One of the things I LOVE about Yelp, is the ability to review a city. Yes, I looked for Missoula,…read morein the top box. Up pops this listing.
EDIT: Missoula, was changed to 'Missoula County', after this review was posted. I will try and find another home for it.
So, after seven plus months in Missoula, what's to hate/love, what are the pro's and con's?
For starters, Missoula is nothing more than a train yard, and university town. It has nothing else going for it. Yellowstone tourism is too far away. It fits the model of a city, whose residents are full of themselves. Let me explain:
When someone lives in poverty, they tend to create a clique, that says - straight back to religious altruism, austerity - ,If you are not poor in the way we are poor, you are an outsider.' Now, no one with money AND a wealth mentality, has time for that petty and trivializing attitude. So they don't live here, by and large, and instead have been happy to leave the area to religious freaks, and the Hollywood Trailer Park. If you ever wanted to see a derilict example of meth and other drug infestation, and the epitomy of poverty - I am not making fun of their access to currency - then look at the Hollywood Trailer Park.
Nestled between the (north) end of Russel and the Bistro on Burns, this atomic eye-sore is all anyone needs to point to, to indicate the kind of poverty in Missoula.
And to be clear, I am not talking about money, solely. I have the attitude that, the money follows the attitude. So even a person with a wealthy attitude, stands a better chance than one without, almost regardless of their access to currency.
Money will not fix Missoula. And the momentum has ensured that the PDX-type rejects, who have a strong adherance to the same philosophy, have migrated here. Bringing their ,agnostic' religious austerity, and militantly enforced norm. It's simply uncool in their eyes.