Lol, I'm moving there soon and I definitely intend to purchase a cowboy hat simply because I do not want the sun on my face!!!! Not trying to be a cowboy, hey, I'm in my 70's, too old to "play cowboy", LOL. Gee, never have I heard a video laying down all the things you DON'T want newcomers to do. Sorry, but that doesn't come off very welcoming. How do you think that makes the newcomers feel? My state certainly doesn't give a list of things not to do, for newcomers.
I love Montana! I miss it so I watch these videos. I only lived there (in Great Falls) for 4 years (1964-69) but I felt like it was my home. We first came to see Glacier National Park when I was 11 and continued up to Waterton International Peace Park in Alberta, Canada, camping all the way. There’s nothing like the Rockies. We fell in love with Montana and moved there the following year. We traveled all over the state and camped in Glacier Park every summer. I miss the big sky, the high prairie, seeing herds of deer, Pronghorn antelope and hearing the bugling of the elk and the honking of the Canada geese. I don’t miss the long, long winters though! But it still feels like home. Maybe because my Dad is buried there.
We LOOK at each other when we cross on the sidewalk…with the exception of Bozeman. We also look at one another when we pass in our cars on the street. We SLOW down!! We listen. We consider one another. It’s not that hard. Don’t screw that up!
I sincerely appreciate your videos and honesty. I am not a native, but my great grandfather was a longtime alderman for Great Falls. I feel a deep fondness for MT my great grandfather represented. It's because of him and getting to know MT through friendly locals like y’all, that my family and I have made the decision to eventually relocate to MT as our forever home.
Great video. I agree people love it because it is different and not where you came from. Don’t change it. Enjoy it. My wife and I had a wonderful 2 week vacation in northwest MT years ago and still talk about it.
THIS is a wonder "full" video with excellent content. Thank you. The same courtesy should have been extended to local Washingtonians by newbies from other states recently especially as of 4-5 years ago moving here. As a result, Washington is not the same it used to be at all....................and in rural areas as well. Your videos are awesome. Please keep informing your audience. Thank you!
VA was lost years ago. NC died half a decade or more ago. That's why I baled and moved to Montana. God willing, it will stay Montana at least till I die
Another Awesome video. (thank you 👍). A lot of us here in Washington state have watched the same thing happen over the years.. (california crept up the i-5 corridor and ruined the whole west coast). So now I'm trying to Sell/Leave Wash. (born and raised here), I promise not to be like the idiots you described.. I won't even vote.. in fact, i'd be ok if there was a "No city/county/state voting" policy for newbies (if they don't like it there they should leave.. go back/or go somewhere else). Maybe if enough of them keep trying to pet the elk, others will think it's too dangerous to come:)
I think I have the best of both worlds. I get to spend 5 months working in Montana in the late spring, summer and early fall and them mosey back to Arizona for the late fall, winter and early spring. I get to meet many long time residents of Montana and have had lots of great conversations about growing up up there and places they like to go. Always fun. Enjoying your series
I love this guy..He is 100% right. Don't go to Montana and pretend you are a cowboy when two weeks ago you were serving coffee at Starbucks in Comifornia.
This was one of the best & funniest videos! You’re totally right in all the points!!! Don’t you stop making these videos for one or two negative comments!!!!!
Great video! I am laughing so hard!!! We just moved here from that western state and love it here! Our plan is to just disappear in our little rural community...
I love this video! We moved to Texas from Utah and now I am eyeballing Montana. Love you all, Montana is beautiful, thank you for the work you do and producing these videos!
Transferred to college at MT State spring 2022 to avoid the injection in CA and I explored the state and SD. I love the small town feel of Butte Broadus Helena and I loved the college community in Bozeman. I dropped out and came back home but I will always remember the tight knit communities of the state.
I am a Texan and yes most of the drivers here are hellishly reckless. Also as a soon to be Montanan, I do complain to friends about how many people are moving there. But I understand it. Doesn't mean I like it. But I'm of that mentality where I feel I should have been born there in 1935. Not in Scandinavia in 1998.. But it is what it is, and everywhere that's worthwhile fills up eventually. Fact of the modern world. I will still enjoy it
I tell people if you don't like trucks, guns and no sales tax this is not the place for you. However, I do notice a lot of people looking at their phones or holding it to the side of their heads while driving where I live. I won't name the city but it rhymes with Billings.
2 years ago when we were considering Montana, I thought, ah nobody wants to go there...lol NOW we're still here in Cali and I'm thinking maaan EVERYBODYS going there...for now we visit until it's time 💜
I will be honest. I’m a native Californian. 60+ years. I want out so bad. But I will not leave my kids and move somewhere else ( like my parents did ) until they move first. Two down, one to go. Still trying to decide between Montana and Colorado. Montana has the advantage. Wherever I move I just want an acre of land like I have now, with neighbors. No HOA to tell me what I can and can’t do and then quietly blend in. Got a good laugh at all the parking morons. F350 crew cab dually here and I can say I never pulled any of those.
By the way, my boyfriend wants to move there and buy land, then build everything. Is it a good idea to just buy land and do that (we're from Texas). Not trying to change anything there, just curious. My Dad lived out in the country here, it was soooo quiet..the only noise you heard was a far away train. Thank you so much for your videos. We might give y'all a call. You make complete sense...I really hope the los angeles people don't take over...they did that here in Austin, TX, our capital, which used to have so much character...1 freeway...now it's getting "bigger". It will lose it's identity soon like Seattle ,WA and now Houston. Hopefully we get there to your state before anything changes. Thanks a lot.- Malena
Sure, if you buy land, you can obviously build a house exactly how you want instead of trying to find a perfect house. You just need to make sure the zoning or covenants allow you to build what you want.
Oregon here. Way back it was Montana like. Logging, hunting and fishing...and friendly. Now its Californicated. Mind if we come there? Just thought I should ask first🙂
I love your videos and hope to visit Montana at some point. The majority of us here in California know the most problematic new residents in MT are from here. Unfortunately, Californians ,in their migration from this state that they voted into what it has become today, tend to californicate all the states they migrate to. WA, OR, and CO come to mind. If I were to move out of CA, which I hope I can when I retire, I would not want to californicate my new state.
The ones coming because it's fashion will leave as soon as it's no longer fashion. I think in principle there is probably nothing less fashionable than durable Montana. The dogs bark but the caravan moves on.
Why do they park like that? I live in Texas and I also see a little of that, mainly the mobile homes etc taking up 3 parking spaces etc....but yours seem pretty extreme.
Well I've been watching all your videos brother very good this one here really does the best this is the best video I have ever ever seen you are a thousand percent right I live in Texas and I know how they are cuz I'm originally from Ohio and people drive like idiots dumbasses Believe me I wish I can come out there and find me a nice piece of land out in the rural and and be happy if you know anything let me know I'm looking for two to five acres I appreciate you brother thank you much keep going
If I relocated to Helena, I want a home in the town itself. Being retired, Worn plumb out, wishing to escape California Alcatraz Island has me wanting out. I’ve traveled the Heartland states. I will not allow people to shame me just because where I came from. My meaning is, get to know me before you attack me with the common rhetoric spoken of on this video. America is divided thats a fact. Why? Big city public schools systems, H.S. Systems and colleges have produced the new age people whom you speak about. Change? Oh yah! Once the Boomers die off change will come. Only, I wont be on this earth much longer to get heartburn over it. On another topic. Recent Federal Legislation is coming that’ll outlaw simi-auto handguns and rifles. Green Initiatives will further increase, limit fuel and oil availability. Food shortages may very well hit America. Mr. Magoo is in charge. Miss Smily Giggles is our Nations second in command. They’re solution too all thing bad is Americans need to live with less material things, junk they’er internal combustion engines. Ride bicycles, rickshaws I suppose. Walk. Stop eating meat! The list goes on an on. They (Gov) want to close Americans right to travel, work, produce, start a business. Younger are really scared in my opinion. Others merely wish to be oblivious to the Nations downward direction and become TH-cam sensations somehow avoiding the overall labor pool. Young generation not stepping up to learn and earn. Not too the actual numbers America needs! America is heading into a serious crises of not enough. Now? What was I gonna talk about??????????? 🥺
That was great! Wonderful advice.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@LivinginMontana1 I visit hevra Montana just love beautiful little rabbits and 🦌 all over the place I can't wait to visit again 😀
Hey, I bought the Stetson for head protection and it's a nice looking hat, wasn't trying to be a cowboy, haven't got the horse....yet.
Lol, I'm moving there soon and I definitely intend to purchase a cowboy hat simply because I do not want the sun on my face!!!! Not trying to be a cowboy, hey, I'm in my 70's, too old to "play cowboy", LOL. Gee, never have I heard a video laying down all the things you DON'T want newcomers to do. Sorry, but that doesn't come off very welcoming. How do you think that makes the newcomers feel? My state certainly doesn't give a list of things not to do, for newcomers.
I love Montana! I miss it so I watch these videos. I only lived there (in Great Falls) for 4 years (1964-69) but I felt like it was my home. We first came to see Glacier National Park when I was 11 and continued up to Waterton International Peace Park in Alberta, Canada, camping all the way. There’s nothing like the Rockies. We fell in love with Montana and moved there the following year. We traveled all over the state and camped in Glacier Park every summer. I miss the big sky, the high prairie, seeing herds of deer, Pronghorn antelope and hearing the bugling of the elk and the honking of the Canada geese. I don’t miss the long, long winters though! But it still feels like home. Maybe because my Dad is buried there.
Malaysian fan here! I love this kind of video. Keep it up!
We LOOK at each other when we cross on the sidewalk…with the exception of Bozeman. We also look at one another when we pass in our cars on the street.
We SLOW down!! We listen. We consider one another. It’s not that hard. Don’t screw that up!
Montanas will ask “where you from”? We want to know. There is a geographical DNA. We are not fooled.
"Gold". Excellent and correct! The way Washington used to be.
Keep doing what your doing. Stay out of the comments section with all these trolls. Your videos are awesome.
I sincerely appreciate your videos and honesty. I am not a native, but my great grandfather was a longtime alderman for Great Falls. I feel a deep fondness for MT my great grandfather represented. It's because of him and getting to know MT through friendly locals like y’all, that my family and I have made the decision to eventually relocate to MT as our forever home.
Thank you so much!
“This state rhymes with TEXAS” 😂😂😂🤣
Great video. I agree people love it because it is different and not where you came from. Don’t change it. Enjoy it. My wife and I had a wonderful 2 week vacation in northwest MT years ago and still talk about it.
Love this!! This is why Montana is great!! Don’t wanna change it one bit!!
THIS is a wonder "full" video with excellent content. Thank you. The same courtesy should have been extended to local Washingtonians by newbies from other states recently especially as of 4-5 years ago moving here. As a result, Washington is not the same it used to be at all....................and in rural areas as well. Your videos are awesome. Please keep informing your audience. Thank you!
Can’t wait to visit one day . I want to see the elk 😍. I understand the struggle as we live in Virginia and the Yankees are coming down like crazy lol
VA was lost years ago. NC died half a decade or more ago. That's why I baled and moved to Montana. God willing, it will stay Montana at least till I die
Another Awesome video.
(thank you 👍).
A lot of us here in Washington state have watched the same thing happen over the years.. (california crept up the i-5 corridor and ruined the whole west coast).
So now I'm trying to Sell/Leave Wash. (born and raised here),
I promise not to be like the idiots you described..
I won't even vote..
in fact, i'd be ok if there was a "No city/county/state voting" policy for newbies (if they don't like it there they should leave.. go back/or go somewhere else).
Maybe if enough of them keep trying to pet the elk, others will think it's too dangerous to come:)
"this state rhymes with Texas" cracks me up every time
I actually had a guy call me and ask what state rhymed with Texas!!!!!?????
@@LivinginMontana1 lmao stooop with that. the 'bitter boy' comment cracked me up for a good hour or so as well. fun times over there🤣
I'm from Texas and they drive WAY TOO CRAZY. Especially in the rain and snow.
I think I have the best of both worlds. I get to spend 5 months working in Montana in the late spring, summer and early fall and them mosey back to Arizona for the late fall, winter and early spring. I get to meet many long time residents of Montana and have had lots of great conversations about growing up up there and places they like to go. Always fun. Enjoying your series
I love this guy..He is 100% right. Don't go to Montana and pretend you are a cowboy when two weeks ago you were serving coffee at Starbucks in Comifornia.
I can't wait to visit! ❤
This was one of the best & funniest videos! You’re totally right in all the points!!! Don’t you stop making these videos for one or two negative comments!!!!!
When I get to Montana take my time injory the beauty help keep clean
Great video! Thank you! 😁
Great video! I am laughing so hard!!! We just moved here from that western state and love it here! Our plan is to just disappear in our little rural community...
Does that state rhyme with California? 😂
@@LivinginMontana1 uh, yes... hahahah!!! We actually read the "Code of the West." We are good with it and have NO intentions of changing anything.
I love this video! We moved to Texas from Utah and now I am eyeballing Montana. Love you all, Montana is beautiful, thank you for the work you do and producing these videos!
Transferred to college at MT State spring 2022 to avoid the injection in CA and I explored the state and SD. I love the small town feel of Butte Broadus Helena and I loved the college community in Bozeman. I dropped out and came back home but I will always remember the tight knit communities of the state.
I am a Texan and yes most of the drivers here are hellishly reckless.
Also as a soon to be Montanan, I do complain to friends about how many people are moving there. But I understand it. Doesn't mean I like it. But I'm of that mentality where I feel I should have been born there in 1935. Not in Scandinavia in 1998..
But it is what it is, and everywhere that's worthwhile fills up eventually. Fact of the modern world.
I will still enjoy it
I’ve lived in TX, I’ve seen Semis with 3 trailers doing 85 in the city (Houston)
I tell people if you don't like trucks, guns and no sales tax this is not the place for you.
However, I do notice a lot of people looking at their phones or holding it to the side of their heads while driving where I live. I won't name the city but it rhymes with Billings.
Don't move to MT!!
Everyone is carrying a gun and bears roam the streets!!!
Cool! Sounds fun to me! Thanks!
LOL, I'd rather encounter a bear than the CRIMINALS, gangs, and homeless roaming the streets in the east!!!!
If you’re afraid of guns or wildlife then the entire Intermountain West is not for you…
I just gave you a "Thumbs Up" right before watching the video, because I know it's going to be a good one! Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Awesome
Thank you. Very informational and real. I look forward to visiting, someday. I can assure you I am none of the above. Take care and be well
Love this! Bozangeles! 😂😂 Keep up the great content!
I'm in Texas (but love MT), and "Don't California my Texas" auto decals are COMMON. 😂👍
Really excellent points here. Cheers! ✌️
Much appreciated!
2 years ago when we were considering Montana, I thought, ah nobody wants to go there...lol NOW we're still here in Cali and I'm thinking maaan EVERYBODYS going there...for now we visit until it's time 💜
I would have probably really embarrassed myself without this, good stuff!
I will be honest. I’m a native Californian. 60+ years. I want out so bad. But I will not leave my kids and move somewhere else ( like my parents did ) until they move first. Two down, one to go.
Still trying to decide between Montana and Colorado. Montana has the advantage.
Wherever I move I just want an acre of land like I have now, with neighbors. No HOA to tell me what I can and can’t do and then quietly blend in.
Got a good laugh at all the parking morons.
F350 crew cab dually here and I can say I never pulled any of those.
I love Montana
Big hat, no cattle.
I still might have to buy a cowboy hat, but thanks for the video. Had a good laugh!!
Good stuff! MT should have roadside public service billboards about how to be successful in MT.
Yes , is great!
Don't bring your "new age gobeltygook" politics with you!
Lol Hillary- Will would have spent most of his time in jail😂😂😂 he seems so pleasant on screen😂
Keep it FREE !
The truth at the end of ur video is awesome 🤣🤣🤣
By the way, my boyfriend wants to move there and buy land, then build everything. Is it a good idea to just buy land and do that (we're from Texas). Not trying to change anything there, just curious. My Dad lived out in the country here, it was soooo quiet..the only noise you heard was a far away train. Thank you so much for your videos. We might give y'all a call. You make complete sense...I really hope the los angeles people don't take over...they did that here in Austin, TX, our capital, which used to have so much character...1 freeway...now it's getting "bigger". It will lose it's identity soon like Seattle ,WA and now Houston. Hopefully we get there to your state before anything changes. Thanks a lot.- Malena
Sure, if you buy land, you can obviously build a house exactly how you want instead of trying to find a perfect house. You just need to make sure the zoning or covenants allow you to build what you want.
This video is great!
Oregon here. Way back it was Montana like. Logging, hunting and fishing...and friendly. Now its Californicated. Mind if we come there? Just thought I should ask first🙂
Right on! 😂😂😂😂
😂 Great messaging!! Love it Will!!
Hilarious...if we are fortunate enough to relocate to mt I will blend in like adding a splash of water into a vodka rocks drink
I love your videos and hope to visit Montana at some point. The majority of us here in California know the most problematic new residents in MT are from here. Unfortunately, Californians ,in their migration from this state that they voted into what it has become today, tend to californicate all the states they migrate to. WA, OR, and CO come to mind. If I were to move out of CA, which I hope I can when I retire, I would not want to californicate my new state.
Think I'll fit in
The ones coming because it's fashion will leave as soon as it's no longer fashion. I think in principle there is probably nothing less fashionable than durable Montana. The dogs bark but the caravan moves on.
Why do they park like that? I live in Texas and I also see a little of that, mainly the mobile homes etc taking up 3 parking spaces etc....but yours seem pretty extreme.
This was hilarious! Haha!
Classic stuff.
Spoiler alert:
"If you run into an elk, you're going to lose."
Hahahahaha
(P.S. Love the Letterkenny Shamrocks gear. Go Shoresy!)
Be honest with you you should have a Gate
Well I've been watching all your videos brother very good this one here really does the best this is the best video I have ever ever seen you are a thousand percent right I live in Texas and I know how they are cuz I'm originally from Ohio and people drive like idiots dumbasses Believe me I wish I can come out there and find me a nice piece of land out in the rural and and be happy if you know anything let me know I'm looking for two to five acres I appreciate you brother thank you much keep going
Lol thanks 😂😂
Hopefully the population doesn't keep going up but it probably will..
Montana is screwed. Word got out about it and now all the idiots are moving there. Same thing is happening to my state.
LOL 😂
If I relocated to Helena, I want a home in the town itself. Being retired, Worn plumb out, wishing to escape California Alcatraz Island has me wanting out.
I’ve traveled the Heartland states. I will not allow people to shame me just because where I came from. My meaning is, get to know me before you attack me with the common rhetoric spoken of on this video. America is divided thats a fact. Why? Big city public schools systems, H.S. Systems and colleges have produced the new age people whom you speak about. Change? Oh yah! Once the Boomers die off change will come.
Only, I wont be on this earth much longer to get heartburn over it. On another topic.
Recent Federal Legislation is coming that’ll outlaw simi-auto handguns and rifles. Green Initiatives will further increase, limit fuel and oil availability. Food shortages may very well hit America. Mr. Magoo is in charge. Miss Smily Giggles is our Nations second in command. They’re solution too all thing bad is Americans need to live with less material things, junk they’er internal combustion engines. Ride bicycles, rickshaws I suppose. Walk. Stop eating meat! The list goes on an on.
They (Gov) want to close Americans right to travel, work, produce, start a business. Younger are really scared in my opinion. Others merely wish to be oblivious to the Nations downward direction and become TH-cam sensations somehow avoiding the overall labor pool. Young generation not stepping up to learn and earn. Not too the actual numbers America needs!
America is heading into a serious crises of not enough.
Now? What was I gonna talk about??????????? 🥺
If I move to Montana & buy a cowboy hat, will I be accepted by the local good ol Boys?
Have blonde hair and the name Sven and you will be fine.
I love the Bitterroot mountains they are unique and fascinating to see on Google earth
So you say you don’t like being told what to do, then try to tell me how to dress. I’ll wear what I want, thank you very much.
Exactly!!!! Very off-putting.
I love the fact that humor goes right over your head!
@@LivinginMontana1 it’s not humor, it’s hypocrisy.
@@johnbennett1079 He’s not telling you, he’s making a recommendation… if you want to fit in, don’t pretend do be something you aren’t.
Quit trying to change things back to why you are leaving from wherever your from. That's not cool
Roughly half my social media consumption are the overheard @ whitefish, bozeman, and bigsky accounts 😅