Weiser - the place to move?? Help from Atlanta! (Boise: real estate, job)

[atldiana]

I have a sister in Nampa and I have grown to LOVE Idaho over the past 10 years of visiting her there. The time has come to "escape" the craziness of Atlanta and make my move to Idaho. I am looking at Weiser. It seems to be far enough out of a big city, yet close enough for me to commute (I fly for an airline). I miss the simple life of a small town like we had growing up in Iowa and Wisconsin and have been yearning to get back to that pace. I do have a few questions regarding Weiser:

1. Is housing affordable? I am currently in a 15 yo 4 br 3 bath on 1.74 acres which I am hoping to sell for $150,000. I'd like to find something that has at least 2 acres but doesn't have to be as big of a house.

2. I'm LDS and I'm guessing they have a presence there - any input?

3. There have been home invasions here as well as murders, theft, drugs, etc. How is it in Weiser? Am I going to have to worry a lot about meth labs and crack houses?

Thanks for you help!

Diana in Atlanta :-)

[shades_of_idaho]

Diana,

My husband and I lived in Weiser for a year and a half before he decided HE wanted to move back to Cambridge,30 miles up the highway where we had lived before Weiser.

I loved living in Weiser. You might run into meth labs anywhere. We had one right behind our house when we lived in town in Cambridge on two acres. I did not even have a clue it was there until Hazmat showed up to deal with it. Cambridge is a very small town. And to think those meth jerks were exposing my pet cow to crime and danger. Sigh

Your price range might be a little low for 4 bedrooms and two acres. If you are interested PM me for a little more information. I am NOT a real estate agent so I am NOT soliciting you.

Chris

[huntman58]

I would think you need to raise you dollars for housing .It is all farm land for the most part so expect a lot of spraying and chem. drift. Also lots of drugs in the area being so close to Ontario Or. They also get a lot of flooding there some times because of the Boise and snake rivers.
Being your job I would look into was I want to live that is better priced and then only visit Idaho. But again that is if you were me. I lived in Idaho for over ten years and would never move back I lived in south west Idaho

[Ruby]

I spent a lot of time looking at the MLS listings before moving up here. They will give you a good idea about the cost of housing - not only in Weiser, but in all of the towns surrounding Boise.

P.S. We LOVE Weiser!! D