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Originally Posted by 71GP76TA
I was up in Whitefish a couple weeks ago. I was amazed at all the builing going on in the area.... and blown away by the prices. What is driving the boom there??? I remember going up there when I was a kid.. late 1970's..early 1980's. Was really disappointed the area has been yuppyized with all the artsy fartsy crap and all the new construction. Reminded of California..  |
The new Vail type thing. The ruining of the previously undiscovered. We have become the escape from everywhere USA to move (remote working) , and the discovered place to buy a second home for the wealthy. Big California and Texas money people (say billionaires) have moved in and are investing / building. I have 10 acres half hour south of here in the Salish range and now 10 more in SW New Mexico. My escape from this will be small cabins on both. I'm done with the nutso town stuff. It'll take a year or two to pull off.
As an aside, I would not sell a house I lived in before buying at least the land for the new one. You could get priced out even with cash in hand and wind up in a tiny dump.
The house on the corner sold a month ago. A woman with no furniture from Maryland is there in this big 1910 house and tall grass now. It is a weird world.