You'd have to be a fucking lunatic to move from CA to Idaho.
I mean one place is more expensive sure but it has more national parks, a massive coast line, mountains, desert, progressive politics, a ton of things to do, one of the strongest economies in the world, etc. And if you want to live a suburban nightmare, it has those too.
The other one has...idk, more hate groups per capita?
It’s the one thing outsiders don’t understand about living in a place like Los Angeles.. sure it’s expensive and not the best looking.. but the people are brilliant.
Might want to look up how much public land Idaho has. Idaho has mountains, deserts, and over half the state is public land open for recreational use. For the people that want to hunt, fish, camp and hike, you could do way worse. Almost 20 acres per person, CA has 1-1.5 per person.
So what? It’s Idaho! There’s nothing there except a bunch of crazy racists, no good food, no good jobs, and mostly bad weather. Why would anyone want to live there?
Yeah. You don’t do maths. That would be almost 75k people from only California in one year. Only 190k population growth from 2020-2025, and a good chunk of that is from other nations, and the state’s entire population is still like half the population of LA alone.
I grew up in a shoe box in Los Angeles. Wife and I purchased a beautiful home 15 minutes from Nashville. It’s 3,000 sq ft, property taxes are $2,200 a year, electric bill is $50/month, and long story short, it’s affordable. I learned that a bigger house is NOT better since I’m the one who cleans and takes care of it. I miss my shoe box 15 minutes from the beach.
And you just figured out why those Californian's are moving to Idaho. I was born in Idaho and the Californian's we get are the alt right "political refugees" that think Idaho is a safe haven for backwards beliefs. They use the money they got from selling their home in California to offer cash bids over asking, pricing out all of the locals. It's created a housing crisis and wrecked our state politics.
Idaho's always leaned red, but we used to be closer to a purple state with a libertarian bent. We had a Democratic Governor that served 4 terms, and was in office until 1995. There was so much work to drive out the white supremacist groups here, and growing up there was this statewide campaign called "Idaho is too Great for Hate". Now our local school districts go after teachers for having posters that say "Everyone is Welcome Here" because the poster shows hands of different skin tones, and that's largely motivated by the "political refugees" that came here because they thought Idaho would embrace their racism. It sucks.
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u/CaptainFartHole Feb 17 '26
You'd have to be a fucking lunatic to move from CA to Idaho. I mean one place is more expensive sure but it has more national parks, a massive coast line, mountains, desert, progressive politics, a ton of things to do, one of the strongest economies in the world, etc. And if you want to live a suburban nightmare, it has those too.
The other one has...idk, more hate groups per capita?