05-27-2015, 09:27 AM
My kid, the Stanford grad, is in Bozeman as a research professor. Two years and she's really liked it. But three years will be the max, it seems. She is not put off by winters...yet.  In contrast, during a visit to her I met a fellow Southern Californian who had built a healthy construction biz in Bozeman over two decades. He stated he was currently selling off all his future contracts to other construction businesses and headed for SoCal. Hard to convey now his affect while he was talking, sort-of half combat fatigue half meth-user jitters. "I just can't take another winter here. I gotta get warm, man."