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> Spending a quarter million dollars on a four wood walls and a door in a podunk Montana town that is about a 100 mile drive to the nearest town

From the OP:

> The Jersey Lilly was the town’s first brick building, built in 1914 as the first bank of a very different Ingomar.

> The nearest town, Forsyth, is “only” 44 miles away. “That’s really close in Montana, trust me.”

If you want to write a dismissive comment, go ahead, but at least get the facts straight (which were clearly stated in the first three paragraphs of the OP).

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Having lived in Montana for 2 years myself, I don't consider Forsyth a town worth noting. Billings is the closest town that has a decent population, and it's 110 miles away by car.

Brick or wood (fixed my original comment for ya), my point was it's a simple building in a tiny "town". It's not worth the money as a business purchase, but would be a pleasure buy.

Not sure why my comment needed to be pedantically torn apart.

Because IF you are going to be sarcastically dismissive you ought to at least get the details right.

I don't think the details are critical to their point though. The fact that it's a brick building with backstory doesn't immediately turn it into a sound business decision.

What was sarcastic about their remark? I had no issue with it and your reaction surprises me.

I mean, he's got a point. Forsyth has less than 2000 people in it. As someone who used to live in Montana, the nearest town worth mentioning is Billings which is 111 miles away, and the nearest town worth really going to is Missoula which is 371 miles.

It all depends on your point of view. I have a nephew who lives outside of Roy, population 108. He grew up in central South Dakota but moved to Montana because South Dakota was getting way too crowded.

Ha! It is crazy how different perspectives can be depending on where you're from. When I moved up to Montana in 2011 they had just broken 1,000,000 population for the first time in the state's history and all the locals were talking about how crazy it was. Meanwhile I also thought it was crazy, because I had just moved from a place where there were a million people within five miles of me. A quick google shows that Montana still has just one area code - 406 - for the entire state.

I went to grades 1 to 8 at a rural one room school house with about a dozen other kids. My high school was about 600 students. Then I went to a university with about 20,000. Adjustment in that direction is not easy either.

I wonder how my mother did it: she was a one room school teacher during the Depression and moved to Manhattan for WW II after getting divorced (where she met and married my father).

I have relatives in the Dakotas who get pissed at traffic lights in general. As in, they live in a county without a single traffic light.

There unfortunately is a very bad habit of some drivers in these areas of blowing stop signs because they are used to so little traffic/people in general. But obviously the consequences can be horrible (see Bill Janklow, ex-South Dakota governor who then later became an ex-con).

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Forsyth itself has a population of under 2,000. Barely a town, if even.

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