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For Sale: The Only Bar in a 14-Person Montana Town

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Re: For Sale: The Only Bar in a 14-Person Montana Town

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Post by threwawasy1228 »

ctdonath wrote: post #22

With the onset of Starlink, I expect such locations could experience a population boom. With urban housing prices skyrocketing (demand exceeding supply = bidding war), many are discovering the only thing they need to live where they actually want to is reliable high-speed low-latency internet. The land is cheap ($150,000 for 321 acres in Ingomar, Montana), the region attractive (drove around there this summer, very n…

I think the bigger problem is getting more companies to allow fully remote employees, internet connectivity is only a small part of the issue.

Re: For Sale: The Only Bar in a 14-Person Montana Town

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Post by Merrill »

MS90 wrote: post #34
Merrill wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It all depends on your point of view. I have a nephew who lives outside of Roy, population 108. He grew up in central South Dakota but moved to Montana because South Dakota was getting way too crowded.

Ha! It is crazy how different perspectives can be depending on where you're from. When I moved up to Montana in 2011 they had just broken 1,000,000 population for the first time in the state's history and all the locals were talking about how crazy it was. Meanwhile I also thought it was crazy, because I had just moved from a place where there were a million people within five miles of me. A quick google shows that M…

I went to grades 1 to 8 at a rural one room school house with about a dozen other kids. My high school was about 600 students. Then I went to a university with about 20,000. Adjustment in that direction is not easy either.

Re: For Sale: The Only Bar in a 14-Person Montana Town

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Post by at-fates-hands »

planteen wrote: post #40
ctdonath wrote: post #22

With the onset of Starlink, I expect such locations could experience a population boom. With urban housing prices skyrocketing (demand exceeding supply = bidding war), many are discovering the only thing they need to live where they actually want to is reliable high-speed low-latency internet. The land is cheap ($150,000 for 321 acres in Ingomar, Montana), the region attractive (drove around there this summer, very n…

Right this minute you could find very fast internet (fiber) in rural areas with very inexpensive housing. I have a relatives in the Dakotas & Nebraska with better internet than I have in Denver. Some of them live in town and some of them live in the country. A lot of it seems to depend on local government having the drive to get rural access funds from the FCC. As another said, eastern Montana could be brutal if its…

> It will be really windy and really brown (its very dry) for much of the year.

Remember playing soccer with a guy from Montana. We were playing on a field in the Fall that was basically all dead, yellow grass. He used to say. "Dude, I'm from Montana, this is considered LUSH"

Re: For Sale: The Only Bar in a 14-Person Montana Town

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Post by OnlineGladiator »

ctdonath wrote: post #22

With the onset of Starlink, I expect such locations could experience a population boom. With urban housing prices skyrocketing (demand exceeding supply = bidding war), many are discovering the only thing they need to live where they actually want to is reliable high-speed low-latency internet. The land is cheap ($150,000 for 321 acres in Ingomar, Montana), the region attractive (drove around there this summer, very n…

I think people care about food more than they care about internet. There are small towns that can't even keep grocery stores running (there was an article about it on HN recently).

Re: For Sale: The Only Bar in a 14-Person Montana Town

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Post by pgrote »

I've always wondered about the data missing in Google Maps. For instance, when you go to Ingomar, MT and look at street view, the car got to the entrance of the town and the data just stops.

https://goo.gl/maps/WVTAChPsBUiRjnoX9

Did the camera die? Did the car get a flat? Did someone forget to turn something on?

Re: For Sale: The Only Bar in a 14-Person Montana Town

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Post by planteen »

Merrill wrote: post #31
MS90 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, he's got a point. Forsyth has less than 2000 people in it. As someone who used to live in Montana, the nearest town worth mentioning is Billings which is 111 miles away, and the nearest town worth really going to is Missoula which is 371 miles.

It all depends on your point of view. I have a nephew who lives outside of Roy, population 108. He grew up in central South Dakota but moved to Montana because South Dakota was getting way too crowded.

I have relatives in the Dakotas who get pissed at traffic lights in general. As in, they live in a county without a single traffic light.

There unfortunately is a very bad habit of some drivers in these areas of blowing stop signs because they are used to so little traffic/people in general. But obviously the consequences can be horrible (see Bill Janklow, ex-South Dakota governor who then later became an ex-con).

Re: For Sale: The Only Bar in a 14-Person Montana Town

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Post by throwthisaway2 »

CharlesColeman wrote: post #18
kempbellt wrote: post #12

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Not really. You'd really just be paying for the history. Spending a quarter million dollars on a four wood (edit: brick ) walls and a door in a podunk Montana town that is about a 100 mile drive to the nearest town isn't a business purchase. You likely wouldn't recoup the cost in your lifetime.

> Spending a quarter million dollars on a four wood walls and a door in a podunk Montana town that is about a 100 mile drive to the nearest town From the OP: > The Jersey Lilly was the town’s first brick building , built in 1914 as the first bank of a very different Ingomar. > The nearest town, Forsyth, is “only” 44 miles away . “That’s really close in Montana, trust me.” If you want to write a dismissive comment, go…

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