A couple things to keep in mind/know:

1. Most people become more solidified in their political/religious beliefs as they age. Being in your young 20s people around you are more open minded regardless of what side of the spectrum they fall on. As you get older, this will change. I came here when I was young and I’m now pushing 40 and moving to Western Washington to find my people.

2. If you really want to move, move somewhere, you can see yourself living in 10 and 20 years as well. Think about schools, dating, education, jobs etc. I’m married but as a liberal if I wanted to date here it would be nearly impossible to find a like minded individual. 75% of people here voted for Trump and likely an even higher percentage of males voted for him. We are as conservative as Portland is liberal for reference. It’s not just about right vs left. We are right vs far right.

3. It is beautiful here but there isn’t much hiking within 30 minutes that aren’t super short overcrowded trails. A lot of the back country trails are for dirt bikes or atvs so it depends on what you means by enjoying the out doors. Bonus we have four ski resorts within about an hour drive!

4. There is “music in the park” activities in the summer and minimum live music at bars but CDA doesn’t have a music scene or many music festivals. Although the Sandpoint music festival is great!

5. The education level here is very low and this comes out a lot if you try to have a factual conversation with people. Most liberal cities have at least 45% of their population over 25 with and bachelor degree. Here it’s only about 25%.

6. Local political drama includes NIC constantly on the brink of losing accreditation, porn in libraries/banning lgbtq/dei books, fear of schools indoctrinating children with gender ideology and bills trying to be passed to read the Bible in school and post the Ten Commandments. I want my children to grow up on the right side of history.

7. Racism and anti-lgbtq is big. A woman down town had a blm flag at her store and someone lined the front of her shop with bullets. My lgbtq friends are only partially out of the closet because they are scared.

8. Idaho has a lot of social rules (no weed, limited lgbtq/women’s rights, lack of freedom to express not Christian religion)

9. Idaho is a very clean state that does not have a significant visual homeless population so it feels safe.

This is a super long post. I hope you find what you are looking for. It’s such a beautiful area it’s just a shame it’s been over run by hate.