Moving to Idaho or Colorado

[Stubble_hunt]

I'm planning on relocating to either Idaho or Colorado with family and kids to start a new hunting journey there. I have once hunted elk with colleagues in ID few years back but been reading a lot about CO as well. Please any advice will be greatly appreciated

 

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[BuckSmasher]

Colorado. Idaho is too cold and far north. Colorado has over twice as many elk.

 

[Phaseolus]

Western Colorado, You don't want to live east of The Great Divide.

 

[IdahoBeav]

It depends on the type of politics you prefer.

 

[Jimmy]

Colorado has way more murderers.

More than twice as many per 100,000 person. So if that's your thing, move to Colorado. If it's not your thing, Idaho.

List of U.S. states by intentional homicide rate - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Scare]

colorado has some strange politics

 

[North of 60]

Good luck OP

 

[JRMiller]

Wherever you go you need to think about the political climates current state and also about where its headed.
Think about your kids future, you need to look a few years down the road and gauge what hand they will be dealt.
And of course, happy wife happy life.
With that said, I've never lived in either ID or CO, but three separate sets of my friends moved to CO in the last five years, all have left now.

 

[Customweld]

It's kinda funny, I read local news stories on FB about home affordability. The amount of people that say
" I moved here before the prices went crazy, but now my kids won't be able to afford a house here"

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

Wherever you go you need to think about the political climates current state and also about where its headed.
Think about your kids future, you need to look a few years down the road and gauge what hand they will be dealt.
And of course, happy wife happy life.
With that said, I've never lived in either ID or CO, but three separate sets of my friends moved to CO in the last five years, all have left now.

These are are notable. CO is becoming the next CA sadly. Costs are up, gov. is soft on crime, hunting/gun rights steadily being attacked, etc. Its frustrating.

I'm not gonna lie I love being able to get into mountains and a variety of hunting after a short drive but I'm also concerned about where the state is headed and wondering what my long term plan is gonna be cause I feel like eventually I'll get sick of the BS here if it continues on its trend. Again I expect many a feller that lived in CA who loved freedoms and the outdoors some decades back problem felt the same.

That said if you aren't on board with gutting hunting and gun rights we could certainly use some assistance in the voting block.

 

[dlee56]

You and everyone else man.

 

[pods8 (Rugged Stitching)]

You and everyone else man.

To be fair, I'd rather someone like that move here and vote here over what has been happening.

 

[North of 60]

To be fair, I'd rather someone like that move here and vote here over what has been happening.

@Pods8, I'd venture many in the rocky mountain west feel the same.

 

[ODB]

Meridian’s population has grown 20% since 2020.

How do you spell exploited, again?

 

[Spike elk]

Pretty easy, one state is a free state, the other is ran by commies.

 

[IDVortex]

It's kinda funny, I read local news stories on FB about home affordability. The amount of people that say
" I moved here before the prices went crazy, but now my kids won't be able to afford a house here"

My wife and I do not expect to be able to retire in ID anymore. I use to work at a highway district up here, and if I stayed with them come retirement, we could not afford the CDA area. And im working on trying to get into another public sector again, and still won't be able to afford it.

 

[Jason Snyder]

Our thoughts of going back to Idaho for retirement are diminishing

 

[IDVortex]

Our thoughts of going back to Idaho for retirement are diminishing

Anywhere one could afford, my wife is completely against moving to. She likes her stores.