Why people like me left California to pursue the American Dream in Montana

[usonian]

7. your town looks just like the one i live in ..in central California, except bigger.

and on top of that I'm 12 miles out of town. But...that means I have to drive almost 25 miles rt for anything but milk and beer at the 4 miles away gas station/quick mart! And we seem to have a higher percentage of pickup trucks per vehicle here.

Got unobscured big sky on east and west sides, about 140 degrees each.

If the American Dream is a belief that a better future exists for you, your family and your community, isn't it true that when your community grows big enough, it has all the problems that big cities face, and only residents to tax to solve them, until businesses move in to augment the tax base, and then ....

the American Dream moves farther away.