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04-14-2021, 02:18 PM #76
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04-14-2021, 03:27 PM #77"We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch
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04-14-2021, 03:37 PM #78
I am always in awe of Idaho's natural beauty. Great playground. People don't need to be smart to enjoy it.
I wonder whether there is a correlation is between density and smarts. ("You are my density")
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04-14-2021, 03:49 PM #79Registered User
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For me it was Idaho Falls, or Arco, Mud Lake, Blackfoot/Poky. IF does suck, but I’d venture to say that it sucks less than those other places. The worst part about it by far is Ammon. The way this town has been developed forces pretty much all 60k+ residents of the area into a 2sq mile area to do all of their shopping, plus anyone coming in from outside of town needing to stock up. It’s a literal shit show and I avoid it like the plague. Sunday’s are manageable.
The proximity factor is the only thing that makes this place liveable for me. Though could never see myself staying long term.
The people: Honestly most interactions seem pretty normal. However there is an undeniable amount of white trash that’s comparable to rural PA with more of a racist undertone. We had a guy say some very... impolite things... to a dark skinned female coworker while we were out at a company dinner last year. Was pretty dumbfounded at that.
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04-15-2021, 10:27 AM #80
That's the point. Most of the regressives/anti-tax group bitch about taxes being too high and blame the big cities for higher taxes to support infrastructure in the big cities. And, of course, the difference in cultures between rural and urban. What they don't recognize is that, dollar for dollar, the rural areas gain FROM the urban. They think their tax dollars support the big projects in the urban centers and they resent it. It's basic ignorance. And, of course, the difference in cultures.
What strikes me about this argument is that the rural populations don't recognize where the tax dollars come from or go to but I think that's probably true of the urban populations, too. If the urban dwellers understood that more, I think the outcry from them would be stronger. Therefore, ignorance probably reigns on both sides of the spectrum. The example I gave of where tax dollars are collected and spent should be more common knowledge. In the meantime, we have a somewhat false resentment from the rurals whereas the urbans seemingly go through life without a care about it. It's an interesting dichotomy.
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04-15-2021, 10:47 AM #81Hucked to flat once
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Idaho nets about $3,500 per citizen from the feds. Yeah, us rural bumpkins don't get it.
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04-15-2021, 10:52 AM #82
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04-15-2021, 10:58 AM #83Hucked to flat once
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I get that. I was agreeing with you that most rural people bitch about taxes in general but don't understand they benefit more than they should. Holds true at a fed level as a data point. New Idaho or whatever they're calling it is a silly exercise but luckily, Idaho is running so perfectly, our legislators have plenty of time to work on problems we don't have yet.
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04-15-2021, 11:08 AM #84
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06-03-2021, 10:52 PM #85
Far-right agitator Ammon Bundy’s emerging bid to become the next governor of Idaho faces a peculiar roadblock: he is currently barred from entering the state Capitol where he would ostensibly need to conduct official business after being arrested there twice within 24 hours.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fa...aos/ar-AAKF2Ei
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06-04-2021, 07:47 AM #86mental projection
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06-04-2021, 09:02 AM #87"We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch
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06-04-2021, 09:05 AM #88glocal
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06-04-2021, 11:50 AM #89
Interesting article in the Spokesman Review this morning. Yet another whack job coming to N. Idaho? It doesn't seem to end..
Concerns about ex-comic starting a ‘Ruby-Ridge-style compound’ roil Boundary County
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/20...by-ridge-styl/
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06-04-2021, 12:10 PM #90
10 acres ain't much land if it's suppose to be a “place for folks to come and learn about living a sustainable lifestyle and passing those lessons on to their children and future generations.” The lessons, he continued, would include “(a)spects of rural living such as the proper harvesting/use of water, organic food production, alternative energy, animal husbandry and creating an environment of freedom on the land.”
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06-04-2021, 12:10 PM #91
Northern Idaho is so fucking weird I basically think no one of any sanity considered normal lives there. Both this comedian and the reporter who "owns a paper" which is really just some other fringe blog (aka just like the comedian's) seem to fit the bill of weirdos attracted to this part of the state.
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06-04-2021, 12:16 PM #92
WTF? I was born outside of Bonners Ferry and always thought I might retire around there one day, but it seems like Idaho is quickly filling up with even more psychos than were already there (full disclosure: I was born on a hippie commune so crazy types arent new to the area). I am not sure this bunch will make it long up there. Its all fun and games in June. Once winter hits they might not enjoy the Kootenai as much as they thought they would.
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06-04-2021, 12:43 PM #93
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06-04-2021, 05:06 PM #94
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06-04-2021, 05:32 PM #96Registered User
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Haha
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06-04-2021, 05:55 PM #97
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06-04-2021, 06:11 PM #98
No judgement- just need to fix that problem
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06-04-2021, 06:18 PM #99Banned
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06-04-2021, 11:05 PM #100
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