RobG
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jthurs - Montana is a huge state with diverse climate. Look at a population density map. The low density places are either wilderness or areas normal people don't want to live for various reasons. Also look at a precipitation map. Areas range from desert to rainforest. Some places are windy enough to blow over semis (just happened Saturday), others have stagnant air problems in the winter. Areas range from impoverished to exclusively for the wealthy. It all hunts pretty well so I would rough out an area based on the climate... Politics and religion also can be considerations. Very few sane people could be happy living in either Seeley Lake or Ft. Peck - they are vastly different. If you want work I think you are going to have to settle for living close to a bigger town.
It would be quite a change to move from Vermont to eastern MT. As mentioned, the weather is extreme. Ft. Peck is sort of a working man's lake. People love that area or hate it, disproportionately the latter unless they grew up there. Descriptions usually include "desolate," "beautiful in its own way" and "where gumbo was invented." Western MT/Northern Idaho are mountainous and have milder weather, but that is because it is cloudy all winter and frequently wet. Seeley Lake gets a lot of snow and it sticks around. People go there and think it is wonderful in the summer but go stir crazy the remaining 9.5 months of the year.
It would be quite a change to move from Vermont to eastern MT. As mentioned, the weather is extreme. Ft. Peck is sort of a working man's lake. People love that area or hate it, disproportionately the latter unless they grew up there. Descriptions usually include "desolate," "beautiful in its own way" and "where gumbo was invented." Western MT/Northern Idaho are mountainous and have milder weather, but that is because it is cloudy all winter and frequently wet. Seeley Lake gets a lot of snow and it sticks around. People go there and think it is wonderful in the summer but go stir crazy the remaining 9.5 months of the year.