Please Tell Me About IDAHO

[JM]

I'm interested in possibly living in Idaho. I've only seen the Twin Falls area & it was many years ago. I know that Boise has been promoted as a great place to live since the early 90's & many Californians have flocked to the area. What type of impact has that caused? I wouldn't want to contend with a lot of snow each winter. I prefer the woods & mountainous terrain. Lived in Washington, Oregon, Arizona with some Southern California as a youngster. Too much gray sky & lack of sunshine in WA & OR, plus the political situation is not tolerable. Unfortunately Arizona is headed in that direction also, plus there are too many people for the water supply.

Any information would be appreciated. Thank you.

[bushog]

No snow?

I'm not for sure but Idaho get lots...

[jack]

Idaho is like everywhere - stay out of the bigger metropolis that attracts the idiots, and it will be fine. LOTS of differing weather. Read up a bit and find a region that appeals to you. Be nice, don't forget you are a guest and after a while you might not be, and will be viewed as local. Or at least a regular! Life ain't that hard anywhere. Be polite, helpful, and interested in where you live and you will be happy.

[ezekiel38]

Living in North Central Idaho along the Clearwater River, where I was born and raised: you're too late. Idaho from north to south and to some extent the southeast has filled up with refugees from the Blue States. Those refugees are now wanting to enact legislation and write ordinances that will Californicate Idaho.

Land prices have gone from $500.00 an acre for pasture ground in a rural area 15 years ago to 5,500.00 an acre today. Water tables are dropping. And the "foreigners" are buying big acreages and building castles right in the middle of their little fiefdom. Spurring land prices even more and creating heavy property tax burdens on the natives.

Land is being purchased before it is ever listed by realtors. My next door neighbors house was put on the market at an inflated price and it sold in two days to a family from back east by a realtor who is officed out of Boise 290 miles to the south, all sight unseen. Internet transaction.

[jack]

Jul 11, 2020 20:38:11 GMT -5 ezekiel38 said:

Living in North Central Idaho along the Clearwater River, where I was born and raised: you're too late. Idaho from north to south and to some extent the southeast has filled up with refugees from the Blue States. Those refugees are now wanting to enact legislation and write ordinances that will Californicate Idaho.

Land prices have gone from $500.00 an acre for pasture ground in a rural area 15 years ago to 5,500.00 an acre today. Water tables are dropping. And the "foreigners" are buying big acreages and building castles right in the middle of their little fiefdom. Spurring land prices even more and creating heavy property tax burdens on the natives.

Land is being purchased before it is ever listed by realtors. My next door neighbors house was put on the market at an inflated price and it sold in two days to a family from back east by a realtor who is officed out of Boise 290 miles to the south, all sight unseen. Internet transaction.

This is true everywhere. My home area in Northern Michigan has been overrun by Detroit and Grand Rapids area liberals looking to "escape up north" but bringing their problems and leftist politics with them. When I was a youth, my nearest neighbor was more than a mile away, it was 45 miles to the grocery. We got snowed in sometimes days at a time. I had deer hunting areas where I never saw another hunter all season. But it changed. Change sucks granted, and can be uncomfortable. BUT IT IS A PRICE WE PAY for being in the freest country ON EARTH. What is your proposed alternative? BAN people from moving? Limit the land to LOCAL BORN ONLY? Internment of some sort to preserve your personal slice of paradise? We fought a revolution against that sort of thinking didn't we?  I dearly wish I had my old haunts!!! I miss the freedom I knew as a youth. But that world AIN'T coming back! And I can live with it for the HOPE that freedom and liberty offers. If the flat landers taking over my former slice of paradise get to be too much - it is NICE to be able to dream I might find a new slice in Idaho, or Wyoming, or wherever and that I have the FREEDOM to pursue that hope and dream. 

Just saying - Maybe I am just wrong headed.

[ezekiel38]

Jack I understand your pain. Idaho is my birthplace and I hunted and lived with folks who ekked out a living and ultimately saw some good times break for them in the 70s only to disappear with "sunset industries" dying out in the early 90s. I stayed in Idaho and refused the impulse to move to AZ in the 80s.

We meet many refugees moving to Idaho of all sorts and descriptions, it was the hippies and earthfirsters in the 70s, California middle class in the 80s, Preppers in the 90s and wealthy upper middle class here recently. I grew up in Idaho in the 40s and 50s with half a million people in the state. Now there is more than that in Ada county the county seat of Boise, and close to a million in the Treasure valley which is the region of Boise.

You sound like a guy I could be a neighbor with, just know that the bargains in Idaho are gone. Billionaires from Texas have purchased huge tracts of land up and behind Boise and they have hired "security teams with helicopters" to keep people of their vast tracts. It's in the papers here and on TV at least once every two to three weeks.

What I'm really upset about is the "left" and their ideology who have enjoyed the benefits of high wages and benefits, and comforts of high local taxes and who have soiled their nests as they bankrupted their government treasuries, moving out here to escape the mess they caused. Our state government is small, the people independent and the state taxes reasonable. Local property tax is going nuts. Come and embrace our way of life, but so many come stay a year love the simplicity and then try to remake us into what they have escaped.

It's Idaho mostly rural and life is simple.