This is where I've called home since 1991.
I pray we never get the write up Red Lodge, Montana had the misfortune to just get in the NY Times. Everyone in the Selkirks recognizes change is coming. I just pray it won't involve condo's and an urban invasion anything like the influx Montana continues to struggle with.
Kalispell, Montana, 150 miles east of here is projected to gain over a 100,000 people in the next decade. Sandpoint, Idaho is looking at a doubling of their population. I look at the development around the Flathead Valley- especially in Whitefish and Columbia Falls, Montana-places where dairies used to be and they've all been replaced by these subdivided communities that bear no resemblence to the places they once were.
The very factors that lead people to escape New York, California, Texas and Arizona are rapidly being replicated in their newest destination of choice. These folks have recreated exactly what they were trying to escape.
H/Tip to Towleroad for the heads up...
http://www.towleroad.com/2007/01/jim_mcgreeveys_.html
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Absolutely stunning Timbo!!!
It reminds me of Lake Tahoe in California but maybe even prettier.
I will say this...I just got done reading an article that said that the largest outflux of people is from the Northeast and the biggest influx is to the West and southwest states. So expect Montana and Idaho to keep growing. Heck I have had one cousin and her family move to Idaho, another cousin and his family move to Utah, and another cousin and his wife contemplating their retirement in Montana. All lived in California.
I think people want to get away from the urban chaos but they often feel the need to still retain some or all of the creature comforts they had previously rather than living much simpler. Heck I'd be guilty of this though I think my thoughts are really starting to change as of late.
I can think of my favorite little spot in the world, Medugorje, Bosnia-Hercegovina, which once was a tiny village. Since commercialism and pilgrimages invaded the small village its population has doubled or so in 20 years. That's huge for such a small remote village.
It all seems inevitable. Sad.
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