "Silicon Valley" in California. The huge jump in real estate all over the country lately has been driven by the interest rate dropping to the lowest it's ever been, along with what the Covid pandemic has done to change how so many people work. (Gee, I don't have to go to the office. I now work from home so I can live anywhere) Laws change. Heck, when I was up in Montana it was shortly after the national speed limit on ANY road, which was 55 MPH, was given back to the individual states to decide. During the day, on any highway in Montana, there was no upper speed limit. (I thought I was in Germany on an autobahn!) At night there was a very low speed limit that was strictly enforced. Why? Because too many people were getting killed on curvy roads and hitting large wildlife, causing the rural emergency services to be overloaded. Zero daytime speed limit didn't last long though I think it was about two years.

Where is some good places to homestead? I love the country

It's probably a Hard Life to Get Stuff that You Need. But in the City people Are like PRISONERS Suffocating themselves in Food because of the Loneliness and the Slavery they Live their ENTIRE lives is Suffocating them.

Glasgow is also my Hometown!

I was born and raised in the Flathead and now I’m living in Switzerland with my husband. I miss my treasure state every single day ♥️

Lived there 5 years, 2004-2009. Great place.

graduated Glassgow 1973

I had to go to the treatment center at Glasgow lol from Glendive now reside in Texas and sober

They call them "city-its" for a reason.

@@hemisuperzee1287 *Citiots

Oh I agree be for we know it there will no trees because people want to be out in the country but the more people the less country humans destroy so much for animals.

Sadly people are trying to make these small towns like LA now :/

Yes exactly, so fed up with city folk trying to change everything back to the way their shitty city was

You lost me a bringing the big mean wolves from Canada. Stick to a theme (idiots putting up gate with big money and ignoring western old entrenched law: you can't put gate up). The other stuff you actually know nothing about. We're now sending you beavers, after making sure the big mean grizzly and black bear have open borders. What did you send? invasive skunks, turkey, and racoon. We don't need no coons.

California gets a bad rap all the time, and many of it is deserved, but the data doesn't seem to back up your claims about californians messing up your state It's just all in your head.

That sentiment is not unique to you or Montana or even the USA.

Your country is being deliberately destroyed from within. You still have space to escape to, but that will also be ruined sooner or later. Millions are pouring in from the southern border changing the nature of what your country is. They are doing exactly opposite to the advice given by this gentleman in the blog.

They're doing the same thing to Texas. Sick of those smug, arrogant SOBs.

Good to have the wood stove as a backup though.

If the money pours in then you’re out of luck

The Internet Gremlin your correct...we r losing here in Texas 😰

I grew up on a farm in Iowa, but I agree that what you just said is something a lot of city folks have NEVER been told. Well spoken!

Well said.

Sadly, three things that a lot of people will never do.

Didn't hear him telling anyone what to do jackass

That is what's wrong with America today.

You have to be a really fend-for-yourself kind of person.

Exactly!

Hah. Rural areas depend on government more than urban.

@@steveb796 cool, i live out in the country. I hope city folk money comes to us. Hope you put in some ot. Stevie B!

We don't want government people telling us how to live. It's that simple

Great comment!! I grew up in NW Ohio, had a young adult big city experience in San Francisco and Los Angeles and then beat feet for semi-rural. Flathead Valley is semi-rural in my opinion ... NOT Rural. Yes, I am 20-35 minutes to "shopping", but that is on state hwy (70mph) with no traffic lights. In L.A. it took me 1.25 hours to travel 12 miles to my office. I work from home for a CA educational institution as a computer programmer. I live on 8.25 acres in a cabin/ranch. I get my internet via Verizon hotspots: 4g ... hopefully soon 5g. I have a motorhome and have travelled MT and much of the US. And here at home ... golly UPS/FedEx and even the USPS provide excellent service for online stuff. I do not apologize for online shopping. I support local organic farms to THE MAX, though and we are fortunate to have many. Ultimately, anyone deciding on any lifestyle/location must do their homework. Much of this video is well said, but some is a bit off/cliche ... to me. FWIW, I moved to this area from Los Angeles in Feb 1994.

That sounds awesome

This sounds like paradise to me... I was born and raised in texas. Californians are destroying texas and we can't get rid of them. I was looking at Montana, Alaska even russia or poland.

@@Robert53area If you like remote places Poland wouldn't be so good - small villages and towns everywhere or swamp in the east.

Schopenhauer was used to Say that WE cant spend all thé life whatching a beautifull landscape...

You can always buy a satellite phone. They have them on amazon.

There is a reason they call it rural.

And preparation is the key.

You guys are driving a heated car around, you’re not frontiersman. A 15-year-old girl can do it😂

Agreed don't want to live in Montana too cold for me. I'll stay in Fla. Like the video don't try change it to where you came from. Too late for us. Great video though, refreshing to hear somebody being honest

He’s not lying.. I’ve lived here my whole life and it’s crazy

most Mt places exist under the heading, "You can't get there from here". distance is measured on time involved, not mileage

Problem is if you’re retired and getting old being far from doctors and health facilities can be a real challenge, esp. if you need to see specialists.

What part of Pa ? I moved back here last year after being away for 32 years with my career.

In which town of Pennsylvania did you live?

Yes, Florida is ruined and has been for almost 30 years. It is not going to get any better. Get out while you can. Most of my native friends are moving to Tennessee.

Try the Villages FL ,have to have your white roof washed every 2 years. It's the HOA rule

As a North Carolinian, I can relate to all the Floridians moving here to escape Florida and bitching about & trying to change everything.

@@allenc7313 nope.

@@CarsandCats You Are Right, FLORIDA has been Ruined!!! The people who moved there Ruined it!!! And then the F/Greed.

Those 2 legged bears are not pleasant

Lmao!!!

Yites!!! Nooòo thanks.....city please...🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽🖐🏽☕☕☕

I rather worry about the 2 legged predators. 🤣

I Wished

That sounds like they are too snobbish!

😂😂😂

Yeah! You will be a lot cooler with a dog. Not so much on car status. My son was driving a bmw first 6 years working for Montana railroad. No problem, he presently drive a 4Runner now. FYI he was only 22 years old when he moved there for a Railroad engineer job. Now when he complains it’s to hot here California.

@@MyJuicyTv prime example of what I was talking about….

Plenty of cats roaming around in Montana...so I'm guess your cat isn't a bobcat or cougar.

interesting ...

That's True what you said, and I have to say that the city has its conveniences; but "friendly" people is Not One of them; and One Can be Even lonelier in the Big Cities than being ALONE Out in the Wild. But you are Right in saying that Rural Life is definitely TOUGH.

I moved from city to rural to retire. I love the mountains and trees but find the locals arrogant, ignorant, imbred and clanish. Here it's like - "I've been here 20 years", "I've been here 30 years", "I was born here", etc. Lucky for me, I dislike shopping, and enjoy nature. City folks in general are more friendly. In my life I have lived in 3 small towns and 5 large cities, in 6 different states. I don't recommend rural if you are a people person.

Thank you for leaving California in California. The worse thing i have see is them Democrats that bring their baggage with them and try to change why we Love out State.

@@joeblow5087 Ive had the complete opposite experience. Rural people can pick out a phoney from a mile away. The nicest people I’ve met. You just sound like a typical big city elitist ass wipe.

@@joeblow5087 city folks are more friendly? what the fuck what city are people nice in?

Okay. We'll be keeping an eye on you. 👀