Most can't afford Idaho nowadays plus if they could they wouldn't last one winter there.
Idaho - heaven on earth?
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FNSafari
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It's the house that gets more reps the more the states population. The senate, just 2 per regardless of size. There has to be some checks and balances like the senate and the electoral college, or 3 or 4 states could dominate national politics forever. Anyone who does not see this and appreciate the wisdom of its creators is blind or an idealogue.
Lots of wonderful western wild places I would love to live if I were young again. Idaho, Utah, Montana, Wyoming.......Too old to start a new life out west somewhere though. It's always been something I wanted to do though.
Some of y'all are living the dream!!!!!! Enjoy it!
Some of y'all are living the dream!!!!!! Enjoy it!
It's time to do what most Idahoans do, buy an acre or two of Montana.
Love the idea of no State taxes?
Like a state that votes conservative?
Pro 2A?
Welcome to Montana.
Love the idea of no State taxes?
Like a state that votes conservative?
Pro 2A?
Welcome to Montana.
D Coots
Silver $$ Contributor
Lovin it....HA
D Coots
Silver $$ Contributor
I've hit every State west of the Mississippi and several east of it on my Harleys. Best way ever to get a taste of the people and the country for sure. Montana and Idaho are great, as well as some others out that way. Great people and all the rest.
Whatever you do, don't come to Iowa. This place sucks. Thanks John Denver. BYW, I would have gave you some of my 114 race gas....
Later
Dave
DirtySteve
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You mean no sales tax.. We do have income tax..
No state taxes? Montana has a pretty high state income tax, about 7.5%. No sales tax is nice, but doesn't make up for the income tax. Idaho income tax is about the same, but also has sales tax of around 6%. But, I have heard many times, do not move somewhere just because of taxes.
Wyoming has no state income tax, and favorable taxes across the board, but nice land in Wyoming is pretty expensive compared to Colorado, Idaho, and Montana.
You couldn't pay me to live in the midwest, or the south for that matter. I grew up in Wisconsin, and have spent plenty of time in Minnesota. You can have the below zero and gray skies, as well as the bugs and humidity!!
I'll take the mountain west and even desert west! Regardless of the taxes, I've got my eye on two places, one in western Montana, the other in eastern Idaho. One is off grid way out there, the other has neighbors and power, and paved roads, and borders an airstrip.
I'll take the mountain west and even desert west! Regardless of the taxes, I've got my eye on two places, one in western Montana, the other in eastern Idaho. One is off grid way out there, the other has neighbors and power, and paved roads, and borders an airstrip.
Brians356
Silver $$ Contributor
Bump. The states with zero sales tax have higher income and/or property taxes; states with no income tax have higher sales and/or property taxes, etc. There's a few web sites where they rank states for combined tax levies, but it gets complicated because of county and local taxes! ;-(
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The commonality is that all governments will, in some way, take as much money as they can and will spend it in ways you didn't want. It's so far out of control now it is beyond recovery.
I was born in Idaho (Moscow) and spent a good portion of my life in Potlatch, Harvard, Kendrick, and Juliaetta. My wife is also a Potlatch native. I also grew up in Wyoming, BC, and Alberta. We moved around some. Spent one summer living in a camp up at Cold Springs Creek, on the North Fork.
I still love the country but, man, it's getting crowded now. Grandparents on my father's side lived and died in Boise. Mother's side in Naples and in Harvard.
A couple years ago, we hauled the trailer from south to north, in early March. Drove up the old Whitebird grade, just for the fun of it. I still like the state.
Today, we live in Canada, just north of Eureka MT. I have 1 brother in Pullman and the other is in Naples. Wife's family still in Potlatch/Palouse and surrounding area.
When I was a kid, about 60 years ago, I recall being up at Laird Park, north of Harvard. I had fished my way up from Harvard, on the Palouse River (10 miles of fishing was not uncommon for me, back then) and was just getting ready to head back home. I was standing on the dam, just resting, when a couple in their fifties (old to me, back then) walked out on the dam and commented on how beautiful the country was there. I looked down the river and it occurred to me; it really was! I asked where they were from, and they were from New Jersey. I felt a little proud that people from the other side of the country could so appreciate the place where I lived. WH
I was born in Idaho (Moscow) and spent a good portion of my life in Potlatch, Harvard, Kendrick, and Juliaetta. My wife is also a Potlatch native. I also grew up in Wyoming, BC, and Alberta. We moved around some. Spent one summer living in a camp up at Cold Springs Creek, on the North Fork.
I still love the country but, man, it's getting crowded now. Grandparents on my father's side lived and died in Boise. Mother's side in Naples and in Harvard.
A couple years ago, we hauled the trailer from south to north, in early March. Drove up the old Whitebird grade, just for the fun of it. I still like the state.
Today, we live in Canada, just north of Eureka MT. I have 1 brother in Pullman and the other is in Naples. Wife's family still in Potlatch/Palouse and surrounding area.
When I was a kid, about 60 years ago, I recall being up at Laird Park, north of Harvard. I had fished my way up from Harvard, on the Palouse River (10 miles of fishing was not uncommon for me, back then) and was just getting ready to head back home. I was standing on the dam, just resting, when a couple in their fifties (old to me, back then) walked out on the dam and commented on how beautiful the country was there. I looked down the river and it occurred to me; it really was! I asked where they were from, and they were from New Jersey. I felt a little proud that people from the other side of the country could so appreciate the place where I lived. WH
I’ve been eyeballing a property in Idaho. 12 miles from where the snowplows stop. 80 acres, couple cabins, room for an airstrip. Price recently went from $1.4m to just over $1 million. Another $200k drop and it might just be mine.
It’s at 6500’, not a place for the lazy or weak. I did the remote high altitude, plow 4 miles thing for 30 years. I could do it again, but this time I won’t have a job to go to.
Sure looks like my dream place. Just have to find a squaw that thinks like me!
It’s at 6500’, not a place for the lazy or weak. I did the remote high altitude, plow 4 miles thing for 30 years. I could do it again, but this time I won’t have a job to go to.
Sure looks like my dream place. Just have to find a squaw that thinks like me!
Dave M.
F-Open Class shooter (284 win, 6dasher, 6.5-7PRCW)
That sounds magical to me.
Brians356
Silver $$ Contributor
If only my cat could cook.
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Joe Maisto
jam711
4 years (winters) later- I'm still here. Central Idaho. I've met amazing people.
So glad I took a chance to move here.
I've learned much living here and always ready to learn more.
Pic is driving over Spar Canyon to a "shortcut" to HWY 93.
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