Contemplating a MAJOR LIFE CHANGE

[jackthewall81]

I am leaving. But to the south. Idaho is beautiful and would be a great place to live.

[Aloha_Shooter]

<sigh> ... and of course the departure of reasonable folks will just make the liberalization of Colorado all-the-more inevitable and extreme.

[baglock1]

I have a couple of friends who live in Moscow (south of Coeur d'Alene). One has lived there for ~15 years. The other just moved there last year after getting out of the military (but grew up in Idaho). If you're interested, I can forward any specific questions you have over to them.

[Dave]

Been thinking about moving to Wyoming after the youngest graduates in two years. Never gave Idaho much thought until now.

[Bailey Guns]

About 10 years ago, my wife and I agreed to settle in Ft Fun after I retire. I'm as Mountain West as they come (WY native, rancher, die-hard outdoorsman, etc.) and I'm having second thoughts myself. I have a very close friend who retires this fall and they've just bought a place in northern Idaho after extensive research. I can put you in touch with them if you like. I think bought somewhere in the neighborhood of Coeur d'Alene.

I have a couple of friends who live in Moscow (south of Coeur d'Alene). One has lived there for ~15 years. The other just moved there last year after getting out of the military (but grew up in Idaho). If you're interested, I can forward any specific questions you have over to them.

I'm not quite at that point yet...but I'll keep the offers in mind. If I can get all my loose ends tied up I might be ready to go by the end of the summer. Then the search for a new home will move into high gear.

[jackthewall81]

Been thinking about moving to Wyoming after the youngest graduates in two years. Never gave Idaho much thought until now.

Montana would be my choice if I moved north.

[KestrelBike]

Just my 10 cents: I used to work in Boise 1 week every 5 weeks from 2005 - 2007 and the locals were complaining about the "Californication" of their state..... Lots of land where purchased by californians, who will then complain about hunters and shooting range nearby.... Typical.

It's a curse being from CA in terms of being associated with the liberals. The first thing I did when I moved here was get my plates changed and a CO drivers license so I could get my CCW and start purchasing firearms I've always wanted that were "illegal" in CA. I sometimes feel like there's resentment when I tell people that I've moved from CA but I really don't blame them. It was a dream of mine to leave CA and move here to CO for half a decade before I finally did. It's going to sound really f'ing corny, but to paraphrase Dances with Wolves, "I wanted to see America before it was all gone". California is truly not America anymore. Immigration from down South and Politics from Up North have absolutely ruined it. I really don't give a F anymore about accusations of racism when I mention the immigration stuff anymore, because all I need to do is point out what a s***hole mexico is as a country, and then point out that all the people moving up north from there are A) at poverty level and uneducated and B) bring the gov. dependence with them C) combine all of those, and it's a recipe for crime creation from the poverty. They're not here to be Americans, they don't give a shit about American tradition (if they did they'd fly American flags from their used-car dealerships, not Mexican flags, and yes I've seen it with my own eyes), they're here to escape Mexico and vote their prejudices.

I hear stories of how CO used to be and I can compare to how I see it now, and if I was a Native I'd be plenty damned pissed. I can tell you that it's definitely going to get worse, too. My GF's sister and BIL want to move to CO as soon as they can to raise their new family, and even though they're from the midwest, they've been working in CA for the past few years up in San Francisco (where they fit in PERFECTLY). It's really ironic because they want to move to CO from CA because of the problems that decades of democrat-politics and policies have done to the state, and now they're going to move to CO to do their part to mess it up, too. It's honestly a big issue between my GF and me.

I work in Denver, and it feels just like Southern California, if not worse. After Aurora and Sandyhook and people were (are?) afraid that a Colorado-AWB was going into affect, I really felt like I was in the Twilight Zone because I spent a lot of time and money to escape that crap in CA and here it is happening all over again. Right now with the economy it's difficult to command a good wage that lends itself to saving, but I've thought that if I get the money or if I can get the work-skills to support myself, I'd move to ID or MT or WY, and not just because I read Patriots and that's the best place to survive TEOTWAWKI or some fantasy, but because it's hopefully the last place to be swallowed by the hordes of ignorant entitle-lists. Unfortunately, CO is as rustic/rural/sparsely-populated as my GF is willing to get and one day I'm going to have to make a choice.

Shit what a depressing thread.

[hollohas]

Montana would be my choice if I moved north.

Ditto.

[USAFGopherMike]

My wife is from the Springs originally and a bunch of her family is still there. Her Dad is way right, loves to shoot, rides a Harley, spent some time in the Army, and hates libs.... especially Obutthead. Her brother and his wife are cool, but they're big gay libs that drink the koolaid. As long as we're drunk and/or watching sports, we get along. She and her father always talk about how CO used to be before all the criminals, illegals and transplants moved in. I wish I could've seen it. I'm originally from the burbs of Chicago (not something I'm proud of from a political standpoint) but our neighborhood was very conservative. The military brought me to CO and I love it. Rather than have good people move from a beautiful state, we need a grass roots conservative movement to push out the hippies, illegals, and liberal agenda touting politicians.

[Ah Pook]

My limited time in Boise was pretty boring. There was lots of stuff outside of town for the outdoor oriented. Not much in the way of food options and local micro brews. The terrain reminds me of WY. This was back in '95, so things could have changed.

There is still a Mormon presence in the southern half of the state. The land prices and lack of crowds is definitely a plus. Sounds like the Kali infestation is everywhere.

If a well stocked town doesn't blow your dress up, this might be a good area.