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Extra extra. Read all about it. Idaho is the next California. Sound off the warning bells. I believe the country will ultimately become unaffordable to the middle and low income classes. It’s a matter of time. What will America look like in 5 to 10 years?:
Rich folks with fat wallets and big homes. Middle class folks with not enough income and living in shacks, mobile homes, and studio apts. Low income folks with a couple of dollars for pizza, a hotdog, and a cheap prepaid cell phone while living at the Union gospel mission homeless shelter. That’s the new America. Thank your fellow Americans for it. They love you.
It's already been stated here many times that Californians are only a part of our new immigrants; they're coming from all over the country, but mostly from all over the western half of the nation, west of the Mississippi.
I'm sure Boise will eventually reach a similar size of Sacramento, but it won't ever be as large as San Francisco or Los Angeles unless it keeps growing at its present rate to the end of the century and beyond.
And Boise is Boise. Idaho Falls is an entirely different city in a much different region of the state. I'm not at all sure how Boise's growth will affect Idaho Falls' growth.
So far, I see a lot of stuff in Boise and surrounds that is conducive for Californians to consider a move, but there's little of that stuff here in I.F.
Even so, I think there was no major city in Idaho that was even halfway prepared for the size of our sudden recent growth. As was mentioned in one of those links, Idaho's state government has done very little in supporting low-cost housing with subsidization of state funds.
I don't expect this will change in the near future, either. Subsidizing anything here has always been a negative political issue, as it's considered to be a socialist threat on the free market.
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Let me ask, what if it was you in California? Would you move? To where? You can blame all californians for blowing up Sacramento. But in fact, probably the highest percentage of inbound moves to east Idaho from any city anywhere is Boise. Damn Idahoans.
Let me ask, what if it was you in California? Would you move? To where? You can blame all californians for blowing up Sacramento. But in fact, probably the highest percentage of inbound moves to east Idaho from any city anywhere is Boise. Damn Idahoans.
According to Census Bureau inbound migration data, Boise is indeed the highest contributor of movers to Idaho Falls. SLC, So Cal, southern Arizona and spots in and on the outer edge of Washington also are notable sources of newcomers.
According to Census Bureau inbound migration data, Boise is indeed the highest contributor of movers to Idaho Falls. SLC, So Cal, southern Arizona and spots in and on the outer edge of Washington also are notable sources of newcomers.
Yeah. Most recent for that detail I guess. Perhaps newer sometime soon. Good chance the pattern is still similar. The pattern from the 4 years before the most recent data was very similar.
Let me ask, what if it was you in California? Would you move? To where? You can blame all californians for blowing up Sacramento. But in fact, probably the highest percentage of inbound moves to east Idaho from any city anywhere is Boise. Damn Idahoans.
All I said was I expect Boise to eventually become as large as Sacrmento.
That doesn't imply anything about Sacramento or how it grew. And it says nothing about Boise's growth either.
How either grew or will grow in the future has nothing to do with my post. I'm not casting any blame on anyone for moving wherever they want to move. You read things into my post that didn't exist.
It only mentioned the size of Sacramento. Boise will reach the same size eventually.
Yup. Recently, I've noticed more Utahns are moving here. For Utah natives who want the city life, but one that isn't as overloaded as the Salt Lake Valley, places like Idaho Falls, Pocatello, and Rexburg are viable alternatives. They can lead a smaller-town life here, and still are close enough to the old home place to go back as frequently as they want.
Idaho doesn't have very many large cities, so I'm sure there's always been movement from small towns to large towns inside our state. Many of our small towns in this state haven't grown in size, and they have lost their local business establishments. So moving to I.F. is where the jobs are. The same would be true with Lewiston and our other cities that are still pretty small, but large enough to have a solid business community that needs workers.
Montana is even more extreme in this inside movement. When I lived in Bozeman, I knew more folks who had moved to Bozeman from tiny little towns like Manhattan (Montana) or Logan (also Montana) than folks from other states who moved there.
Both were more common than Bozeman-born natives when combined. That might not have been true at other companies, but it was where I worked. The Bozeman natives always knew more about Idaho Falls than the others, and were often confused as to why I left Idaho Falls to work in Montana.
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