Regarding “Could Boulder’s housing market finally be softening?” (Jan. 10): Softening for who?
When I started with the Montana Department of Transportation in 1994, I was “spacing in Basin” and working out of the Bernice shop. With the steady job I was looking for a permanent home but there was nothing in Basin or Boulder at the time.
In Boulder, most parents were working at the state school and living in the trailer courts because they couldn’t afford to buy a house. I was making $11.48 an hour and finally found a trailer in Boulder with property for $32,000.It was very hard making payments, but at that time we had winters and snow, and I got a lot of overtime. It was still hard making payments.
I know right now that people working for MDT in Boulder can’t afford a $472,000 home. I ask you, what will happen? Are we going to be like the larger towns in Montana, with people living in tents along roads, trying a make a living? In a few years, I can see it happening in Boulder. People can’t afford a house or skyrocketing rent.
I feel sorry for young people coming into the working world. Maybe it’s best for them to live with their parents until the house gets willed to them.
Or, I could be like our out-of-state governor, who thinks he’s too cool to stay in the governor’s mansion and lives in another house in Helena — and recently bought another for $4 million.
No, I think that I will go to the mountains and get away from greedy people.
