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schuylaar

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Just to add some humor to this depressing thread, here it is.
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!! :)

for 20 minutes i was somewhere else, then i had to come back.

there was something on my face, it felt familiar but i almost couldn't place this thing..this contorted thing.
 
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Dr.Amber Trichome

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Wouldn't you be moving right into where the next large wave of infections are already starting to show? Those states are full of exactly the kind of right wing Luddite who can be depended upon to do the wrong things. That said, you could pick worse places to live so long as you don't have high expectations for an enlightened community.

I lived in Idaho for about 10 years. Loved the place. Loved the people though they are backward in many ways and very conservative.

Personally, I wouldn't live in a small town anywhere in Idaho, especially the lower eastern quadrant because those areas are dominated by Mormons. Still, though, if small towns with decent medical infrastructure is your objective, Cottonwood and Grangeville are nice.

Avoid: Lewiston (!!!!), Twin Falls, Idaho Falls, Pocatello, Nampa, Weiser, Moscow

Might be good: Cascade, Sun Valley, Coer d'Alene.

Boise was my home town when I lived there. Wonderful place, IMO. Very conservative compared to Western Oregon but it is Idaho's most liberal "city" (there are no large cities in Idaho). My sister in law was a nurse in the oncology department in Boise's hospital downtown and she really liked working there. Boise might be larger than you are looking for, the metropolitan area sprawls across several towns and cities with an overall population of about 400,000.

Two quotes that stick in my mind from my days there:

"if salmon were endangered you wouldn't find them in cans in the grocery store"

"if we didn't pay them so much, we wouldn't have so many of them"
(a congresswoman from central Idaho said that about Idaho's state employees, about half of whom were paid so little that they qualified for food stamps).

Butch Otter is governor (yuck)
Thanks for all the info Dog. My past employer was based out of Boise and I really liked them a lot. Very cool people and paid and treated me very well. I am going to see if they have anything for me.
 

Fogdog

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Male, Rural and white, millions have been radicalized since the 90s with talk radio and ownership of huge chunks of broadcast media since the deregulation of everything. MAGA freaks abound. Fascist “Political Correctness” expects all to line up for the trump shit show.
Maybe you meant fascist dogma?
 

topcat

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Wouldn't you be moving right into where the next large wave of infections are already starting to show? Those states are full of exactly the kind of right wing Luddite who can be depended upon to do the wrong things. That said, you could pick worse places to live so long as you don't have high expectations for an enlightened community.

I lived in Idaho for about 10 years. Loved the place. Loved the people though they are backward in many ways and very conservative.

Personally, I wouldn't live in a small town anywhere in Idaho, especially the lower eastern quadrant because those areas are dominated by Mormons. Still, though, if small towns with decent medical infrastructure is your objective, Cottonwood and Grangeville are nice.

Avoid: Lewiston (!!!!), Twin Falls, Idaho Falls, Pocatello, Nampa, Weiser, Moscow

Might be good: Cascade, Sun Valley, Coer d'Alene.

Boise was my home town when I lived there. Wonderful place, IMO. Very conservative compared to Western Oregon but it is Idaho's most liberal "city" (there are no large cities in Idaho). My sister in law was a nurse in the oncology department in Boise's hospital downtown and she really liked working there. Boise might be larger than you are looking for, the metropolitan area sprawls across several towns and cities with an overall population of about 400,000.

Two quotes that stick in my mind from my days there:

"if salmon were endangered you wouldn't find them in cans in the grocery store"

"if we didn't pay them so much, we wouldn't have so many of them"
(a congresswoman from central Idaho said that about Idaho's state employees, about half of whom were paid so little that they qualified for food stamps).

Butch Otter is governor (yuck)
I guess Coeur d'Alene has cleansed itself of the white supremacy movement. Good for them.
 

schuylaar

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Male, Rural and white, millions have been radicalized since the 90s with talk radio and ownership of huge chunks of broadcast media since the deregulation of everything. MAGA freaks abound. Fascist “Political Correctness” expects all to line up for the trump shit show.
but they can be outsmarted..nothing sweeter.
 

Fogdog

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I guess Coeur d'Alene has cleansed itself of the white supremacy movement. Good for them.
Coeur d'Alene is a trendy tourist area that was never home to them. I think you are recalling the neo-nazi compound that was built in Bonner County, north of Cd'A. The town near them, Sandpoint was not welcoming to them either.

It's all beautiful country.
 

topcat

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Coeur d'Alene is a trendy tourist area that was never home to them. I think you are recalling the neo-nazi compound that was built in Bonner County, north of Cd'A. The town near them, Sandpoint was not welcoming to them either.

It's all beautiful country.
Admittedly, I haven't kept up. Years ago, I had a co-worker who was racist move there and the rest of us winked at one another, knowingly. Beautiful country yes, but it doesn't stop outlaws from moving there. They love small towns to hide in.
Edit: I don't see a difference between white supremacy and nazi.
 
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Fogdog

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I grew up about 20 miles south of SF on the peninsula. My next home was in Boise. After that, Oregon. I love all the places where I've lived. The CA that I grew up in is just a distant memory of the few who didn't migrate there. I miss it like I an earlier love. It's a nice memory but the current CA is different and has gotten kind of ugly.

Idaho has its problems and many of them are due to self harm. It's still a beautiful state.
 

doublejj

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I grew up about 20 miles south of SF on the peninsula. My next home was in Boise. After that, Oregon. I love all the places where I've lived. The CA that I grew up in is just a distant memory of the few who didn't migrate there. I miss it like I an earlier love. It's a nice memory but the current CA is different and has gotten kind of ugly.

Idaho has its problems and many of them are due to self harm. It's still a beautiful state.
do you think idaho would arrest me for this?.....
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Fogdog

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do you think idaho would arrest me for this?.....
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In a heartbeat, they would.

It wasn't all that long ago you could have been arrested for that in CA. Same here in Oregon. I've always supported legal MJ, it took a long time but we got it.

Still, though, I'm not a single issue voter. Idaho is a beautiful state. It just is. It's redneck, backward socially and has terrible environmental policies, not to mention its war on drugs. But its a beautiful state and I loved it when I lived there. I still have lots of friends there. I'd move back if my situation changed but I'd miss Oregon if I did. I feel as if I have one foot in and one foot out of both states.

I've turned down many offers to move back to CA. The wages are pretty good there, though. Good for your state. Also your state seems to be recovering from the blight brought on by Republican control, almost a decade ago. The rest of the country is going follow CA's lead, some later than others.
 
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