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You have to be careful about choosing property withing 75 miles of Twin Falls. We have over a half million dairy cows here. There are lots of good places not near a dairy, but if you chose wrong, the stench can be terrible. A good Google Maps search can tell you a lot.

And the trees will grow sideways in many places from all the wind

GreatWaputi makes a good point. I grew in up Rigby, and love going there. But I'd choose where I am in Utah as a place to live in a New York minute.

We do have some of the most gun friendly laws around. With a concealed carry permit, you can wear your gun into any of the state operated schools. You do not need a permit to keep a loaded gun in your car. If somebody breaks into your home, cabin, hotel room, or camp tent, there is little to prevent the intruder from being shot.

I'm just not a fisherman, so I can't give the inside scoop on local fishing, except to say that in the evening when the breeze dies down, Ferron Reservoir practically boils with fish catching bugs.

Places to look near major communities: Logan, Payson, Lehi, or, if you're rich, Alpine. For a warm climate, check around St. George.

Places to look away from major communities: Manti, Mount Pleasant, Tooele (underrated IMO). Manti and Mount Pleasant are at the foot of the Manti-Lasal mountains. Locals pull their trailers up on Skyline Drive and park for a couple of weeks at a time.

I was referring only to the free falling water not being used to generate electricity. But the photo was probably taken during spring runoff after all of the upstream reservoirs were filled. And it would obviously be cost prohibitive to build turbine capacity to take advantage of water which is available for only a few weeks each year or possibly less.

This answers a few questions I had when I spent a couple nights there last fall before heading to the mountains! I stayed just off the interstate on 93.

Perfect! I suppose it's not in Idaho either!

If you wanna call a concrete wall in the river "falls" then yes there are falls.

I see what you mean.

Why no love for GJ? too much freeway? too much unemployed oil shale workers? too many hispano ag workers?

used to be a old school 'smith that specialized in 6.5 barrels, Ray somebody?

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Both parents were born there. Dad said the winters were bleak - said it was like living between two gray blankets with the low clouds and the snow on the ground. He left there back in the early fifties to join the Air Force. We would go up there every summer. I still have lots of family up there, in Pocatello, and that part of Idaho. I go up there every year at least once. Just went through there last week.

Poky is more of a university style town. Idaho Falls has more of a farming, small town, LDS community feel to it. Lots of people moving up to southeast Idaho sadly bringing their riff raff stuff with them. Drugs have arrived up there.

I love it up there, but then I am biased as many of my happiest memories of my life happened up there. But I might move up there one day. Lots of hunting and fishing in the area.

"I want to find to find someplace in the mountain west that combines opportunities with reasonable real estate prices, living standards, and jobs."

Fish Head you find a place like that and I will go with you.

One of my younger brothers live between IF and Jellystone. He spends lots of time fishing, hunting and hiking around there. I think it's beautiful country up there and I'm looking forward to hunting over there.

I've got a big thing for Salmon, Steelhead and ocean feesh. It would be very hard for my to leave Oregon because of that. It's easy to land over a hundred smallies on the Umpqua in a day during the summer.

Twenty pound Steelies on the Umpqua and Coquille are not uncommon. Chinook/King Salmon on the Rogue can only be topped in BC/Alaska.

Yes the whole hippy thing does get old, but it can't be too much worse than Colorado.

And because of the Oregon LibTrash, our economy is crap, unless you're a high tech computer geek.....

You would hate Idaho Falls & also the rest of the state, much better to relocate to Utah, mild winters, the streams are never crowded, mule deer & elk standing right along the road, all the drivers are friendly & patient & beautiful LDS girls on every street corner, so, see we have nothing to offer, you'd be a lot happier in Utah!
But, Shoshone Falls is awesome!

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