Hello to Ontario Oregon?Information Please?

[shadowskipper]

Are there mountains near Vale/Ontario?

[ziera]

Hi,
Ontario gets hot. High desert such as Boise. Yep, 50 miles to Boise from Ontario. I just left Boise and it's not that crowded yet.

In Ontario and Caldwell, Nampa (Idaho) there are lots of south of the border immigrants. Lots of Crime in Nampa. Not sure about Ontario.

Good luck.

[Snipaw]

I am not originally from Ontario but I lived 5 miles away in Payette, ID for a few years (2003-2006). I found Ontario to be a conservative small town with a narrow minded atmosphere. The people of Ontario are not very "worldly" and tend to not leave the area. This might be a result of the perpetual poor showing of the middle and high school education system. There is a high Hispanic population which results in poor education due to English not being their primary language. The community college is geared towards agriculture and even offers an AA program for rodeo.
People come from miles (like 150 or more) to shop at the Walmart and most times of the year the smell of onions is everywhere in town.
The mayor of Ontario is paid in the $90,000 range but the library and aquatic centers are in constant threat of closing to lack of funds.

[Durian Beach]

I've driven through Ontario Oregon and stayed at the Motel 6 a few times, I read on here it has a lot of Onion Farms which explains the very strong smell of Onions I noticed in the area. Don't expect it to be anything like the greenery of the western part of the state, there is not a tree in site other than a few cottonwoods allong the river and the place is high desert like most of Nevada which is not too far south. Idaho is right across the river.

I really don't know much about the state government in Idaho, but lived in Oregon for 11 years and can say that all the hippies in Portland love to fill the state legislature full of looney left tax and spend democrats. Oregon is a good place to shop as it has NO SALES TAX, but personal income tax is at an astonishing 9% and as a single male with little interest in consumer goods I pay a heck of a lot more in taxes than I would had I lived in a state with low income taxes but a higher sales tax. There are all kinds of little annoying things about the state of Oregon, for one you end up with your kitchen cluttered up with empty soda bottles as there is an idiotic 5 cents bottle deposit on all beverages passed supposedly for environmental reasons which is now totally redundant due to widespread curbside recycling. To get your money back you end up wasting 15 minutes of your valuable time waiting to put bottles into machines which are frequently broken and always have long lines of homeless alcoholics turning in shopping carts full of cans they spend their days scavaging.

Another annoying thing is you can't pump your own gas so you have the hassle of waiting around for an attendent to come and they never really fill you tank all the way up. With the democrats in charge there is an anti-business climate in the state and I expect to see all kinds of environmental wacko legislation comming out in line with the global warming hoax being purpitrated by the left. Currently, the state legislature wants to sock it to the working class by raising cigarette taxes sky high(I don't smoke by the way so my opinion is unbiased) Their rationale is for even more anti-smoking programs in the schools, in otherwords they want to create a bunch of useless jobs for liberal women to sit at desks and collect $40K to go around telling kids for the umpteenth time that smoking is bad for you, as if they already don't know this. (As a matter of fact smoking saves society money in the long run by killing off smokers in their late sixties before they have a chance to collect social security for decades. Dying is expensive no matter what the cause and smokers are no more of a burden on society than someone who lived the straight and narrow dying of Alzheimers in a nursing home at the age of 90.)

[prancer724]

Originally Posted by deem

Hi
anyone out there live or been to Ontario Oregon - how close to Boise Idaho? or any other larger city or town? is it nice? what's the land and people like? what's there to do?
thanks a lot

Hi
I live next to Ontario oregon and it is 55 miles/55 minutes to Boise via
the freeway. LH

[prancer724]

Lots to do in Boise-It is a very yuppy town-biking, hiking, jogging, they have a large waterpark,
lots of parks, boating, big fishing & hunting area, four wheeling, --you name it Boise has it and it
is a pretty town. People, like most large towns, are not as friendly until they get to know you.
Smaller towns are friendlier. Flat land surrounded by mountains. Great thunderstorms here, they come quick and leave quick with lots of lightening-which to me is very pretty. The sunsets are beautiful also and we have lots of rainbows here with the storms. Mostly sunny year round. Hot summers, snow in winter. lh