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Moving To South Dakota

If you are considering moving to South Dakota then you are most likely considering the largest cities to relocate to, which include Sioux Falls, Rapid City, Pierre, Deadwood, Sturgis, Brookings, Aberdeen, Yankton, Spearfish, Watertown, Mitchell, Vermillion, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Custer, Hot Springs, Huron, Keystone, Belle Fourche, Winner, Hill City, Lead, Madison, Wall and Chamberlain. There has been an upswing in people moving to South Dakota in the last decade due to it’s clean air majestic hills and beautiful outdoors lifestyle.

Many Companies are now researching and considering the alluring options offered by the state of South Dakota, in-fact many Long Distance Moving Companies are reporting a steady stream of new people moving to South Dakota. 

In 1803, the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory, This area encompassed most of South Dakota, from then French Leader Napoleon Bonaparte. President Thomas Jefferson organized a group commonly referred to as the " Lewis and Clark Expedition " to explore the newly acquired region.

The Black Hills are the location of Black Elk Peak (7,242 ft. above sea level, the highest point in South Dakota as well as the highest point in the United States east of the Colorado Rocky Mountains Two billion-year-old Precambrian formations, the oldest rocks in the state, form the central core of the Black Hills.

Nicknamed the "Mount Rushmore State," South Dakota's state quarter features an image of the States bird, a Chinese ring-necked pheasant in flight over a depiction of the Mount Rushmore National Monument, which proudly displays the faces of four American Presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt as well as Abraham Lincoln.

The Black Hills, Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse Memorial, Custer State Park, Presidents Park, the Badlands and Wind Cave National Park Other tourist attractions include the World's Only Corn Palace, in Mitchell; and the city of Deadwood, where Wild Bill Hickok was killed in 1876 and where gambling was recently name but a few.

The Badlands of South Dakota, a region of barren ravines and cliffs, were created by volcanic action as well as by wind and water erosion. The Badlands are known as “the playground” of the dinosaur. The Badlands National Park has fossils including a dog-sized camel, three-toed horse, and saber-toothed cat.

The Mammoth Site of Hot Springs contains the largest concentration of Columbian and woolly mammoth bones discovered in their primary context (where they died) in the world!

South Dakota can generally be divided into three regions: eastern South Dakota, western South Dakota, and the Black Hills The Missouri River serves as a boundary in terms of geographic, social, and political differences between eastern and western South Dakota.

South Dakota, according to the 2018 State Business Tax Climate Index , ranked second in tax burden, driven by a lack of individual taxes Low taxes are a boon to retirees who live on a fixed income, one of the reasons Florida and Nevada - whom the Tax Foundation place 5th and 6th, respectively - tend to attract retirees, in fact Many Discount Moving Companies are offering special senior rates. 

There are many wonderful annual events to attend, like the Brown County Fair in Aberdeen, Sioux Falls JazzFest, the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, the Art & Wine Festival in Rapid City, the Corn Palace Festival in Mitchell and many others, as well as sports, arts and recreation opportunities throughout the year.

The Lakota Sioux tribe called the small mountain range covered primarily by ponderosa pine trees Pahá Sápa, or Hills That Are Black.” While looking at the Black Hills from afar may give you that impression, it's the trees doing all the work — you're seeing the shadows they cast on the stone.