Any Panhandlers here?

My wife and I sold our place in Seattle and our place in Bellingham last year. We moved to a home we built in Dover Bay Idaho. It has been the best move ever. I flyfished over 100 days last year. We are fortunate because we live on the water. We are also cross country skiers and the trail is minutes away. We feel like we won the lottery. I would be happy to share more info and always willing to connect with locals who want to set a fly. View attachment 57402
Dover Bay! Some good bass fishing during parts of the year in easy rowing distance for you ;)
 
My wife and I sold our place in Seattle and our place in Bellingham last year. We moved to a home we built in Dover Bay Idaho. It has been the best move ever. I flyfished over 100 days last year. We are fortunate because we live on the water. We are also cross country skiers and the trail is minutes away. We feel like we won the lottery. I would be happy to share more info and always willing to connect with locals who want to set a fly. View attachment 57402
My Mother-In-Law was born in LaClede in 1931. Tons of relatives in the Sandpoint area and "Uncle Bill", that ran the Dover post office way back then, had about a mile of riverfront... might even be where you live.
I signed on to fight the Sundance Fire in August of '67 and Sandpoint was almost a ghost town at that time with more empty storefronts than not...who would have known.:unsure:
Long story short, I wouldn't hesitate to live in the area.
 
I have a few friends that have relocated from NW Oregon to Idaho in the last couple years. One got a very, very angry "welcome" from one of his new neighbors when he saw the Oregon plate. I think things have since simmered down a bit, but there was a lot of yelling, threats, etc etc.

That seems to be the attitude here in Utah with the mass migration of Californians .
 
What a historically naive, and ignorant post.
I have a lot of Mormon extended family from my grandfather in Idaho and Utah. I'm a direct descendent of one of Joseph Smith's body guards. I know a lot of interesting family history due to the genealogy the Mormons are known for. I would of never known the amazing detailed story of my ancestors journey from England to the USA then out west without the research some distant relatives have done.
 
I have a lot of Mormon extended family from my grandfather in Idaho and Utah. I'm a direct descendent of one of Joseph Smith's body guards. I know a lot of interesting family history due to the genealogy the Mormons are known for. I would of never known the amazing detailed story of my ancestors journey from England to the USA then out west without the research some distant relatives have done.

Same here , I have a written history of my great great grandfather , and his history how my dads side of the family became Mormons from England , plus other written history of my family thru genealogy .
 
Used to see t-shirts in Bend back in the day 'Don't Californicate Oregon', locals expressing their views on Californian cash buyers driving up home prices beyond reasonable for the local economy. Used to be articles on it in the Bend Bulletin newspaper, and pieces in the evening news.
And then in the past three years of the covid 'work from home' surge in high tech, Oregonions in Bend sold their homes to bay area techies for bank and cash bought in Idaho, driving up home prices beyond reasonable for the local economy, pissing off the locals. The irony is obvious.

Worse neighbor I ever had? An utter arrogant asshole who moved down the coast from the city and built the first big box custom home in our neighborhood, blocking the harbor/ocean view we'd enjoyed for 15 years. Said asshole went ballistic and launched a lawsuit three years later when they broke ground on a lot across the street from him for another big box house that would...block his ocean view.
 
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Spend some time in Utah as a non-LDS and then see how it goes for you.
I grew up in Utah as a non LDS. While I don't reside in Utah, I own a business based in SLC, with a German partner, and my son attends the University of Utah. Some of my closest friends grew up in Utah as non LDS, and have lived there whole lives there, and have never considered leaving. If you have had a bad experience in Utah, I'm sorry for that, but you might want to look into the mirror rather than blaming the Mormons.
 
Don't move, Idaho is coming to you!

There are a few people who fully believe they can make eastern Washington part of Idaho here in Moses Lake. They do get a lot quieter when you ask them how Idaho would be able to pay for the land they would be acquiring. The value of the land is far greater than Idaho's state budget.
 
There are a few people who fully believe they can make eastern Washington part of Idaho here in Moses Lake. They do get a lot quieter when you ask them how Idaho would be able to pay for the land they would be acquiring. The value of the land is far greater than Idaho's state budget.
Are you referring to WA state owned land? Not knowing how something like this works, it doesn't seem like ID would have to purchase outright all the private and federally owned land. Oh, what about Indian reservations, tribal sovereignty but held in trust by the Federal government?
 
There are a few people who fully believe they can make eastern Washington part of Idaho here in Moses Lake. They do get a lot quieter when you ask them how Idaho would be able to pay for the land they would be acquiring. The value of the land is far greater than Idaho's state budget.
Will they get the Sasquatch too?
 
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