Things Bush Can't Find

[Ripsnort]

One word of advice, which you probably already know if you've traveled to Montana before...don't tell anyone you moved from Kalifornia if you want to have friendships...or, if you do, say in a funny way, like "I survived and escaped Kalifornia".  They don't much like Kalifornians in Montana except in the college towns (Missoula, Bozeman) Surprise, huh?

[midnight Target]

Southern California has huge enclaves of conservatives. We try to keep them happy with the weather and all, but they escape every now and then, usually to Montana.



(Actually if you go to Irvine Ca. you can't swing a cat without smacking a con on the butt.)

[medicboy]

What I have found is that everyone I have talked to is a transplant, and most are from calicornia.  Once they find out I hunt, fish and don't hug trees they come around pretty fast.  But your right, I'm going to get rid of the California plates on my truck before I move, I already have an address and a phone number so that won't be a problem.

[Horn]

Originally posted by ygsmilo
Yep another market that was overpriced, good call.

People love to cite statistics but have no clue to the "WHY" it happening.  I do in both markets, you had better do better than a google search to do yours.

 

Longhofer blamed manufacturing layoffs for pulling down prices, particularly in the blue-collar areas of Wichita.

Real estate agent Carolyn French said seven of her last 27 homes sold to avoid foreclosure.

"Everybody's tight," she said.

So you disagree with the study? And all the other links provided (to Rip)? Sounds like ostrich syndrome to me.

h

[medicboy]

Originally posted by midnight Target
Southern California has huge enclaves of conservatives. We try to keep them happy with the weather and all, but they escape every now and then, usually to Montana.



(Actually if you go to Irvine Ca. you can't swing a cat without smacking a con on the butt.)

I'm calling PETA!!!!!!!!!!!!:D

[Toad]

Wichita's been sucking eggs for a long time, not just since the election.

So?

[Ripsnort]

Well, according to locals in Ennis, the first thing Californians try to do when the move to Montana is implement THEIR lifestyles on Montanans.  Everything from cocktails to politics.  (I used to have bumper sticker that said "We don't give a DAMN HOW they do it in California", which was from a bar where the bartendars got tired of hearing Californians complain about the way drinks were made at that bar, mind you, this was a hunting/fishing town where alot of out of towners come in ...)

The other problem is...alot of Californian developers with tons of cash come up and buy up large tracts of land and develope it, Californian-style, with 6 feet between the houses and 100 ft. high "privacy fences" ...then they advertise these places in California, and guess what? You have mass migration of retired Californians moving in trying to "change Montana".


But you're right, as long as you adapt to them, and not expect them to adapt to you, you'll be fine.

[ygsmilo]

Originally posted by Horn
So you disagree with the study? And all the other links provided (to Rip)? Sounds like ostrich syndrome to me.

h

The WTX economy was built on the aircraft industry both light and heavy, I think we know where that economy.  It is also heavily dependant upon the oil service sector. an industry that has not been doing so great but is improving.  The Ag sector was hurt by a drought 2 years ago but is getting better, it is usually a 18 month lag time for those cycles.

WTX is alot like Denver, they have boom and bust cycles, go back and look what the economies were like in the early 80's.  

People are just like a herd of cows, they all to the same thing at the same time.  Now the bull, he don't run with the herd, he stays on his own and does his own thing until it is time to make things happen.

[medicboy]

RIP, I agree totaly, that is what the city idiots did up in this neck of the woods, they even got Eric Estrada to do a comercial for a development just to the north of my house...  They move up here to be in the country and then complain because it is not like the city.....  Well DUH!!!!!!!

I think I will do fine, I am going up there because the lifestyle fits my way of thinking perfectly and I don't want a thing to change.  My way of thinking is if we give them NE cali, maybe they won't want to come up to montana!

I am really a Montanian traped in a Californian body...

[rpm]

From Voice Of America

"I don't know if we are going to find out the senior administration official [who leaked the name]. This is a large administration and we have many officials. I don't have any idea. I would like to," he (Bush) said.

Well...Isn't that convieeeeenient.

[Toad]

Milo:

People are just like a herd of cows, they all to the same thing at the same time. Now the bull, he don't run with the herd, he stays on his own and does his own thing until it is time to make things happen.

That right there is sig block material.