The Government Will Actually Pay You To Live In Garnet.

[jeff of pa]

The US government has been trying to convince people to move to the abandoned town of Garnet, Montana, for years. Yet nobody seems to want to step into it.

gold-mining town home to compact log cabins with period furnishings.

Only 3 Downsides For Me I see

1. My Age
2 Slow Internet
3, Something Tells me the 'garnet recreation management area' Considers Recreation
Walk around But Don't Touch ! So I'd need to do Night Opps with a Detector If it Actually Is Empty.

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[robertk]

The US government has been trying to convince people to move to the abandoned town of Garnet, Montana, for years.

They're not trying to repopulate the town. It is managed as a tourist attraction, and they're looking for people to work there.

 

[releventchair]

An Old West stories book that was around here had an account of a haunted Garnet by one of it's caretakers one winter quite a while ago .
Piano and voices ect. when no one was in the old bar.
(He walked a plank off a bank/hillside , sneaking into a buildings upstairs from the backside to find nothing causing the sounds.)

 

[jeff of pa]

There Is Nothing In the Montana Newspapers Except a Couple From Garnet Stayed at the Butte Hotel in Nov 20, 1897

Everything Else Is Classifides From 1979 Up on Gold Mines & Other Property For Sale in the Area

The Town itself Never Made a Montana Newspaper

 

[Red-Coat]

It has lots going for it.

- Crime-free location. There’s nothing worth stealing and nobody to report it to anyway.

- Interesting employment opportunities such as: Huckleberry pickers (seasonal); Spitoon maintenance operatives (year-round); horseshoe delivery riders; village idiot (vacant position since ‘Crazy Pete’ fell down the wishing well in 1972).

- Quality accommodation. Most properties have a well-ventilated outhouse at minimum and they’re almost snake-free.

- Great nightlife, including: Tuesday ‘Grab-a-Granny’ night at the all-welcome open-air hoe-down (weather permitting; in Jeb’s cowshed if snowing); monthly fiddle, banjo and dulcimer folk song recitals in the town hall (adults only on account of the cussing in the lyrics); yearly re-enactment celebration of the 1775 smallpox epidemic.

- Well-stocked general store offering a wide variety of produce such as: chewing baccy (in many flavours, including huckleberry, brown, and onion); flour (certified weevil-free); whiskey (locally brewed, tax-free); beer (10% discount for under-twelves); Doc Potter’s hangover remedy (family-sized one pint bottles).

- No Starbucks. Alternately, you can make your own coffee, misspell your name on the mug with a Sharpie and set fire to a $5 bill.

 

[russau]

Well if it's got a grab - a-granny I'll have to make a move over there and well you know !

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

They looking for volunteers to help manage the 24,000 annual visitors, you stay in rustic cabins without electricity or running water, paid a small daily stipend to maintain the historic BLM site.

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

You seem to have had an interesting childhood. Did therapy help?

It has lots going for it.

- Crime-free location. There’s nothing worth stealing and nobody to report it to anyway.

- Interesting employment opportunities such as: Huckleberry pickers (seasonal); Spitoon maintenance operatives (year-round); horseshoe delivery riders; village idiot (vacant position since ‘Crazy Pete’ fell down the wishing well in 1972).

- Quality accommodation. Most properties have a well-ventilated outhouse at minimum and they’re almost snake-free.

- Great nightlife, including: Tuesday ‘Grab-a-Granny’ night at the all-welcome open-air hoe-down (weather permitting; in Jeb’s cowshed if snowing); monthly fiddle, banjo and dulcimer folk song recitals in the town hall (adults only on account of the cussing in the lyrics); yearly re-enactment celebration of the 1775 smallpox epidemic.

- Well-stocked general store offering a wide variety of produce such as: chewing baccy (in many flavours, including huckleberry, brown, and onion); flour (certified weevil-free); whiskey (locally brewed, tax-free); beer (10% discount for under-twelves); Doc Potter’s hangover remedy (family-sized one pint bottles).

- No Starbucks. Alternately, you can make your own coffee, misspell your name on the mug with a Sharpie and set fire to a $5 bill.

 

[Red-Coat]

You seem to have had an interesting childhood. Did therapy help?

Yes, at least I now know the voices aren't real... but they have such interesting ideas. Apparently, I have multiple personalities, but that was a 'win' because I now get a group rate discount.