Good ol' Boys and Good ol'Girls
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5/7/2007
I have lived in the Treasure Valley close to Boise and Meridian, Idaho for 10 years and have seen many changes during that time regarding cultural and business opportunities. However one thing that has not changed but perhaps intensified is the feeling that things are run to a great extent based on the Good OL' Boy network. When I first moved here I was taken by the generally friendly and open nature of Boise's residents. However, over the years as I became more aware of the depth of the ingrained Idaho Good Ol' Boy system I became gradually more disenchanted with the inbreed nature of t this system and disgusted with the backwardness of the lines of authority here. It seems that the Boiseans ,and Idahoans in general, never met a new idea or newcommer they could'nt disparage or undermine as "Not from here". From the State and local governments consistently awarding contracts to locally connected businesses (who end up providing incompetent or diminished services at tax payer expense) to the private locally based company only promoting from the immediate inbreed gene pool to the local school board or governmental body electing unqualified but local good Ol'Boys, it is like the South was in the 1930's-50's re: parochialism.
So anyone who is lured to this area because of the generally high quality of life, low crime rate and lower than average cost of living ought to be aware that unless they are of the immediate inbreed gene pool, they will never be made to feel like they fully fit in. And if your living depends on local business or private enterprise your advancement or economic success will be be dependent not on effort or merit but your ability to weasal your way into the Good Ol' Boy system..........
kent | Ontario, OR