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Old 05-12-2009, 12:23 PM
 
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No no no - not Twin Falls! Very unaccepting of anyone not like them. I would STRONGLY suggest either Boise, Coure d'Alene or Sandpoint. Sandpoint has a large artist community. I've lived in Twin Falls for 5 years and am leaving next week to move back to Atlanta.
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Old 05-12-2009, 12:25 PM
 
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Boise or Coure d'Alene would be the spot for you. Don't even THINK of the small towns. I live in Twin Falls and they have never progressed past the 1960's and they like it that way. If you are not of their mind set (hunting, fishing, conservative, straight) then you don't stand a chance.
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Old 05-12-2009, 12:44 PM
 
Location: Sandpoint, ID
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Sandpoint and CDA are accepting of people of all types, but if you are in North Idaho, it's still VERY conservative in many ways. Let me give you an example. Say you're a wiccan and lesbian (two things that would be controversial in SE Idaho), you're totally fine here as long as you're OK with hunting and fishing and generally libertarian small-government. If you're a married "republican" businessman who is actively working to ban hunting, you support letting the mine pollute Lake Pend Oreille because it's "free enterprise", and you want to pave everything in sight since that's "progress", you really had better move somewhere else.

I DO NOT think you'll find that the "community" here has an alternative mindset. But we're TOLERANT of alternative mindsets since we're more of a live-and-let-live community. So it's accepting in a libertarian sort of way here in the North, but if you move here and start making waves to make it more liberal, you'd find a rather sudden coldness from many around you that previously accepted you since now you're upsetting what works very well here and is part of THEIR experience of North Idaho. We don't want to be Berkeley, and we don't want to be Rexburg (although I would say we're a LOT closer to Rexburg than Berkeley on the political scale). We're happy being what we are...

If you want a town really alternative, try Ashland OR or Nelson BC. Those are little slices of Berkeley....
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