McCall, Cascade, Stanley area (Coeur d'Alene, Lewiston: real estate, housing, condo)

[JANETL]

Hi everyone. I live in Medford Oregon. Medford has grown so much in the last 6 years it's not the same place any more. They are buliding very large homes that only California's can buy. Ane they are buliding every where along I-5. They are moving up in droves. I can't handle the new Southern Oregon. The crime is so out of control that the police don't know how to handle it. My husband and my self moved in with my Mom and she also is pass the point of dealing with with this. We were told that over 40,000 people have moved into Medford just with in the last 2 years. And even more in southern Oregon. For over 2 years now I have been looking in different area's in Idaho. We are looking for a smaller town that the summer's are much cooler than Medford. some where in the 70's to mid 80's if not cooler. We like snow so that not a problem. Mountain area's would be great. Oregon is 2/3 high desert and really don't like that much. does any one have any feed back on McCall, Cascade, Stanley area's or other area's I might check into. Thnaks Janet

[pinkpalace]

McCall, Cascade, and Stanley are all beautiful. They're up in the mountains, so you have lots of trees, cool summers, and snow in the winter. The only trouble you might have is finding a place to work. You might also check up in Northern Idaho: Lewiston, Couer d'Alene, etc. Lots of trees up there too, and they're bigger cities .. so it should be easier to find work. Plus, Lewiston and CdA are at a lower altitude, so the winters aren't so freakin' cold. (Stanley is almost always the coldest spot in the state all winter.)

Good luck!

[tfidguy]

Of the three choices you gave, I would choose McCall, then Cascade, with Stanley a very distant third. Full time population of Stanley is about 100. VERY severe winters. Gorgeous in the summer though and close to Sawtooth Mts. and the Stanley Lake.
McCall and Cascade are tourist towns. The new ski resort is outside Cascade and housing costs are going sky high. Cascade Reservoir and Payette Lake are beautiful.
Finding a job will be very difficult in Stanley. There aren't many jobs available. A little better in McCall and Cascade, but again lower paying because they are tourist related.
As mentioned above, you might want to check out Coeur d'Alene or Sandpoint. Similar scenery, larger communites and better job opportunities. Lake Coeur d'Alene and Lake Pond Oreille are two of Idaho's largest lakes. Both of those areas a pricey, however.

[JANETL]

Thank You for the in-put. Job's wouldn't be a problem. retired. I wanted to know how pricey are the home's. That could be a problem for us. 3 years ago I sold my home to move in with my Mom. My Dad had take ill and he had to go into a nursing home. My Mom had never lived by her self and she was just freaking out. Any way 3 years ago when I sold my home it sold for 142,000 which was a good price, now for the same home, they are selling for almost 300,000. It is just unreal. 300,000 is afordable housing for Medford, Or, and there is not much out there for afordable home's now. But the market is flooded with 750,000 home's on up.The california's have caused the housing market to go sky high, and it's going to crash. So if you can give me an ideal just what the market is like, for McCall, Cascade and towns around that area it would be a big help. I have looked on line on homes in Idaho, but it depends on the area. Also does any one know how the taxes are compared to Oregon. Thanks again, Janet

[tfidguy]

The cities arould McCall include, Donnelly, Lake Fork, Smith's Ferry, Cascade. Tamarack Villiage is the new ski resort and is pricey. On the lake property is expensive with condo's going for $250+.
If you go to the individual town websites you can get a feel for real estate prices.

[huntman58]

If you do not mind snow and do not have to work I would look at northern Idaho colder winters and cooler summers. But to let you know a lot of Portland Oregon, Seattle Washington and calif. Are also moving that way. the cost of housing do not forget a lot of Califon’s can not afford to buy homes here ethers and so they are moving out of state to were they can as most housing here is not for the average Joe but the rich or the ones that bought many years ago . so most calif are in the same boat you are also only down here in the San Francisco area it takes about $700,000 or more to start looking for a home and for your fig you should be able to have many in that range not like ten years ago but more then in Portland, Seattle, Calif, big cities of Nevada, Arizona, or along the east coast also. But then again that is were every one seams to be coming from not just calif. By the way dose Oregon still have there signs welcome to Oregon now go home up if so it dose not seam like there working fact I saw them back in the 70s but not lately

[JANETL]

I wish Oregon had kept those signs up. As a kid I thought it was funny. Welcome to Oregon, now go home. I would say over 10 years ago Oregon Welcome CA to move up here. Sorry big mistake. My neice is very shy. She meet this guy that has just moved up to OR from CA and we think he is Gothic. The only thing I can figure out that she meet him on line. So I am doing some research on Gothic kids and so far I don't like what I am reading. My brother is at the point of throwing her out. She is not the same kid. I would like to find a place in the mountains for my Mom, husband and my self a smaller town under 5000 that we can find a nice home for 250,000 where we can get to the store when we need to. Where itn't growing like it is here. Sounds like I am dreaming. We have 2 small homes both on the market. The big problem now is that there are so many homes on the market that it's a buyers market. 3 years ago it was a sellers market, then they started buliding and haven't slowed down. Janet

[huntman58]

Well good luck with your move and wants. To be honest with you it is not Goth or skater or from my days the hippies or what ever the kids are called now for the way the dress. It is just a fashion statement and the real deal is what the person is in side not how they dress or act. The growth thing does not forget it is not just from calif. Every one loves to pick on that state. But people are from every were some may be from calif or that was at lest the last place they lived. Also what you’re looking for you may find but I would be willing to bet it would not last long. As most areas that you would like when they get found out others will come from every were and so in the end change the whole of why you moved there. Utopia is no were to be found. I know I tried to find it in Idaho my self.

[geo]

Are people still looking in Idaho for Utopia? Isn't Utopia in Wyoming? A little place called Lander, Wyoming. In that awfully windy state there is a great secret--a little town with a WINDBLOCK there! Check out those nice windblocks in your atlas! I had a friend from there come to visit me in Orlando, FL. He was so friendly and said hello to everyone who passed by (and they were, of course, suspicious as to why he was telling them 'hello'!!!)

[shades_of_idaho]

Hey Geo,
My husband and I have been to Lander,WO and YES it really is a nice town. Or was about 13 years ago. Had friends tell us about it so we took a trip over there.

Chris