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My girlfriend and I can not wait to finally visit Idaho, we have some friends and family in the Boise area, we plan to visit, an explore the surrounding areas. Our plan is to eventually move to Idaho as well, unfortunately that might be awhile. We have been looking in the Caldwell, Nampa area, as well as the Weiser area. We enjoy Cowboy Mounted Shooting, Horse back riding, Camping, Hiking, Hunting, Fishing, and mountain biking. Looking forward to hearing from everyone who posts.
Welcome to the Community! Although we reside in CO, I am originally from Idaho. I think with all your outdoor activities, you'll fit right in with everyone. I haven't seen the Cowboy Mounted Shooting, but that sounds cool. So again, welcome.
Welcome to the City Data forum! Weiser is a great place to live, often overlooked in Idaho. I think it'd probably fit your activities pretty well, and even though it's a small town, it's close to Payette and Ontario for bigger-city activities. You also have the Snake river right there for fishing, which is sweet. I'm not sure what the job market in the Weiser vicinity is like. Depending on what you plan to do for work, there may be a bit of a commute to one of the larger cities. There are almost certainly going to be better job opportunities in the Nampa area.
Nampa is also a nice town, though there are some bad areas, primarily to the north side of the railroad. It doesn't have very close access to decent fishing opportunities unless you feel like pulling carp out of Lake Lowell, but if you enjoy rocky desert and sagebrush, it's a beautiful drive to good fishing, hiking, etc along the Snake to the south. Nampa also tends to have an interesting smell to it. You have the sugar beet factory to the north and dairies to the west, agriculture of all types going on all around you. It's usually a pretty mild odor, some people can't stand it, others aren't really bothered at all.
Nampa is growing, and it has close access to Meridian and Boise for bigger-city activities.
It's my perception (based mainly on the fact that I like forested, primitive camping) that Nampa is further away from good opportunities for camping than Weiser is.
The only place you mentioned that I wouldn't recommend is Caldwell. It has a decades-old reputation amongst southern Idaho law enforcement as being a place of drugs, gangs and violence; every friend who has lived in Caldwell has eventually left because of the crime. It's not often a city in Idaho gets an article in a national publication over its gang problems: USATODAY.com - Gang violence puts Idaho community on edge
Thank you everyone. Nice to get some inside information about the areas. I completely forgot to put Cambridge, on there as well. There are nice properties in both Weiser and Cambridge that really have our attention. We just want something with plenty of room for our horses, maybe a few cows and pigs, some chickens and goats.
As for work, I am working on getting into the Local Union for Heavy Equipment Operating here in So. Cal. (IUOE Local 12) where we are currently living. I hope that I can transfer to IUOE local 370 for Idaho/Washington area. I also have a Commercial Class B license with Tanker, Air Brake, and soon HazMat. Then depending on the celebration events in Idaho, I also (by the end of this year, Start of next year) will be a Licensed Pyrotechnician. Which my current company says we have work in Idaho as well. My girlfriend is going to school to be a EMT/RN.
We only considered the Nampa and Caldwell areas, because we have seen a few nice properties in those areas and its close to where our friends and family live. Personnally I would like a nice private home on some property, were I could shoot the rabbits if they get into my crops (with no one to complain ), or Grow Alfalfa and grass hay for the livestock.
Thanks again for all the information shared so far. Hope to hear from more people soon!
Guess there isn't too much information about these areas. Ill just have to check them out my self. Curious about Cable (TV/Internet) service and Cell phone service in the areas I mentioned as well.
Guess there isn't too much information about these areas. Ill just have to check them out my self. Curious about Cable (TV/Internet) service and Cell phone service in the areas I mentioned as well.
The further out you get into farming communities, the less likely folks are to be as digitally wired...so you may need to wait a bit longer for a reply...or be a bit more direct like making a thread with a title about a specific city.
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), or Grow Alfalfa and grass hay for the livestock. 
