Stacker compiled a list of the best counties to live in Montana using rankings from Niche. Niche ranks counties by various factors including public schools, educational attainment, cost of living, and housing.
If you’re trying to buy a home in Montana, the housing market might make you feel like the state is at capacity, standing room only. If you’re a business owner trying to hire employees, on the other hand, the tight labor market might make you feel the state could use an extra hand or two.
And even if there was a way to rapidly increase the supply of housing and recruit a workforce to fill it, many Montanans are already worried about how population growth is changing the state’s culture: 57% of Montanans surveyed in a recent University of Montana study said the rate of growth and development in their community is too fast and 84% believed the …