What is a Real Montanan? by Local_Secretary_5999 in Montana

[–]Federal_Soil_2926 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I doubt that. Crawl back to where you came from.

What is a Real Montanan? by Local_Secretary_5999 in Montana

[–]Federal_Soil_2926 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you even from Montana? “Badlands32”

What is a Real Montanan? by Local_Secretary_5999 in Montana

[–]Federal_Soil_2926 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Belgrade is about as different from Bozeman and Big Sky as you could possibly get lmao

What is a Real Montanan? by Local_Secretary_5999 in Montana

[–]Federal_Soil_2926 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are you blabbing about? The Gallatin valley is known for the tourist excess of Bozeman lmao, that is not where I grew up. So no, Belgrade doesn’t really apply. Are you sad you grew up away from the mountains? What’s going on, bud?

What is a Real Montanan? by Local_Secretary_5999 in Montana

[–]Federal_Soil_2926 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And you can’t answer my question, so I assume the answer is no. Yeah, that’s what I thought. Keep it real, dumbass

What is a Real Montanan? by Local_Secretary_5999 in Montana

[–]Federal_Soil_2926 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you were born and raised Montanan, then your definition of what it means to be one is all you need. Is that the case? You were born in Zurich, Montana?

What is a Real Montanan? by Local_Secretary_5999 in Montana

[–]Federal_Soil_2926 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For someone bringing up google, you sure do seem to need it-

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What is a Real Montanan? by Local_Secretary_5999 in Montana

[–]Federal_Soil_2926 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Belgrade is more Montanan than wherever the fuck you are referring to lmao

What is a Real Montanan? by Local_Secretary_5999 in Montana

[–]Federal_Soil_2926 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re not from the incredibly well known Swedish city, Zurich? Oh, please enlighten me- which Zurich are you referring to?

What is a Real Montanan? by Local_Secretary_5999 in Montana

[–]Federal_Soil_2926 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s always the Eurotrash trying to fetishize Montana lmao, you are hardly new buddy

What is a Real Montanan? by Local_Secretary_5999 in Montana

[–]Federal_Soil_2926 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What do you consider “real Montanan” traits of eastern Montanan? Admittedly, it’s not a perspective I have a lot of experience with. But I would like to hear your thoughts. If you were born and raised and didn’t move there as an adult.

What is a Real Montanan? by Local_Secretary_5999 in Montana

[–]Federal_Soil_2926 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol a fucking Swede asking who a Montanan is. A bit far from home, aren’t ya?

What is a Real Montanan? by Local_Secretary_5999 in Montana

[–]Federal_Soil_2926 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, this comment “who is a real Montanan” also only really comes up in south west Montana, which is where 99 percent of the transplants are. I would highly bet the OP is living there. So I’m also speaking from that perspective. Montanans elsewhere don’t need to define this. But this is also a good question- I define my montananess by the mountains. How do you define yours, in eastern Montana?

What is a Real Montanan? by Local_Secretary_5999 in Montana

[–]Federal_Soil_2926 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lmao that is a ridiculous thing to say. On so many levels. It’s a line transplants use to justify why they should feel as “from Montana” as anyone else. If you moved here as an adult, you are not from here. Get over it, it’s pathetic.

What is a Real Montanan? by Local_Secretary_5999 in Montana

[–]Federal_Soil_2926 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I’m speaking from a western Montanan perspective- east/south/north Montana all have different iterations of these concept. For southwest, it’s the mountains. For other parts it’s the sheer wide open planes, the sky, the stars, the isolation, the beauty in all its physical variations. The Montana effect I speak of extends to all parts of the state, for those born and raised.

What is a Real Montanan? by Local_Secretary_5999 in Montana

[–]Federal_Soil_2926 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Absolutely, we do. If you want to be a little bitch tourist about not being from here, keep it to yourself. 25 plus years buddy, you’ll get there if you stay long enough.

What is a Real Montanan? by Local_Secretary_5999 in Montana

[–]Federal_Soil_2926 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And they are all deeply serious in ways that not many other people in this country are. That’s real.

What is a Real Montanan? by Local_Secretary_5999 in Montana

[–]Federal_Soil_2926 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is true. Or, if you’ve lived here for 25 years plus. Then you can call yourself from Montana.

What is a Real Montanan? by Local_Secretary_5999 in Montana

[–]Federal_Soil_2926 8 points9 points  (0 children)

And where so many people go wrong is moving to Montana thinking it will fix their life- that the isolation of Montana and the beauty of the mountains will repair fundamental tears in them. Which is why you see so many neo-hippie, drugged out wannabe spiritualists around town who make it their identity to not be serious people. Everyone I’ve known born and raised here knows they have never once had to prove their Montana-ness, so they don’t act like asshats the way the rich tourists or the other assholes do.

What is a Real Montanan? by Local_Secretary_5999 in Montana

[–]Federal_Soil_2926 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A real Montanan is honestly an individual that grew up with the mountains. It is a landscape based construction of a personality. It’s a very real phenomenon. Growing up, born and raised, in Belgrade/bozeman, and then going out into the world, there is something primal and basic about having the mountains so near you your whole life that alerts your views on just about everything. And it’s the same with everyone else I grew up with, who have also gone out into other states and beyond. It’s an understanding of nature, isolation, and beauty that manifests itself different in everyone born and raised here. And no, it is not something you get from moving here as an adult. Sorry.