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You're going to see around 80 million baby boomers retire in the next two years. The majority of them are worthless. They inherited money from their depression era relatives

"They've also missed out on many things because they don't live in rural MT, to me those things are more important. "

Brad, I don't recommend it, but if you go and look into the majority of Sledder's post you'll find his ignorance has yet to find its limits.

Kurt, where in the heck do you dig this stuff up (grin).

Yup, finally looking like what passes for winter outside... just got new three pins for my skis this week. Will screw em on and give the old tele's a turn... course Bozeman sucks and I might get accosted by a gay, baby-boom former attoreny from San Francisco who likes semi-hairless Norwegian males who kill elk and destroy MT by building overpriced houses.

Wait, there's no elk in SW Mt... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Casey, had a nice post but the computer goblin ate it... suffice to say, if money "is driving the loss of those values" then they were never actually values in the first place but rather an extension of the West's "Myth Of Self."[quote]

Most myths about the west and rural westerners was not created in the west, but instead by those outside who occasionally visited. Of course, we rural westerners enjoy it. But it was the thinly scattered population, and a form of independence, thanks in large part to thinly scattered and finacially limited government that couldn't do much about it. There was, in many parts of the rural west, a semi-controlled anarchy--with lots of tolerance for those who were "different", but a series of small communities that created a "network" but yet allowed the individuals and communites to be independent.

And, so many of the folks who move to the rural west are financially independent (not uber-wealthy, but well off enough). One of my biggest complaints are these folks can't "turn off" their focus on money. It's all they know. That's how they became financially independent in the first place.

The "High Country News" a pro enviromental, liberal newspaper, but that tends to champion the cause of the middle class in the west often provides some of the best insight. A wife of a ranching family wrote an excellent essay years ago, describing living here as "a deep and abiding understanding of the land". Making a living yes, but focusing on, or making a lot of money, No. It becomes easy to lose track--the west is not merely a playground--it's a "sense of place".

[quote]I make my living as a builder and loan officer...like you I'm "riding the wave". Truth is, however, decent people are decent no matter their place of birth and as has been pointed out Montana has its share of home-grown a-holes (apparently like sledder). I've met NYC resident's I'd rather share a campfire with than the likes of a guy like sledder.