Pros and Cons of Living in Rapid City, SD | Should You Move Here?

What are the Pros and Cons of living in Rapid City, South Dakota?

Should you move here?

We love living in the Rapid City and Black Hills area.

There are always things you may not like about living in any town. In this video, I present my 5 Pros and 5 Cons to living here. There are so many things to love and enjoy! But there's a few things that are annoying.

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[BruceJC]

A place that’s far away from everything and everyone else?? Freedom?? Sounds like my kinda place!!!

[lisadenney]

Moved to AZ from NY for more freedom 11 years ago. We are currently looking to move from AZ to SD in search of freedom once again!! So excited!!

[valiantv]

Great video, hello from Melbourne Australia, formerly voted the worlds most livable city, but this year weve lived through the most draconian lockdown in the free world. Our left wing premier { governor }
displayed a real thirst for the lockdowns and unfortunately seems to still have a reasonable amount of support from the brainwashed population, leaving me and my family seriously looking to get the hell out before next winter. Anyway, while dreaming of where to run to, i came across South Dakota
through seeing your excellent Governor, Kristi Noem, shes fantastic, and has a real sense of what life is all about, without freedom, you have nothing, please dont take it for granted. Looking forward to visiting you guys one day

[jenv]

I just want to cry! It sounds like Paradise compared to where I am. I barely remember these things anymore: Freedom, and also: friendly, honest, hardworking people. Seems too good to be true!

[roomfulofblues]

Trying to figure out where to retire and South Dakota is at top of my list.

[dennyray]

I moved from Chicago to Sioux Falls in 2019, freedom freedom freedom! It's nice not being taxed to death.

[vivianavanwagoner]

I love it!! Moving next year from New Mexico....Rapid City maybe the place for us💕

[novastariha]

I am getting out of Mpls MN ASAP
Too SD
Long winters in MN too with traffic hell

[michaell]

We just visted Rapid City from the East Coast and were struck by the general cleanliness and lack of decay. Paradise! We did notice that the car sales lots all had canopies over the vehicles, and we figured it was to prevent hail damage.

[teresitarichard]

I live in Rapid City for 5 years if you're not into fishing and hunting this is not your kind of place it so remote after awhile you get bored but if you like isolation this is the place for you just get ready to stock up on food cause they always have a blizzard 🥶.Glad to get out of

[novastariha]

“Deadwood $ Lead “ great shopping in
Non big name stores with merchandise and apparel of highest quality and uniqueness

[captaindreadnought]

Englishman from south London here, My girlfriend is American and lived in Rapid city for a few years when she was younger and says it was her favourite place to live. We've been talking about living together in Rapid city sometime in the future and it honestly looks lovely, nice change from living in a capital city.

[DaveBowman]

We have Rapid City Regional Airport for taking a quick weekend get-away... but you'd think we'd have passenger train service, like Amtrak, too. Even an intrastate line would be useful for getting to Pierre or Sioux Falls once in a while. But nothing like that exists here. It only adds to the isolation.

[ThereIsAlwaysaWay]

I admit, your girls at the end where 100% genuine and a nice addition. :)

[mellowmoods]

After 19 years of living on the west side of Oahu, a divorce that netted me full custody of my 3 kids, and giving half of everything I own to my ex-wife, a move is definitely in order. My criterion is life with a much slower pace, a less expensive town, and with more wholesome and humble people. Honestly, I can't decide between RC, Sioux Falls, and the suburbs around Omaha. But at this point, it just seems like trying to decide which 24K gold ring one likes the best.

[Glasher]

When I arrived in the Rapid City area driving into the Black Hills, I drove by a spot selling helicopter rides. His having a slow day and my being the only one going for the tour I offered him 3x the normal fare for a memorable ride. That was exactly what I got. When we got back to his base of operations, the pilot buzzed the field, climbed high rolling over and back down to buzz the field again. He done this a half dozen times. Well worth the extra cash. It was sad to heard on the radio two weeks later that he had crashed killing himself and two tourist.

I found the -55F & -65F wind chills interesting since I had to work in it. Also, my friend was in the hospital once and his room was on the 2nd floor, he couldn't see out his window because of a snowdrift. Underpasses needed to be dug out for traffic. In Rapid City, due to blizzards, there was so much snow it had to be plowed to the center of the roads to make them passable. Sometimes, on the Air Base we would jump off the 3rd FL fire escape of the barracks into snowdrifts. During one blizzard, to make it to the chow hall without loosing anyone we would tie ourselves to a long rope and make our way there and back. There may not be so much snow fall, but the high winds of SD sure does know what to do with it.

For a while I had a mobile home in Box Elder. The wind would drift snow to the roof (blocking that way out) while it would clear the snow away down to the ground on the other side exposing the grass.



Things have changed some since I was last in Deadwood too. The last time I was there, the town hall was at one end of the town and a cathouse at the other end.



I miss the time I spent in the Black Hills. I made adjustments to my van so I could go most everywhere my friends with 4 wheelers went. There were out of the way camping spots and abandoned goldmines to explore. Cliff diving at Lake Pactola was a blast.

[scottrobbins]

Pro # 7 Governor Kristi Noem... That's why you have so much freedom

[nkley]

Low riders....”Wait...are those still popular?” That was too funny! 😂😂

[NYPrepper]

How can I get in touch with you? I currently live in a small town in Upstate NY and am working remotely. I have been interested in Rapid City area for a long time and now that I am working remotely my dream can be a reality. I am considering relocating in the spring-summer of 2021. I want to live in a more free state that is lower population then NY and still have a great place to start a family. I will be visiting Rapid City area at the end of December and would like to maybe view some rental properties and scout out neighborhoods...no kids right now just me and my fiancee. We are outdoorsy people especially. Right now we live in NY's Catskill Mountains so we're no stranger to cold and snow. I would love to get in touch with you.

[robsvideos]

Thank you for the trip down memory lane. I grew up on the Elseworth Air Force Base in the 80's. Rapid City was a fun trip for us.