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My vote would go to western North Dakota, Williston nice place, but bring a coat!

Ed

And a hat!

Journeyman: Thanks for the update. Five years ago Rush Hour between downtown Boise and cities east was BAD. My house is on the Bench and my work was south of Gowen Field off Pleasant Valley Rd at the prison. So my commute didn't involve much traffic.
I first saw Boise in 87. West of Curtis road it was almost all farms till Meridian.

Look at Idaho or Montana.

Journeyman: sorry, I meant the cities west of Boise. Not east

My parents moved to Boise in 1968. I have watched it turn into a bigger and bigger pit ever since. But there are still a lot of good places to live out beyond the Boise metropolis.

Williston isn't bad in NoDak, but if I were going to live there I'd look more to the southwestern part of the state.

Another OK area is the panhandle of Nebraska.

History plus human nature shows that "an earthly paradise" is a relatively ephemeral thing, lasting until enough people discover it, move in, and change it forever. It is where you find it and perhaps, today, not where most people think it is.

I'm not ready to call Boise a "pit".
That being said, you could try around Ontario or Twin Falls. Or go north to the Lewiston area.

Good topic. I hope to be in the "hunt" in a few years too. OTC elk is my big requirement, all else is fine as well as a low tax rate. Elk rule out the Dakotas and Nebraska. Liberals and high taxes rule out Colorado.

Washington state is more liberal than Idaho. Oregon is much more liberal than either. Northern Nevada is an option. Northeast of Reno on I-80 is Lovelock, Winnemucca, and Elko. If you drive by Lovelock you can wave to the prison that O.J.'s locked up in. It's a mile south of Interstate 80