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Posted: 5/6/2024 5:42:18 PM EDT
I was born and raised in the Bay Area, San Francisco. Later as an adult I lived in Crockett, which is a beautiful little coastal Bay Area town. Even in Crockett the housing was expensive. When my girlfriend, now wife, and I moved in together, the cheapest thing we could find for ourselves was in Vallejo, which is super busy, super violent. But that's what we could afford, even though I was a manager at a granite shop and my wife was working as an esthetician. During COVID, we got sucked into "Yellowstone," watched the whole series, and decided to book a trip to Montana in February 2022 just to see how it is. We stayed in West Yellowstone and had a blast here. One of the days, I decided to look for a job, just to see who was hiring and what they were willing to pay. I googled a couple of granite spots and a company was hiring in Bozeman. I went in for an interview. They asked me, "What will it take for you to move up here?" They were willing to pay me my $89,000 a year salary plus moving costs, plus a deposit on the place we rented. From March to April, within a month, I got the job, we rented the house, and we packed up and moved here. moar |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 5:47:51 PM EDT
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Those two are probably leftists...
...bummer for y'all in Montana |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 5:48:10 PM EDT
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Good for him. Hope he’s not a lunatic leftist
And, inb4 the rage |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 5:50:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By RIP-Yataski: Those two are probably leftists... ...bummer for y'all in Montana y'all can have bozeman. 
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Posted: 5/6/2024 6:17:39 PM EDT
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About 5 years back when my son was still young enough that we were bringing him to local preschool activities, he made friends with a kid whose family had just moved up from the Bay area. The dad was a stay at home dad and seemed alright, we hung out and bullshitted while the kids did their thing.
Important to the story: we live in a rural area where nothing really goes on. It's very quiet, there's very little to do unless you drive a half hour or so off of the peninsula to get into some activities and retail areas. So one day the guy tells me they're looking at moving. I'm like, shit you guys just moved here a year ago. "Yeah the wife doesn't like it, she's bored, not enough restaurants and activities for her to do, and there's no public transit here and she doesn't like to drive." Find out they are looking at houses in Seattle - of course. I ask where. Columbia City. Oh... "Hey you guys know that's a high crime area right? Yeah you might find some deals there but that's because it sucks." "Doesn't matter she already made up her mind." So they end up buying a place in the shittiest neighborhood of Seattle, going right back to square one, because the guy's wife couldn't handle living in a quiet, crime and drama free area where there weren't enough coffee shops, hip dining locations, and other typical women shit within distance of public transit, and guy couldn't put his foot down. His disappointment was palpable, moving from one crappy city suburb right back into another. Women making poor life decisions and weak men enabling them. |
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 6:21:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mancat: About 5 years back when my son was still young enough that we were bringing him to local preschool activities, he made friends with a kid whose family had just moved up from the Bay area. The dad was a stay at home dad and seemed alright, we hung out and bullshitted while the kids did their thing. Important to the story: we live in a rural area where nothing really goes on. It's very quiet, there's very little to do unless you drive a half hour or so off of the peninsula to get into some activities and retail areas. So one day the guy tells me they're looking at moving. I'm like, shit you guys just moved here a year ago. "Yeah the wife doesn't like it, she's bored, not enough restaurants and activities for her to do, and there's no public transit here and she doesn't like to drive." Find out they are looking at houses in Seattle - of course. I ask where. Columbia City. Oh... "Hey you guys know that's a high crime area right? Yeah you might find some deals there but that's because it sucks." "Doesn't matter she already made up her mind." So they end up buying a place in the shittiest neighborhood of Seattle, going right back to square one, because the guy's wife couldn't handle living in a quiet, crime and drama free area where there weren't enough coffee shops, hip dining locations, and other typical women shit within distance of public transit, and guy couldn't put his foot down. His disappointment was palpable, moving from one crappy city suburb right back into another. Women making poor life decisions and weak men enabling them. White suburban women will be the death of this country. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 6:23:15 PM EDT
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They are flooding into western SD now too. Lots of out of state plates bouncing around all year long.
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CA, USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 6:48:32 PM EDT
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Pay wall so I couldn't read the rest but moving from the Bay Area to Bozeman for an $89k/year job isn't much of a better choice...
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CO, USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 7:03:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By North_42: Pay wall so I couldn't read the rest but moving from the Bay Area to Bozeman for an $89k/year job isn't much of a better choice... ...they left Vallejo. I've not been to Bozeman but it'd have to be pretty bad to be worse than Vallejo. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 7:41:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: y'all can have bozeman. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 7:49:14 PM EDT
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What is BI?
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Posted: 5/6/2024 7:50:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: bozeman's a shithole full of leftist cunts, flatlanders, texans, and/or californians. y'all can have bozeman. 
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 8:08:41 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: bozeman's a shithole full of leftist cunts, flatlanders, texans, and/or californians. y'all can have bozeman. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: Originally Posted By RIP-Yataski: Those two are probably leftists... ...bummer for y'all in Montana y'all can have bozeman. been that way since the 70s. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 8:11:08 PM EDT
[#13]
Montana? I bet after the first two winters they will say fuck this I'm out!
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Posted: 5/6/2024 8:11:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: bozeman's a shithole full of leftist cunts, flatlanders, texans, and/or californians. y'all can have bozeman. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: Originally Posted By RIP-Yataski: Those two are probably leftists... ...bummer for y'all in Montana y'all can have bozeman. Me'all?... ...thanks! |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 8:13:48 PM EDT
[Last Edit: guns762]
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MT, USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 8:24:28 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: I was born and raised in the Bay Area, San Francisco. Later as an adult I lived in Crockett, which is a beautiful little coastal Bay Area town. Even in Crockett the housing was expensive. When my girlfriend, now wife, and I moved in together, the cheapest thing we could find for ourselves was in Vallejo, which is super busy, super violent. But that's what we could afford, even though I was a manager at a granite shop and my wife was working as an esthetician. During COVID, we got sucked into "Yellowstone," watched the whole series, and decided to book a trip to Montana in February 2022 just to see how it is. We stayed in West Yellowstone and had a blast here. One of the days, I decided to look for a job, just to see who was hiring and what they were willing to pay. I googled a couple of granite spots and a company was hiring in Bozeman. I went in for an interview. They asked me, "What will it take for you to move up here?" They were willing to pay me my $89,000 a year salary plus moving costs, plus a deposit on the place we rented. From March to April, within a month, I got the job, we rented the house, and we packed up and moved here. moar 
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Posted: 5/6/2024 8:26:21 PM EDT
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I recently figured out “big shooter” - it is a driveup coffee shack in Belgrade MT (next door to Bozeman)
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MT, USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 8:40:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By realwar: Montana? I bet after the first two winters they will say fuck this I'm out!  Attached File |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 8:42:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: bozeman's a shithole full of leftist cunts, flatlanders, texans, and/or californians. y'all can have bozeman. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: Originally Posted By RIP-Yataski: Those two are probably leftists... ...bummer for y'all in Montana y'all can have bozeman. I thought that was your dream destination.
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OR, USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 8:43:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: bozeman's a shithole full of leftist cunts, flatlanders, texans, and/or californians. y'all can have bozeman. But they still have a Pickle Barrel… |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 8:43:52 PM EDT
[Last Edit: guns762]
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I keep reading on here that it was SIMPs but, like all the other acronyms in use now, not sure what that is… |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 8:54:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By rtlm: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/542569/A675F8DF-5E05-49CC-A427-DAF90E5E52AB-2858281.jpg 
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Posted: 5/6/2024 8:55:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By realwar: Montana? I bet after the first two winters they will say fuck this I'm out! one of the reasons i fell in love with the big sky country are the bad winters. keeps the population low, keeps the riff raff out. 
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Posted: 5/6/2024 8:55:57 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By XJ: I recently figured out "big shooter" - it is a driveup coffee shack in Belgrade MT (next door to Bozeman) asking for a friend. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 8:56:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By lokifox: I thought that was your dream destination. i like going to BZN for work when someone else is paying. wood never want to actually live there. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:02:22 PM EDT
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Wonder if they know what Montana winters are like?
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:03:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Frank_B: Wonder if they know what Montana winters are like?
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:14:17 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: I was born and raised in the Bay Area, San Francisco. Later as an adult I lived in Crockett, which is a beautiful little coastal Bay Area town. Even in Crockett the housing was expensive. When my girlfriend, now wife, and I moved in together, the cheapest thing we could find for ourselves was in Vallejo, which is super busy, super violent. But that's what we could afford, even though I was a manager at a granite shop and my wife was working as an esthetician. During COVID, we got sucked into "Yellowstone," watched the whole series, and decided to book a trip to Montana in February 2022 just to see how it is. We stayed in West Yellowstone and had a blast here. One of the days, I decided to look for a job, just to see who was hiring and what they were willing to pay. I googled a couple of granite spots and a company was hiring in Bozeman. I went in for an interview. They asked me, "What will it take for you to move up here?" They were willing to pay me my $89,000 a year salary plus moving costs, plus a deposit on the place we rented. From March to April, within a month, I got the job, we rented the house, and we packed up and moved here. moar Transplants = growth. Growth = cultural change and loss of undeveloped regions. This is why people in heavy growth states are still not really going to like you unreservedly, especially those who are lifers and have watched sprawl cover the areas they used to love to go out in. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:17:19 PM EDT
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I graduated from Bozeman, still have a home in Laurel...cant afford to live there though. I love the winters.
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:18:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By samsgreen50: I graduated from Bozeman, still have a home in Laurel...cant afford to live there though. I love the winters. i kinda like it out there. not sure what that says about me.
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:27:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By samsgreen50: I graduated from Bozeman, still have a home in Laurel...cant afford to live there though. I love the winters. I got a flat tire in Laurel the other day.
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:34:39 PM EDT
[Last Edit: bosshoff]
[#32]
Discussion ForumsJump to Quoted PostQuote History Originally Posted By sslocal: Originally Posted By mancat: About 5 years back when my son was still young enough that we were bringing him to local preschool activities, he made friends with a kid whose family had just moved up from the Bay area. The dad was a stay at home dad and seemed alright, we hung out and bullshitted while the kids did their thing. Important to the story: we live in a rural area where nothing really goes on. It's very quiet, there's very little to do unless you drive a half hour or so off of the peninsula to get into some activities and retail areas. So one day the guy tells me they're looking at moving. I'm like, shit you guys just moved here a year ago. "Yeah the wife doesn't like it, she's bored, not enough restaurants and activities for her to do, and there's no public transit here and she doesn't like to drive." Find out they are looking at houses in Seattle - of course. I ask where. Columbia City. Oh... "Hey you guys know that's a high crime area right? Yeah you might find some deals there but that's because it sucks." "Doesn't matter she already made up her mind." So they end up buying a place in the shittiest neighborhood of Seattle, going right back to square one, because the guy's wife couldn't handle living in a quiet, crime and drama free area where there weren't enough coffee shops, hip dining locations, and other typical women shit within distance of public transit, and guy couldn't put his foot down. His disappointment was palpable, moving from one crappy city suburb right back into another. Women making poor life decisions and weak men enabling them. White suburban women will be the death of this country. Repeal whatever thing it was that gave women the ability to vote... As a casual fu to folks that feel they are smart, once they speak about repealing the 2nd amendment, I whole-heartingly agree about how flawed the amendents are, and the need to eliminate the suffrage of women, and dump the 19th as well. 😜 |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:35:35 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Gtdhw]
[#33]
WTF is "BI:"?
ETA: Nevermind. Got it. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 9:51:09 PM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mancat: Women making poor life decisions and weak men enabling them. Welp there it is.. 
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Posted: 5/6/2024 10:00:12 PM EDT
[Last Edit: McGuy]
[#35]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mancat: About 5 years back when my son was still young enough that we were bringing him to local preschool activities, he made friends with a kid whose family had just moved up from the Bay area. The dad was a stay at home dad and seemed alright, we hung out and bullshitted while the kids did their thing. Important to the story: we live in a rural area where nothing really goes on. It's very quiet, there's very little to do unless you drive a half hour or so off of the peninsula to get into some activities and retail areas. So one day the guy tells me they're looking at moving. I'm like, shit you guys just moved here a year ago. "Yeah the wife doesn't like it, she's bored, not enough restaurants and activities for her to do, and there's no public transit here and she doesn't like to drive." Find out they are looking at houses in Seattle - of course. I ask where. Columbia City. Oh... "Hey you guys know that's a high crime area right? Yeah you might find some deals there but that's because it sucks." "Doesn't matter she already made up her mind." So they end up buying a place in the shittiest neighborhood of Seattle, going right back to square one, because the guy's wife couldn't handle living in a quiet, crime and drama free area where there weren't enough coffee shops, hip dining locations, and other typical women shit within distance of public transit, and guy couldn't put his foot down. His disappointment was palpable, moving from one crappy city suburb right back into another. Women making poor life decisions and weak men enabling them. @mancat is Seabeck Pizza still there/awesome? eta- and is Bainbridge still infested with pretentious cunts? |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 10:04:01 PM EDT
[#36]
89k in Bozeman? It would be tough on 189k.
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Posted: 5/6/2024 10:11:52 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Red_Label]
[#37]
$89K in Bozeman isn't shit.
Just drove back through there a few hours ago. Saw a 2nd gen Ford GT40 painted in throwback Gulf Oil colors (ala the LeMans Ferrari-beaters) headed west on I90. Pretty damn cool. And no doubt worth some money. GO BOBCATS!!!  Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 10:13:20 PM EDT
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I just want to say I know where Crockett is,
 used to ride my motorcycle through the country over to Crockett and Port Chicago. There's no open farmland there anymore so it wouldn't be a nice bike ride today.There used to be a lady in Crockett who handmade leather riding gear. She would measure you like you were being fitted for suit but her material of choice was leather. I am sure she has passed by now but she had a booming business making gear for all the bikers. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 10:13:44 PM EDT
[#39]
"Granite"
Reppin his SF gear, acting like he isn't a connect anymore Stay ghetto, Bay Area |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 10:15:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By StanleySpidowski: 89k in Bozeman? It would be tough on 189k. Can't be nearly as bad as 89k in California LOL  Study: The hardest place to save money in America is in Southern California, but it’s not L.A. |
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USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 10:38:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mancat: About 5 years back when my son was still young enough that we were bringing him to local preschool activities, he made friends with a kid whose family had just moved up from the Bay area. The dad was a stay at home dad and seemed alright, we hung out and bullshitted while the kids did their thing. Important to the story: we live in a rural area where nothing really goes on. It's very quiet, there's very little to do unless you drive a half hour or so off of the peninsula to get into some activities and retail areas. So one day the guy tells me they're looking at moving. I'm like, shit you guys just moved here a year ago. "Yeah the wife doesn't like it, she's bored, not enough restaurants and activities for her to do, and there's no public transit here and she doesn't like to drive." Find out they are looking at houses in Seattle - of course. I ask where. Columbia City. Oh... "Hey you guys know that's a high crime area right? Yeah you might find some deals there but that's because it sucks." "Doesn't matter she already made up her mind." So they end up buying a place in the shittiest neighborhood of Seattle, going right back to square one, because the guy's wife couldn't handle living in a quiet, crime and drama free area where there weren't enough coffee shops, hip dining locations, and other typical women shit within distance of public transit, and guy couldn't put his foot down. His disappointment was palpable, moving from one crappy city suburb right back into another. Women making poor life decisions and weak men enabling them. Given the gun laws in WA now, moving from CA to WA is just downgrading from nice to shit weather. He would have been better off staying in CA. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 10:41:30 PM EDT
[#42]
Looks like Montana just got two new Democrat voters.
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Posted: 5/6/2024 10:57:02 PM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Red_Label: $89K in Bozeman isn't shit. Just drove back through there a few hours ago. Saw a 2nd gen Ford GT40 painted in throwback Gulf Oil colors (ala the LeMans Ferrari-beaters) headed west on I90. Pretty damn cool. And no doubt worth some money. GO BOBCATS!!! https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/32329/BOBCATS_jpg-3207580.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/32329/gulf-oil-2006-ford-gt-heritage-is-virtua-3207587.JPG Gulf Livery is the color that car belongs in! |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 11:05:42 PM EDT
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Parasites...all of them....every single one of them.
 Beth Takes Down Bar Patron | Yellowstone | Paramount Network Beth says it right. I visit my uncle Laszlo in Hamilton every summer and every single transplants is like this guy on yellowstone. |
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MT, USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 11:05:45 PM EDT
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Up yours fuckface. Leave.
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Posted: 5/6/2024 11:23:57 PM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By sslocal: White suburban women will be the death of this country. I had to make appx. 3000 of them happy per year decade after decade. Highest friction on the planet. |
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OR, USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 11:27:03 PM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Red_Label: $89K in Bozeman isn't shit. Just drove back through there a few hours ago. Saw a 2nd gen Ford GT40 painted in throwback Gulf Oil colors (ala the LeMans Ferrari-beaters) headed west on I90. Pretty damn cool. And no doubt worth some money. GO BOBCATS!!! https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/32329/BOBCATS_jpg-3207580.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/32329/gulf-oil-2006-ford-gt-heritage-is-virtua-3207587.JPG Go Griz
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MT, USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 11:36:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: does belgrade and/or BZN have any bikini barista covfefe places? asking for a friend. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JLPettimoreIII: Originally Posted By XJ: I recently figured out "big shooter" - it is a driveup coffee shack in Belgrade MT (next door to Bozeman) asking for a friend. Probably not, but there's the Three Forks "Ballet" to the West. |
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WA, USA
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Posted: 5/6/2024 11:40:52 PM EDT
[Last Edit: 49north]
[#49]
Go Griz. Bozeman sucks, weather is too much like Billings. Give me the Banana Belt. |
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Posted: 5/6/2024 11:41:18 PM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ACEB36TC: I had to make appx. 3000 of them happy per year decade after decade. Highest friction on the planet. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ACEB36TC: Originally Posted By sslocal: White suburban women will be the death of this country. I had to make appx. 3000 of them happy per year decade after decade. Highest friction on the planet. Don't blame the women. Responsibility lies with the men. |
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