Reviews & Comments
Kalispell, MT
Conservative, beautiful, and home -
1/19/2011Kalispell has been a great community to move to. Frankly, I read some of the reviews here and smile. No, there is no clubbing. No, it's not diverse. Yes, it's conservative. And that's what in my eyes makes it perfect. It's been a wonderful place to raise a family. The people have been friendly, the hunting is awesome, the hiking, the fishing, snowshoeing....
I only hope this place doesn't continue to grow too excessively, to diversify. Frankly, I've come from that sort of place. Inevitably, the crime is astronomical, the people aren't nearly as friendly, the traffic is burdensome, everyone's looking for a handout, the schools are crap and drugs run rampant. You don't have any of that here. I'll take homogenously functional any day.
As for competing for wages, I'm a physican, so frankly, there's a shortage of us, so it hasn't been bad in healthcare.
Billings, MT
re: Stay Away! - 8/12/2009 -
10/5/2010You describe the place as having no "culture," but culture is exactly what you describe. I suppose you'd prefer a place filled with yuppies with no real cultural distinction? Perhaps they dress a bit like what you'd see on television? That's it?
Where do you think culture comes from? It's not from diveristy: it's from years of isolation and forming a solid identity amongst a group of people. There are plenty of place where you can go where no one carries a common community identity and shares no values. It doesn't tend to create the most friendly or amicable place in the world, but some seem to like that.
And as a 30-something male, if you can't find something to do in the beautiful surroundings of a place like Billings, well, you're not using your vitality and youth the fullest of its extent. There's beautiful scenery all about this city. I've lived across the world--London, Atlanta, New York, small farming towns... I'm happily calling a homogenous place home. Somewhere with a real culture as opposed to a mishmash moving to nothingness.