Reviews & Comments
Coeur d'Alene, ID
4 star place -
2/7/2018Coeur d'alene is wonderful. Be prepared to either have employable and marketable career path or wealth to live comfortably in CDA. The water, outdoors, and weather is for the most part wonderful. The winters are long, but the awesome summer makes up for it. The endless activities to do in, around and outside CDA is wonderful. The high cost of taxes, property taxes, millionaires moving in and destroying the landscape, lack of diverse employment, lack of opportunities for employment, and lack of adequate modern housing brings this place down to 4 stars. Sorry, but my words are true. Be prepared for bumper to bumper and avoidance during tourist season downtown. Decent community college, but otherwise no colleges. This is a place to retire, or serve the retirees, or just be an obsessive nature hack like myself.
Boise City, ID
13 Years Experienced -
2/7/2018The Good:
Everything you need to live is here, including raising a family, safety, and cleanliness.
Moderate 4 season, Mild consistency in weather.
Opportunities for fun, outdoors, and exercise is endless.
The Bad:
Not the best restaurants, nor the worst in the us.
High cost of living for rent, mortgage, etc.
Limited employment base, limited consistent employment base
Worst schools, including colleges in the us. this includes lowest grad rate.
The Ugly:
60 percent mormon, which creeps into politics.
Politics is obsessive republican statewide, which has pluses and minuses
Boise is somewhat blue, but not very open to the gay, minority, or womens rights
If you have money and move here you will be sucked dry, if you dont have money you will end up leaving, and if you make money you wont have very much for very long.