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Mosquitomountainman · Feb 7, 2026

I live in the northwestern corner of Montana (20 plus years). I love hunting, fishing and trapping, and shooting anything that uses arrows, bolts, bullets, balls or shot.

Godzilla · Feb 7, 2026

Welcome from Montana’s other corner

Alan · Feb 7, 2026

Welcome aboard, northwest Montana is beautiful country

Quark · Feb 9, 2026

Welcome.

Quark · Feb 10, 2026

People say those of us living in the Rockies are lucky. Must be as I've lived for over 45 years.

Mosquitomountainman · Feb 22, 2026

Quark said:
People say those of us living in the Rockies are lucky. Must be as I've lived for over 45 years.

I'm not sure how much luck has to do with it. We've stayed through long, sometimes extremely cold, snowy winters. High cost of living. Low wages and high rent and/or real-estate prices. Our nearest Walmart is a 90-minute drive of which 30 of that is just reaching the pavement over a horrible pothole filled, dusty, snowy, muddy, or icy road off the mountain. We've had grizzly bears damage two vehicles and nearly every building on our property including breaking the door jamb and deadbolt lock on a small guest cabin and attempting to dig up our root cellar. Our garden and chicken house/pen are surrounded by electric fence as are three of our outbuildings and what's left of our root cellar.

A large percentage of those who move here leave within five years. Montana is a state you must really want to live in because it isn't all fun and games. But the truth is that for us who fell in love with the state accept it for both its beauty and its flaws and I don't plan on ever leaving her. I don't think lucky is the word I'd use to describe it. But I do feel fortunate and blessed.

Quark · Feb 22, 2026

I live in the city so bears aren't usually a problem. Although the wife was looking at a satellite image of our home and she saw a Black bear walking down the street one time. We never did see the bear so we must have gone or he was real quite. Do have a lot of deer around here though and occasionally a fox or cayote. But you are right a person has to want to live here to live here. When it's beautiful it's beautiful but when it's crappy it's crappy.