Wants areal town

It was time to move from the big city, crime, traffic, insects, heat, humidity. Florida had lost its charm. It had grown into something that was no longer fun or to be proud of. Tired of walking on the busy downtown sidewalks where eyes never meet. Everyone is a stranger. The town might appear real, but it was re-manufactured. 

The desire to live in a smaller town that offered something more real than the hustle of the city became a goal. A place was to be found that would include home-town shopowners, a mayor who meant it when asking how the family was. Neighbors that would stop and speak in front of the pharmacy and hardware store.

After three years of searching seven states and 13 ski resort towns, Whitefish was the only one that made the cut. Why? It wasn’t manufactured. The shops and shop owners were real. The locals were your friends you saw at the grocery store and post office.

The tourists were important to the economy, and the shop owners studied them. What do they want? The same thing the locals want. A real town, real people, eye contact.

Please don’t make this a manufactured town. Leave the sidewalks alone, leave the street corners real, leave the little shop sale-displays on the sidewalks. This is what brings that charm to our town, that and the good real people.

Do we want to be another Breckenridge or Aspen, manufactured towns? City council, please protect what we have, don’t make us just like every other resort town. Save Whitefish.

Bill Milner

Whitefish