Carl 9.3x62
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I was there last week for work. Way too many people and a spicy chicken sandwich and mcdouble are $4 each! No thanks.
PoleX
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It’s basically a third world country around here:
Frequently Banned Troll
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Google “niche.com” ..
devon deer
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Where I live in SW England the rich SE England people bought so many second homes it forced the locals out and housing became unaffordable, some pretty seaside towns are ghost towns in winter as they are not rented out, i.e. airbnb, etc
We pay something called 'council tax' we only have one home, it costs us $4200/year, the holiday homes paid nothing up to this year, but now the government, pressured by local government, brought in a new law, they will have to pay full council tax, and some the more expensive business rate, this is already started to have an impact, the rich city slickers are starting to sell up.
Edit: I think change is more noticeable by the likes of me, first visited Bozeman in 2005, last time 2018, and several times in between, I did notice some changes, but thankfully the Western Cafe appeared to be the same !
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Rack Daniels
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still nearly impossible to get in and finally get a table around closing time?
How bout that big ol trout came outta bridger creek that’s hanging near the door though, eh??
love admiring that thing.
PoleX
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Monday night my BIL and I caught about 15 fish a piece up the canyon. All on top with a crusty old Chernobyl.
Thursday night put about 35 miles on the bike, no one around.
Cherry on top was the 9:30 DQ blizzard crowd was light.
#bozemanSucks #4$ChickenSandwiches
Thursday night put about 35 miles on the bike, no one around.
Cherry on top was the 9:30 DQ blizzard crowd was light.
#bozemanSucks #4$ChickenSandwiches
Back to the OP - I have a theory that the great decline of BZN began when the Rockin' R blew up, along with half the block. Can't recall the year, but it seems like soon after the town turned into a Cali-infused hell. Of course, my fondest memories are from the early 1980s when my memory wasn't so good.
Straight Arrow
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IMO, it began much earlier than that. Gallatin Valley ruination and tragic continuous Die-way 191 traffic safety issues and fatalities began with the inception of the Big Sky fiasco and destroying of the pristine upper West Fork of the Gallatin River and defacing of gorgeous Lone Mountain peak. Bozeman was a fun college town and friendly cool little cow town prior to Pig Sty!
Bozeman was full of real Montanans then ... but now it's difficult to find a real Montanan in Bozeman.
Explain the "defacing of Lone Mtn peak" please. What happened?
Real Montanans anywhere in Montana are hard to find these days. mtmuley
Hem
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The blew off the top of the mountain to make a flat spot for the tram.
Hem
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Im working a job on Bushnell Rd currently. The 191 traffic coming and going has me sour when I get to work, and trying to get home. It's insane.
Hem
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Yes
Ahhh. Thanks. Hey, we here in Florida have experienced the wagon trains from NY, CT, VT, MA, PA, etc. Carpet baggers. I say we need impact fees. Like if youre moving from these lib s-holes, ya pay the impact fee. Now our idiot governor is pushing to eliminate propdrty taxes. Stupid idea. He's in the pocket of the realtors, quite obviously.
Straight Arrow
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Deforestation, residential development, unimaginable number of ski runs ... prime habitat, open space, and wild places gone forever!
Money. mtmuley
Hem
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There was a bull moose harvested there in the early nineties. He went by the name King Tut. Massive.
The elk hunting was phenomenal. Unlimited sheep hunts.
Gone,
Straight Arrow
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Apt description, and as Hem points out the traffic is "insane". After decades of development, Big Sky and Yellowstone Club continue with uber-expensive construction done by workers and construction related vehicles of all sizes commuting all day long to and from Big Sky through the gorgeous single lane, winding Gallatin Canyon, often almost bumper-to-bumper from Bozeman and Belgrade. The number of human fatalities during just the past year on Die-way 191 is unacceptable. The number of fender benders, wildlife collisions, and near-misses is "insane"!
After forty years of begging and pleading by residents of my little community of Gallatin Gateway for traffic safety measures, recently the MDT engineer publicly announced that "traffic safety issues have been recognized" and a stop light will be installed on the highway at Gallatin Gateway "in a few years". Duh!!! That is little solace for those families who have lost loved ones due to the unsafe, risky traffic conditions. A highway patrolman was heard to explain that the traffic is so dense and out of control that enforcement along the route is almost impossible and is dangerous for highway cops and sheriff deputies.
IMO, the state of Montana has been recklessly unconscionable and irresponsible in allowing this insanity to continue, with no mitigation!
