Review of Idaho, Idaho

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Idaho Costs Too Much!

- 8/11/2009
I've grown up in Idaho. I have lived here pretty much my entire life. I was born in Portland, Oregon and moved to Idaho when I was under 1 year old. I live in Pocatello Idaho in the same house I grew up in. My parents never moved while I was growing up and now I see why. It isn't that Pocatello is extremely expensive compared to most cities in the US but that you can not make enough money to pay for a house here. My Husband and I currently decided to buy a home and simply could not find a house worth the money. We make $30,000 to $35,000 per year together. That is really low. There are not many jobs that pay over $7-$10 per hour in Pocatello unless you commute out of the city or out of state. If you are someone looking for a job at a restaurant or store you will find plenty of jobs available here to suit that. As for pretty much any other field, you are not going to have much luck. If you don't want to work as a cashier or make food for someone I would recommend becoming a doctor, dentist or lawyer because there really isn't much of a choice in jobs here. My Husband is lucky enough to have a job that pays $15/hour. He has to commute to work though but luckily it's only about an hour one way. When we went to get a house we were qualified for $125,000 which will get you a 3 bedroom 2 bath house and about 1,500 sq ft. if you are lucky. These houses are also all built before 1950, some even about 100 years old. None of them have been updated and all of them need major repairs. If it's not a new roof it's new pipes or new electrical work. If your basement doesn't flood or have backup sewage your lucky. Basically we decided that buying a home in Idaho would become a hassle and have decided to continue living in my Dads basement. The prices haven't been this bad forever though and started going up around 2000. To buy a brand new home of any size will cost more than $250,000 these days. What we can not understand is how the people here are affording these insane prices. Maybe it is because they have been able to build up equity and we are first time home buyers. A lot of people from California are moving here because of the cheap (to them) prices which may be the cause of the spike in Real Estate. While the rest of the countries Real Estate prices dropped because of the economy, Idaho only seemed to get more expensive and we are still rising in price every day. I think that Idaho is a great place for people from California to come down and buy a house after sellin
Nicole | Pocatello, ID