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No kidding.

Depending on what your definition of "city" is, I'd give my left nut to live in Grangeville again (pop ca. 3,000). Truly an outdoorsman's paradise, about an hour outside of Lewiston with the new highway cutoffs. Two hours to Spokane for big city benefits such as crime, filth, and overpriced restaurants. Terrific four season climate. No jobs.

Yeah, I'd have easily been able to retire there.

Boise , for better job market. you don't have to live in boise. rent/buy in Nampa or Caldwell

Kind of like Powell then?

I always thought Cascade was a pretty area but I never looked at real estate prices there.

There can't be worse punishments in hell than work in Boise and commute from Caldwell......

Grangeville has plenty of well paying seasonal jobs...........if you are willing to fall out of an airplane into a wildfire.

Right. I would try to live up in the Stanley Basin area.

Stanley - in the middle of unit 36. It's full of elk but getting a tag is a real zoo. They allot 1800 bull tags each year. On a given date, they put half on sale from vendors at 10AM and they sell out in minutes. The other half go on sale later the same day online. They also sell out in minutes.

Thank you for the input, I couldn’t convince her to move north. She’s not a fan of the winters here, we had a cold snap a couple weeks ago it was -10 and the wind was brutal. Found a few jobs that are offering a decent wage for skilled labor so that’s a good sign. However finding a place to rent is going pretty poorly.

Or do what I did and move right between idaho falls and Rexburg in Rigby. I lived in Rexburg for several years and really liked it but I understand BYU culture. Rigby has a lot more religious diversity and is only about 10 miles to IF. It's still growing like crazy here but I could probably help you find an hvac job by Friday. Half my new neighborhood is from California and more are coming all the time. They claim to be the conservative ones but still complain about every little thing and want new rules and an hoa. They'll raise he'll if your dog steps one foot out of your yard where as the locals will pet it and give it a treat.

Then you could help me redo some duct work in my basement I've been wanting to change. I'd pay you well because it's still hard to get an hvac guy to even show up. One of them charged me $530 to install a non programmable thermostat in a rental house for me when I was sick. Verbal quote was $79 then he billed $530 and threatened to lien the property. We have some real crooked contractors around right now because it's easy to get licensed and the courts generally find for them unless you have a real detailed written estimate.

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Lol sure I’ll help, I don’t speed through schit but it usually doesn’t leak air when im done haha. Coal furnace?

Have you ever commuted to work in a large city before? The commute is very doable compared to the east and west coast

I-84 from Blacks Creek to Caldwell is its own version of Hell, about eight to ten hours per day. It used to be schitt for about an hour each morning and afternoon, and there were alternate routes in and out of Boise.

Those alternate routes are now as congested as is the freeway, plus most of them now have stop lights every block.

There very well may be deeper levels of Hell on the left and right coasts. That does not negate the absolute schitthole Boise has become since they allowed, no encouraged, Micron to move in.

If I went that way, I'd be inclined target the Idaho Falls region. A fair sized city that should have lots of opportunity, but one has access to great country with Wyoming just a few miles to the east.

The resort regions are horridly expensive to get into unless one is selling out of a high-end place with some money to hide when he gets here. I'd suggest an extended vacation to look a few spots over.

One is in a good trade. My newest neighbor worked that business here in Bend Or. Sold his business at about 40 yrs old, so he retired, moved to our small conservative town (Burns/Hines, Or), hunted Africa for some expensive stuff last year, does a guided US hunt of some type every year, and is raising 4 school age kids with his great looking wife.

He's invested in rentals now to sustain/build income.

get a job in caldwell and don't commute.

You might check out the Cottonwood/Grangeville area. I had Rocky Mountain HVAC install our heat pump and was well impressed with the company. They seem to have no shortage of work. The area is small town and friendly and doesn’t lack for natural beauty.

Russia (Moscow) is way to liberal for a guy wanting to leave that kind of crap behind in PA. Not much anything affordable in North Idaho anymore. Sandpoint has become a chithole of Liberal crap. Let us know what you find! Best of luck to you and the wife!

Can’t say what the commute is like now, but it used to take me 35 minutes to get to downtown Boise from Kuna.

Grangeville is the Caldwell I grew up in and went to College in.

Caldwell/Nampa today is just a schithole extension of the hell Boise has become.

Salmon and Snake river canyons are just over the hill a few miles from Grangeville. White water rafting, jet boats, salmon and bass. Monster mulies and elk in almost any direction.

I love the drive North on Id 95 if for no other reason that I get to stop in at the family restaurants in town.