They’ve discovered the last best pockets of the west.

[Deleted member 18333]

I'm seeing panhandlers in the Root now. With a help wanted sign damn near everywhere. Can't even make a left turn. mtmuley

I've been to Hamilton MT twice. Both times while filling up, I was asked for help with gas money so the persons van could make it just a little further down the road. Very possible it was the same person even though a year apart. Can't say that has happened to me anywhere else, ever.

 

[Ben Lamb]

I thought we carpet-bombed the landscape with them by drone. I’ll have to go re-read the protocol.

Next you'll be trying to tell me that Russian olive isn't good woof security cover.

 

[Irrelevant]

Imagine the disappointment when there were no wolves.

No worries, they'll just bring their own.

*those reviews are highly entertaining if you haven't ever see this

 

[OntarioHunter]

Wolf Point is the hidden gem of the Hi Line. Everyone moving to Montana should check it out.

Or Poplar with its two goofy roundabouts on Hwy 2 right in the middle of town. Not just one of those useless damn things, but TWO. Guess it was necessary to handle the heavy traffic in that mega metropolis. Or maybe the tribe anticipates attracting a hoard of migrant wannabe Montana settlers looking for a cheap place to live? Good luck with that! I see wind farm blades and turbines moving down Hwy 2 every day. How the hell do they navigate those super long loads around roundabouts?

 

[noharleyyet]

Pan handling is a carboard sign or repetitive emergency spiel cottage industry everywhere, and has been way before this manufactured worker shortage and job abundance.

There's a busy underpass convergence with a signal lamp here that is a coveted spot. Yesterday there were two guys having a board meeting, one was on an expensive Trek fat tire bike. Neither were homeless nor destitute groomed...both had signs.

The less attractive spots are manned by the obviously mentally ill and chemically independent. People milling in retail parking lots or fuel stops are absolutely gonna hit you up.

Better watch yer speed tho....plenty of motorcycle and cage traffic enforcement.

 

[LuketheDog]

$400k in Denver… probably go for 20k over asking though.

Only $20K over? I'd guess 10% + a case of brand name kombucha...

 

[OntarioHunter]

My wife is from Missoula and we went to one of her friend’s wedding in Big Timber. For the life of me I can’t remember the name, but there was a group of guys all wearing shirts from a hunting guide service. They were the absolute most unfriendly people I have ever met. I was working undercover narcotics at the time and had long hair and a goatee.

They appeared to be the most intolerant inbred people I had ever met. That was the most unfriendly place I have ever been. In my LE job I have been in some of the worst areas you can imagine. I have walked into gang infested strong holds for work and felt much more welcome than in Big Timber. Tell all the NR people to go there.

I really love MT and almost moved there two years ago. My wife’s parents passed and had a home about 5 miles up Grant Creek just past RMEF. The house was passed to my wife and she decided not to move back. She still loves the state but loves the ocean more.

I taught school in neighboring Reed Point for a couple of years back in the eighties. The migration of transMontanans into that area was just starting. The outfitter/rancher and his entire crew were probably from New Jersey. Phony cowboys rub me the wrong way in a big way. Last time I was in Kalispell Cabelas a scrawny dude walked into the gun section wearing skin tight buckskin fringe jacket, Tom Mix hat, a Bowie knife, and spur clad knee high boots tucked into jeans ... a cavalry stripe sewn down the outside of each pant leg! Brother! I almost barfed. "You missed Halloween ... it was last month." Didn't have to ask if he lived in Whitefish. It was written all over him. The phony sodbusters up here on the Hi Line are almost as bad. Gotta have a Stormy Kromer hat and Muck Boots to fit in ... doesn't matter if you're living in your car and think cultivator is a sex toy.

 

[Ben Lamb]

There's a busy underpass convergence with a signal lamp here that is a coveted spot. Yesterday there were two guys having a board meeting, one was on an expensive Trek fat tire bike. Neither were homeless nor destitute groomed...both had signs.

This is why I never give Politicians money. It just reinforces their panhandling tendencies.

 

[Deleted member 28227]

Imagine the culture shock from Boston to Wolf Point.

 

[DouglasR]

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Looks like most of my coworkers.
How far is this place from bridger bowl?

 

[Ben Lamb]

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I F'IN LOVE DUNKINS, GUY!

 

[noharleyyet]

This is why I never give Politicians money. It just reinforces their panhandling tendencies.

 

[kansasdad]

Panhandlers are expanding their range at record pace right now. Pretty sad.

The wide ranging effects of global warmin??

 

[Northwoods Labs]

so what exactly is so bad about wolf point? meth capital of montana or something? always seems to be the butt of a lot of jokes on here

 

[Hunting Wife]

so what exactly is so bad about wolf point? meth capital of montana or something? always seems to be the butt of a lot of jokes on here

It’s a res town, and has a reputation as a pretty rough place.

 

[MTGomer]

About six years ago, my wife, being relatively new to Montana thought that Wolfpoint must be a fairly decent size town. She thought this because a lot of the babies in the NICU in Billings were from there. It’s not that they were having a lot of babies in Wolfpoint, it’s just that nearly all the ones they did have ended up getting flown down to Billings because their moms used methamphetamine and whiskey the entire pregnancy.

It’s a rough place. Not the idyllic Montana Mountain Vistas, and quaint little downtown coffee shops that the tech sector employed, transplants hope to find.

Fueled by drugs, sex trafficking reaches 'crisis' on Montana reservation

POPLAR, Mont. -- Life on the remote Fort Peck Indian Reservation in northern Montana has all the ingredients for sex trafficking -- poverty, isolation, joblessness and violence, topped with an epidemic of crystal meth addiction.

www.thedickinsonpress.com

 

[MTGomer]

Fort Peck homeless shelters close for meth contamination

As the threat of another cold winter approaches, Fort Peck residents are eager to reopen the shelters – but their actions are limited.

www.greatfallstribune.com

 

[buffybr]

You mean to tell me the series Yellowstone isn't real life Montana!!! When I was in Wyoming I couldn't find Aparousa County or a Sheriff named Longmire...Didn't even see one shoot out or stumble upon a body along side the road. I am starting to think the TV producers aren't giving us the true to life stories here.

That's because the Longmire series is filmed in New Mexico.

 

[Schaaf]

Swing down to the Water Hole #1 in Wolf Point, where the bar stools are bolted to the floor. It has easily extended the life of the windows by 6 months.

 

[Ridgerunner6901]

This is likely true.

“I have a multitude of health conditions and statistically will die in 13 years. We sure love our new little place 14 miles down a dirt road outside of a town of 800, that is 2 hours and 25 minutes from the nearest ER.”

So true and so common! People really should look before they jump... ive taken more than a few cussings because the hospital in our town of 3500 doesn't offer university level sub specialty care in every area!