Boise The Good The Bad And The Ugly

[ComputerBlue]

Stingraynm yeah it's solitude up there and that's true Idaho around 55 and up! Camped up there with no one around. People from my hometown would not be able to understand that there are places like that, that truely exist on god's green earth. Wonderful. I've been to the owyhee desert on numerous occasions and I can tell you it's worth exploring and going with a friend mudding in a chevy pickup and doing some shootin! Almost shot him on accident lol. I forgot where he was lesson learned for sure!! Your a great Idahoan man and I will be there to visit sometime. My friend I and keep in good touch and we are still best friends to this day! He was sad to see me go but he understood.

[Need2Leave]

Originally Posted by DESERTRYDER

northwest of Boise is Emmett. Very few cookie cutter homes and a beautifull valley. Thats where Desertryder will be moving next summer.
Dirtbike trails for days in every direction.
I might be old but I can still moto pretty good for a fat guy

See, this guy's got it figured out. Actualy the original post isn't too far off... despite perhaps posting the same stuff in multiple forums... metro's these day's are prety universal... but the O.P. is wrong, Idahoans tend to be TOO nice for their own good, not the oposite the O.P. described... and the same post was quoted twice...... in succesion... but other than that... never mind, I'm gonna leave once wall st. let's me... but nevertheless O.P. is full of it

[stingraynm]

Originally Posted by Need2Leave

See, this guy's got it figured out. Actualy the original post isn't too far off... despite perhaps posting the same stuff in multiple forums... metro's these day's are prety universal... but the O.P. is wrong, Idahoans tend to be TOO nice for their own good, not the oposite the O.P. described... and the same post was quoted twice...... in succesion... but other than that... never mind, I'm gonna leave once wall st. let's me... but nevertheless O.P. is full of it

I was taken aback at first read, myself. One of many things I miss about Idaho is the friendliness, so it's a real affront to hear people say otherwise. Same with what I remember as a lack of cookie-cutter homes; still, the fact that a lot of content was assessing West Treasure Valley made that a bit more believable as a genuine assertion. That area and some just out Warm Springs really went nuts after I left, and each year I come back to find what were once open fields now filled with homes. It's unnerving and even somewhat spooky how fast they build.

As I stated in my response, there were certain clarifications, distinctions, sentiments, and even observance that certain information is not to be divulged at random, all of which came together to allow me to relate to the general post even though I disagreed with several of its assertions about the area.

[ctr88]

I wouldn't say every state has cookie cutter homes. Vermont does not, one of the prettiest and pristine states in the union. But to be fair it doesn't have fast pop growth either. Leadership has to come from the state Gov and City planning level to not allow building that crap. But it's admitedly difficult when you have fast growing areas.

So many areas give in to the get-rich-quick than get out developers and unfortunately the American West turns into sterile, monolithic, cookie cutter suburbia places like Phoenix, Denver and LA. It's really too bad that we give in to the fast growth and let our cities get built out with a ocean of stucco boxes and strip centers. Southern Cal is a great example of unattractive sprawl. Oregon has done better by having growth boundaries around it's cities.

The nice parts of most cities are always the older areas with charm. Scary to think what the stucco box oceans will look like in 50 yrs. The cities with charm are the older cities, Boston, Chicago, NYC. SF is the only major city in the entire state of CA that really has much charm. Seattle and Portland have some charm b/c they have different zoning regulations and differnt politics than places like SoCal and Arizona. Phoenix is the poster child for lack of charm!

[ctr88]

Dallas not cookie cutter? You gotta be kidding me! Central Austin is not cookie cutter and is very cool and quaint, but the surrounding suburbs of Austin are cookie cutter central! Texas as a state is the cookie cutter house & fast food joint headquaters!