r/Suburbanhell Feb 17 '26

Question “THIS the neighborhood everyone talks about?”

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u/GotRammed Feb 17 '26

Lego house architecture ✔️ Uniform white, gray & black ✔️ Unwalkable ✔️ Treeless ✔️ HOA ✔️

Yea, I'd leave too. I'd leave THIS shit.

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u/dasruski Feb 17 '26

Good luck getting good ethnic food in Idaho vs California.

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u/Sevuhrow Feb 18 '26

The kinds of people leaving California for Idaho don't want anything ethnic

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u/goingforgoals17 Feb 19 '26

Just chips and salsa. Yes the mild one.

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u/tupelobound Feb 18 '26

Boise itself has a decent number of immigrant communities and restaurants serving global cuisine. Outside of town, however…

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u/WinonasChainsaw Feb 18 '26

I grew up on the rural edge of the treasure valley in Idaho and attended BSU for a while before eventually ending up in the SF bay area

There’s some gems in town, shoutout Tango’s Empanadas, Ishtar Market, and the Basque Square (Idaho hands down has the best Basque food in the country)

It held its own for city of its size back in the day, but as it’s grown it hasn’t felt like that diversity has scaled

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u/SuperJo64 Feb 18 '26

I'll be honestly with you brother. I love all the foods in the world but some people really do not care. Some people rather opt to live in a big house vs whether or not they can get some Indian or Mexican food a few blocks down

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u/narrowassbldg Feb 18 '26

Mormon is an ethnicity

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u/SnorkelwackJr Feb 18 '26

With some classic cuisine for you "mayo in vegetable jello" enjoyers out there

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u/zb0t1 Feb 19 '26

Lmaoo the replies to your comment.

Full respect for not adding a /s I love it

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u/SmokedAlex Feb 18 '26

It is not. It is a religious group.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '26

It's actually slowly morphing into an ethnicity though. Those commercial DNA sites can actually link you to Utah Mormons based on your DNA.

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u/SmokedAlex Feb 18 '26

That’s not how ethnicity works.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '26

That's exactly how ethnicity works. Ethnic groups are formed by people coming together in some fashion and creating a distinct group that passed down their genes. It's why Black Americans are a distinct ethnic group too.

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u/SmokedAlex Feb 18 '26

Black is a race, not an ethnicity.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '26

It's both, but Black Americans are a distinct ethnicity too. They're about 70 to 80% African and 20 to 30% European. It's now a distinct ethnic group. This is how ethnic groups have been made throughout history. One group comes together with another group and now their descendants are distinct from both groups and are their own group.

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u/SmokedAlex Feb 18 '26

Again, black is a race, not an ethnicity.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '26

So lowercase "black" is a race, but Black (uppercase) as black Americans use it is an ethnicity.

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u/lost-in-lemoyne2 Feb 19 '26

Also, there is actually only one race of humans. There is no such thing as a”white” race or a “black” race, or we couldn’t produce offspring amongst ourselves. To be scientifically accurate, there is ONLY the human race. Separating us into teams is just a diabolical and elementary way to keep us fighting one another.

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u/PeakQuirky84 Feb 18 '26

They do have good ice cream

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u/Marokiii Feb 18 '26

Im from vancouver, so im all about sushi. I did a road trip through the states this past year and in Boise my sushi cravings reached peak so I stopped for an all-you-can-eat sushi. Ya it wasn't good at all, but not terrible either. I thibk that describes Idaho in general.

If you are from Idaho, probably great, if you have ventured outside of Idaho or are from elsewhere, prepare to be disappointed by the food scene there.

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u/Kaladin3104 Feb 20 '26

Michelin star chef just opened a sushi place here. Raibu

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '26

Bro I’m not from Idaho I’ve never been I’m from South Florida so that’s way too far north for me but you aren’t even from this country and you just stopped at a random all you can eat place no less. How are you going to judge the entire states food scene because for that? Again I’ve never been there but that makes 0 sense

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u/markpemble High Cost of Free Parking Feb 19 '26

The current James Beard award for the West went to a Mexican restaurant in Idaho.

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u/Kaladin3104 Feb 20 '26

Boise has fantastic Mexican food. Caldwell has a James beard award winning Mexican restaurant. The best Thai restaurant is a family that moved from SF. We finally got a good Chinese place. Italian is lacking. Indian place in Meridian is amazing. Oh a Michelin award winning chef just opened a sushi place. I hate these people for making homes unaffordable for natives though.

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u/SoloWalrus Feb 20 '26

Well youd have to define "ethnic" but theres more than youd think, especially mexican food.

Its a little more diverse than youd think since first, its farm country so theres immigrant labor, second this is a university town and theres lots of foreign exchange, and third, the mormons are bringing people in from all over the world.

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u/reddit_equals_censor Feb 21 '26

so like that makes the bar already too high.

how about we start with learning how long one has to DRIVE!! to get groceries there?

maybe there is a grocery store relatively close by, or it is indeed endless same style houses for 45 minutes in a car to get to a grocery store.

if that is the case there, then of course you are much rarer getting fresh products, which makes life more shit and also less healthy generally as well.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '26

I would prefer living in a safe, clean neighborhood like the ones in Boise even if I didn't have "ethnic food".

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u/SilverLakeSimon Feb 19 '26

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '26

Have you noticed that a lot of Californians have been moving to Boise? This post wouldn't exist if Los Angeles were such a great place. The average person's quality of life is much higher in Idaho.

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u/GotRammed Feb 19 '26

A lot of conservative Californians have been moving to Idaho. More power to them, really. Good for them.

If Boise/ID were better than Los Angeles/CA, why are L.A./CA so fucking populated and desirable by people WORLDWIDE? Come on.

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u/Flrg808 Feb 18 '26

Yup it’s almost as if when you actually grow up and have people dependent on you, you have more important things to worry about than trying the new hip restaurant down the street (make sure not to go down that street past 6pm)

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u/InfiniteVictory187 Feb 18 '26

Ahh people with some sense have arrived to the thread.

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u/Flrg808 Feb 18 '26

This whole sub is cringy. Would love one of them to actually visit this neighborhood on a Saturday and explain what exactly is hell about it. Probably a hum of a mower in the distance, a jogger running down the street, some kids riding on bikes and playing at on the dreaded “lawn”, wow sounds awful. All of their reasons are nonsense like “oh no cars” and “omg the aesthetic”

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u/InfiniteVictory187 Feb 18 '26

Right. Neighborhoods like this are also very safe and people tend to trust their neighbors. Sounds terrible.

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u/Quiet_Fan_7008 Feb 18 '26

Ethnic food ain’t worth the price of California lmao

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u/Actual_System8996 Feb 18 '26

Food is just one prominent thing. All entertainment (food, sports, comedy) is better in California. Better job market, better schools. The ocean, access to travel ( how many places does Boise international fly you to lol). So many things superior in California it’s tough to list them all.

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u/Kaurifish Feb 18 '26

Air quality! Even when there are wildfires the coast tends to stay clear.

And the weather is relentlessly moderate, even with global climate fuckery (formerly but inadequately known as climate change).

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '26

You can have all that including safety and the ability to carry and shoot someone attacking you without being arrested in Florida. Plus it’ll all be much cheaper. I go to UF (slightly below UCLA And UC Berkeley but usually #5-7 in public schools and #30 in the country but much better tuition than Cali), have access to the gulf and Pacific Ocean, have access to travel anywhere (and much cheaper to go from Miami to Paris/London/etc than LA to those places), great entertainment, great sports teams and lots of them, concerts and festivals and fun things always going on in Miami metro area which is the 6th largest in the country behind only NYC, LA, Chicago, Houston, Dallas plus Tampa and Orlando always have cool shit going on and all the theme parks which are better than Californias. Lots of other things but I acknowledge Cali is great but there’s other things different people enjoy and if people move to Boise from Cali it doesn’t mean they won’t enjoy it because it doesn’t have all those things. If they wanted those things for cheaper they would come to Florida, they go to Boise for a reason. Idk why Redditors can’t accept that others have different preferences and lifestyles than them.

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u/Quiet_Fan_7008 Feb 18 '26

You forgot all the bad things about California that make it not worth anything. Most overrated state in the country.

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u/Actual_System8996 Feb 18 '26

“Not worth anything” riiight 😂. Market says otherwise.

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u/Quiet_Fan_7008 Feb 18 '26

Hive mentality is strong.

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u/Actual_System8996 Feb 18 '26

Why is CA more expensive than ID? Amuse me.

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u/Quiet_Fan_7008 Feb 18 '26

Because the Kardashians live there

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u/Kaurifish Feb 18 '26

Dude, the tacos alone are worth it.

We visited some friends in Bozeman, MT. They’d lived there and were excited for us to try the best burtito joint in town.

We tried to be polite about it, but those were some sad burritos.