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Old 09-29-2006, 03:45 PM
 
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Hello everyone, my first post here. I am currently living in Saskatchewan and I am not enjoying myself. I dont have a family or kids and i'm 20 years old, I have heard great things about the dirtbiking in st. anthony and rexburg (sand dunes) and dirtbiking happens to be my favourite hobby and after having my local MX track closed I no longer have anywhere legal to ride within 2 hours! Trailering my bike isn't worth it any more to me and my bike is now collecting DUST!

I am ready to pack up and move but I am trying to find a job before I move to ease the work permit process for US customs. I really could care less about what type of job I do as long as I make enough money for rent, food, and gasoline! I will live in a run-down apartment I have to, maybe even a garage!

Does anyone know the current average price of a 1 bedroom apt. monthly?

Also, are there alot of available jobs at atleast 8 dollars an hour? Right now I make the equivilent of 11US an hour. I have some skills but i'm not looking for anything specific.

If anyone is looking for a cheap laborer and offers room and board and a place to store my dirtbike please let me know.
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Old 09-29-2006, 05:49 PM
 
Location: East Idaho
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Check out the Rexburg newspaper. http://www.rexburgstandardjournal.com/

I'm actually about 45 minutes from Rexburg so I don't know a lot about it, but hopefully the paper will answer some questions for you.

You could also check out Idaho Falls. It's an easy drive to the dunes. www.postregister.com

Good luck.
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Old 09-30-2006, 09:24 AM
 
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Rexburg/St Anthony are not good places to look for jobs. Rexburg is a college town (BYU) and has grown a lot in the past two yrs but their pay hasn't. I lived in Ashton ID for 4 yrs, about 20 miles North of Rexburg. If you have a CDL you can find a job but most only pay .21 per mile. The rest of the jobs are going to be minimum wage for ID. Plus the sand dunes are all what they say they are.

Djstorey is on the right track with Idaho Falls. They have more to offer and you are very close to many great places to ride. Pay is higher, more jobs more to do than in Rexburg.

There is nothing in St Anthony in the way of jobs and there really isn't any housing unless you buy.
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Old 01-14-2007, 11:00 AM
 
Location: SE Idaho
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Hey YZ, come out to www.duneratt.com (broken link). Its THE St. Anthony Sand Dunes site and we'd love to have you join the forum. There are local "transplants" there that can tell you the ups and downs of moving to the area.
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Old 10-04-2007, 02:30 PM
 
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Default Jobs and apartments in St. Anthony, Idaho

There are plenty of rentals in St. Anthony, and rent here is a lot cheaper than Rexburg or Idaho Falls.

As for jobs, for unskilled laborers, $8 an hour is doable. The truss plant is looking for help, the county is looking for three people to work at the landfill and there are other places to look.

If you coming looking for a place to live, check with Hamilton Realty on the corner by the traffic light (there's only one in town). If they don't have anything available, they can refer you to other landlords. There are also a couple of rental companies.

Cathy Koon
Fremont County Economic Development Specialist
St. Anthony, Idaho
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Old 03-14-2009, 03:33 PM
 
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I am moving around the various forums so forgive me if run into some of you more than once. I have an interview for a job that would have me working in Rexburg. Part of this appeal is that I get to live in the great outdoors capitol of the states. I love that. With that, I'd love to have a place with a few acres. I had three acres, creeks and hiking trails in TN and left it to come to Houston for my wife's job. I have a budget of 180-250k for a house and I have two big dogs (not destructive) s I might have to rent for awhile. I need some advice on the best place to live that covers all that. I also need to know whether I need a 4x4 for the road conditions. I have a corvette that I bought two years back. Love the car but don't want to deal with bad weather and the wrong car.
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Old 08-02-2010, 01:01 PM
 
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I live in Rexburg and I pay $680 a month for a BEAUTIFUL 2 bedroom apartment.
Idaho Falls is a dump. Methheads and tranqs. Dont live there. Its getting dirtier and more like Pocatello every day. Rexburg is a growing, well-kept college town and is much closer to the dunes. No bars, but that keeps the riff raff in Idaho Falls, plus theres great little watering holes in St Anthony, plus youre only 20 anyway. ha!
If you go with Idaho Falls, youll be sorry, but youll never know it, cause they think its the greatest place ever....and theyll convince you...hahahaha....
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Old 08-10-2010, 03:25 PM
 
Location: Old Mother Idaho
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Hi, Atlantis...
Take Catty's comments with a grain of salt. They may apply to a 20 year old and parts of the I.F. community, but read through the forum and decide for yourself has to how much is true or not.

For your purposes, there are lots of areas close to Rexburg that would fill your bill. You may be able to rent a place before you buy, but you might need to stable your horses until you find your own place. There are quite a few horse folks in this whole area, and I suggest planning on taking a couple of days after the interview to check the area out, if you can.

The drive between St. Anthony south to Rexburg is pretty short- about 15 miles? (Don't know for sure). It's about 35 miles between I.F. and Rexburg, and there is a lot of commuting that goes on over that stretch. Small acreages are all over the place from I.F. north to St. Anthony. Ashton, further north has them too, but there's a lot more winter in Ashton than the rest of the upper valley.

The Corvette might work with 4 studded tires in the winter, but it's pretty low, and the winter roads sometimes could possibly high center it. Folks here own them, but they're mostly summer cars here.
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Old 08-14-2010, 12:47 PM
 
Location: The City of Trees
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I live in Rexburg and I pay $680 a month for a BEAUTIFUL 2 bedroom apartment.
Idaho Falls is a dump. Methheads and tranqs. Dont live there. Its getting dirtier and more like Pocatello every day. Rexburg is a growing, well-kept college town and is much closer to the dunes. No bars, but that keeps the riff raff in Idaho Falls, plus theres great little watering holes in St Anthony, plus youre only 20 anyway. ha!
If you go with Idaho Falls, youll be sorry, but youll never know it, cause they think its the greatest place ever....and theyll convince you...hahahaha....
Reply back with an area of Idaho Falls that is a dump. I want to know the streets or neighborhoods you think are dumps.

Rexburg is a nice little mundane kind of town, it serves its purpose well supporting the culture and University, but Rexburg is kind of in outer space, surely one of if not Idaho's strangest towns. I can say this because I am a native Idahoan and grew up near Rexburg
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Old 08-29-2010, 06:54 PM
 
Location: Pitcairn Island
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... Rexburg is kind of in outer space, surely one of if not Idaho's strangest towns. I can say this because I am a native Idahoan and grew up near Rexburg
Yes. But they have a great Touchless Car Wash. And it's only a few minutes to St Anthony and the great breakfast at Jill's Place.

Rexburg, though, *is* one of a few places in the world where you don't have to lock your bicycle.
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