Missoula - Beautiful & Poorly Run
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5/28/2020
I have lived in Missoula on and off for the last 30 years, but consistently for the last 12. I met my wife and had my kids here. My father and my wife's entire family is from here. It is a beautiful place to live and it is close to everything you could want to do outdoors. So why two stars? The city is run by people that view you as a piggy bank. If they can imagine it, they will tax you for it. They are actively lobbying for any kind of tax they can get passed (gas, resort, etc) Housing is beyond unaffordable unless you view apartment living with a mortgage payment as affordable. City policies are creating homelessness in droves, crime is climbing at absurd rates and the city even lists one of the "places to see" as the homeless shelter. I love Missoula, but I loathe what it has become and every year we move further from the ability to fix the damage. Out of state buyers have driven home prices out of the range of local residents. So if you are looking to move here from California or New York realize that you either need to pay that house off from the get go or be a CEO to afford the cost once you are here as housing costs do not match incomes here. And "raising the wage" doesn't magically make housing affordable. Companies here are not paying California rates. This is Montana.
Missoula - beautiful beyond compare but being run into the ground by the current Democrat regime.
Jared | Missoula, MT