It's between Mitchell and Sioux Falls for me. Like the house in Sioux Falls the best, but the views on Mitchell are pretty fantastic. I'm going to have to go with Sioux Falls.

I'd rather pay $1 million to live on 20 acres then to live surrounded by a bunch of idiots.

Rapid City all day.

Mitchell for me. I have actually been in that home several times and the pictures don't really do it justice. Family that lives there has really taken care of it and the neighbors are pretty cool too. My inlaws live in Mitchell and overall for a smaller town it is pretty nice.

I chose Mitchell.....even though having to live in the same city as The Corn Palace knocks a little of the value off.

I'm wondering if ranches tend to fall above or below my price range, because I look for a variety but don't often find true rural places (or if I do, it's just land and a shack or something). Of course, when you think about sheer volume, there are going to be a lot more city houses for sale than farms and ranches as well.

Now that's quite the coincidence.

Nobody wants to come live here and visit me :sulk:

I bet they're just intimidated. Are you a Dakota Dunesian? Or do you have a chance at redemption when I get to Iowa?

Guys, guys, slow down. We can't handle the influx with all the interest so far put forth in the thread. ROFL

When I'm out in the spring and a new one has popped up I just pretend I snuck it across the boarder and stole something from Canada.

No, live in SUX. Too rich for my blood over there. And they've got a bunch of stupid rules. Have to keep your garage door closed, etc.

I have to admit, the selections in a lot of these threads are extremely conflicting, I've never been disappointed in Rainman before but good lord I have lived in a lot of these cities and the Rapid City selections along with quite a few others have been an absolute shit show. The entire CO thread especially Fort Collins licked dick, Florida was an absolute nightmare, I'm just astounded at the picks and their general tackiness (how much siding have we seen for $1mm so far?).

All of the four below places blow the Rapid City shit show out of the water, I mean Jesus it's in the god damn Black Hills and you picked some new construction cheap piece of shit on a prairie? This mirrors the Fort Collins pick IMO.

http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...4-17864#photo0 I'm sure you could get $50k off a million, Jeez how about a mountain retreat with a pool and shit instead of a vinyl siding craptastic plywood hunk of crap?

http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...478063#photo22 Hello mountain character good bye prairie poop house

http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...-06196#photo32

http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...0009923#photo7

Sewer city has that cool historic area on a hill, otherwise real hit and miss. Agreed on Dunes sucking, that area has zero soul.

Rapid City is a nice town. I could live there.

But you can't do that! You can't do that! To be consistent, my rule is that the houses have to be between $900,000 and $999,999 in price. That gives us apples to apples comparisons.

My mistake in this, though, is that very price range. At that range, you do tend to get a lot of places that are just big houses. I either should have gone higher ($3 to $5 million) or lower (maybe $500,000), to get either more bling or more choice. I don't think I could really go higher, though, because in a lot of places that range would just mean more land. So you're stuck with my $900,000 to $999,999 price range.