Boise housing price's

I feel bad for the young adults trying to survive here.
For sure. My middle daughter bought a house in Parma and commutes to Micron every day. The youngest still lives at home and is a ways off before she can start looking for a place of her own.
 
I can’t believe all the people pushing it on the internet. Probably real estate people.
the Boise instagram realtors are vermin. essentially trolls.

I am starting to feel about Boise the way Hemingway felt about Paris - wistful for the old days and times that will never return.

Ada county has the stench of exploitation that will not rub off with a good rain, and it is very sad to see, having seen other towns elsewhere suffer the same fate.
 
What I don't understand is the average home in Boise is $500-600k while the average income is $80k, How are people doing it?
Almost half my remodeling clients in Boise back 12 years ago were either telecommuting, or were executives that worked out of town. Having an airport with inexpensive flights gives executives a reason to work out of town. Now the number of remote workers has gone way up even more since Covid, and many of those new businesses moving into the area are bringing their highest paid executives from other areas. Don’t even get me started on how well off retired Californians who sold a little $2M house back home and now have pockets full of cash have peppered the west. In Reno a friend of mine buys houses to flip and all his flips are designed for Californians, remodeled above what they will appraise for and are all bought with out of state full cash offers.
 
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