Exploring The Best Place To Live In Idaho
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- Idaho will never be the same. And that makes me sad.
We explored the resort town of Coeur d'Alene to see how the latest influx of transplants has impacted one of Idaho's last remaining small lake towns.
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Nick you should check out Salmon Idaho. Beautiful town small tons of public hunting land. Williams lake is breathtaking. It feels like you are in another country creating the hills and driving up on it. No Walmarts, targets I don’t think there was even a McDonald’s. Your viewers would love this destination!
Ford is a big fat liberal.. what a hypocrite. Smh.. The infiltration begins.
I heard years ago that obama bought a bunch of land in Idaho. Not sure if it's true but l wouldn't doubt it. They're doing anything they can to make people desperate and without choice. Usher in their agenda where they will be the only ones to own anything. Conspiracy? Yes, maybe, but it's sure looking that way.
People who paid off their home for retirement can't afford the taxes anymore because it's so high that it is just like a house payment.
It's not paranoia about the government, it's healthy discernment.
I think we can all agree with this message.
Yes the govt. totally corupt , I love my area and people, but no more growth!
Yeah, I doubt the AI street-bot infrastructure is too developed up there
they're definitely trying to genocide white people with mass immigration. state by state.
Indeed if heavy govt control is so great, we would see every American citizen move to California.
The theme of this is pretty much the same across the country. It used to be nice here. It used to be affordable here. Now the rich out of staters have moved in an ruined it.
it's mass immigration taking in 3 million third worlders every year. fewer and fewer white majority areas. utah and idaho are some of the last white areas its why theyre so valuable
@@Trek2539 nuttin wrong wit making some scratch
Not Coeur d’Alene, this place is not ruined no matter what anyone says! If Nick can’t find a single homeless person in a city’s downtown that’s how you know it’s safe
Yup, put Florida on the top of that list!
@NewHaven203 I live in CDA and don't think that we don't have homeless people, we definitely do. I live right down the road from their help center. Yes, they generally don't go downtown but they are here. Plus anytime a sizable community of them appears the city rounds them up and sends them to Spokane rather than deal with the problem themselves.
The lake bottom is full of lead, mercury and arsenic. The old mining days still keep giving. That's awesome!
Yes it is. From the old mines. We have always had trouble with it flowing into the Spokane River. Affects the fish...
Smoke Signals 😂movie is so funny 😂check it out. The Coeur d'Alene Reservation is a Native American reservation in northwestern Idaho, United States. It is home to the federally recognized Coeur d'Alene, one of the five federally recognized tribes in the state.
Come to Central California! We are all about agriculture!
We got all those metals in our lakes- as well as many herbicides you could ask for🤙🏻
I visited Coeur d'Alene a few years ago and it was also my first time visiting Idaho. As soon as we got out of the car and walked around the waterfront I said to my family "well, looks like the Californians have already ruined this place!". As a California native the town gave off such a California vibe that it was impossible to ignore and to be honest made me a bit sick. I absolutely sympathize with the locals who have roots in towns like this and are watching things change and not necessarily for the better. I spent four decades in CA and despite leaving 12 years ago I still run into places like this that are infested with the people I wanted to get away from. Some call it progress...I can think of a few more appropriate metaphors.🙄
I buddy wanted me to move to Couer d'Arlene for many decades and I just couldn't get myself to leave California. Now all I think of is moving to another state. Yet many cities in states I want to move to suffer from California pollution. Too many Californians who want to change the political climate in their new state.
I lived in CA and CDA is still a good place. Plus many people who came during Covid left when it was over and they realized the toughness of winters
As a fellow CA native I would like to correct something you said it's socal that's the problem even northern Californication can't stand the stepbrother from the south
@@mattg8787 actually the wokes and dummies come from SF. SoCal natives are often very conservative
@user-bz1wx6uu1b that's is true
There's something to be said about having the home you were raised in.
Stay with your parents even in their golden years when they really need you.
I'm one of the few in the country that can say I own the home I was raised in.
Inherited from my parents. They bought it in 1962 for $18,500. A beautiful house. Built with things they don't use anymore. Built the right way. My parents had it paid off in1967 and it's never been remortgaged or anything. Don't put your parents into expensive warehouses that don't care about them when they need you. They brought you up. Now you should stay with them when they need you. And I bet you'll be pleased when they pass. You'll feel good about what you did. And you too could say " I own the beautiful house my parents raised me in. "
Wow ❤️❤️
My wife and I are living in the house we inherited from her dad. We moved in with him for his last 6 months. It's not very big or fancy ( cheap home insurance) but we have a house in Hawaii that's paid for.
We gave my Mom and Dad what they wanted, to stay at home until they died(both in hospice). Then we moved into the house I grew up in for our retirement home.
@@NickJohnsonconcur!
i will consider your advice, makes sense after all;
especially with the “expensive warehouses” it pains me to see seniors left alone (i’ve been into senior living homes when i did caroling)
My sister has lived in Coeur d’Alene for 30 years. People with lots of money have recently moved in and the houses cost a fortune. Young couples can not afford to buy a house. They have started building “exclusive” neighborhoods and restricting public access to the lakes and surrounding beaches.
Yeesh.. That's awful.
Sounds like CDA is on its way to become the next Aspen, CO, or Jackson, WY. Beautiful places where homes cost $10 million minimum and only inhabited by billionaires who rent out their dozens of rentals to impoverished, young resort workers.
That is sickening.
The elected officials should stop that!
I haven't been there but know someone who has and he said the same thing about the beach. He said they keep limiting access to it where now only a small little strip is available for the public to use
Lucky and happy to call this place home! Glad you enjoyed your stay Nick!
Next time we meet John!
Me too!!
@@CynthiaSteele-o2g Me too
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Glad you made it to Coeur D Alene. I went to college there back in the 80s. North Idaho is beautiful. Sandpoint is a cool town also…. Hippie town.
Stay out of Sandpoint. We're full
It's not a hippy town, they're just a few pests, like rats. Everyone else there works for a living.
Yeah Sandpoint is awful. Definitely don’t come up here.
@@sincerelyspecial3386 lol, I get it. Sorry. I met some neat folks up there back in the 80s
...unfortunately, it's not a cool hippie town anymore. It's full of maga cultists and people who drive pickups while blaring their cliché country-pop out the window.
I'm so glad my brother is a black conservative. Lol. He fled SoCal in 2016 for Idaho and never looked back. I've visited two summers in a row. It's truly paradise. So beautiful that I don't mind being a rarity. But yes, the real estate has gone nuts. And my brother finds Californians less tolerable than he did when he lived there. 😂
It’s like they destroy their state… and they’re like “wHatEVeR, TRumP iS A CRiMiNAL I WoULd NEVeR VOtE REPuBLiCAN~”
Like, your loss Californian liberals. Ignore the homeless around you…
money talks
Idaho doesn't have that western vibe that Montana, Wyoming and Colorado have. It's more pacific northwest influenced.
The southern part of Idaho feels more like the west but the northern part feels more like the PNW.
That’s because this part IS part of the Pacific Northwest. Hence why this part of Idaho is on the Pacific time zone
Depends upon what part of Idaho you are in- big state. This video and area is definitely PNW. The southern and eastern are most definitely western…
The forest density makes north Idaho much different than the south or even Eastern Wa. I grew up in the Spokane area and in summer it was nice to go up into the cooler forested hills and mountains. North Idaho winter should still be the biggest reason not to move, even with the politically charged people.
Colorado does NOT have a Western vibe at all, hahahaha!
Maybe it did 50 years, but it's not "Western" here. Most of the state feels like CA 2.0.
But I will say the smallest and most remote towns have remnants of that great "Western vibe" that used to be here. But it's hard to find that.
❤ It was like 40 something seconds into the video you said,
"Back when the men were men and so were the woman."
Loved it!
There's not much of an economy in CDA to begin with. It's just a retirement community for old, rich ex-Californians mostly. It's a miniature version of Lake Tahoe. Very few people move there for work or to start a family because it's outright unaffordable for regular working Americans. For those regular people who already live there, their only options are to leave or face gentrification.
Historically it's also been a favorite retirement spot for organized criminals looking to stay out of any "spotlights".
They just work in Spokane area…if they can find a job there
Pretty sure “rich” is the operative word. Poor Californians (they exist) can’t afford to retire in beautiful places like this!
Agree. The main jobs are catering to the wealthy while you go poor. It was like that in Naples, FL, too. They’ll have to start including housing if they want to attract a work force just like Colorado ski towns do.
Nick hit the jackpot with the highly knowledgeable interviewee in this one.
Nick, I’m from Idaho and have been watching your recent voyage to our side of the country. Love your prospective, writing and humor. Keep up the great videos! Steve.
Steve!! ❤️❤️
You are visiting in good weather. Try visiting in February!
the 7 months of dreary is not what anyone wants. This town is sub par after 6 years of living there I do not anymore
Hi Nick! Your interview with the Idaho female was really eye opening!
(sorry don’t remember her name)
Her concept of having newcomers be required to assimilate into the local culture is 💯 spot on!
The entire country could use that 🤙🏻
The entire country is being invaded,they will never assimilate,
That used to be a given, more or less. "When in Rome..." and all that. You move somewhere YOU adapt. You don't force the locals to adapt to you. Don't want to adapt? Stay where the hell you are.
Well this applies to Canada..the people that built Canada are the minority now!❤
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Our small community in rural Ontario experienced quite a bit of growth during covid.
Now we have people demanding fenced in dog walk areas. Also if they see wildlife in town they want to call in animal control lol.
Please don't ruin Idaho.
Thanks California.
It will be ruined. It’s only a matter of time as the blue virus spreads from migrants leaving California. America is dead. Give it 100 years with this liberal spread and America will barely be livable at that point. I’ll be dead by then though.
it was already ruined by mining a long time ago.
Well, the USA was ruined many years ago with uncontrolled immigration from the southern border.
The uncontrolled buying of American land by China, Saudi Arabia, et al.
In the words of Bachman Turner Overdrive, “You ain’t seen nuthin yet”
Mining can NEVER do the damage Leftists do.@@yourface4248
Yeah I agree and I'm from California. To many sheep migrating to Idaho, Texas, etc then ruining the state.
Coeur d"Alene looks fantastic in the spring, summer and fall....Then comes winter....Lightweights say TO HELL WITH THIS! and quickly exit. Shout Out to Stateline Speedway!👍
Winters are not bad, even mild compared to to eastern Montana and anything on the eastern side of the continental divide
Winter is my fav time in cda. So many nearby snowboard resorts. Fun fact, cda population in winter actually explodes cuz of winter sports people
Winters aren't even bad there. Try Alaska.
I'm convinced people complaining about CDA winters are ALL from LA, SF, etc.
What a joke.
@@atatterson6992yeah it has the same weather as most other places of its latitude. Nobody from Chicago or New York would complain about it Lol.
As a Floridian I would like to go swimming in a lake and not be eaten by an alligator.
Same here!
Born and raised in CDA. I’m only about a third into the video here, but your description of the current state of our local economy and housing is uncanny. Good work Nick.
CDA is a small version of Lake Tahoe, a mountainous retreat/playground for rich people. Also, the winters are horrible. North Idaho is known for getting lots of rain and snow.
Rain and snow is what keeps the place looking so clean as well as green.
The winters are beautiful and we don’t get that much rain. I’ve lived in Tahoe and Northern Idaho, both have mountains and a lake, but that’s where the comparison ends.
@legitenoughtoquit I met a Lake Tahoe resident who preferred to fish Donner lake because he said the water is much cleaner at Donner than Tahoe. Someday I hope to even have the time just to fish for a few hours.
Not a lot a rain at all. We get around 32-40 inches a snow a year is all. 😃
Rich elites of both parties f--ked it up for us common folk. This is why I'm an independent.
Amen ! This is what most need to realize! It’s both parties fucking things up for us all ! We normal folk can’t enjoy natural beauty because the rich bought it all and are selling it to their rich friends!
We stayed in Coeur D’ Alene during the pandemic. We fell in love with the place and tried for a couple of years to move there. My hubby is an aircraft mechanic with almost 40 years experience and the local-ish a&p job offered him a job after he applied many times at a barely making ends meet wage. It is Uber expensive there but super hard to make a living apparently even if you have much experience in your field to move there. I still keep it as a bucket list wish. But I don’t think moving there will ever happen. Gorgeous, clean and an awesome place up my alley! Oh well! se la vie!
That's the paradox of Idaho. The wages and local economy cannot support the housing and other costs. Some of the jobs i looked at paid literally half of what they do on the east coast. If you're paying post pandemic house prices and you're not a remote worker, good luck.
Your husband should look into Kodaik Aircraft in Idaho....They pay a decent wage. Not quite CDA but, still in the area.
@@OtisFlintAnd I think it's that paradox that reveals fraudulently over inflated real estate prices are happening again like in early 2000s which caused the stock market to crash in 08.
Parts of Idaho are beautiful & crime free but it also gets cold in winter & many parts are remote 🆚 other places that have higher real easte prices because of location,location,location- nice weather/better climate , beautiful scenery, being near a coast, access to beach/ocean, low crime & not remote, where things u need can be found easily 🆚 driving 80 miles to get supplies or to work.
Rich Californians taking over.
@@ejgrant5191 Thank you for the tip!! 😊
My husband and I drove through there every year for Christmas (from Montana to Seattle). One year he and I stopped at a hotel and went to a restaurant by the beach that was an old fashioned dinner club. This was in the early 2000s. It has changed A LOT since then! It doesn’t even look like the same place!
I left SanDiego 10 years ago now I live in Eagle Idaho. I have been to Sandpoint so pretty!!!!!🥰
North Hollywood peeps no thankyou!! 🤨
Hey Nick. Come back here in the winter and let us all see what winter wonderland looks like. Okay!
In the 50’s my family nearly moved here from Malibu. My dad made an offer to an old guy living on the lake and was refused. A week later the guy said yes, but we were back on the beach … so said no. It’s trippy to consider how close I came to growing up here.
HI is nice. Minus all the brain dead democrats 😂
Thanks Nick! Love your content. I think the America most of us knew is gone forever.
It doesn't have to be in all the states. We can take it back if we stand together in the ones that are still America!
It looks beautiful and crowded…Not for me! I fled Colorado because of overcrowding, over development and congestion. I live in a place that’s 2 hours from the nearest town and love it. It seems like everywhere is getting overrun these days.
You are really out there. I'm like in a city--8 miles from a town of 500 and 2 hours from the nearest Walmart. 30 years ago I bought my place and locals though I got robbed $2500/acre. And I live somewhere in the Idaho Panhandle. No overcrowding here.
I just left the Denver area for the same reason. Came back to the city where I was born in central Kansas. "no one wants to go THERE" I was told by Denverites. Exactly the point.
Idaho is rapidly losing it's identity. Growth has been happening for decades but it's just the last 5-10 years that all 'major' cities in Idaho are changing for the worse. The parts of Idaho (especially northern Idaho) that people enjoyed for so long and what is attracting new people to the region is ironically going away as people flock to it.
Growth is usually better than decay though
If it were as simple as that dichotomy, sure. The what, why, and how something happens matters. Analogous to the human body, growth can be good or bad depending on how and why it happens. Are you growing with healthy lean mass or unhealthy visceral fat where you don't want it?
For cities, are you adding valuable walkable/bikeable places that retain the character of the town, or are you adding sprawled out/overpriced suburbia that is indistinguishable from where all these people are coming from?
the problem is there's only a few white majority states in America now. Idaho/utah/montana/wyoming/vermont/dakotas/nebraska. so they're becoming rare and valuable.
Not at all @@aboutface102
Biden has shipped in 500 Congolese into Boise, Idaho Thousands of Afghans. @@manager4409
We have friends who moved to North Idaho, but it didn't take long for them to relocate to Boise. North Idaho was simply too remote.
And we didn't want them.
Good to hear, we're just south of Boise and looking at N Idaho. More remote the better!
Well they can enjoy their yellow hills instead of pine tree forests.
Boise area population has doubled in the last thirty years. Unless you want to be crowded don’t move here. I personally benefit because my house value has gone up. A $60k house thirty years ago can sell for $300k now
@@Idahoguy10157not bad dude. Good for you.
Great videos lately! I really like the full length commentary.
The rest of America looked like this in the 1950s. They better keep building more houses. Whats left of America is headed this way.
I'm currently reside in Annandale Virginia, I've watched many videos of this city and surrounding areas from the 70s and it's mostly white 😄.. now it's like 75% Hispanic and the rest are middle east since near by are apartments and housing.
My family is from that part of Idaho. I always love going there to visit. Great towns, cities, and people.
the local homeowners are:
1. selling their homes for higher prices. if they didnt want to sell to outsiders, they wouldnt.
2. raising the rents for locals. if they didnt want to raise the rents for locals, they wouldnt.
My grandfather built a cabin in Rockford bay on the lake. I spent every summer of my childhood there. I'm sure it's worth millions now.
I moved here JUST before the pandemic. I can say with confidence that I will never live anywhere else.
@@SSNESS 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣Wrong😂🤣
@@SSNESS um.. no. Not even close to true.
@@SSNESS completely false. Idaho is incredibly safe compared to almost every other state. All crime data back this up.
@@SSNESS go away troll
That's changing bc it's being overran by California. Too bad everyone is moving here
I'm from Spokane, which is about 40 mins west of CDA. Most folks in the area wish the Californian folks would stay away. Love your videos, Nick!! ❤
Maybe if the other 49 states hadn’t sent all their wannabe actors, models, and bums to California and ruined it, you all wouldn’t have the problem of Californians moving in.
Looks like a lot of people listened to the B52's and decided they wanted their own Private Idaho.
Hello from Hayden, Idaho. Thanks for coming!
sorry for your loss
I live just 25 miles away. It's clean and conservative.
They’re flooding the Florida panhandle and I hate it. I’m so sick and tired of this.
It’s over for Idaho, Boise is already super liberal and it’s spreading. Good run though.
The woman at the end is falsely optimistic about the future of CDA. Any place that becomes a playground for the rich rarely goes backwards. The politics will change (it's already changing) and the division of wealth will get wider. Future Jackson (Hole), Wyoming.
Before you move, stay a winter amd see if you can withstand it.
Particularly in February
Winters suck but pretty mild compared to northeast states . It’s the never ending grey skies that get old.
Because of no major job base at $7.25 minimum wage, the Idahoans commute to WA for higher paying jobs starting at $15.74 minimum wage.
Ain't nobody working for minimum wage here. The local fast food joints are begging for people at $18/hour.
@@khester7397 Considering those arent really liveable wages by todays standard, its why they are "forced" to bring up their wages, as the "min" wage hasnt been adjusted to "liveable" since the reagan era when our jobs were outsourced for cheap labor; its why strong labor unions don't exist anymore; the corporate nazi's ran them out of town. Local business's are like tyrants, they oppress their own family into doing their own slave labor, tis why lot of the jobs are focused around nepotism. The smart people left their towns for higher wage jobs; its why you only see lot of white "old" people left behind for that "slow" slow pace of living, and lot of their young children fled to blue states to enjoy. Seems quite common with other conservative states, you see a lot of old people left behind in a barren land.
@@koilamaoh4238Oh, please. I'm so sorry you can't afford a mortgage and send your kids to college by working the drive through window as a lifetime career. Delusional.
The Rockies have the most beautiful cities in America! Coeur D’Alene is stunning!
cant live on stunning
My city 38 years. It ain't what it used to be
It's not supposed to be the same. Everything changes you silly old fart.
No it is not. At one time Richard Butler was leading KKK marches thru downtown CDA. Now it's becoming Californicated.
Native Americans thought the same.
But it's still great right?
On an after graduation road trip in 1971, we lost a nut holding up the cross member that carried the transmission. Couldn't go forward or backwards. Threw out our sleeping bags just off the road around the lake which was only gravel at the time. Never once thought about bears or cougars. Next morning, fortunately found the nut on the road and the 4 way lug wrench fit the nut. Back on the road. It was June and the thermometer at the gas station said it was 37°.
Coeur D'Alene, one of my favorite parts of Spokane...
Except CDA is in America, and Spokane is in the Socialist Peoples Republic of Washington.
@@khester7397 Subaru percent is even worse
@@natesteiner5460Don't have communists running the state.
Spokomton
We were just there the middle of September. We are from MT and it's a beautiful drive to Coeur d'Alene. You might be surprised that a man from California asked us what we thought about the American Prairie Reserve while we were eating breakfast. He had just spent time in Lewistown, MT. We said that we back the SAVE THE COWBOY landowners. Coeur d'Alene was fun, but we were just visiting.
What?!? Wow! Save the COWBOYS!! 🤠
Beer is pronounced coke an knee, my fav, really enjoyed your Montana and Idaho videos, thanks Nick!
Kokaneeee
I have never been there. Once I get home from working in the Treasure Valley I don’t want to leave. I think the reason it’s so nice here is there are so many people who love God and respect their neighbors In Idaho- let’s keep it that way.
Also, winter is very cold there. Very
not always. depends on the year
When your out of the way town gets a whole foods it’s time to find a new town
We don’t have one.
Thanks Nick!
(Sometimes i haven't anything to add, but comments help the algorithm)
You covered this well!
Cool, thanks!!!
@@NickJohnson Hey, i let the ads play too!
❤️ to you and fam. 😊
Aww the ads 💕 😀😀
Go to Bend Oregon and see how the rich can ruin a town. I lived in Tahoe City for 11 year and got out.
I moved to north Idaho (Post Falls) in 2018 & loved it! Great people, beautiful summers and a short drive to Sherman Ave in CdA. But then came the winter!! No thank you! My Five year plan lasted only four years. I finally said ‘NO WAY’!!! Happily living in southern AZ now.
Dang! That's like one extreme to another!
We moved to Southern Arizona 7 years ago and love it!☀️We moved from the Puget Sound area in Washington. 20 years of rain and darkness to sunshine almost every day!!😎🌵☀️Yes!! Pool time into October ♥️
the winter on the roads in northern idaho makes travel almost impossible.
Winters here really are mild to us who live here. Every three or four years it can get bad, but okay really. Love skiing and mountain sports, it is awesome.
Much nicer, but Arizona is becoming liberal…
CDA local checking in.
The root problem is really the 2 drastic increases in the overall cost of living once in 08-10 and the bruital one in 20-23 (it had been rising slower between14 & 19), Idaho is extremely slow for incomes to catch up with the cost of living, also Idaho doesn't have much private land available, over 70% of the state is federal land wich adds to the cost of housing, additionally Idaho does not really have a lot of good paying industry to get employment in.
That is overall the basis for why so many are not all to fond of transplants.
This is a problem affecting the entire state just in case you aren't aware.
Yep. Reagan and crew did a good job with the Omnibus Tax Reconciliation Act of 1986-87, but then they "adjusted" the CPI so that we had no accurate measure of inflation -- especially for housing and energy. They did it because of Cost of Living Allowances -- COLA's. Had those been adjusted accurately, everyone would have known. Then again, WHAT did ewes expect? Borrow $33 Trillion / Blow it ALL up = Peace and Prosperity?
You're not an exception. It is this way anywhere good in America. Especially places with very few black people. The brutal reality is the whiter a community is, the better the chance of it being a good place. Now with mass illegal immigration, we have yet another scourge to deal with.
Well done Liberals.
I was born and raised in Coeur d Alene, my heart hurts to see how our town has changed.
My wife and I stayed in Coeur d'Alene in 2018 for one day on our way from Portland to Glacier Montana. The Hotel we stayed in had a bomb threat just one minute before we were about to check out. They made us exit out the back of the building with all our luggage and we could not leave until the entire building was scanned and cleared. 2 hours later of sitting outside, we were notified it was a false alarm. Wasted a good half of our day. It was a trip we'll never forget.
A outstanding profile on a quite hot Idaho housing market! You do a fantastic job editing all the terrific footage, mixed with your entertaining commentary, very nice!
I grew up in this area in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. I always thought I would never leave, but my career moved me all over the country. Idaho was always Very affordable and very beautiful. My wife and I wanted to retire here, but family matters required us to move to Sacramento, and I thought we would go back to CDA sooner, rather than later. So far, we have not been able to move back here, and it is getting pricier by the minute! Hopefully, we will be able to move back to my beloved Idaho in the not-too-distant future, and hopefully it will still be there by then! Man, I sure miss it!
Sacramento is an arm pit city, i live in roseville 30 min north and sac gets worse each time i visit
Kootani County where CDA is voted Republican. So the CA we've got vote conservative. In the small logging towns and farm towns outside of CDA everyone still has a gun rack.
Eek!
@@vickierafael3668 You "eek!" a gun rack?! GTFOH
I see people open carry in CDA on the regular. In Costco, at the gas stations, everywhere.
@@khester7397 That's because the state is full of many kinds of deadly animals! It's just a matter of personal protection.
If you want to see homeless, visit Spokane WA. Very sad situation.
Amazingly bad policies, Spokane is only a hop, skip and jump away from CDA
last time i was in CDA it was already 15 years ago. things do change. I missed the old golden days tho. Things are simplier and cost of living isn't as high. Fancy CDA now.
The feces floating in the lake was my favorite part
Took the family down there for a few summer holidays. Beautiful spot. Kids love Silverwood! Sooo many Canadian tourists. But most are from Consrvative Alberta so they fit right in! The town gets a lot of tourist money! And its pronounced co-can-ee
When north Idaho secedes, we'll probably have to invade Alberta and help the insurgent forces there liberate themselves from the rest of China junior.
I hear some Albertans want Alberta to join the US because apparently Canada sucks… dump ruined California for Alberta?
Omg!!!! yeah just blame it on Alberta Canadians!! I dought theres even a handful of Albertians but it must be all the albertians!!! Not californians? where you from? yeah blame it on Canadian tourist!!!!!!! thats like saying Banff Alberta sucks cause of all the american tourist wreaking our rocky mountains!!!
Your videos are a treasure. I can tour the country before I actually leave... and know where to go and not to. Thanks Nick.
It's beautiful and clean
I lived in Cd'a 95-2019. It was a logging driven industry driving cda along with the tourism. The environmental movement squashed the industry. Yes, the Californians brought their ideologies. Fyi I excavated a lot of the homes on the lake. My house was a block away from Sanders Beach. I was on the cusp of the Mansions. Block parties consisted of judges, lawyers, business owners etc..
Great community values!
The north American fair trade deal (NAFTA) hurt logging. It gave Canadian lumber an advantage in the US market. Thanks, George Bush Sr.!
He assassinated JFK too. What a guy.
I bought a home up there 2 years ago, and I am sick to see the amount of liberals that have infected that place. From the local attorney from Spokane that ran that library book ban campaign to "save kids" and "protect democracy", to the "pride" fest in the park every year. I have seen them do this to Orange County in the 90's, to Vegas in the 2000's, to Colorado, and now Phoenix. They are like a horde of locust that seek out peaceful places and destroy them.
This environment is exactly how I remember childhood in Beaverton Oregon. After the 90s it was never the same
The same thing happened to Bend, Oregon. Use to be a quite small town.
😮 😢 so sorry
Sounds like Santa Fe, that city was affordable till California discovered it.
Nice place to visit but it's just a forested, mountain retreat hideout for the rich. A sort of Lake Tahoe type of mountain resort town. Not exactly livable for normal people. Then there are the horrible winters, mountain roads and Moose everywhere which you may end up plowing into on the roads.
I wish we saw a damn moose 🫎
@@NickJohnson
The Interstate between CDA and nearby Spokane Valley, I90 is notorious for vehicle collisions involving Moose. Definitely don't want to hit one of those.
I was just in Coeur D'Alene last month (from Colorado) scoping it out for a new place to live. Coeur D'Alene, Athol, and Sandpoint are all beautiful places with a lot to offer if you love nature and the outdoors. Must love God, guns, conservative values, cold temperatures and snow too. I'd move there in a heartbeat but real estate is just too expensive. I could easily rent but I want to buy. I also saw that guy in the knights armor walking around the lake, I don't know what that was all about lol
Coeur D' Alene Idaho is the best town I've seen with a lot of nice homes well kept up neighborhoods no street pot holes it sure beats Jackson Mississippi. 😀 L.O.L.
😁😛😆🤠
Before you move to Idaho from California, just know that the only thing we have to eat here are our famous Idaho potatoes. But at least that's considered vegan...
We still hunt them with scary "assault" rifles though.
@@khester7397and carry em through town often.
You shouldn't have told them that! LOL
41:06 THAT is a new one for me! I've NEVER seen a auto race with boats towed behind them before!
I first heard of Coeur d'lame, 7 years ago maybe. A TH-camr I followed, an outcast from Hollywood and complete reject moved to Sand Point. He started a cult, a couple of years before - grifted the truth community and crowd funded land in Idaho.
So I am enjoying the look at this beautiful, American hidden treasure !
Thank you for bringing us into a world we have little chance of seeing by ourselves !
Let the gravy flow.
@@berinmind Yeah, the gravy is crushing !😙
Don’t forget… the cult leader has an IQ of 170. His mom said so. 🙃
That park would be ruined in Kona too. Hawaii needs to learn what Coeur d'Alene does to keep the crackheads at bay and implement it promptly. I can see why so many want to live there
Not gonna happen, Hawaii “leadership” is as m@rxist as California’s
Our police don’t put up with it. They don’t even let homeless people beg on the street or hold signs. Most of the homeless stay in Spokane Washington which is about 40 minutes away and where they are allowed to do whatever they want.
That's what I get being born and raised in San Francisco. People think I'm bull shitting. And, it's very annoying when someone who has lived here for two years say they are from San Francisco and then try to tell me the best places to go. So, I guess it's kinda the new normal for all parts of the country.
Coeur d' Alene is great, I vacationed there a dozen times with my family. IN SUMMER! when we packed into our Ford Escort GT and drove up from the Bay Area. The road trips were almost as good as Idaho in retrospect.
Super fancy Idaho-who knew?!?!? Celebrities like the Kardashians and the Biebs have homes here….just to name a couple…. The secret is out! But, it is no doubt a very super nice place! And the plane ride over the lake is the coolest!!
Too bad they didn't let us drive huh?
Why would these people want to live in this state when they pushed for the liberal BS in their own?
You want fancy? Go to Beverly's on the 7th floor of the resort. A great place for cocktails with an amazing view! Cedar's is also nice on the 4th of July! 🎆🎇
OMGosh I justed noticed 😮 You're pushing ONE MILLION 😊 🎉 Congrat's 🎉
I too live in Coeur d'Alene. One thing you have missed in showing Idaho in your videos is the harsh winters we have. The year I moved here there was over 120 inches of snow. Average is 70 but most years we experience at least 90 inches. So come back in the winter and see how difficult it is to get around, especially if you are older. It has caused me to look elsewhere for a place to live. That has been difficult to find so far. Also, the Sherman Ave area you highlighted near the resort is mostly tourists. You missed much of the real Coeur d'Alene. Great to have you visit. You were within 1 block of where I live in the beginning of this video. Would have loved to meet you! Come back and see us again.
Wouldn't be so bad if the authorities de iced the roads better
I am older and can't get out of my own driveway because of the snow. And you would think you could find a service that would clear it but it takes them forever to arrive if at all. Not great when you have to get to work or have an appointment you need to be at. It is also very expensive. Unless you live with a homeowners association that clear it for you (my street is cleared but my driveway and walks aren't), it is beyond what my retirement income can handle. Just a heads up for people who want to retire here unless you want to live in a condo@@dancarlin5434
They used to do a nice job, then abruptly stopped for some reason
Nice expose on Cda, born and raised here. In the construction industry I truly hate working on the megahomes. That shoreline property is where we used to play. Now..gated. I still have hope but honestly..I may have to leave my home. You did a nice job presenting Coeurdalene and Wallace. Thanks bud, hope you enjoyed your visit.
At 56 sec...how the eff do they even build those houses so close together, literally you couldn't even swing a hammer without hitting the other house behind ya.
I’m glad you didn’t spill beans on my hiding place !
Interesting video. The lady's story about buying a home until 5 years ago and if not you're screwed, is almost like it's about the Netherlands. Exact same mechanisms working. The same categories of hardworking people see a home of their own floating out of reach. I got a house for €240,000 five years ago, now it's €500K. I never expected something like that happening far far away in Idaho.
It's happening in most places across the US.
The politics here in Idaho haven’t changed. Not yet anyway. It’s still a one party state. The one party is feuding with itself over how right wing Idaho will be
You're right, though I would frame it as actual freedom lovers fighting with authoritarians.
@@khester7397 …. I was using popular vernacular that people would understand. The Republican party in Idaho is feuding internally. Except it’s now made it’s was into courtrooms.
The republican party is filled to brimming with traitorous criminals. Brad Little and all the other amoral Idaho politicians haven't met a federal dollar they weren't willing to pimp their constituency for.
Sounds horrible. Pukes
Idaho wasn’t always this way. When Dan Evans , a Democrat, was Governor, Idaho was the best it has ever been. Frank Church was senator, a Democrat and has always been described as the last honest politician in the US Government. Not all of us are rabid right nutcases so please confine your prejudices to the ballot box. Been a shooter and Hunter my whole life so your second amendment threats don’t fly here.
They do have homeless the just ship them over to Spokane and make them deal with it.
We just don't feed the vermin. They go to the handouts in The Peoples Socialist Republic of Washington on their own.
Also, those of us that live in beautiful Spokane, WA have those in Northern Idaho travel daily to Spokane for better paying jobs. The commute traffic from Coeur d' Alene, Post Falls through Spokane Valley and into Spokane are tenfold of what it used to be. Let alone how the medical services have been strained and has increased the doctor shortage. And we follow closely behind as having one of the fastest home price increases in the nation. Close behind Boise. We call it Californication here... About 60+ percent of the locals cannot afford to buy a home here. Yup. We have lots of 20 year olds still living at home and going to college/working. Rent is sky high! We have a beautiful city and since it is only 30-40 minutes from North Idaho it is attractive for people to move here. And we have the largest Theme Park/Amusement facility in the Pacific N.W. just an hour and 1/2 away. Right in N. Idaho. So this is what draws people. I grew up thinking it was normal to go to the lake in the morning and fish and swim and go jet skiing in the afternooon and then be home in time to fix dinner in the Warm months and in the Winter go skiing for the day and go home and get ready for work the next day. I should have known the word would get out... Darn Californians and those blasted Khardashians! Posting pictures of Lake Coeur d' Alene on their twitter account... 😡
Spokane sucks! Inslee ruined it and the homeless issue has ruined my once wonderful city!
@@terrifiorelli9819What you said.
@@terrifiorelli9819 Actually I have seen the bum situation getting much better. But I sure as hell don't want it looking like Seattle. So yeah... It p@sses me off too that we are having so much trouble with the homeless situation...
Dial back the welfare and you'll have fewer bums and more people in Spokane will have to work those jobs the Idaho folks are doing now.
@@khester7397 I love that! The state of Kansas instituted tough laws on panhandling and went after the people giving panhandlers money. It helped cut back on the number of bums. You cut out their easy money for drugs and booze and they move on... Or are forced to get cleaned up. It is what we should do in Spokane. We already know that many of them make a good tax free living doing this. We just need to make it a non viable source of income and make them get clean and go to work. We have many of the bums come from the larger cities like Seattle as they are overwhelmed so they give them a free bus ticket and send them here. Idaho just has not seen as much of that as we have as we have the coastal cities like Portland and Seattle which have big problems. Don't think it won't eventually show up more in Idaho. This is a big problem for many of the larger cities across the country. We need tough laws and they need to enforce them!
Duane Hagadon the big developer was behind a lot of the development. Coeur d'Alene used to be a mining/logging town. There is still a lot of pollution from the mines still in the sediment from the lake and river. Which is carried into Spokane. The young people get jobs in Spokane as the minimum wage is high. Washington State's minimum wage is going up to $16.28 an hr. January 1, 2024.
I just left the longest comment ever. Is Duane the one with the building just offshore of the resort? Is he the one that does the Retro wood boats?
@@timr9257 Yup. Believe so. He has his hands in a bunch of stuff. Kind of like the Cowell Family in Spokane. They own the Spokesman Review(our newspaper), a t.v. station and a bunch of properties/businesses and parts of the downtown core... So people like this can really control the direction of a city and nearby towns. Yes Hagadon has reached into Spokane too... People with lots of money can really mess up your local livability for the lower to middle income people.
Sounds like Coeur D'Alene is experiencing the same situation most of Colorado has been experiencing for years (especially the mountain towns): rich transplants moving in and driving up the cost of living for the locals. My hometown and all its surrounding towns is a more severe example, where average home price is nearly $1 million now. Stores are always short staffed cause the only people who can work there are young people who still live with their parents. Most people I went to school with either moved to another state to get ahead, or they stay living with their parents all the way through their 20s. I chose the latter, for the same reason many others do: this place is really beautiful. There really aren't many other places in the country like Colorado's mountain towns. And that's part of why it's so expensive (limited supply!). If more towns in the USA did what CO's small towns do, the cost of living here wouldn't be utterly insane like it is currently.
Shortly after covid Amazon moved into the Spokane area all the houses in Idaho Coeur d'Alene area went up probably 30% in rent in the first year and probably 50% and ran in the second year and I'm afraid to see what they turn into in the next year😊
I am pretty sure that happened just about everywhere. We moved to Mexico to get away from the divisive politics and home prices here have skyrocketed the past three years.
I need a Nick & Mappy bobble head or Funko Pop! Get’er done Nick!
Lol that's a good idea!