I'd agree with the above statistics. Missoula is a college town with lots of outside influence but beautiful place to live (like lots of smaller towns once were).
Work as I recall was very competitive because it was a place where people wanted to live for the recreation. I had an Oxford professor that was there because he loved to fly fish.
While there in the 1990's I was told that "the Californian's were invading the place", driving up property prices, etc. From what I understand this also happened during covid too. California always has been a population center with many moving to Seattle too. Population and money mecca's produce freedom to move and explore.
Sadly I do remember my mom pointing to a book about rape in Missoula, and the average being much higher, and it went on to say the justice system in the town was broken. Society is so complex and changing so quickly, I even here town's like Burlington Vermont are now considered unsafe. Hard to say how bad these places are without some personal imprint of the place- growing up just outside of NYC in the 70-80's, I saw lots of crime too. NY got much better in the late 90's that's for certain.
From an audiophile perspective I would bet Montana has slightly more watts per audiophile than other places. Big Sky big power, but I could be wrong.
