Retirement Elk State

[Special T]

Water rights are huge. Ive posted about it a bunch on here. Many Counties in ID dont currently have building codes or permitt requirements. In my dream world Id build a small Earth ship on my 10 acres back ed up to forrestry land. It would my vacation home until i retire and then when i retired Id move in and expand it...

[C17loadclear]

Sorry if I an hijacking this thread but my wife and I are also currently looking at retiring out west.  She is from the wetside and is not going back..We spent some time looking in Colville area and really liked it.  We have thought about Montana and Idaho but being a retiree (military and civil service) makes Wa. very attractive. Alaska is out cause my wife said she would be arrested for homicide in the winter   I have come to conclusion that each state is going to get their money from you one way or another but to tax your retirement (esp military) is something that I have a really hard time with.  So with that being said, how about living on the east side of wa and being able to go into Idaho and hunt.  We are possibly 3 years out and planning a scouting trip for this summer. I think we are going to check out the Libby area as I have heard it is great.  Thanks!!

[JimmyHoffa]

Sounds like you found an angle.  Just have to see if all the non resident difference in hunting doesn't exceed what would be taxed by living across the border.  I've heard of plenty of people that shop in Portland (no sales tax) and live in Vancouver (no state income tax) to get the border bennies.

[WapitiTalk1]

Well, it appears that Idaho is getting the nod. I wasn't quite ready to pull the plug (wanted to do this next year at the earliest) but I asked Mrs. Phantom to poke around for homes/property where she would be happy living in one of several mountain states and she's locked in like a pitbull with a bone on the Sandpoint, ID area. Geesh, asked her to do some initial "shopping around" and she's found a place already. We may be putting an offer in "if" our realtor comes back with our questions answered to our satisfaciton. Will keep you cats posted.

[TVHunts]

 Hope it all works out well for you.  I think Sandpoint is right at an hour North of CD'A.  It's a real nice area and on my list also.   I am hoping to be out of here in 2-3 years myself. 

Best of Luck to you

[Fullabull]

Congrats on the decision. I keep showing my wife that area, Mccall Idaho and golden CO but can't seem to convince her to move out of WA because of our kids. My daughter would follow us to CO but my son's girlfriend who he will probably marry would probably not leave her mother here so it keeps us stuck.

[andrew_in_idaho]

I grew up in Mt and move to Idaho little over 20 years ago. I love both states. Idaho is more conservative and I love that. I also think the Fish & Game is more pro hunter/sportsman in Idaho. With that being said I would still choose Mt . There is a never ending pipeline of people from mainly California moving here and it is getting too crowded for me.  Mt still has a lot more wide open spaces.

That seems to be a common theme of Californians moving north and east. That state must be drying up with work or they don't know how to fight wild fires?

they are running out of water too!

I've read that 80% of their water goes to ag with about 10% going to rice.  I'm trying to think of what the most water intensive crop is?  Meanwhile they block lots of desalination plants in/near the coastal cities out of fear that it will lower property values.

The Californians are all moving away because liberal policies have ruined a once great state, they move to idaho or Montana where the money from selling their starter homes in Cali can buy them a mansion in ID/MT, then they go about their business of voting for liberals and ruining once great states. After they are done ruining ID/MT then they will probably do Wyoming and the Dakotas. Eventually the only place they will be able to go is Mexico and essentially we will let the Mexicans have the scraps of this country.

Oh and they would actually have enough water in Cali if they weren't trying to supply a population 3X the size it was the last time they allowed a dam to be built. Also doesn't help that nestle has the largest water bottling plant in the world down there

[RadSav]

I asked Mrs. Phantom to poke around for homes/property where she would be happy living in one of several mountain states and she's locked in like a pitbull with a bone on the Sandpoint, ID area.

I like the Sand Point area.  Have a few friends that have retired there.  But I thought you said you wanted "More Conservative" and "No Wind"!  Not so sure Sand Point fits those descriptions.

[trophyhunt]

Sand point is beautiful, we are also moving in about 10 years to Idaho or Montana.  I keep hearing salmon is very nice.  Have an uncle that lives in Thompson falls Mt.  Gonna be a tough choice, I love Idaho, but Thompson falls is very nice.

[elk247]

My wife and I were seriously looking to move to either Montana and Idaho also but family and friends is stopping us.  Also in both Idaho and Montana you will be paying much more for your vehicle licenses like we used to prior to the Tim Iman initiative.  What we need in Washington is for Mt Rainier to blow its top.  The mud slide would wipe out lower Pierce and King County and and the liberal, socialist, anti-hunting, anti-gun, anti-American pukes.  We also need to get the dumb asses that don't vote to vote.

You can always make new friends. I hear northern Couer D' Alene is affordable.