Relocation recommendations

Status
Not open for further replies.
Lyle Wyatt said:
Relocated to southwest Idaho 5 years ago, from California, couldn't be happier. It meets all of your criteria.
Click to expand...

I guess that really depends on your perspective – as well as what part of SW Idaho you’re talking about. I mean, there’s a heck of a difference between Grandview and Boise, and both Grandview and Boise are in SW Idaho.

As a matter of fact, Boise isn’t just “Boise” anymore. It’s a conglomeration of the cities of Boise, Kuna, Garden City, Meridian, Nampa and Caldwell. They are all in the Boise Valley, and you can’t tell when you’ve left one city and entered the next unless you see a sign. Furthermore, the only way you’re going to see that sign is if you’re brave and foolish enough to take your eyes off the traffic for an instant.

I was born and raised in the Boise Valley, out near the little town of Homedale. My wife and I have lived in SE Idaho since I got out of the Navy in 1972, and I wouldn’t move back to the Boise Valley in SW Idaho on a bet. There has literally been 300,000+ people move into the Boise Valley since I lived there. Even worse, it’s expected there will be over a million people in the Boise Valley within the next 20 years.

No thanks! I’m glad we’re retired, our kids are grown and off on their own, and we don’t have to move to a place where there’s already a half million people in an area as small as the Boise Valley. But there lies the flipside – there aren’t many good jobs in this part of Idaho like there are in the Boise Valley. Our oldest grandson recently graduated from college here, and he had to move to Las Vegas for a job. He’s planning on coming back as soon as he has a nest-egg though.

But just to keep this gun related - yes, Idaho is very gun-friendly. Idaho is a constitutional carry state, and it’s still very red in spite of the recent influx. How long Idaho will remain red is anyone’s guess, but I’d bet it won’t go blue, or even purple while I’m still around.
 
Last edited:
.308 Norma said:
I guess that really depends on your perspective – as well as what part of SW Idaho you’re talking about. I mean, there’s a heck of a difference between Grandview and Boise, and both Grandview and Boise are in SW Idaho.

As a matter of fact, Boise isn’t just “Boise” anymore. It’s a conglomeration of the cities of Boise, Kuna, Garden City, Meridian, Nampa and Caldwell. They are all in the Boise Valley, and you can’t tell when you’ve left one city and entered the next unless see a sign. Furthermore, the only way you’re going to see that sign is if you’re brave and foolish enough to take your eyes off the traffic for an instant.

I was born and raised in the Boise Valley, out near the little town of Homedale. My wife and I have lived in SE Idaho since I got out of the Navy in 1972, and I wouldn’t move back to the Boise Valley in SW Idaho on a bet. There has literally been 300,000+ people move into the Boise Valley since I lived there. Furthermore, it’s expected there will be over a million people in the Boise Valley within the next 20 years.

No thanks! I’m glad we’re retired, our kids are grown and off on their own, and we don’t have to move to a place where there’s already a half million people in an area as small as the Boise Valley. But there lies the flipside – there aren’t many good jobs in this part of Idaho like there are in the Boise Valley. Our oldest grandson recently graduated from college here, and he had to move to Las Vegas for a job. He’s planning on coming back as soon as he has a nest-egg though.

But just to keep this gun related - yes, Idaho is very gun-friendly. Idaho is a constitutional carry state, and it’s still very red in spite of the recent influx. How long Idaho will remain red is anyone’s guess, but I’d bet it won’t go blue, or even purple while I’m still around.
Click to expand...


I've lived in the Boise Valley for 40 years and it's been ruined from what it was by people who are moving here. I am now domiciled in a neighboring state of which I won't name because I don't want other people moving there. ha ha
 
Casefull said:
I've lived in the Boise Valley for 40 years and it's been ruined from what it was by people who are moving here. I am now domiciled in a neighboring state of which I won't name because I don't want other people moving there. ha ha
Click to expand...

Well, that’s why I make the disclaimer, as long as you leave any left-wing ideas in the state you’re leaving, I have no problem welcoming refugees from communist states to Free America. Come here with a Hillary bumper sticker on the back of your Prius and it wouldn’t be the first time I passed on by something like that stuck in a snow bank.
 
Just read this the other day: https://www.nextpittsburgh.com/latest-news/pittsburgh-best-city-for-jobs-glassdoor/ Living here (south of the 'Berg) I've got to say it's nice. If you want to work (and are decent at what you do) you'll have no problem finding someone who will be happy to find you. The climate has all 4 seasons minus (mostly) the bitter midwest and northern cold but most years we'll have a week or so of sub-zero stuff to tolerate but most of the time the climate is OK. No problems with drought, and plenty of forest and hunting.

The pay scales around here don't compare to 'Big City' but our costs of living are FAR cheaper. I'm an A&P and toward the end of school everyone was salivating at getting one of the high paying Airline jobs and working at Pittsburgh Airport. I had to burst their bubbles with the sad reality that the Airlines were Union so jobs went to the senior bidding...which won't be you for at least 8-10 years. The Airlines wanting to hire you for what seems like a great pay scale (for around here) are filling positions in places that people desperately fight to bid out of....like LA, Chicago, NYC, ect. where prices are sky high and compared to our relatively rural living....it would suck. The starting pay being offered was perhaps comparable to making Minimum Wage around here....but with the downside of living in a crap hole.

As long as you stay out of Pittsburgh and Philly we're good God Fearing and Gun Toting people.:) We can always use another good family.
 
.308 Norma said:
I guess that really depends on your perspective – as well as what part of SW Idaho you’re talking about. I mean, there’s a heck of a difference between Grandview and Boise, and both Grandview and Boise are in SW Idaho.

As a matter of fact, Boise isn’t just “Boise” anymore. It’s a conglomeration of the cities of Boise, Kuna, Garden City, Meridian, Nampa and Caldwell. They are all in the Boise Valley, and you can’t tell when you’ve left one city and entered the next unless you see a sign. Furthermore, the only way you’re going to see that sign is if you’re brave and foolish enough to take your eyes off the traffic for an instant.

I was born and raised in the Boise Valley, out near the little town of Homedale. My wife and I have lived in SE Idaho since I got out of the Navy in 1972, and I wouldn’t move back to the Boise Valley in SW Idaho on a bet. There has literally been 300,000+ people move into the Boise Valley since I lived there. Even worse, it’s expected there will be over a million people in the Boise Valley within the next 20 years....Sounds a lot like what happened to a sister city, Reno; and the transplants are ALL from CA trying to turn NV blue

No thanks! I’m glad we’re retired, our kids are grown and off on their own, and we don’t have to move to a place where there’s already a half million people in an area as small as the Boise Valley. But there lies the flipside – there aren’t many good jobs in this part of Idaho like there are in the Boise Valley. Our oldest grandson recently graduated from college here, and he had to move to Las Vegas for a job. He’s planning on coming back as soon as he has a nest-egg though.

But just to keep this gun related - yes, Idaho is very gun-friendly. Idaho is a constitutional carry state, and it’s still very red in spite of the recent influx. How long Idaho will remain red is anyone’s guess, but I’d bet it won’t go blue, or even purple while I’m still around.
Click to expand...

Northern NV went through that starting about a decade or so......same thing
 
wickedsprint said:
Reno.

Big city amenities and all the Public land you could ever want.

It’d be top of my list if I could relocate.
Click to expand...
Yep, left WI for Reno last year. The snow generally stays on the mountains where it belongs, lots of BLM land for open shooting and hunting (if you get far enough from the densely populated areas) and at least for the moment, NFA & general 2A freedoms.

However, due to the recent invasion of California refugees we are trying to institute an intelligence test on all who want to relocate here in order to ensure they do not vote the same way the majority did in their oppressed homelands.
 
I moved there in 1984 and stayed until 2003 when I moved to Florida; raised my kids there. Back then, Carson City was a nice town of 25K and only a short commute to Reno for work. By the time I left, Reno had tripled in population, Carson had doubled, and a lot of great hunting spots north of Reno disappeared to the developers from CA.

If you really like to hunt and fish, then Elko, in NE NV is where you want to look. Winnemucca, where I first lived, is also worthy of a look-see if you don't need every possible shopping experience.
 
I know that. Michael came through my area; while I got lucky, areas around me got hit HARD......
 
Where ever you go, make the commitment to adapt to your new environment. The words, "Back in New York we did it this way..." should never cross your lips. No matter how different - or how apparently backward - it may appear, you left New York for a reason, so don't start trying to make your destination like the place you left behind.

If you can't abide by this rule, don't move.
 
I would recommend Virginia for its gun laws, but that may change after the next legislative election (next year). So far, the Virginia Citizens Defense League -- a very effective pro-gun lobbying organization -- is helping to keep a lid on things. But that won't last, the way the Commonwealth is changing.

Having grown up in Texas, and now being retired, I have considered moving back to Texas if things get really bad in Virginia on the gun front. But Texas is changing too. It's on the same path as Virginia only a few years behind.
 
hdwhit said:
Where ever you go, make the commitment to adapt to your new environment. The words, "Back in New York we did it this way..." should never cross your lips. No matter how different - or how apparently backward - it may appear, you left New York for a reason, so don't start trying to make your destination like the place you left behind.

If you can't abide by this rule, don't move.
Click to expand...

No truer words can be spoken...
Well said hdwhit

The people moving to a new state shouldn’t be allowed to vote for 5 years while they “acclimate” to a free state. Many “conservatives” move from a non free state to a free state and then begin to subtly desire what they had in the state they escaped from.

But back to the OP, Idaho, Utah, Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming are good options for gun friendly places to live. Arizona for now is good.

You’ll have to listen to the easterners for the states in the east worth moving to.
 
Last edited:
The good experiences I've had with people from the coasts moving to the midwest has out weighted the bad. It seems that the older retired people who were successful where they came from 'seem to' do alright. They integrate well. Maybe that is from the values they have being older fit better with middle of the country values.

But, the ones that screwed up where they came from (like the younger 'me' generation) just drag their problems with them to a new location. What they 'think' they deserve is still as much an illusion out here in the sticks as it was on the coasts.
 
BTW : If you like to shoot other than hunting there are 3 ranges with in 20 miles. One unsupervised and 2 supervised. All are very nice.
 
bullseye308 said:
Middle Tennessee has what you want. Great gun laws, mountains, lots of good hospitals, jobs galore in many fields, hunting land aplenty, and fairly cheap land. Come on down.
Click to expand...

TN is where I'm looking. I lived in ND, MT, WY & CO. I'm basically tired of the cold weather & I'd rather not shovel snow as I get older so going back to ND, MT or WY is out of the question. CO is a lost cause, it's the next California. Home prices in CO are crazy expensive. TN will be my home in the next year or so.
 
George P said:
Dakotas arn't boring; but they are DAMN cold in the winter.
Click to expand...
The top one is boring imo. Just flat. Driving to Montana from Minnesota was always awful. Until i'd reach close to Montana.

The "damn cold" part is something I enjoy. Snowmobiles. Ice fishing. Christmas. Snow is something you either love or have grown old enough to hate.

I don't mean to rip on the Dakota's. Just havin fun. If you live in a U.S. state your sittin good. Just don't go to that state out west. Or the few out east. Stay in the middle;)
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

arnoldkatz
  • Locked
Gun Collection, New York City Relocation
Replies
1
Views
518
Robert
Robert
M
  • Locked
More fallout from the SAFE act: FFL relocates from NY to KY
2
Replies
32
Views
2K
oneounceload
O
G
  • Locked
Relocating to FL
Replies
13
Views
652
MedWheeler
M
P
  • Locked
Gun laws and relocation
2
Replies
33
Views
2K
Harvster
H
W
  • Locked
Questions asked by ER Nurse
2
Replies
38
Views
2K
Walkalong
Walkalong
Back
Top