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This is a general overview but I have two newer videos breaking down the communities of Star. Those videos do show the communities that have trees - those are the communities that are near the river and the communities closer to central Star that were built up about 20 years ago so the trees have had time to grow. The Treasure Valley is a high desert climate and so in order to have trees in a community, they need to have been planted and had time to grow. But check out those other two videos I have about Star so you can see more!

Happy New Year, Michele! ❤

I think I've heard that too. 😉 (But it's got nothin' on Boise).

About mid November. Each year, you can check the date on the Recreation.gov website. This year is was Nov. 14.

In extreme cold, we can get down to about the teens for a high and close to zero for a low. But that is pretty rare. Usually our coldest month is January and we are around mid 30s for a high and low 20s for a low. And we don't get a lot of snow, and when it does snow, it doesn't stick around long. We also don't get much wind. I made videos all about the weather and the snow too, here are the links: th-cam.com/video/sF8n6dFrj0c/w-d-xo.html and then this one too: th-cam.com/video/4eyPmZtgb-w/w-d-xo.html

Yes I have heard how amazing the community of people is in Riverstone!

That's true, and then fire risk in the foothills, I suppose. So maybe central Star is the way to go if someone is concerned about flood or fire.

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It can snow from about November to April, but we usually just get little bits here and there that melts as soon as the sun comes out. Like this snow in the video, it snowed about 12" in 2 days but then it stopped snowing and all of that snow was melted within a week. And then we really didn't get any significant snow the rest of the winter. Nothing that had to be shoveled. We have some winters where we don't get snow in the valley at all, except for just tiny amounts here and there. And then in 2016, we had a record year where it snowed in November and then got cold enough that it didn't melt, so it built up over December and January. But that was very rare for us, and the first time in my 22 years of living here that that happened. The snow in this video was also in the records for us as getting that much in a couple of days is also very rare for us.

Oh darn, I thought you were commenting on the video I made showing the snow here. That is the video I was referring to, if you want to look up my videos and find the one about Surviving the Winter here.

Thank you! Yes, people have allergies here. Personally, I have allergies just in about June due to Pine Pollen, but my house has a row of Ponderosas along the back. We live near the foothills, so we also get spring allergies from the grasses when they are growing, and my husband gets fall allergies from the sage on the hills. There is farming around, especially on the South side of the freeway and in Nampa and Caldwell, so alfalfa, and dust from farming dirt for some people. And if you live closer to the river, some people have issues with the cottonwoods. There are websites you can look up allergy reports for a given day, so I'd suggest finding one of those, and follow it this spring/summer to watch if there are any culprits that would bother you personally.

It's a great place to live in the Treasure Valley!

@@SummerAstonRealEstate I have a Realtor friend that lives there.

I am not aware of anything like this in our area, or in Idaho, although there may be something!

The 55+ community is really nice. The pools, clubhouse, gym, etc.. are all top notch. They will also have an activities director and offer group get togethers, like going on wine tours, etc.. The location is good, easy access to highway 16, so it's about 10-15 mins from Costco. The HOA fees are around $450/month right now - they do all the yard care and will shovel snow if it gets over 2 inches. Cons are that it is close to Highway 16 so it does get noise from that. They did have a nice series of single level townhomes that were set up with front load garages that were under $500k but they aren't building more of those at this time. They have the alley load garage townhomes that are around $500k, but then the prices go up from there because all the rest are single family homes. And Star has an urgent care, Eagle has a small ER hospital and a medical plaza about 15 minutes away from Star, but major hospitals are in downtown Boise, or South Meridian, about 30 mins away. So for some people who see specialists regularly, that is a con.

@@SummerAstonRealEstate Thank you for the update. Sounds interesting.

Thank you for the reminder that Riverstone is in Star! It does have an Eagle address!

It is the winner in our valley for a combination of more affordable houses with a nice area to live. But the land is getting more expensive, and some of the builders that build the less expensive homes there are not buying more land in Star because they can't stay in their ideal price points with the rising costs of land.

@@SummerAstonRealEstate I've noticed that Toll Brother's new single level models are smaller, and the square footage appears to be going into the two level homes. That is a sign of more expensive land and other builder cost cutting. By the way, people are coming back to California. Where I live, I see out of state license plates everywhere and some are even from Idaho, but fewer of them.

Yes, lots of new infrastructure needed for all those new homes.

Yes, you are absolutely right. That's why the North East side off 16 is nice because you can at least avoid the slow down in downtown Star. However, the reality is that, unless you live in the center of Meridian in our valley, everyone has to drive through cross-town traffic to get to things like Trader Joes, and all the other shopping hubs, as there are only a couple of main shopping hubs in the valley. So if you live in Eagle, North West Boise, SE Boise, South Meridian, etc.. you are driving across surface streets to get to the main shopping hubs. Poor city planning throughout the valley for sure, but it's nearly impossible to keep up with an astronomical growth rate. The good news is, living in Star, you have your grocery stores and can get to Eagle easily, without too much traffic, to get to Home Depot and all the good restaurants there.

That would be lovely for home buyers if they would, but just because people's finances are getting stretched to the limit doesn't mean home prices will drop accordingly, unfortunately.

Heated homes and heated cars work pretty well for winter survival, I hear.

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The city of Boise. Boise County weather would vary a bit, as some of it borders close to the city of Boise so weather would be similar in towns that are very close to the border, but as you get more into the mountains, Boise County has colder, snowier, and longer winters than the city of Boise.