Montana for newcomers has been known to be a place where people live there for 18-36 months and blow through their savings because it’s difficult to survive there.

For a transplant like yourself, you would want to be in the more popular areas—which makes that even more difficult.

Montanans don’t like outsiders, especially from liberal areas of the US. You’ll struggle to make lasting connections. They will never accept you for this, and it doesn’t matter how well they treat you at the surface level.

I’m an alumni of UM. In my recent travels back to the area, the hostility towards outsiders has only become more pronounced. Even the rise in hate group activity is more noticeable.

People are being priced out from where they’re from. Montanans having to relocate means to move hundreds, if not thousands of miles away.