Anyone from Idaho?

What are your reasons for moving to Idaho

if you're on the east side, you need to be Mormon.

southwest is Boise, about 1/3 mormons, 1/3 ex-californians, 1/3 everything else, a relatively safe and prosperous place.

north is coeur d alene, rich people and the infamous skinheads/racists.

Thats incorrect the skinheads left many years ago and resettled in Falbrook california. I live in Coeur d Alene and its a awesome place to live. Also its growing like crazy building is going on all over the place...

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plenty of skinheads still there, except they call themselves retired policemen.

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By the end of the 1990s, more than 500 California police officers had retired to North Idaho, among them Mark Fuhrman, who committed perjury in the prosecution of O.J. Simpson

I liked Nampa. It's close to everything and less people. Boise is a strange place. Idaho is a strange place. It's all beautiful there so anywhere you go, you'll love it. Lewiston is cool too but the Treasure Valley area is the best. Boise/Meridian/Nampa/Kuna or Caldwell. Good luck OP.

Lived in Nampa for 10 years. Mormons, Nazarene's and Catholics. Really, really sucked. Dry, flat and brown. Oh, also way to many Hispanics for my liking. The only blacks, well they play football for BSU, but you won't find them anywhere else, mostly.

I moved out of there as fast as I could.

I live near Boise. It is a banana belt area...full of snow and cold right now. There are help wanted signs all over. I went to get new tires a few days ago and they were slow because they could not get men to work.

They are building homes everywhere. Condos are springing up in farmland by the hundreds. Lots of work there too. Skiing is just up the hill at bogus basin. Fishing is good in the river that runs all through the valley.

Small towns everywhere. Gas is $2.20 right now. Milk is $1.89 a gal. You can rent a house with a yard for $575.00 or rent a condo for $450.00. Lots of license plates from Cali, Michigan, Florida, Texas, Vermont, and other places.

We are well away from the coasts, high up, on granite, and have lots of water. The whole state runs from desert-like to dense forest to mountain valleys.

I wonder that anyone wants to live anywhere else.

We do have a closed-minded governor who thinks he is god...and hates the poor. But he also hates gays so he is what he is. He is out next election. He is a bigot who is out of step and time. He does not even allow very ill kids to have the Marijuana extract for seizures. Our cops follow his lead.

We are not changing our laws to please the muslims. We are in a land of guns...but if something happens...those guns are in more responsible hands. We still support the constitution and if you arrive with a chip on your shoulder about that or if you want us to change to please YOUR god...you will find it a cold place.

All we expect from you is to dress like us, blend in, pay your bills, carry your weight, show up for work, and take care of your kids. Tons of churches and other places to worship any god you want to...but keep it in the church and do not try to convert everyone you see. A man's faith is a personal thing...keep it that way.

Go over any border around here to smoke grass...gamble there too...but leave the pot out of the car when you come home to Idaho. The cops sit on the borders to make their quotas. Like any place...follow the rules.

Oven just buzzed me...gotta go.

Yes. Don't come here it sucks. Stay the fuck in texas.

Too many people in Texas --- I wont be surprised if it turns Blue next round -- and the old boys are about to have a turf battle with the hoards from the South and the Ex Californians --- and before you say i am a racist --- note i live on the Texas Mexico border. I am a conservative fiscally and I really dont care what people do in their own homes

The problem is that Texas is turning into California and I want to get away from all the drug and trafficking garbage (I have been a prosecutor on the border for over 6 yrs now)

Last Edited by DeplorableTexian on 12/28/2016 04:49 PM

Oh and we are gun toting types and my husbands LOVES hunting--

I'm a fourth generation Boisean. Love it here, it has grown too much for my liking, but that also means more to do. Everyone floats the river in the summer, camps, and skis in the winter. Pretty much all the Californians seem to move to Meridian or Eagle, depending on their budget, Northend of Boise is the most liberal and most expensive place to live, but full of nightlife, great restaurants, farmers market, Trader Joe's, etc. best place to live in my opinion if you enjoy being around upper class educated but not snobby people☻

We have 4 kids and they have are all 13 and younger == i am tired of the mentality of cartel worship that is going on down here -- time to get them out-- is it a good place for my kids?

You have to really do your research on schools, thanks to a crappy governor or schools aren't great, in fact we are 49th in the nation for education, so not great at all. However, there are some good schools and some good private schools, depending on your budget.

As far as being safe, I have three daughters and have no problems in letting my 13 year old walk around downtown with her friends. It feels very safe and people tend to look out for one another here.

I am not a fan of common core and the National standards lol

My terrible ex-wife got me to leave Boise on a lie. As I locked the door on my paid-for house for the last time I thought to myself "this is the dumbest thing I will ever do." It was. Originally from NJ(you want to keep it real and live in a place that makes you wonder each minute why life bothered to spring from the ground then "live" there). Boise is live-and-let-live which is how I like to live. People are friendly without getting in your shit. It's slow-paced relative to most of the rest of the country. I loved the summers. It would get 110 sometimes but the sweat instantly evaporated. It's wonderful to be outside. Tons of outdoor things in every direction. Definitely is brown most of the year as it is a high-desert. Personally I like the pastels of the high-desert. Gasoline just seems to suck. Whenever I got out of state I swear my car engine seemed to run better. It's got probably at 1 of each restaurant mall etc you would want. Good simple living if you can get a job. Definitely its own culture as it is the most remote urban area of the country. I didn't mind it but if you need the "normal" USA culture you might feel something is "off". Like I remember luxury cars weren't something people creamed their jeans about. It was more how old you pickup truck was that got people excited. Definitely a Western culture. Lots of Western/NW hipsterish culture. I think good-paying jobs were not super abundant though. When I was there I came into some money so I was happy. I have always felt there was something major-league wrong with the world like there might be a near-extinction level event possibly happening. When I laid in bed at night in Boise I always felt so great away from it all. Even if the extinction events happened I wanted to experience it in Boise rather than some scumhole in NJ. If there was a pandemic event that was wiping 99.9% of people off the planet I wouldn't have shed a tear if I contracted it...I would have been under the Idaho stars in my backyard drinking a beer thanking God for the wonderful life I had. And on the tv you might watch all the other cities turning into living hell with everyone attacking one another, in Boise with the wonderful gun-culture you probably wouldn't need to worry. One: people leave each other alone. Two: the bad guys know if they play bad on you or your property they are going to get shot so get your self locked and loaded and you are golden.

Things that suck:

- Inversions. (weather thing where air is trapped and it smells like all the shit that gets discharged in the air until a high pressure system comes and flushes it away) Can be days of that grossness.
- Hobo spiders. My house was infested. Why I didn't get a pest control guy in I don't know.(I was cheap and hate chemicals) They are nasty(that's why they are called hobo spiders) Fast and mean. Bites can decrode your skin. Yuck! Nightmare things.

If you are then, I be da pimp !

Sun Valley is Gods Country !

Last Edited by Keyser Söze on 12/28/2016 11:53 PM

The administration has been moving a lot of muslims into various parts of Idaho so research things carefully.

Yep, believe you me, the mad scientists who run the show know the wholesome and conservative places they want to destroy with this shit. Tactical warfare on wholesomeness, conservativeness, etc. Turn the whole world in some corrupt NYC-metro area shithole run by TPTB-sanctioned mob scumbags.

There is a nice lake up there if you like really deep water fishing.

lived there from 1990 to 1996, and 2008-2010. it is quite a safe city, very few murders. the religious aspect could be unpleasant if you've never lived in a small town with many fanatics.

Ada County (Boise) is a hole. The college students are
binge drinkers and keep downtown in a dirty uproar.
Bieter, the Mayor, is a moron. He and the gov tried to work
a deal to let the Chinese build a free trade zone south of
the airport a few years ago, with no state or federal
oversight, for 2 million foreign nationals on 80 acres.

The rest of Idaho is great, but there are few jobs.
There are two 'charities' hitting on everyone for contributions to fund muslim invasion. Hispanics are all over
too. Both heads of charities take six figure salaries from
their 'non-profits'

Commerce secretary panders to big box business and it's
all over. Small business is not welcome in Idaho. Weather
is extreme. 110 degrees F in summer. -7 degrees F in winter,
with snow and ice.

The Yellowstone Caldera runs under the state, all the way to
the border with Oregon, under the Snake River Valley.

Eastern is beautiful, no jobs.
North is beautiful, no jobs.
Globalist nest at Coeur d'Alene.

The good old boy network is alive and well, keeping incomes
from women.

Great hunting and fishing.
Everywhere but Ada County is bristling with weaponry
and patriots.

Unofficial state motto is 'never another Ruby Ridge'

That's too bad. the growing that is. It will fuck it up.

Challis, or North Fork. No liberals and good folks live here. The 2A still lives here!

weather is surprisingky moderate, thats why its called the banana belt. jobs are a problem, especially if you're not part of a clique.

Worked as a beat geologist in the Galena Mine in Wallace for a while.

Rented two 2nd story apartments...one for living and one for a making-art studio. Loved it, except could not ever get a hot bath...best was lukewarm water.

Great little town and Coeur d'Alene not far to the west.

Only place that I have been able to buy groceries with silver bullion.

Friendly people with good humor.

Sometimes many feet of snow, but not overly cold...protected by mountains.

Many bodies of water...fun to kayak.

Moose burgers!!! mmmmmm.

Attended a great Church of Christ in Coeur d'Alene.

Would live there again.