Not to rain on the parade at all, but about 10 years ago I was working for a contractor from Minnesota who was doing work in ID.
Their company had been in Idaho all summer and it was now September. A co-worker of mine, also a native Idaho guy, asked the contractor one day about how much he must be enjoying Idaho.
The contractor, who was one not to mince words, quickly said he couldn't wait to get the hell out of ID. We were having a hot, dry, fire ridden summer that year and he said it was green at home, not smokey, and rarely got over 85 degrees. He also mentioned, that in his small home town he could be on the lake in minutes. In his opinion, he saw nothing in ID that made him want to changes zip codes. To each his own.
All that summer rain makes it green. Idaho is weeks of sunny weather and low humidity. MN might only rarely get over 85 but I'd sure prefer some warm summer days to the damp bitter cold MN has in the winter.
