RE: Missoula Montana data sheet
Yes guys the northwest of the us is a very nice part of the country, beautiful scenery and things to do if youre an outdoorsman. Some of the hunting trips ive taken out on remote, giant ranches were just surreal.
Montana is very much still a wild place, its easy to leave town and be in the middle of nowhere in no time flat. The girls there are a real throw back, its like everyone is in a different era there.
@General Mayhem, personally i would choose Missoula because its just more my type of town and i feel as if i vibe with the people there more than Billings and Bozeman. Bozemans biggest draw is the fact yellowstone is in it's backyard, MSU which has a legit engineering program, and the fact it has some of the best flyfishing in the world. There are five amazing rivers within a 30 mile radius of the town. Never seen anything like it.
You can drive 10 miles out of town and be catching giant browns, watching moose wade the river and dodging mountain sheep on the highway. There are tons of very rich people that flock to bozeman. Yellowstone club which is somehow affiliated with Bill Gates is a community up near the ski mountain that has 500 very, very, wealthy people living there. They have their own private ski area in the community, with some of the houses being right near the chairlifts. I did some concrete work up there and my jaw dropped when i saw some of these houses, they were mind boggling.
Bozeman also has big sky/moonlight basin which are two very nice ski areas which you can buy a combined season pass for ($1600 though) which gives you access to the largest acreage ski area in the lower 48. There are a few decent terrain parks and a good halfpipe as well. I loved the layout, but after living in Western Washington the comparitively low amount of snowfall just didnt cut it for me.
The downsides of Bozeman is that its really small, and the huge ski scene coupled with the engineering focus of the school makes the town a giant sausage fest. It is nice being so close to yellowstone, there were more foreigners than americans last time i was there. Decent spot to try for some new flags.
Billings is a strange, strange place.. When i describe it to people i tell them to picture a gigantic trailer park out in the desert, surrounded by indian reservations. That being said it is actually a pretty fun town, it seems almost lawless like a frontier cowboy town or something. That lawless vibe got a big boost when the bakken oil field started to thrive. There are roughnecks from all over the globe drifting in and out for oil work. Im not sure what its like now with oil down so low, but when i was there these guys would show up ready to raise hell with their pockets stuffed with money. I remember playing no limit hold em in a casino and feeling like i was in the star wars cantina or something haha.
The downside to Billings is that the remoteness, the oil fields, and all the reservations make it damn near a beacon for drug peddlers. All these things combine to make drugs an expensive and highly in demand commodity.There is a lot of cartel types floating around and with them comes crime.
The girls in Billings were in general trashier than the rest of the state. Lots of good looking girls that unfortunately get hooked on drugs and sucked into the soul crushing vortex of the montana judicial system.
Another downside to Montana is that its hard to make a living. The wages are low and the economy isnt the greatest. Other than being self employed the best work available is probably either in the mines or the oilfields. If you can get a job in the bakken though, a lot of the shifts run two weeks on, two weeks off, with lots of hours and overtime being jammed i to your two weeks on. Amenities are cheap though. In 2008 i had a nice two bedroom apartment in Missoula for 500, which included cable, water, and power.
Overall it is a beautiful, yet desolate state. Montana is one of the states with the highest suicide rates and has more space than people. It covers a ton of land, but only has a little over a million populatiom. If youre into hunting and freshwater fishing i dont think theres a better state in the lower 48 and driving into some of the small towns scattered across the state is like cruising into the 1950's. The winters are also fairly harsh compared to the west coast which i was used to. Its almost as if there is only two seasons in MT, summer and winter.
Again if anyone has any questions dont be afraid to ask here or pm me. I explored most of the state while i was living there and have a prettt good feel for it. One last thing i should add is DONT get in trouble here, it has an extremely corrupt judicial system and the prisons are littered with people that came through on vacation, got what would be a minor drug charge in another state, and end up wasting years of time trying to get their lives back together.
Again, if you are black add a few points to youre attractiveness scale. There is a large subset of GOOD LOOKING white girl on the hunt for some dark meat.
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