Probably more to do with the fact that everyone is moving out of California and many employees can work remotely these days. The invasion from California has ruined every town in Colorado. Home prices have skyrocketed, the highway to the mountains is a parking lot every weekend, and the newcomers are voting to change Colorado into the disaster they left in California.
I live in California, there are still too many people here, there is still too much new construction going on in my little rural town of Placerville. I'm not sure where all of the people moving into Colorado are coming from, maybe L.A? But I'd like to see some more people leave.
Partly Yellowstone and the other part the pandemic. People are starting to realize living in the big cities ain’t all it’s cracked up to be and looking for places like Montana to escape to. The problem is when you import big city money into smaller places, all of a sudden the locals can’t afford to live there anymore. And this is becoming a problem pretty much everywhere. So yeah, a lot like the theme of Yellowstone ironically enough 🫠
Depends. If people own already and rates are locked they will be ok. Their property will go up in value which is good. But what do they do with it if they are gonna stay and die there. Will taxes and simple necessities go up so high they cant afford to stay. Gentrification can benefit property owners but then the builders get greedy and see opportunity to start turning gods country into housing communities and suburbs. Theres good and bad. If i had enough liquid and overhead I would love have a survival homestead type of location in the middle of nowhere but the cost of supplies tools and property it will never happen unless I win the lottery
@@Animal99Motherproperty value skyrocketing isn’t necessarily a great thing always. Property taxes can get so high they can’t even afford to pay them anymore
It's really sad to see what's happening to the state. I do understand that people want to move here, but I wish they would do it by getting local jobs and living as "normal" Montanans, not coming in and buying the locals out. We're always hoping for a really bad few years of winter to test the longevity of the newcomers.
Here on Oahu no locals are buying these multimillion dollar apartments that keep being built, all mainlanders who maybe spend a week here a year, or worse foreign investors who never even come here. I have seen so many friends move due to the ridiculous prices of housing, Montana looks like a beautiful place but unfortunately with that cones demand and the people with money will eventually weed out the locals just trying to live.
Absolutely! Californians move to Montana because it’s a farytale and less restricted than their home state but then they make changes to Californiaize it!
It boggles the mind that folks from Kalifornia, etc.. move away to escape the commie BS. Then continue to spread the plague that they are supposedly escaping to the states they move to. Texas is now 'purple' instead of a strong 'red'. All of the larger cities in Texas are huge liberal democrat bastions. DON'T KALIFORNIA MY TEXAS!
I remember when there was undeveloped land between Darby, Hamilton, Corvallis, Victor, Stevensville, Florence and Missoula. Nine years ago my father came to visit and insisted on seeing that stretch because his parents had lived and passed away in Hamilton. I tried to talk him out of it but we did the road trip anyway. It had been at least 12 years since he saw it and boy was he disappointed. He was blown away because he couldn’t tell where one town ended and the other started. People leave the big cities for small towns only to make small towns into big cities. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Some think that stretch is beautiful and others believe the beauty and heritage of Montana small town and country has and is being destroyed. Me? I just keep moving away trying to find those undesirable small towns with nothing to offer but good people who love the slow pace of living.
So you keep moving away to smaller towns, making them bigger! The very thing you say you hate! I'm sure there are folks in those towns who are thinking the same things about you that you say about folks moving in after you!
Born in 71, from the Root and it's now infested with transplants. They're like Locusts. Move in and devour then move on. Started in SoCal, moved up to Oregon, then Washington then Idaho and now Montana. Look out Wyoming and Dakotas they're coming.
I'm in Mineral Wells Tx, and they did a lot of filming for the different shows down here. 1883, Yellowstone, 1923, Bass Reeves, and now Landman. My son lives in Big Spring, so he'll be seeing some of that going on out there. The 6666 Ranch is just north of us and Weatherford just east of us. They filmed some right outside my buddies place in Milsap. I still kinda smile as I drive past it. For the people of Strawn Tx, it brought a bit of a boom because they filmed a lot of the Bass Reeves film there. This little town of Mineral Wells has been trying to become a tourist destination for the past 20 years now and with the Baker hotel, they think they will make it. I've watched the house I bought for $17000 jump in value from $25000 to $130,000, and we hadn't even painted it yet! SO yeah I feel your pain, and many of my neighbors do as well.
They (Californicators , Washington , & any State East of the Prairie ) need to stay out of Utah also, they have done nothing but ruin the small towns! They drag there failed politics and Ideology with them!
I live in Darby and I'm glad that clown show is gone. I think it presented a bad image of how we live here. It gave this area a little more attention than we really needed. Everybody flocked here to see were it was filmed. Idiots parked in the highway to take their pictures in front of the gate to the ranch. The traffic from the hundreds of people and trucks on the highway from filming was crazy. It drove rents up for housing. My property value went up but so did my property taxes. I knew a few people that moved here because they watched the show. They have all left because this place is not as glamorous as the show made it seem. In the end I don't think the average person benefited at all from the show being filmed here. I do like how you represent our state in bringing out the real truth about living here. Thank you.
My brother lives right down the road in conner. I went to visit him last year just like you said idiots taking pics of a gate and maybe the peak of the roof of the house. I hated seeing all the California plates and Subarus everywhere but told him better here than in my state of Tennessee he didn't think that was very funny. We get them moving here from Montana after their first winter there.
Very well said. Anyone stupid enough to move to a place based on a TV Show is not who you want for a neighbor. My wife and I are native Californians living in the Sierra Foothills. We love to visit Montana in our RV but rest assured we will go back home. We will spend out tourist dollars and leave. We fully understand what newcomers from places like the SF Bay Area and LA bring and it sucks. They are too stupid to realize that they leave because of policies they created and will do the same to their new home. I wish you all the best in getting rid of transplants.
I stopped watching the show during the 2nd season-way too violent for me(whether life is really that way out there or not). I’ve been all over Montana for many years and thought it might be nice to live there. Two COLD winters convinced me to just visit in any season but winter.It’s a beautiful state. I’ll be back for a visit soon. Thank you for the information. Keep going…
Half those Yellowstone actors live in or have homes in California. My wife and I (Natives) live in California (the Sierra Foothills) and this is exactly where we will stay. Look, Montana is amazing but the winters are way to long and damn cold. I have no desire to create any hardships or other issues for native Montana Residents. We will come to visit with our RV, spend money and then we will leave. We fully understand what people flocking to a hidden gem and bringing their BS Progressive policies can do, it's not good. We see that here with SF Bay Area and LA residents. To me Yellowstone is entertainment and thats it. I hope native Montana residents can keep what they have and that any idiot that can be influenced by a TV Show moving in does not destroy that. We feel your pain!
@@theepictale5383agreed finally a person who actually just is a sightseeing person and sees what can happen if you move to rural area when us rural area folks loved the way it was for generations before big city folks moved in and ruined it all. Happened to my small town and county I live due to college kids from KSU University staying and changing everything for the worse. Can't wait to save up enough to move outta Portage county ohio and Ravenna ohio. Because the stuff I grew up died a long time ago. But if rent and taxes keep going up I will have no choice but to move outta my area I grew up because California people and other big city people ruined it for us small town folks just barley getting by.
I have Montana roots on my mom’s side, all up and down the beautiful western mountainous part of the state including Hamilton. My cousin lives in Polson, another lovely Montana town, and while I was staying there we talked about the California phenomenon. Yes, there is resentment. People want to live in quiet small town places but why is nobody moving to, say, Nebraska? Because they also want to live in spectacular beautiful places. Like Colorado, Montana and other places in the mountain West. And has been pointed out, not only do places get built up and unaffordable, the politics changes away what the original residents had because they become outnumbered. Colorado being a resounding example.
Having lived in Whitefish for 5 years during early mid 1990s, I witnessed the impact the movie "A River Runs Through It" made on growing populations and the illusion that it represented what living in Montana was like. Many out of staters began pouring in in search of that idyllic life and the consequence was increased property values and property taxes to such an extent it squeezed out the locals.
When I lived in the high country of the Rockies a bit south of Montana many years ago we would always see the fully loaded moving trucks coming up the canyons in the summertime. The following spring after a normally occurring hard winter before all the snow melted off we would see fully loaded moving trucks going back down those same canyons. A huge percentage of people that move to the mountains because of the beauty they see when they visit in summer aren't mentally or physically prepared for the sub zero temperatures and the 3 and 4 foot deep snows. Winters are much worse further north up there in Montana. These people come in and stay just long enough to drive up the real estate prices then leave. We used to call them, "ear mites" because they have the same effect on an area as ear mites have on an animal if left untreated.
I saw the same thing playout in Idaho. No, there wasn't a TV show, but word got out about the quality of life, and yes, we had a lot of celebrities that lived there, and it eventually ruined that space. I would travel up to Montana each spring and fall to fish, and I could see what was playing out. I didn't watch the show, just can't, but when I saw the advertising for it, I knew immediately what was going to occur, and now here we are. I hate it, absolutely hate it. It's ruining the lives of the locals, and what's more frustrating is that many don't grasp it, more importantly those in the real estate market.
I lived in the Bitterroot when those self-absorbed, narcissistic, entitled A-holes from Hollyweird came to our valley and wrecked our cost of living and our real estate market. I had a few run-ins with their "people" and as a Montanan...they represented all that is contrary with Montana way of life. I watched exactly one episode of that rubbish show and in the one episode is all that I need to see. I am glad that they are gone, regrettably the damage is done. I work for an international company and my colleagues all know that I am a Montanan that lives in Montana and it is very strange what people's perception is of The Last, Best Place is as they are drawing their opinions from this garbage show. Good Riddance! I left the West side and my family and I now live East of The Divide and we could not be happier.
Good job on showing the actual numbers. I first stayed in Darby in 2019 and wanted to move there when I retired in 2021. Sadly by that time it was already over my budget and very little inventory was to be found. I still try to stay for 10 days or so a couple of times a year. Cheers, Kevin
It may have however for some of us viewers it has opened our eyes to the “fight” property owners face to keep their farms & ranches not only in Montana but even here in Canada. For some of us that care about farms & ranches it has sparked an interest in running for municipal government to help preserve the natural state of the land & keep these farms & ranches where they are. I live in Southern Alberta & have seen with my own eyes, people moving from big cities to small rural communities & causing problems from water use to dogs barking. My advice if you move to a rural community is to accept things as they are after all you moved away from the city you didn’t want to live in.
Yup let's be honest if you try to force rural folks out here mostly here in the midwest where I live your gonna get an ass kicking and get messed with in the local area if you're trying to change the way our friendly rural towns have been since the foundings. And sometimes us midwest folks have ways of refusing service to certain people like California we mess with them hard-core and make them experience mid west hostility to an extreme of you try to mess with our way of life we have been happy with for decades. Friendly word of advice for people from California who want to move to midwest don't try to force your beliefs and laws down our thoats here in the midwest otherwise if you rock the boat too much you will capsize in the lake so to speak and the only way out is going back to commiefornia.
@@brandonplaisted8194threatening people with violence for exercising their American freedoms… nice. It might be time for you to grow up and stop acting so entitled.
I was born and raised in Bozeman, 4th generation...the silicon valley tech (elites & famous) peeps came creepin' in (1990's) and pushed a lot of locals out. That was a true beginning of the 'Rocky Mountain Boom', that started the big chain of developing (causing the cost of living to rise for the regular folks) and pushing people away from their lands...bringing in celebrities and rich who also made it worse by posting social media and publicity info about Montana...that never stopped to this day
We live in Northern CALIFORNIA. This past fall we spent a month in Montana while driving back from Michigan. We were SHOCKED at RE prices around Kalispell and Missoula.
Your commentary about housing costs and inventory would have been better if you had compared it to the national average for the same period. Because at the same time that housing prices in Montana were no doubt increasing because of the show, housing prices in general across the country have gotten really out of control, and comparing the two would have given some much needed context.
I was thinking the same thing although I’m sure the show has caused negative impact. Home prices here is Florida are completely out of control only now are they starting to come down.
Generally that would be true, except Montana has always lagged behind the rest of the country. Now it's just stupid. Inflated prices, increased property taxes. My taxes have tripled. Even if the market slows, our taxes will never go down. We got so screwed in this deal.1
My girlfriend and I took a month-long road trip out West from Maryland a few months ago. We wanted to see Montana but had no interest in getting caught up in the Yellowstone/Western Montana hysteria. We entered the state from the eastern border and enjoyed a few days there. Yes, it was flat and unassuming, but we totally enjoyed it for its own unique beauty. No regrets!!
If you get back out there take a ride from Livingston to Gardiner thru Paradise Valley! It will not be flat and unassuming!!! It has it's own unique beauty!!!
I identified with Yellowstone because the same thing is happening in little Rhode Island. My father owns 33 acres of forestland that he inherited from his father. For decades the town charged a minimal amount of taxes because it is open farmland. Now, the town government want to drive out people by skyrocketing taxes on people who own open land to make way for the rich who have built mansions on this cheap land.
I moved here from northern CA seeking constitutional rights that CA wasn’t willing to allow me to maintain. I am still treading lightly because the people who live here are deeply connected with there land and way of life and I intend to respect that. I didn’t even vote for 2 years until I understood more of what MT needs from me. Never watched a single episode of the show.
I got a bad taste regarding Air Bnb’s two years ago when we vacationed in a certain town (to protect it, I wont name it). A local told us he and his family live paycheck to paycheck now, even though they grew up there. He said the Californians buy up every house they can in the town, only to rent them out as Airbnb’s, which leave nothing for those who grew up in what used to be this small town. The locals have no homes to buy, due to the Californians renting everything out. Ever since I had this conversation with him, I’ve preferred to only stay in hotels. The Airbnb and other vacation home rentals have gone too far.
The next year will be interesting what with interests rates, insurance rates, natural disasters (fire/drought), MT taxes, challenging infrastructure, Kalifornia migration, investment groups building new MT resorts/master planned communitues, ... We were planning to buy a second home there a couple of years back. I'm so glad we decided to take it slow and just keep an eye on things. It turns out we really like where we live. No insurance issues and have more flexibility to travel the world.
The other thing to remember for the locals that lived in these areas before Yellowstone became the popular series is the fact that although their home values may have increased that also means their taxes have also increased... Then you think well maybe they could sell their place and keep the money as profit and then buy something less expensive... Except for the fact that everything is now more expensive so that means they have to move someplace else...
I have lived near the ranch where Yellowstone was filmed. The money that came in 2017 is still damaging the local population. Rent used to be cheap now its unobtainable for many locals. It's very sad to watch what has happened in the past 10 years to beautiful Darby
Left the Bitterroot Valley in 1979. The funnel of people started coming soon after. If you can shut out all the busyness and politics and enjoy its beauty for what it’s worth, it is one of the most amazing places on earth. The best memories ever. Enough said
We in Nashville Tennessee fully sympathize with Montana! We have been going thru this ever since the show Nashville. the pandemic just intensified our growth!
The only way to live in Montana for regular folks is to be homeless.. Move to Bozeman and just park your camper on a side street. Sounds tempting.. I love Montana but can't afford to live there.
Let’s not forget, housing and real estate is nuts all over the country. This bubble NEEDS to burst! Back in 2013 I bought small house in Arizona about 50 miles out of Kingman. Stick built, stucco, on a couple acrea of ground. Paid less than 50K, sold if a acouple months ago for 180 K. Still came up with a negative because in Texas I bought a home on 1/3 acre for 235K. But I am closer to shopping and health care, which was a must. Also, Kevin Costner and dances with wolves turned Deadwood and the Black Hills into a shithole too!
Enjoyed the video. Highly educational, and answered questions I (and I’m sure others) had. For endless content, if I was you and would start at season 1 and find filming locations of the show and give historical context. With the end of the show, now is when fans want more. And your proximity is unmatched. I run a wrestling channel so I know how vital relevant content can be. All the best, you gained a new sub. -Maven Huffman
Great way to tie in RE stats with the popularity of Yellowstone! Only go to Zootown when absolutely necessary 😂 Bitterroot is nice but seems like everyone is stacking up on top of each other there. Thanks for sharing ✌🏻
We drove through Kallispel on our way to Cranbrook BC. I couldn’t believe how beautiful the landscape is. The farmlife, though I know it’s a hard life in the winter looks stunning. Just remember real estate prices are astronomical everywhere not just Montana. I actually drive through Missoula twice a year to see my daughters in Bonners Ferry Idaho. That’s pretty awesome Yellowstone was filmed there.
In the bustling of things, we didn’t have a chance to get into the series until it was too late. Assumed it was being filmed in Bozeman. It’s interesting that Rip/Beth moved to Dillon which will now be the next boomtown. And Kayce’s character mirrored real life. He and his family have a place in the bitterroot.
I bought a Dutton Ranch cap at Tractor Supply 3 or 4 years ago. I didn't know what it was. People kept complimenting on it. I still haven't watched even 1 minute of that show. Wouldn't mind having 100 acres in Montana, and a well though.
I don't think you can attribute most of the property increases to Yellowstone. I live in St Louis and we have also experienced great property increases.
Don't forget that the Magruder Corridor starts just on the other side of town, and with the Overlanding channels has upped traffic to the area, I was there a few months ago, for the Magruder Corridor, on an overlanding trip.
Leave it to Hollywood to ruin an area for the locals. Same thing happened to Taos and Santa Fe New Mexico when they filmed Every Which Way But Loose with Clint Eastwood. The locals could no longer afford to live there. Thank you, Taylor for fing it up for the locals.
I moved to Montana before the movie A River Runs Through It. The Californians moved in by the droves. I'm from the Carolinas. I moved into Stevensville. It was a year later...made no friends around me. I waved at everyone when driving by, and I fixed a neighbors gas furnace and found a neighbors horse that got out. Finally, I was accepted into the neighborhood. There was a two gallon bucket of huckleberrys on my front porch swing. Mind your own business, don't run your mouth about How We Did It Back From so and so. Stay out of politics and religion. Just be friendly and become part of the community.
😮Wow😮😮😮❤ Avrei voluto che non finisse mai Yellowstone. Kevin Costner fantastico e stupendo l'uomo più bello del mondo❤❤❤❤. Cast formidabile. Grazie Scheridan. ❤
I've seen the news reports about the concerns about no affordable housing in Bozifornia and how the state needs to address this "problem". To me this "problem" is the solution to unfettered growth in the state. Maybe if there is no where affordable to live here, less people would consider moving here in the first place.
Thats why after I was threatened by a California Gangster driving a Beemer who cut me off from getting into the left turn lane so I could get the green arrow, turn left, and go home, I left. I packed Everything onto a Harbor Freight 4'x8' folding trailer, quit my 18+ year traffic control job, got my Social Security, and drove 18 hours to Idaho Falls, Idaho. That was on July 18th. After looking for an affordable place to live, I found a Basement Bunker/Man-Cave in Rexburg, paid the deposit and first month's rent, and moved in. Been there ever since. Waaaaaaaayyyyyy different politics, gun culture, attitudes, and almost everything else than I left behind in Gangland Aurora, Overcrowded Adams County, and the Front Range of Commierado in general. Don't Californicate Idaho, like happened to Darby Montana, thanks to Yellowstone.
I live in Mesa Arizona. I wish it wasn’t true, but we are in the same boat. They say we are fastest rising housing cost in America there is apartment houses going up on every spare piece of property there is. I don’t think they build houses anymore except for million plus so it’s driving the housing price up and up and up.
Its not just one state. I was living in Dallas ft worth. I bought a house back in 2013 for $125k. That house later sold for $375k. ( not by me) I got out of there. I moved to Arkansas. Now Walmart who owns the state brings in nearly 500k people per year as employees. So guess what. Homes go from $200k to $750k over night. And everyday more and more move here. They have big money coming from California. They retire to here and build $2 mil homes. So it's not just your state or anyone else we.
TV shows are often promoters of real estate booms. For Boston it is Cheers. For Minneapolis it is the Mary Tyler Moore Show. For Seattle it is Frasier. For Dallas it is Dallas. For Miami it is Miami Vice. Other real estate promoters have been Sex and the City; Friends, and Beverly Hills 90210. It is really endless. The only thing different with Montana is the show is not in a big city, yet market forces were happening even before the show Yellowstone, with Hollywood stars taking refuge in ranch properties as well as billionaires.
I remember back in 1996 I took my family to Yellowstone N.P. On the way home we drove through Jackson Hole Wy. I thought "Wow, what a beautiful town, I wonder what homes cost here? " When I got home I looked at Jackson Hole homes for sale. I nearly fainted.
Sad to see. It's happening in every quiet affordable place. People want out of the big cities. Once the secret is out everyone wants to be there. I think it's good for Montana from a economic point of view to help develop a lot more, but you don't want massive crowds of people moving in either. The geographic isolation and cold weather will probably keep it from getting too bad. South Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, and Texas are getting so crowded now.
Now that Yellowstone show is over the area can get back to the way it was. It will be interesting to see what direction the Chief Joseph ranch goes now that production is finished.
My hope is a guided tour or something. I’d love to see it someday in person just to take in the landscapes around and see the ranch main house in person (I was a big fan of the show for the first three seasons) but with how expensive it is to even stay anywhere in Montana especially close to the ranch, I doubt I’ll ever be able to afford the trip.
Never even watched that show but we've been eyeing montana anyway. The swings in home prices are similar to other areas (I'm in PNW) and we've had similar trends in home prices so I wouldn't blame the show for the increase in home prices necessarily. I think in general post pandemic more people are looking to move to more rural areas and smaller towns.
We bought our house in Dillon in 2002 for $100,000 it was our vacation cottage. We sold the house in 2018 for $185,000. Now I bet the house would sell for close to $375,000.
Have thought about moving to Dillon for hubby’s work. Saw what 400,000$ gets in a home and changed our minds. Took a drive up to chief Joseph ranch and had lunch in town. The people were wonderful!
Nicely done. All I can say is when people move they do not assimilate and want to change their new environment. They'll say, where I came from we did this or had that, in reply, I say MOVE BACK! Don't ruin these towns.
Thank you, I am noting the episode. By the way, this episode was very informative. The money amounts are staggering but the biggest surprise to me are the number of people involved that are never seen. That number sounds like a major movie set, I wonder what those numbers would look like.
I read many comments about the show ruining the state. But there are also tons of comments of those saying they wanted to move there before the show. EVERYONE is trying to get away from everyone else. So they move to small towns and those towns become big cities. They in turn have huge fanilys and they in turn move to othe states with " small " towns. And the cycle continues. In other words get used to it. Everyone complaining but its not gonna change
I live in SW Florida one mile from the Gulf and we bought our house new in 94 for $165,000. Developers have now made the area untouchable for young people to move here . There’s not a house within 1 mile of us now thats under a million dollars. I’m talking old homes, not new construction.
Will, we have 3 offices in the Bitterroot Valley. We have a very large market share. When we interview buyers, a VERY small number cite Yellowstone as a factor in their motivation for making the move. A larger percentage,yet small, cite Yellowstone in our markets and offices across the state. Now that can’t be said about the rental market including single family homes and commercial properties. The Yellowstone Effect is more romance than reality.
I’ve seen bits and pieces of the show. My family loved it, but doesn’t like the cost affect. All homes are much more expensive. When we moved here 25 years ago from the east, housing was expensive here. That hasn’t changed. It’s beautiful. Quite a few stars have homes here as well which contributes to the high cost.
so does the cost of lumber and building materials for new homes , those cost a lot more now so the cost of used existing housing goes up too. there worth more now. thank the great price reset of 20-21. itll happen again when the owners of this country feel its warranted. carry on tho
YES. the movie Yellowstone absolutely ruined this once beautiful state. AND IT WAS NEVER FILMED IN BOZEMAN. So anyone who is wanting to move here stay the hell out of Bozeman.
If you compare these prices to Boise Idaho, home prices in these towns has gone up a bit more, but not a whole lot more. Many states are seeing population booms. I live in California, there are still way too many people here too.
I marveled at “Yellowstone’s” popularity. The Duttons were the lawless, greedy, vicious big landowners who were the villains in so many western movies.
I wanted to move to Hamilton or Missoula to be closer to my mom in Kellogg, ID. Then I heard about Yellowstone and what it did to the area. Nope! Never mind. Not gonna be part of the problem.
Once your state shows up on the ''best states to move to '' list it is already game over. New York and New Jersey retirees,...plus ''halfbacks'' have become the death knell for your state. Selling their homes for armored car-worthy amounts of cash,...and driving up prices has made it impossible for locals to compete. And it doesn't even feel ''southern '' there anymore.
Basically what happened to Montana only a decade sooner. The Northerners ruined it by bringing their politics with them. Turned a red state purple. Trying to get out of here…
This is not just one state having issues. It's nearly every state. Ny and California move to every state. Texas Montana Colorado Arkansas..the Carolinas. Florida Georgia..it never ends. Add in illegals moving to every state. It will continue forever. Population growth will ensure even Montana will become ny
Quite a few people moved all over the U.S. during and after Covid. Many moved from sunny California, for example. However if they moved to Florida they couldn't adjust to the humidity and moved. A lot who moved to Montana, the Dakotas, Wyoming, Alaska couldn't cope with the winters. If they paid 500 thousand for a 190 thousand 😮😮 when they move their going to want more than 500 thousand for it.
“The least WE could do?” You have a Penn State shirt on underneath. You are no more “Montana” than the rest of the great Americans who want to experience it. Thank God they do. I respect the video in many ways. I don’t like anything that makes our wilderness less wild. I love that Americans want to experience our roots as humans. Thank you for showing the change and bringing it to light. I hope we ALL can preserve this old world. I want the world to visit and experience it to understand our past, so they make a great future.
I live in a rural area . An because of the pandemic we were flooded by city dwellers. The Real Estate price had gone through the roof . Seems to be leveling out now .
what a shame. I grew up in Butte in the 90s. Moved away by 2000. Couldn't believe how many more people were there last time I went out. Can't even afford to live in Butte lol.
Montana was ruined in 2006, when Bozeman said they wanted to be as big as Phoenix, but first they had to run everybody out that didn't make a 100k a year. Yellowstone was just the icing on the cake.
Sad thing is local jobs dont pay enough to sustain to love there now. Sane thing has happened to our small state of vermont. Rich city folks come up to ski, but vacation homes, get involved in local town government and want to make things the same as it is where they're from pricing out the locals.
I'm certain you are principally correct in your assessment of the overall effect of the infusion of new money into the area. However, during this same time frame urban areas have become significantly less stable and until November 6th there was no hope for improvement. Also, rich people have been "escaping" to Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, etc for decades (Robert Redford amongst others). It probably just accelerated due to the "Yellowstone Affect".
I have mixed feelings about Yellowstone. Season 5 was crazy.... The drama seems more NY based than Montana. I guess that's what Hollywood has to do to gain viewership and ratings. Thankfully, most people from Montana are halfway normal.
What I’ve learned about a large majority of people coming to Montana to escape the craziness in their state is that they have no understanding of rural life. If the closest Starbucks is more than 15 minutes away, it is too rural. They will be fine in Bozeman or Billings, but not so much anywhere else. Many of them just move somewhere else. Rural is having your closest neighbor at least a couple of miles away, not 50’ like in the cities.
We live in Victor and our property value has gone thru the roof. It is getting crowded and most people that live there want to sell but wont be able to afford another house in the valley. It funny, you will drive thru Hamilton and see California plates on some vehicles with "Go Home" written in the road dust on a vehicle. Like the Penn State pullover repped in the video! WE ARE!
Probably more to do with the fact that everyone is moving out of California and many employees can work remotely these days. The invasion from California has ruined every town in Colorado. Home prices have skyrocketed, the highway to the mountains is a parking lot every weekend, and the newcomers are voting to change Colorado into the disaster they left in California.
I live in California, there are still too many people here, there is still too much new construction going on in my little rural town of Placerville. I'm not sure where all of the people moving into Colorado are coming from, maybe L.A? But I'd like to see some more people leave.
Idaho has been ruined also. Gavin Newsome has been a wrecking ball to many states not just California.
Southern California has ruined Oregon, they just keep coming!!!
Colorado has already turned democrat hahahahaha have fun with that
Same happening to Central Florida.
Partly Yellowstone and the other part the pandemic. People are starting to realize living in the big cities ain’t all it’s cracked up to be and looking for places like Montana to escape to. The problem is when you import big city money into smaller places, all of a sudden the locals can’t afford to live there anymore. And this is becoming a problem pretty much everywhere. So yeah, a lot like the theme of Yellowstone ironically enough 🫠
I checked real estate prices up there. Holy crap, it's pricey. I feel so bad for those locals.
Depends. If people own already and rates are locked they will be ok. Their property will go up in value which is good. But what do they do with it if they are gonna stay and die there. Will taxes and simple necessities go up so high they cant afford to stay. Gentrification can benefit property owners but then the builders get greedy and see opportunity to start turning gods country into housing communities and suburbs. Theres good and bad. If i had enough liquid and overhead I would love have a survival homestead type of location in the middle of nowhere but the cost of supplies tools and property it will never happen unless I win the lottery
💯 Lockdowns & vaxx mandates ruined affordability.
Same happened to Idaho!
@@Animal99Motherproperty value skyrocketing isn’t necessarily a great thing always. Property taxes can get so high they can’t even afford to pay them anymore
It's really sad to see what's happening to the state. I do understand that people want to move here, but I wish they would do it by getting local jobs and living as "normal" Montanans, not coming in and buying the locals out. We're always hoping for a really bad few years of winter to test the longevity of the newcomers.
Here on Oahu no locals are buying these multimillion dollar apartments that keep being built, all mainlanders who maybe spend a week here a year, or worse foreign investors who never even come here. I have seen so many friends move due to the ridiculous prices of housing, Montana looks like a beautiful place but unfortunately with that cones demand and the people with money will eventually weed out the locals just trying to live.
That would do it!
A week of deep snow and 30 below would send them running south!
We have the same issue in Florida
Well as a Floridian I feel your pain, but believe me, it could be a lot worse, as it is here.
@@JohnMoore-xf5wy they don't stay in Montana in the winter.
Absolutely! Californians move to Montana because it’s a farytale and less restricted than their home state but then they make changes to Californiaize it!
As more Californians move to Montana, Montana becomes more Republican.
Californians ruined idaho too
It boggles the mind that folks from Kalifornia, etc.. move away to escape the commie BS. Then continue to spread the plague that they are supposedly escaping to the states they move to. Texas is now 'purple' instead of a strong 'red'. All of the larger cities in Texas are huge liberal democrat bastions.
DON'T KALIFORNIA MY TEXAS!
Easy scapegoat. The Californians moving there are conservatives. Liberals don’t want to live in a repressive red nanny state.
@@megamilyon6111 what does that mean? Lefty wokeness is moving in, far from republican?!
I remember when there was undeveloped land between Darby, Hamilton, Corvallis, Victor, Stevensville, Florence and Missoula. Nine years ago my father came to visit and insisted on seeing that stretch because his parents had lived and passed away in Hamilton.
I tried to talk him out of it but we did the road trip anyway. It had been at least 12 years since he saw it and boy was he disappointed. He was blown away because he couldn’t tell where one town ended and the other started.
People leave the big cities for small towns only to make small towns into big cities. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Some think that stretch is beautiful and others believe the beauty and heritage of Montana small town and country has and is being destroyed.
Me? I just keep moving away trying to find those undesirable small towns with nothing to offer but good people who love the slow pace of living.
Thompson Falls
Thebigskyguy Wow that is beautiful!
So you keep moving away to smaller towns, making them bigger! The very thing you say you hate! I'm sure there are folks in those towns who are thinking the same things about you that you say about folks moving in after you!
Born in 71, from the Root and it's now infested with transplants. They're like Locusts. Move in and devour then move on. Started in SoCal, moved up to Oregon, then Washington then Idaho and now Montana. Look out Wyoming and Dakotas they're coming.
I'm in Mineral Wells Tx, and they did a lot of filming for the different shows down here. 1883, Yellowstone, 1923, Bass Reeves, and now Landman. My son lives in Big Spring, so he'll be seeing some of that going on out there. The 6666 Ranch is just north of us and Weatherford just east of us. They filmed some right outside my buddies place in Milsap. I still kinda smile as I drive past it. For the people of Strawn Tx, it brought a bit of a boom because they filmed a lot of the Bass Reeves film there. This little town of Mineral Wells has been trying to become a tourist destination for the past 20 years now and with the Baker hotel, they think they will make it. I've watched the house I bought for $17000 jump in value from $25000 to $130,000, and we hadn't even painted it yet! SO yeah I feel your pain, and many of my neighbors do as well.
Stay in California, Minnesota., Washington. Montana is full !!
I hear Wyoming is take applications. 😂
They (Californicators , Washington , & any State East of the Prairie ) need to stay out of Utah also, they have done nothing but ruin the small towns! They drag there failed politics and Ideology with them!
Your both goofy 🤪
Idaho is and has bn full too.....
Minnesota is pretty full too
I live in Darby and I'm glad that clown show is gone. I think it presented a bad image of how we live here. It gave this area a little more attention than we really needed. Everybody flocked here to see were it was filmed. Idiots parked in the highway to take their pictures in front of the gate to the ranch. The traffic from the hundreds of people and trucks on the highway from filming was crazy. It drove rents up for housing. My property value went up but so did my property taxes. I knew a few people that moved here because they watched the show. They have all left because this place is not as glamorous as the show made it seem. In the end I don't think the average person benefited at all from the show being filmed here. I do like how you represent our state in bringing out the real truth about living here. Thank you.
My brother lives right down the road in conner. I went to visit him last year just like you said idiots taking pics of a gate and maybe the peak of the roof of the house. I hated seeing all the California plates and Subarus everywhere but told him better here than in my state of Tennessee he didn't think that was very funny. We get them moving here from Montana after their first winter there.
Very well said. Anyone stupid enough to move to a place based on a TV Show is not who you want for a neighbor. My wife and I are native Californians living in the Sierra Foothills. We love to visit Montana in our RV but rest assured we will go back home. We will spend out tourist dollars and leave. We fully understand what newcomers from places like the SF Bay Area and LA bring and it sucks. They are too stupid to realize that they leave because of policies they created and will do the same to their new home. I wish you all the best in getting rid of transplants.
@@AppalachianRancher
EXCELLENT POST,
TRUTH 💯👍✌🏻😎
No, it elevated you ignorant people.
I stopped watching the show during the 2nd season-way too violent for me(whether life is really that way out there or not). I’ve been all over Montana for many years and thought it might be nice to live there. Two COLD winters convinced me to just visit in any season but winter.It’s a beautiful state. I’ll be back for a visit soon. Thank you for the information. Keep going…
Gavin Newsom has ruined Idaho, Montana, Colorado and Texas right along with California.
Half those Yellowstone actors live in or have homes in California. My wife and I (Natives) live in California (the Sierra Foothills) and this is exactly where we will stay. Look, Montana is amazing but the winters are way to long and damn cold. I have no desire to create any hardships or other issues for native Montana Residents. We will come to visit with our RV, spend money and then we will leave. We fully understand what people flocking to a hidden gem and bringing their BS Progressive policies can do, it's not good. We see that here with SF Bay Area and LA residents. To me Yellowstone is entertainment and thats it. I hope native Montana residents can keep what they have and that any idiot that can be influenced by a TV Show moving in does not destroy that. We feel your pain!
Bless you.
@@theepictale5383agreed finally a person who actually just is a sightseeing person and sees what can happen if you move to rural area when us rural area folks loved the way it was for generations before big city folks moved in and ruined it all. Happened to my small town and county I live due to college kids from KSU University staying and changing everything for the worse. Can't wait to save up enough to move outta Portage county ohio and Ravenna ohio. Because the stuff I grew up died a long time ago. But if rent and taxes keep going up I will have no choice but to move outta my area I grew up because California people and other big city people ruined it for us small town folks just barley getting by.
California is banning RV's. You'll have to store your RV in a storage facility in Montana.
I have Montana roots on my mom’s side, all up and down the beautiful western mountainous part of the state including Hamilton. My cousin lives in Polson, another lovely Montana town, and while I was staying there we talked about the California phenomenon. Yes, there is resentment. People want to live in quiet small town places but why is nobody moving to, say, Nebraska? Because they also want to live in spectacular beautiful places. Like Colorado, Montana and other places in the mountain West. And has been pointed out, not only do places get built up and unaffordable, the politics changes away what the original residents had because they become outnumbered. Colorado being a resounding example.
Having lived in Whitefish for 5 years during early mid 1990s, I witnessed the impact the movie "A River Runs Through It" made on growing populations and the illusion that it represented what living in Montana was like. Many out of staters began pouring in in search of that idyllic life and the consequence was increased property values and property taxes to such an extent it squeezed out the locals.
When I lived in the high country of the Rockies a bit south of Montana many years ago we would always see the fully loaded moving trucks coming up the canyons in the summertime. The following spring after a normally occurring hard winter before all the snow melted off we would see fully loaded moving trucks going back down those same canyons. A huge percentage of people that move to the mountains because of the beauty they see when they visit in summer aren't mentally or physically prepared for the sub zero temperatures and the 3 and 4 foot deep snows. Winters are much worse further north up there in Montana. These people come in and stay just long enough to drive up the real estate prices then leave. We used to call them, "ear mites" because they have the same effect on an area as ear mites have on an animal if left untreated.
I've never seen a single episode of "Yellowstone", but Montana and I go back almost 50 years, even though I've never been there. But in my dreams...❤
I saw the same thing playout in Idaho. No, there wasn't a TV show, but word got out about the quality of life, and yes, we had a lot of celebrities that lived there, and it eventually ruined that space. I would travel up to Montana each spring and fall to fish, and I could see what was playing out. I didn't watch the show, just can't, but when I saw the advertising for it, I knew immediately what was going to occur, and now here we are. I hate it, absolutely hate it. It's ruining the lives of the locals, and what's more frustrating is that many don't grasp it, more importantly those in the real estate market.
Why do so many from Idaho move to Arkansas???
I lived in the Bitterroot when those self-absorbed, narcissistic, entitled A-holes from Hollyweird came to our valley and wrecked our cost of living and our real estate market. I had a few run-ins with their "people" and as a Montanan...they represented all that is contrary with Montana way of life. I watched exactly one episode of that rubbish show and in the one episode is all that I need to see. I am glad that they are gone, regrettably the damage is done. I work for an international company and my colleagues all know that I am a Montanan that lives in Montana and it is very strange what people's perception is of The Last, Best Place is as they are drawing their opinions from this garbage show. Good Riddance! I left the West side and my family and I now live East of The Divide and we could not be happier.
AMEN!!!!
get off my lawn lmao
@MrLofter nah, you asswipes just need to stop acting like you're better than everyone else
Never watched the show, but thankfully moved here beforehand. Prices are ridiculous now!
Good job on showing the actual numbers. I first stayed in Darby in 2019 and wanted to move there when I retired in 2021. Sadly by that time it was already over my budget and very little inventory was to be found. I still try to stay for 10 days or so a couple of times a year.
Cheers,
Kevin
It may have however for some of us viewers it has opened our eyes to the “fight” property owners face to keep their farms & ranches not only in Montana but even here in Canada. For some of us that care about farms & ranches it has sparked an interest in running for municipal government to help preserve the natural state of the land & keep these farms & ranches where they are. I live in Southern Alberta & have seen with my own eyes, people moving from big cities to small rural communities & causing problems from water use to dogs barking. My advice if you move to a rural community is to accept things as they are after all you moved away from the city you didn’t want to live in.
Yup let's be honest if you try to force rural folks out here mostly here in the midwest where I live your gonna get an ass kicking and get messed with in the local area if you're trying to change the way our friendly rural towns have been since the foundings. And sometimes us midwest folks have ways of refusing service to certain people like California we mess with them hard-core and make them experience mid west hostility to an extreme of you try to mess with our way of life we have been happy with for decades. Friendly word of advice for people from California who want to move to midwest don't try to force your beliefs and laws down our thoats here in the midwest otherwise if you rock the boat too much you will capsize in the lake so to speak and the only way out is going back to commiefornia.
@@brandonplaisted8194threatening people with violence for exercising their American freedoms… nice. It might be time for you to grow up and stop acting so entitled.
Montana was hugely impacted by, “A River Runs Through It” long before “Yellowstone!”
I was born and raised in Bozeman, 4th generation...the silicon valley tech (elites & famous) peeps came creepin' in (1990's) and pushed a lot of locals out. That was a true beginning of the 'Rocky Mountain Boom', that started the big chain of developing (causing the cost of living to rise for the regular folks) and pushing people away from their lands...bringing in celebrities and rich who also made it worse by posting social media and publicity info about Montana...that never stopped to this day
We live in Northern CALIFORNIA. This past fall we spent a month in Montana while driving back from Michigan.
We were SHOCKED at RE prices around Kalispell and Missoula.
Nor Cal is definitely more affordable than many areas of Montana..
Your commentary about housing costs and inventory would have been better if you had compared it to the national average for the same period. Because at the same time that housing prices in Montana were no doubt increasing because of the show, housing prices in general across the country have gotten really out of control, and comparing the two would have given some much needed context.
I was thinking the same thing although I’m sure the show has caused negative impact. Home prices here is Florida are completely out of control only now are they starting to come down.
Generally that would be true, except Montana has always lagged behind the rest of the country. Now it's just stupid. Inflated prices, increased property taxes. My taxes have tripled. Even if the market slows, our taxes will never go down. We got so screwed in this deal.1
My girlfriend and I took a month-long road trip out West from Maryland a few months ago. We wanted to see Montana but had no interest in getting caught up in the Yellowstone/Western Montana hysteria. We entered the state from the eastern border and enjoyed a few days there. Yes, it was flat and unassuming, but we totally enjoyed it for its own unique beauty. No regrets!!
If you get back out there take a ride from Livingston to Gardiner thru Paradise Valley! It will not be flat and unassuming!!! It has it's own unique beauty!!!
If you go western montana it's not flat ! I live here
Northwest is corner is not in the chaos
@GordonMays-z7h well don't attract the attention!
I identified with Yellowstone because the same thing is happening in little Rhode Island. My father owns 33 acres of forestland that he inherited from his father. For decades the town charged a minimal amount of taxes because it is open farmland. Now, the town government want to drive out people by skyrocketing taxes on people who own open land to make way for the rich who have built mansions on this cheap land.
I moved here from northern CA seeking constitutional rights that CA wasn’t willing to allow me to maintain. I am still treading lightly because the people who live here are deeply connected with there land and way of life and I intend to respect that. I didn’t even vote for 2 years until I understood more of what MT needs from me.
Never watched a single episode of the show.
ask not what the country can do for you but what YOU can do for the country
I got a bad taste regarding Air Bnb’s two years ago when we vacationed in a certain town (to protect it, I wont name it). A local told us he and his family live paycheck to paycheck now, even though they grew up there. He said the Californians buy up every house they can in the town, only to rent them out as Airbnb’s, which leave nothing for those who grew up in what used to be this small town. The locals have no homes to buy, due to the Californians renting everything out. Ever since I had this conversation with him, I’ve preferred to only stay in hotels. The Airbnb and other vacation home rentals have gone too far.
Or did Yellostone just pick up where A River Runs Through It left off?
The next year will be interesting what with interests rates, insurance rates, natural disasters (fire/drought), MT taxes, challenging infrastructure, Kalifornia migration, investment groups building new MT resorts/master planned communitues, ...
We were planning to buy a second home there a couple of years back. I'm so glad we decided to take it slow and just keep an eye on things. It turns out we really like where we live. No insurance issues and have more flexibility to travel the world.
The other thing to remember for the locals that lived in these areas before Yellowstone became the popular series is the fact that although their home values may have increased that also means their taxes have also increased... Then you think well maybe they could sell their place and keep the money as profit and then buy something less expensive... Except for the fact that everything is now more expensive so that means they have to move someplace else...
I have lived near the ranch where Yellowstone was filmed. The money that came in 2017 is still damaging the local population. Rent used to be cheap now its unobtainable for many locals. It's very sad to watch what has happened in the past 10 years to beautiful Darby
For example my rent was $475 a month 12 years ago and that was what wages could offer locally. Same place now goes for $1850/month
Left the Bitterroot Valley in 1979. The funnel of people started coming soon after. If you can shut out all the busyness and politics and enjoy its beauty for what it’s worth, it is one of the most amazing places on earth. The best memories ever. Enough said
Montana is beautiful but it’s coooooooooold.
Oh yes, but it makes up for it by being super hot in the summer.
I played a news camera man in season 5. It was definitely an interesting experience.
We in Nashville Tennessee fully sympathize with Montana! We have been going thru this ever since the show Nashville. the pandemic just intensified our growth!
The only way to live in Montana for regular folks is to be homeless.. Move to Bozeman and just park your camper on a side street. Sounds tempting.. I love Montana but can't afford to live there.
Missoula is as liberal as Bozeman. Homelessness abounds.
@tt600pch I don't like the liberal part, lol.. Poor but proud conservative here..
Let’s not forget, housing and real estate is nuts all over the country. This bubble NEEDS to burst! Back in 2013 I bought small house in Arizona about 50 miles out of Kingman. Stick built, stucco, on a couple acrea of ground. Paid less than 50K, sold if a acouple months ago for 180 K. Still came up with a negative because in Texas I bought a home on 1/3 acre for 235K. But I am closer to shopping and health care, which was a must.
Also, Kevin Costner and dances with wolves turned Deadwood and the Black Hills into a shithole too!
Enjoyed the video. Highly educational, and answered questions I (and I’m sure others) had. For endless content, if I was you and would start at season 1 and find filming locations of the show and give historical context. With the end of the show, now is when fans want more. And your proximity is unmatched. I run a wrestling channel so I know how vital relevant content can be. All the best, you gained a new sub.
-Maven Huffman
Great idea!
Great way to tie in RE stats with the popularity of Yellowstone! Only go to Zootown when absolutely necessary 😂 Bitterroot is nice but seems like everyone is stacking up on top of each other there. Thanks for sharing ✌🏻
💯true about Zootown & Bitterroot!
We drove through Kallispel on our way to Cranbrook BC. I couldn’t believe how beautiful the landscape is. The farmlife, though I know it’s a hard life in the winter looks stunning. Just remember real estate prices are astronomical everywhere not just Montana. I actually drive through Missoula twice a year to see my daughters in Bonners Ferry Idaho. That’s pretty awesome Yellowstone was filmed there.
In the bustling of things, we didn’t have a chance to get into the series until it was too late. Assumed it was being filmed in Bozeman. It’s interesting that Rip/Beth moved to Dillon which will now be the next boomtown. And Kayce’s character mirrored real life. He and his family have a place in the bitterroot.
Excellent video, you give a unique perspective as you were an extra on the show.
I bought a Dutton Ranch cap at Tractor Supply 3 or 4 years ago. I didn't know what it was. People kept complimenting on it.
I still haven't watched even 1 minute of that show.
Wouldn't mind having 100 acres in Montana, and a well though.
I don't think you can attribute most of the property increases to Yellowstone. I live in St Louis and we have also experienced great property increases.
Same here in San Antonio.
Don't forget that the Magruder Corridor starts just on the other side of town, and with the Overlanding channels has upped traffic to the area, I was there a few months ago, for the Magruder Corridor, on an overlanding trip.
Leave it to Hollywood to ruin an area for the locals. Same thing happened to Taos and Santa Fe New Mexico when they filmed Every Which Way But Loose with Clint Eastwood. The locals could no longer afford to live there. Thank you, Taylor for fing it up for the locals.
I moved to Montana before the movie A River Runs Through It. The Californians moved in by the droves. I'm from the Carolinas. I moved into Stevensville. It was a year later...made no friends around me. I waved at everyone when driving by, and I fixed a neighbors gas furnace and found a neighbors horse that got out. Finally, I was accepted into the neighborhood. There was a two gallon bucket of huckleberrys on my front porch swing. Mind your own business, don't run your mouth about How We Did It Back From so and so. Stay out of politics and religion. Just be friendly and become part of the community.
😮Wow😮😮😮❤ Avrei voluto che non finisse mai Yellowstone. Kevin Costner fantastico e stupendo l'uomo più bello del mondo❤❤❤❤. Cast formidabile. Grazie Scheridan. ❤
I see Nittany lions logo!! Former student or fan?
Yep, Penn State grad!
I really enjoyed this reality-check video! Fascinating first-hand information.
I've seen the news reports about the concerns about no affordable housing in Bozifornia and how the state needs to address this "problem". To me this "problem" is the solution to unfettered growth in the state. Maybe if there is no where affordable to live here, less people would consider moving here in the first place.
Thats why after I was threatened by a California Gangster driving a Beemer who cut me off from getting into the left turn lane so I could get the green arrow, turn left, and go home, I left. I packed Everything onto a Harbor Freight 4'x8' folding trailer, quit my 18+ year traffic control job, got my Social Security, and drove 18 hours to Idaho Falls, Idaho. That was on July 18th. After looking for an affordable place to live, I found a Basement Bunker/Man-Cave in Rexburg, paid the deposit and first month's rent, and moved in. Been there ever since. Waaaaaaaayyyyyy different politics, gun culture, attitudes, and almost everything else than I left behind in Gangland Aurora, Overcrowded Adams County, and the Front Range of Commierado in general. Don't Californicate Idaho, like happened to Darby Montana, thanks to Yellowstone.
I live in Mesa Arizona. I wish it wasn’t true, but we are in the same boat. They say we are fastest rising housing cost in America there is apartment houses going up on every spare piece of property there is. I don’t think they build houses anymore except for million plus so it’s driving the housing price up and up and up.
Its not just one state. I was living in Dallas ft worth. I bought a house back in 2013 for $125k. That house later sold for $375k. ( not by me)
I got out of there. I moved to Arkansas. Now Walmart who owns the state brings in nearly 500k people per year as employees. So guess what. Homes go from $200k to $750k over night. And everyday more and more move here. They have big money coming from California. They retire to here and build $2 mil homes. So it's not just your state or anyone else we.
TV shows are often promoters of real estate booms. For Boston it is Cheers. For Minneapolis it is the Mary Tyler Moore Show. For Seattle it is Frasier. For Dallas it is Dallas. For Miami it is Miami Vice. Other real estate promoters have been Sex and the City; Friends, and Beverly Hills 90210. It is really endless. The only thing different with Montana is the show is not in a big city, yet market forces were happening even before the show Yellowstone, with Hollywood stars taking refuge in ranch properties as well as billionaires.
I remember back in 1996 I took my family to Yellowstone N.P. On the way home we drove through Jackson Hole Wy. I thought "Wow, what a beautiful town, I wonder what homes cost here? " When I got home I looked at Jackson Hole homes for sale. I nearly fainted.
Pennsylvania for the office
Sad to see. It's happening in every quiet affordable place. People want out of the big cities. Once the secret is out everyone wants to be there. I think it's good for Montana from a economic point of view to help develop a lot more, but you don't want massive crowds of people moving in either. The geographic isolation and cold weather will probably keep it from getting too bad. South Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, and Texas are getting so crowded now.
Now that Yellowstone show is over the area can get back to the way it was. It will be interesting to see what direction the Chief Joseph ranch goes now that production is finished.
My hope is a guided tour or something. I’d love to see it someday in person just to take in the landscapes around and see the ranch main house in person (I was a big fan of the show for the first three seasons) but with how expensive it is to even stay anywhere in Montana especially close to the ranch, I doubt I’ll ever be able to afford the trip.
Never even watched that show but we've been eyeing montana anyway. The swings in home prices are similar to other areas (I'm in PNW) and we've had similar trends in home prices so I wouldn't blame the show for the increase in home prices necessarily. I think in general post pandemic more people are looking to move to more rural areas and smaller towns.
We have the same problem in Wyoming around Jackson.
We bought our house in Dillon in 2002 for $100,000 it was our vacation cottage.
We sold the house in 2018 for $185,000. Now I bet the house would sell for close to $375,000.
Probably more unless it was a really run down small house. 425k and up...
Have thought about moving to Dillon for hubby’s work. Saw what 400,000$ gets in a home and changed our minds. Took a drive up to chief Joseph ranch and had lunch in town. The people were wonderful!
If you think Dillion area is expensive don't even bother with the Bitterroot.
How does the price changes look, compared to the rest of the US? It seems to mirror the overall market.
Exactly, if anything, it’s worst in other parts of the country, especially down here in North Georgia
Nicely done. All I can say is when people move they do not assimilate and want to change their new environment. They'll say, where I came from we did this or had that, in reply, I say MOVE BACK! Don't ruin these towns.
Hi Will, what episode or season were you in? I am just starting to watch the series now.
Season 5, episode 1
Thank you, I am noting the episode. By the way, this episode was very informative. The money amounts are staggering but the biggest surprise to me are the number of people involved that are never seen. That number sounds like a major movie set, I wonder what those numbers would look like.
I read many comments about the show ruining the state. But there are also tons of comments of those saying they wanted to move there before the show. EVERYONE is trying to get away from everyone else. So they move to small towns and those towns become big cities. They in turn have huge fanilys and they in turn move to othe states with " small " towns. And the cycle continues. In other words get used to it. Everyone complaining but its not gonna change
Has the supply come back up because people have left or they have built more houses?
Both
I would love to own a ranch with beautiful highland cows one day 😢
How does this compare to the national market?
I worked for the USFS in the Bitterroot valley back in the early 90's and it was ruined then and that was 30 years ago!
I live in SW Florida one mile from the Gulf and we bought our house new in 94 for $165,000. Developers have now made the area untouchable for young people to move here . There’s not a house within 1 mile of us now thats under a million dollars. I’m talking old homes, not new construction.
Excellent video, very informative
Will, we have 3 offices in the Bitterroot Valley. We have a very large market share. When we interview buyers, a VERY small number cite Yellowstone as a factor in their motivation for making the move. A larger percentage,yet small, cite Yellowstone in our markets and offices across the state. Now that can’t be said about the rental market including single family homes and commercial properties. The Yellowstone Effect is more romance than reality.
I’ve seen bits and pieces of the show. My family loved it, but doesn’t like the cost affect. All homes are much more expensive. When we moved here 25 years ago from the east, housing was expensive here. That hasn’t changed. It’s beautiful. Quite a few stars have homes here as well which contributes to the high cost.
so does the cost of lumber and building materials for new homes , those cost a lot more now so the cost of used existing housing goes up too. there worth more now. thank the great price reset of 20-21. itll happen again when the owners of this country feel its warranted. carry on tho
YES. the movie Yellowstone absolutely ruined this once beautiful state. AND IT WAS NEVER FILMED IN BOZEMAN. So anyone who is wanting to move here stay the hell out of Bozeman.
If you compare these prices to Boise Idaho, home prices in these towns has gone up a bit more, but not a whole lot more. Many states are seeing population booms. I live in California, there are still way too many people here too.
Oh yes, Montana is just like the TV show...😮😅
Man, I wish I could get from the Chief Joseph Ranch to Missoula in a short car ride.
Yeah, California money is making Montana Great Again! 😮😊
Locals love the new arrivals, their politics taking over😮
Hey's thanks for this video! Will is full of great information!!
I watched part of an early episode of the show... made my skin crawl... never again.
I marveled at “Yellowstone’s” popularity. The Duttons were the lawless, greedy, vicious big landowners who were the villains in so many western movies.
I wanted to move to Hamilton or Missoula to be closer to my mom in Kellogg, ID. Then I heard about Yellowstone and what it did to the area. Nope! Never mind. Not gonna be part of the problem.
North Idaho is way better anyway.
WE ARE... 😎
Greetings from elsewhere in Montana.
Don't even get me started on what has happened to North Carolina the past 10 years!
Once your state shows up on the ''best states to move to '' list it is already game over. New York and New Jersey retirees,...plus ''halfbacks'' have become the death knell for your state. Selling their homes for armored car-worthy amounts of cash,...and driving up prices has made it impossible for locals to compete. And it doesn't even feel ''southern '' there anymore.
Basically what happened to Montana only a decade sooner. The Northerners ruined it by bringing their politics with them. Turned a red state purple. Trying to get out of here…
Yea really our way of life is being ruined
This is not just one state having issues. It's nearly every state. Ny and California move to every state. Texas Montana Colorado Arkansas..the Carolinas. Florida Georgia..it never ends. Add in illegals moving to every state. It will continue forever. Population growth will ensure even Montana will become ny
Quite a few people moved all over the U.S. during and after Covid. Many moved from sunny California, for example. However if they moved to Florida they couldn't adjust to the humidity and moved. A lot who moved to Montana, the Dakotas, Wyoming, Alaska couldn't cope with the winters. If they paid 500 thousand for a 190 thousand 😮😮 when they move their going to want more than 500 thousand for it.
“The least WE could do?”
You have a Penn State shirt on underneath. You are no more “Montana” than the rest of the great Americans who want to experience it.
Thank God they do.
I respect the video in many ways. I don’t like anything that makes our wilderness less wild.
I love that Americans want to experience our roots as humans.
Thank you for showing the change and bringing it to light. I hope we ALL can preserve this old world.
I want the world to visit and experience it to understand our past, so they make a great future.
I live in a rural area . An because of the pandemic we were flooded by city dwellers. The Real Estate price had gone through the roof . Seems to be leveling out now .
what a shame. I grew up in Butte in the 90s. Moved away by 2000. Couldn't believe how many more people were there last time I went out. Can't even afford to live in Butte lol.
I had a dream of living in montana, but I guess that's not going to happen now at those prices.
Montana was ruined in 2006, when Bozeman said they wanted to be as big as Phoenix, but first they had to run everybody out that didn't make a 100k a year. Yellowstone was just the icing on the cake.
The show never filmed or showed winter in Montana
As soon as they keep Montana red fair away from all this BS I don’t think property is bad !
By the way need some help
Whitefish x Bozeman ?
Sad thing is local jobs dont pay enough to sustain to love there now. Sane thing has happened to our small state of vermont. Rich city folks come up to ski, but vacation homes, get involved in local town government and want to make things the same as it is where they're from pricing out the locals.
Possibly if that show brought in certain voters from states like California.
Largest town is Billings with 100k
Wow …….not.
The real estate pop is done and
will get real in the next year.😮🤷🏿♂️😁
I'm certain you are principally correct in your assessment of the overall effect of the infusion of new money into the area.
However, during this same time frame urban areas have become significantly less stable and until November 6th there was no hope for improvement.
Also, rich people have been "escaping" to Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, etc for decades (Robert Redford amongst others). It probably just accelerated due to the "Yellowstone Affect".
Same here in the surrounding countys of Nashville Tennessee.
Really liked this video! So glad you did it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I have mixed feelings about Yellowstone. Season 5 was crazy.... The drama seems more NY based than Montana. I guess that's what Hollywood has to do to gain viewership and ratings. Thankfully, most people from Montana are halfway normal.
What I’ve learned about a large majority of people coming to Montana to escape the craziness in their state is that they have no understanding of rural life. If the closest Starbucks is more than 15 minutes away, it is too rural. They will be fine in Bozeman or Billings, but not so much anywhere else. Many of them just move somewhere else. Rural is having your closest neighbor at least a couple of miles away, not 50’ like in the cities.
We live in Victor and our property value has gone thru the roof. It is getting crowded and most people that live there want to sell but wont be able to afford another house in the valley. It funny, you will drive thru Hamilton and see California plates on some vehicles with "Go Home" written in the road dust on a vehicle. Like the Penn State pullover repped in the video! WE ARE!
God stop your crying and be happy someone made Montana relevant. I doubt native Americans had a voice when European settlers started moving in.