Letters to the Editor
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bozeman native
I was raised in Bozeman, a town about 20 minutes west of Livingston and Paradise Valley. The Yellowstone Club is bad enough... but like any good Montanan, I recognize that one of the special things about Montana is the fact that we are not, yet, filled to the brim with wealthy, arrogant settlers who are only interested in living out their Wild West fantasies and not in contributing to or becoming a part of the Montana community.
P.S., in a state in which the economy surrounding the working class is flagging while wealthy retirees continue to pour in, it's probably not a good idea to suggest that natives who have worked and sweated their entire lives for the state's substandard wages are somehow inferior to the California imports who gleefully scoop up property as if it were collectible. Montanans are, as any out-of-stater will tell you, notoriously suspicious of non-natives, and insulting them is not a good way to get into their graces.