Convenient place to live
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Nice.
Hmmm, 10k people in our small town. Theoretically a 3 minute drive to market place park. Buy it all in B&M(and Co-Op/ Autoshop). And back.However to get exactly what is needed, a drive to two nearby towns, couple of hours and a 15 mile round trip.
In London it would have been half the distance but same time. -
To give some perspective, I live in Montana, the county I live in is small - 719 square miles (1157 square Km)n the town has about 35K residents, the county has just over 36K! Closest towns with more shopping options (and better airports) are not far (68, 77 miles) but you have to go through mountain canyons/over mountain passes to get there, and the roads are dicey (to say the least) in bad winter weather. But in good weather, it’s easy with our 80mph speed limits.
I do love the great wide open, and feel a tad claustrophobic when I visit more heavily populated areas. -
Butte. A toxic waste dump. (Seriously - I think it’s the largest superfund site in the United States). Also has the coolest old Buildings and the most Ghost Signs. So much history, something like 10,000 miles of mining tunnels under the city - mostly filled with water now, they get all their copper and molybdenum surface mining. An HUGE amount of money every day still comes out of this place.
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Butte. A toxic waste dump. (Seriously - I think it’s the largest superfund site in the United States). Also has the coolest old Buildings and the most Ghost Signs. So much history, something like 10,000 miles of mining tunnels under the city - mostly filled with water now, they get all their copper and molybdenum surface mining. An HUGE amount of money every day still comes out of this place.
Butte. A toxic waste dump. (Seriously - I think it’s the largest superfund site in the United States).
I know it well. The USEPA rep there gave me and a couple of colleagues a tour of the mine site. Disturbing to say the least.
My maternal grandmother was born not far from Butte. Close to Virginia City in a little Irish village called Laurin - now, for all intents and purposes, a ghost town although the old red stone RC church and school are still in operation.
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@jodi great views, and I remember seeing CBS Sunday Morning segments about Butte. I also remember the one time I was in Montana the 80 mph on windy open highways felt dangerous with trucks flying by in the other direction. Maybe next time I'll drive on the right side of the road, though.
@horace nice brag! The cost of living in my area vs northern virginia isn't as much of a discount as folks back in Virginia think but the biggest change I'll never take for granted is I go places without pulling up google maps or waze for "which way doesn't have sucky traffic". I did that everywhere in Virginia, but now I don't check the traffic at all. When I'm kid-free during the day sometimes I'll knock out like 6 places in a half hour (target, gas station, panera coffee [I have their Sip Club plan], HyVee [groceries], UPS store to return an amazon item, and maybe the hardware store). Parking and walking into a store without getting kids in/out of a vehicle is a luxury!
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