My husband and I were raised in Bozeman. We loved growing up there, it was the best ever! It's been 71 years now, and an illness caused us to sell our home. We did RV for over a year.
We wanted to come home and buy, but can't. We were forced to leave, as home prices escalated out of site. We're sad to see the growth, and making life, and recreation difficult. Camping overrun. Crowded lakes, and streams along with our favorite hiking places.
The change has caused much sadness to locals. We're not liking the liberal thinking, and can tell when your not a native. We will miss our home always!! We had to buy elsewhere. Goodbye Bozeman.

Nobody is from Bozeangeles. Unless you're a Native American, you're a transplant. This fad will pass as everyone tires of the crowded streams and long lift lines as the Rocky Mountain Front in Colorado has experienced. Plus, they'll tire of being mortgage broke and realize the only reason the town exists is because of Montana State University and move to another college town like where Coastal Carolina is-Myrtle Beach after three or four real winters. Butte America had 110,000 people in 1910.

Yes, vote Republican!

Keep Bozeman Great! vote Democrat

A corrupt little republican town. They want them perception of openness & acceptance. When in reality they openly practice discrimination. STAY AWAY, FINANCIAL & HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLISTS AT WORK HERE!

Who said you no way?

Get the f%&* out.

Sorry to bust your bubble, buddy. Have you noticed how many folks are actually leaving Colorado? Not many. Montana is like Colorado was 40 years ago. Brace yourself. Butte isn’t a good comparison. Without the mine, unions and Copper Barons, it’s a used up, polluted, husk of its former grandeur. The only thing we have left, like Butte, are the people. (PS, I’m a proud Montana Democrat, praying for my Republican Brothers and Sisters)

thanks Eric

As a Bozeman native I can say that Angie Jamison "nailed it" in her article.
Newcomers who do not adjust to the long winters cannot succeed there,
One has to admire Butte's resilience for hanging in there, left with the problems the Montana Copper Company left them. The issues with growth especially costs, are driving people out of Bozeman; my retirement community apartment's rent has more than doubled in the years I have been away; otherwise I would come home. At age 86 I've done all the outdoor things; now I am one of those who is happy just to stare at the mountains, their ever changing appearance with sunset and sunrise and changing seasons satisfy me. I am thankful for its founders, such as Malcolm Story and Peter Koch, and of course John Bozeman, who got it started. We owe the University to them. And Rev. William Van Orsdel, who came from Pennsylvania at statehood, and gave Bozeman its Deaconess Hospital, now called Bozeman Health, but thankfully it kept the name Deaconess, for it was the Deaconesses who came west from Chicago in groups of eight to help "Brother Van" establish five Deaconess hospitals across the state at the turn of the century in addition to the Deaconess Home in Helena, which is now known as Intermountain, the first children's home west of the Mississippi, 1909. Like most states, Montana and Bozeman are made up of both Republicans and Democrats; with their competition, a balance is struck. Long may they argue.

Thank you for your insights. In your time, you’ve see huge changes to our state and the rest of the world. You should write a book! We wouldn’t be having this conversation if our state wasn’t so darn beautiful and it’s population weren’t so darn nice and inviting! Let’s keep it that way!

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How do I get out of this long long survey ?

Thank you for your insightful article. In my opinion, the white crosses help the families of the departed grieve their loss but do little to promote safer driving. I would suggest that the MT Highway Commission erect an electronic sign on Montana's most dangerous highways (example hwy 200 from Missoula to Helena) showing the exact number of fatalities from January 1st of the year. I drive hwy 200 regularly and privately refer to it as the death road.

This statement, is a statement that erases thousands of years of Indigenous history and place names: "As the Anglo-Europeans spread across the North American continent, the land became filled with names." Why? All these places have had names for a very long tie, and it would be great to learn about them.

Christmas spiders ???? What is that about??

Just acquired a recent work by Griffin. His rendition of my historic building here in Bozeman was a Christmas present for my wife. She was very, very pleased as was I. A nice young man.

I am curious having browsed this report and this article why a 112-page report on alternative futures for Soroptomist Park and Bozeman Creek restoration make no mention at all of the residents who live in Soroptomist Park and make it their home. How can there be a plan this thorough that does not in some way account for that reality and how to work with the people who don't have permanent shelters. This is profoundly disappointing as a member of the Bozeman community who has taken a little time to know some of the people who live in the park and have danced with them.

I concur with the above statement, as a Bozeman resident who is disgusted with every venture the city planning committee enacts purely to make a nicer view for the rich while discounting the lives of poor and working class people. We do not want this or more luxury downtown apartments. We want real community considerations.