SD is a great state, but if anyone is thinking the Sioux Falls area, youll be happier if you look at other areas. Is it better than Minneapolis? Of course. A lot. But, everywhere you look is full of liberal wackos and criminals. There are decent people there, but it’s changed drastically the past few years. High taxes and real estate for the midwest at least. Get an hour away.

South Dakota is a great state to live in, was there for 7 years, best hunting, trapping and fishing of anywhere I’ve lived, MN and now WI. Low wages were a problem but cost of living was much lower.

The downhill trend for any city is to be the City of the Year it attracts the best and the worst after that but the worst in there to stay. The meat packing plants attract every minority around for the cheap labor jobs. 95% of the evening perp walks on the news are from our lowest population groups.

Sioux Falls lost a lot of its hometown shine years ago when it won best city in America it was never the same after that. It’s still better any larger city just not what it was at one time before. Less than a million people in the whole state is appealing to some and scares others, if you’re willing to work you can fulfill your dreams here.

I can remember when my wife got a letter from SD promising a free house to Teachers who would commit to moving and teaching there. The downfall was the pay.

So many people are slaves to those paychecks and waste a lot of their lives worshipping the almighty dollar living in places they really don’t want to live in. My buddy lived in Chicago driving a fuel truck until he moved to MO never seen a guy so happy to be there just a shame he did not do it years earlier.

We try to encourage our California and other left coast transplants to continue on east to South Dakota or Minnesota

Agreed! My buddy sold his metro suburban house on acreage (worth a LOT) and moved to a 14x16 cabin without electricity or running water in Alaska 5 years ago. Never been happier. His only regret was he didn't do it 30 years previous.

Money is a trap. God will provide if you're willing to work.

Folks it won’t stop. Every year Millions come in legal and illegal. Everyone of em gotta live somewhere. What’s America look like with half a billion people? Two places come to mind, China and India. If you have decent weather and internet service they’re coming. Bothers me to no end that there’s zero discussion in the government about this. What’s the number? How many can we hold and still be the land of amber waves of grain and purple mountain majesty? Let’s get an idea now before it’s too late. No use shutting the gate if the cows are done out.

She probably needs people like yourself to off set the votes of "immigrants" that are being shipped there. Rural Mn. would be a great place to recruit from as I'm sure many are sick of being controlled by MSP. Rural Illinois would be another great place to recruit from for many of the same reasons. I doubt SD wants a population explosion but at least if they have one they would like to choose who it is moving in.

You guys are late to the party, Here on the Island we've been inundated by city people since right after WW2, this last pandemic finished us off, about every vacant property is now sprouting new homes. Property taxes are obscene, school tax is worse, traffic is ridiculous, houses are now unaffordable. ...Turned a great farming and fishing region into a borough of NYC.

If Noem wants to keep her state great then she needs to stop encouraging people to move there. I'm in Georgia and this state is growing by leaps and bounds and it ain't good old conservative boys moving here. Our state needs fewer people, not more.

I am being squeezed out of my place near metro MN by development.

I could go anywhere, and did check out SD on my own. Never got any flyers. We ruled out SD simply because we could not find the kind of property in a suitable location.

We ended up buying a vacant waterfront property in a small WI town.

TX, btw was ruled out by unbearable weather and the potential of drunken loudmouthed rebel neighbors.

LOL! You win!

I'll be there soon, and you can rest assured, I know how to vote!

Haven’t considered moving but as far as people moving here there is an advantage to the state always smelling like hog and chicken manure.

Same here , FN wrecked by transplants

… didn’t even have to waste a firecracker on this one lol

Buddy, you hit the nail on the head. Shes more concerned with how many people see her botoxed face with a hat on backwards. She REALLY needs to back off the injections, it’s getting bad. Shes looking beyond the time shes termed out. Ive heard rumors shes wanting NRA president. Fake as fake gets.
Give me a Kim Reynolds of IA any day. Rural Iowa and the people there are Americas best kept secret.

I agree with DWC (he'll be surprised ... . Soo Foo metro probably has too many people already but there are a handful of cities in the 15-25,000 range where prices aren't as nutty as Sioux Falls and the pace of life is a bit slower. There's nothing wrong with places such as Yankton, Mitchell, Watertown, Aberdeen, and even Pierre if you can stand the politicians and lobbyists during the winter. I'm not sure about Huron, LSS might have diversified that place a little too much. Then there is always West River if you truly want to live in a small town where you can see for miles (not counting the BH cities here). This year West River is even wetter than the east side of the state. Go figure...

I havent checked prices in SF really recently, because no one on God’s green earth could ever get me to move back there. But Yankton seems to think theyre a suburb or something lately, because the prices seem outrageous for some of the homes there. But I do love that area and would move back in a second…Except for the $&%#ing Asian carp….