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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.

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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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