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Northern Idaho?

sdean said:
I have been looking at Tennesee or Arkansas. Move close to Dusty in case you need to borrow any tools..
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Wisconsin has no tornadoes, hurricanes, or any other of that nasty stuff. Plenty of open land, great hunting and thousands of clean inland lakes for fishing. We do however...have our share of snow. And it gets cold as well. I just stay in and go into my basement shop and make things. A mill, three old time first class drill presses, band saw , table saw, wood shaper ( all made 25 miles north of me in Milwaukee back then, & a sliding mitre saw. Yeah...let it snow !:)
 
No housing bubble, tell the 500 workers alone who had to go to N.D for Halliburton to find a job. There were 1,000's from Montana alone working over there i know I was one of them. Montana has no Boeing or the likes. The majority of our jobs are Housing related and retail, I will guarantee you there is a bubble and it will pop here at some point. Ask anybody thats lived here for the last 15 years and see what they say.
You dont think so your kidding yourself
 
There are people moving here taking on 3500.00 - 5,000.00 house payments for 30 years i know this for a fact, you think you can sustain that here on Montana wages, your gonna get a reality check.
 
L.Sherm said:
No housing bubble, tell the 500 workers alone who had to go to N.D for Halliburton to find a job. There were 1,000's from Montana alone working over there i know I was one of them. Montana has no Boeing or the likes. The majority of our jobs are Housing related and retail, I will guarantee you there is a bubble and it will pop here at some point. Ask anybody thats lived here for the last 15 years and see what they say.
You dont think so your kidding yourself
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Since when was anybody talking about Montana? This thread is about N. Idaho. That said, if people are fleeing to Montana like they are Idaho, then they don't likely need a local wage to be able to afford their $3000 a month house.
 
You obviously don't know this region very well. I'm just giving people the truth.
There were so many people out of work in the spokane, cda are Halliburton had a flight from spokane to Williston im sure if you asked around you would find some of them, ask them how 08- 10 was for them
 
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Ask your Builders if they were building houses in 08, if they were they will enlighten you or any other Carpenter in Idaho or Montana
 
INTJ said:
Since when was anybody talking about Montana? This thread is about N. Idaho. That said, if people are fleeing to Montana like they are Idaho, then they don't likely need a local wage to be able to afford their $3000 a month house.
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Yeahhhh ....
I might have started the derailing there o l buddy - sorry bout that
 
It’s definitely something worth exploring when you see housing developments “starting at 500k”.... wages won’t support that kind of payment for very long. When I talk with a few custom home builders out there, they make a point to tell the newcomers that if they aren’t ready to spend a million , they’re not ready... CDA is beginning to look like Portland. The men look like women and the women, well , like something else. The trades are busier than ever, but there’s too few quality workers to go around. All the hayfields I grew up working in are now apartments... we’re building our house right now and already looking to find a place that’s not so dang crowded!
 
JJMoody said:
It’s definitely something worth exploring when you see housing developments “starting at 500k”.... wages won’t support that kind of payment for very long. When I talk with a few custom home builders out there, they make a point to tell the newcomers that if they aren’t ready to spend a million , they’re not ready... CDA is beginning to look like Portland. The men look like women and the women, well , like something else. The trades are busier than ever, but there’s too few quality workers to go around. All the hayfields I grew up working in are now apartments... we’re building our house right now and already looking to find a place that’s not so dang crowded!
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It's happening everywhere. I lived in the country when I moved to the NE corner of Spokane outside the city. Everyone found it. Still 10 acre minimums where I live but the traffic is getting horrible and the city is rapidly coming my way. Same thing going on in Missoula, Butte, Kalispell (been happening for a while there), Billings, Sandpoint (same as Kalispell), Red Lodge, you name it. Perhaps Glendive or Scobey are still wild and free but not much else is. Then there is Yaak. Hang out at the Dirty Shame Saloon and watch time pass. Oh and how could I forget Wisdom. Great place in the middle of nowhere.
 
You got some building codes, gotta have an electrical and sept permit and inspections. For now anyway I look for it to change soon along with impact fees around the corner.
Kalispell has a donut area around the city limits for building codes also dont remember if its 3 or 5 miles.
 
Staying on Northern Idaho topic, CDA in my opinion is a very nice modern area with lots of strip malls and parking lots, car dealerships and restaurants. I'll take a shot and say that's not representative of the majority of Idaho from what I've seen at least.... Similar to Kalispell and Whitefish at the base of the Glacier National Park a family can go up to west Glacier for bed and breakfast houses , cabin motels, white water rides helicopter rides, gift shops , blah blah and then continue over is East Glacier to the Blackfoot Nation you see an entirely different Montana where a good horse is more important than a good Latte...
 
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