Looking at possible retirement locations - MT, ID

[40Garand]

I'm retired and my wife's sugar daddy…so not worried about the commies. But welcome their visit if they are so inclined

I bet they'll disband from Portland and start branching out to the burbs and eventually rural when they run out of toilet paper. Then again Antifa probably doesn't wipe their asses.

 

[3MTA3]

What about Fruitland or Payette?

Live there and pay the lower ID income and property taxes, then cross the Snake and do your shopping in sales tax free Oregon for the win. Don't forget Weiser as a nearby option.

Only gotcha is if you buy a car in Oregon withing three tears of moving to Idaho you will have to pay a certain amount of sales tax, which they will catch when you do your annual registration.

IMO Fruitland would have great potential for a future side business of firearm storage for Oregonians who at some point face turning them over or having them confiscated.

 

[41mag]

What about Fruitland or Payette?

I grew up in Boise but moved away, get this, a HALF a CENTURY ago. Guess what I see when revisiting the area...Orange County metastasis is as kind as I can report.

Just toured through Fruitland/Payette/Weiser/ 20 months ago. I was quite familiar with those areas. Nothing stands still, and early signs of malignancy is spreading. There's still a little time in the smaller places, but the sound was in the air....the sound you hear just before the egg shell impacts on the tile floor.
I did a little google map study a few days ago. The old desert area between Eagle & Horseshoe Bend has all these odd little shapes in rows of hundreds of upscale real estate, surrounded like an old time trailer park with sage brush & sand outlining the subdivisions like a large sand trap wilderness surrounding with islands of mortgaged flatlanders trying to find something to do.

Montour & Sweet were areas I thought would always be far enough away. Guess again, current average house is just under $600k with 165 'currently on the market'.....

If I continued this would turn into a Rant.

 

[3MTA3]

I grew up in Boise but moved away, get this, a HALF a CENTURY ago. Guess what I see when revisiting the area...Orange County metastasis is as kind as I can report.

Just toured through Fruitland/Payette/Weiser/ 20 months ago. I was quite familiar with those areas. Nothing stands still, and early signs of malignancy is spreading. There's still a little time in the smaller places, but the sound was in the air....the sound you hear just before the egg shell impacts on the tile floor.
I did a little google map study a few days ago. The old desert area between Eagle & Horseshoe Bend has all these odd little shapes in rows of hundreds of upscale real estate, surrounded like an old time trailer park with sage brush & sand outlining the subdivisions like a large sand trap wilderness surrounding with islands of mortgaged flatlanders trying to find something to do.

Montour & Sweet were areas I thought would always be far enough away. Guess again, current average house is just under $600k with 165 'currently on the market'.....

If I continued this would turn into a Rant.

Last time I drove through there I was stunned. There are no gaps between Nampa and the east end of Boise, and I know that off the Interstate there is no open space between Nampa and Caldwell.

The truth is that growth is a fact wherever you go and especially so as people flee the hell holes they created with their own votes. You just can't run away from it because it will just keep chasing you. It's best to live where you love the area and take a stand to preserve it.

I'm headed after I tie up some health issues here to Eastern Idaho where I lived previously and fit in well with the local culture.

 

[SNA2PDX]

Unfortunately, you're not the only one with this plan. Idaho and the small towns of Montana have been getting flooded by Californians and NYC liberals and housing prices, when in tiny towns are sky rocketing.

You've heard it straight from the Absaroka County sheriff's mouth.

 

[solv3nt]

You've heard it straight from the Absaroka County sheriff's mouth.

Check out housing prices my friend. I make good money, and the prices are ridiculous.

 

[SNA2PDX]

Check out housing prices my friend. I make good money, and the prices are ridiculous.

I know - you are absolutely correct. I was referring to your profile pic.

 

[Jay Walk]

Buddy says Whitefish rural has completely changed in the last 18 months and not for the better, House prices crazy and the population has really gone up.

 

[SLEDDER]

I have a home with 5 acres in Blanchard Idaho. It butts up to State land. Thats where I will go for retirement in a couple years if not sooner. Blanchard is about 40 minutes away from Sand Point and Couer de' alene. Far enough, yet close enough. Idaho has been ranked #3 for retirement purposes. Funny Californians, leave Cali, and bring their blue thinking with them. Oh well.

 

[3MTA3]

I have a home with 5 acres in Blanchard Idaho. It butts up to State land. Thats where I will go for retirement in a couple years if not sooner. Blanchard is about 40 minutes away from Sand Point and Couer de' alene. Far enough, yet close enough. Idaho has been ranked #3 for retirement purposes. Funny Californians, leave Cali, and bring their blue thinking with them. Oh well.

"The road to Hell is paved with good intentions"

All those laws and proposals that destroy states sound good and benevolent on paper, but in practice are the wrecking balls of civilization. Somehow they don't seem to learn and like all Socialists seem to think "it only fails because it's never been done right".

 

[308]

I grew up in Boise but moved away, get this, a HALF a CENTURY ago. Guess what I see when revisiting the area...Orange County metastasis is as kind as I can report.

Just toured through Fruitland/Payette/Weiser/ 20 months ago. I was quite familiar with those areas. Nothing stands still, and early signs of malignancy is spreading. There's still a little time in the smaller places, but the sound was in the air....the sound you hear just before the egg shell impacts on the tile floor.
I did a little google map study a few days ago. The old desert area between Eagle & Horseshoe Bend has all these odd little shapes in rows of hundreds of upscale real estate, surrounded like an old time trailer park with sage brush & sand outlining the subdivisions like a large sand trap wilderness surrounding with islands of mortgaged flatlanders trying to find something to do.

Montour & Sweet were areas I thought would always be far enough away. Guess again, current average house is just under $600k with 165 'currently on the market'.....

If I continued this would turn into a Rant.

True that. Our insurance lady just bought 80 acres with a dilapidated mobile home out in Emmett for $800k

My dad bought his place in Middleton 6yrs ago for $240k (2acres newer home) then sold it last year for $525k. He then bought a CBH pos track home for $325k, died 5mo later and we sold it for $425k sight unseen.

My brother has a place in Meridian and they used to ride their horses all the way to Boise. Now they are surrounded with high density developments…sad.

We'll be gone from here next week to the land of no internet and no mail delivery…a place that takes a tank of gas to get to

 

[whiskeybill]

My late brother moved from Marysville, Washington to Nampa nearly 20 years ago. I would visit him, and I saw what happened with the last "recession". Subdivisions and new homes started then just sat there. But Boise had managed to grow quite a bit at the same time. In 2019 I helped him move back to Montana, where he died less than six months later. The mass migration from the liberal enclaves to places like Montana and Idaho now are absolutely crazy. Many years ago I attended Montana State at Bozeman, and even as a student you could get by and still have a great time. Skiing, big game hunting, all right there. I don't even drive into that town anymore. When I go back to see family, I blast right by on I-90. As I said earlier, natives have left Bozo Town for other places. I know people that moved to Butte to get out of Bozeman. Now THAT is a desperate move! I never cared for Missoula. UM was always much more liberal than MSU in Bozeman. At least we had a rodeo team! Winters in the Bitterroot Valley always brought weather inversions and the place stunk from the pulp mills. Hamilton has to deal with homeless riff raff drifting down from Missoula as well. I get moved back there, I'm going to get as far east as my wife can stand it. Even the Grizzly Bears are moving out of western Montana.

 

[joken]

My hunting partner moved from his birthplace Bend to Hayden Idaho. He is happy there and even happier since he bought a snowblower

 

[whiskeybill]

My hunting partner mover from his birthplace Bend to Hayden Idaho. He is happy there and even happier since he bought a snowblower

A good friend in Montana just talked his brother into moving from Bend to Montana. The guy was retired and his boys grown and gone, wasn't a hard sell.

 

[solv3nt]

A good friend in Montana just talked his brother into moving from Bend to Montana. The guy was retired and his boys grown and gone, wasn't a hard sell.

I think Alaska is the only red enclave, as it's too cold and remote for US commies.

 

[Carmel Sig]

I've been stunned at the explosive growth in Billings, MT. It made the list of top real estate growth markets in 2021. The local paper reported that new residents have come from all 50 States, with California migrants being the most numerous. The place is changing fast...and not for the better.

 

[edzz]

Idaho is full...

If buying in Idaho insure that you apply for your homestead exemption and if buying acreage investigate timber exemption and what it requires. These can provide significant tax savings and a lot of realters fail to mention them.

Mind you the homestead exemption hasn't the value it once did.

 

[Horatius]

Idaho is full...

If buying in Idaho insure that you apply for your homestead exemption and if buying acreage investigate timber exemption and what it requires. These can provide significant tax savings and a lot of realters fail to mention them.

Mind you the homestead exemption hasn't the value it once did.

Oregon is so full its ruining Idaho

 

[Expert308]

I have a home with 5 acres in Blanchard Idaho. It butts up to State land. Thats where I will go for retirement in a couple years if not sooner. Blanchard is about 40 minutes away from Sand Point and Couer de' alene. Far enough, yet close enough. Idaho has been ranked #3 for retirement purposes. Funny Californians, leave Cali, and bring their blue thinking with them. Oh well.

Couer d'Alene and Sandpoint are other places I'm looking at. It looks like there are several small towns around there too, in addition to Blanchard. Do you have any insight regarding gun clubs in the general area?

 

[SLEDDER]

Couer d'Alene and Sandpoint are other places I'm looking at. It looks like there are several small towns around there too, in addition to Blanchard. Do you have any insight regarding gun clubs in the general area?

Gun clubs I do not know . most people shoot in the woods, or on their property. I would just do a google search.