Recommend possible areas to live in Idaho

[dmd08]

We have a house and property in Mackay, Custer County. This is Southeastern Idaho and it's about an hour and a half (depends how you drive) from Idaho Falls. Good values and California has not invaded this area yet. Home prices are very reasonable, unlike Boise.

Mackay is cool. Great jumping off point to Copper Basin and the Pahsimeroi. Idaho is great.

[CoryCop25]

Own property in the Copper Basin. Beautiful is an understatement. Been going there since I was 8.

[maximus83]

We have a house and property in Mackay, Custer County. This is Southeastern Idaho and it's about an hour and a half (depends how you drive) from Idaho Falls. Good values and California has not invaded this area yet. Home prices are very reasonable, unlike Boise.

You weren't kidding. Some beautiful areas up there and nice listings.

[CoryCop25]

Yes.
I know it is a bit further East than you want but it checks all your other boxes.
There is a medical center in town and there's a small hospital in Arco which is about 30 minutes away. Most emergencies get a helicopter to Idaho Falls. Winters are long and cold but the rest of the year is beautiful. They get about 100 days of above freezing temperatures and that's not bad at 5600 feet above sea level.
No snakes either because of the elevation. Once you get down to the Pahsimoroi Valley and into Salmon, you get rattlers.
People are nice, they look you in the eye and say hwody. There's a real mix of people from rich ranchers to poor irrigation workers, but everyone's just plain nice.

[VIP3R 237]

I live in Logan Ut but I can see southeast Idaho from my back porch haha, and a lot of my coworkers commute from Franklin county. I love this area, you’re 2 hours from either IF or Slc and as CoryCop was saying, people are just nice out here. The views are stunning, can’t beat the hunting and fishing, but yeah winters last a good 6 months, but the weather from spring to fall it’s downright heaven

[Pressingonward]

Hmm...wife and I are starting to talk options to escape WA as well. Watching threads like this with interest...

[utahjeepr]

Anywhere that ain't Dubois.

Just kidding, I just did a job there this winter. Not as nice as some places I've been in Idaho. I've hunted Elk north of McCall, love that area.

[Leadslinger585]

Any intel about what it's like around Lewiston or Moscow? Or farther south, Payette, or Caldwell?

PM me, I lived in Caldwell for a bit

[AOTAC]

Been to northern ID. It was great. Still, it isn't free enough for a patriot to sleep easy. I reckon no place is now, though.

[maximus83]

Well it took a long time, and I stopped posting on the forum here over a year ago, but we finally got it done. Signed a contract on a new place being built in Star, ID, planning to move around next April-May when it's done. The cost of the new place--which is 900 sq. ft. larger than our than our existing 50-year-old home, and laid out much better--was 35% lower than the low-end range of what our current place is assessed to sell for in Puget Sound. Lots of tech people moving here and snapping up all the houses.

Can't wait to get to a place that upholds the Constitution. The leftist tyrants running this state have lost their minds. And there are too many hipsters around here, the culture in Puget Sound makes me crazy. I hear there are some in ID too , but mostly concentrated around Boise and resort areas. Hope they stay there.

As AOTAC says, there *is* no perfect place. We're realistic about that. But we have some friends there in Western ID. And we figure we should be in a community of folks that share at least the same core values we do about the country, the Constitution, and liberty.