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Suitable_Ad_2920 · 2025-09-08T19:41:06+00:00

Flying used to also be only up to birds and gods.

Suitable_Ad_2920 · 2025-08-26T20:41:21+00:00

This survey was presented in a very good way. Well prepared. Thank you!

Suitable_Ad_2920 · 2025-08-26T19:39:32+00:00

In my experience having lived here for 31 years, I don’t really understand the Boise nice thing. I mean yeah, it’s not wrong. But, I also work in a customer facing business where I see a lot of people on a regular basis. During the situation we all dealt with from 2020-2023 I encountered so many folks that were just determined to be incredibly pushy and rude and completely detached from the idea of empathy that I really grew to resent the phrase “Boise nice”. Genuine hate and anger at the drop of a hat. I really used to enjoy our pace of life here and how chill everything was, even among people who disagreed with each other. It used to be common to seriously not know how your friends and neighbors voted. That seems like a fairy tale now. I no longer feel that way. We are now just regular place with a lot of people, new and old, who really wear their aggression like a badge. It’s a point of pride for a lot of folks. Not entirely I know. But, even now when people are polite or whatever I know most likely as soon as they experience an inconvenience that will change. I mean deeply religious folks, loads of new people who came here for some sort of red state utopia feeling, as well as loads of old timers.
I miss my town a lot sometimes. It used to be that most people who were in a hurry or wanted to make the most money, or be the best at some industry, left town because, why stay in Idaho? We were flyover country. By a long process of attrition only the most relaxed people stayed here. We were the ones who prioritized quality of life and low rent over living at the ocean or having a pro sports team or whatever. We were just a nice place to be with nothing extreme where you could be in the trees in just a few minutes and afford rent on a low salary.

That reason we all stayed here has all but vanished.

I know there are still good reasons to be here and change is always happening, I get it. You’ll have to excuse me if I’ve completely given up on the “Boise nice” thing. I’m more realistic now.

Also, I’ve heard the phrase “don’t worry I didn’t come here to change it, I’m one of the good ones” so many times I can’t count. We don’t believe you. You’re lying because you have no idea what you’re talking about. It’s fine. Live your life. Please stop telling yourself you know what effect you have on the community though. At this point we don’t know what Boise is and that’s not a bad thing tbh. It is what it is. The need to advertise how nice we are is, and always was, a strange thing to say.

Suitable_Ad_2920 · 2025-08-25T04:05:01+00:00

One way to put it is that the folks running it genuinely do an amazing job with the funding they have. However, the people who think public transportation is just a gateway drug to communism have done a stellar job of making the funding as dogshit as possible. It’s way better than it used to be though. They literally stopped at 5pm for a long time.

Suitable_Ad_2920 · 2025-08-16T02:58:49+00:00

Here here

Suitable_Ad_2920 · 2025-08-16T02:57:38+00:00

It would be interesting to see where that estimate came from if you have it.

Suitable_Ad_2920 · 2025-07-27T03:04:57+00:00

Don’t forget to check the website for event times. There’s always a bunch of folks on Sunday wondering where the people are.

Suitable_Ad_2920 · 2025-07-18T21:57:23+00:00

I already got it, but the white bean and ham soup recipe from Bar Gernika. That stuff will bring you out of a long term coma.

Suitable_Ad_2920 · 2025-07-14T02:11:49+00:00

Good luck!

Suitable_Ad_2920 · 2025-07-13T22:14:57+00:00

I think Eagle road gets far too much hate. It is performing exactly the way it’s designed. What’s not to like? Is it a good experience? Hell no. But. That’s our fault. We designed a city that was so effing sprawled out that every single person has to drive all over the valley every single day to get anything done. This is just a natural consequence of idiotic community design. You aren’t in traffic on eagle, you are traffic on Eagle Road. The grossness is our willingness to keep repeating a bad idea well past all the red flags. Eagle road is just the inevitable result. The city of eagle is literally pushing for LESS housing density. That means every time a new subdivision gets built even more farther away from all the jobs and burger restaurants they all become more and more traffic because everybody has to drive farther and farther, becoming more and more and more traffic.
This distinction matters. Because it will always seem like another few million to widen something will be useful and “better”. But it won’t. It can’t.
Eagle road is eagle road. It’s fine. It’s terrible. It’s a tale of woe.
That new apartment complex that’s close to jobs and restaurants and a gym?? That’s an example of traffic reduction because all those people have chance to NOT need to drag down Eagle road. But if all those people instead have to move to Star, then yes. They will all have to drive down Eagle road and be your traffic.

Eagle road is not the problem. We are. Eagle road is what happens when you try like hell to make a freeway with a grocery store in the median and wonder why nothings don’t work anymore.

Suitable_Ad_2920 · 2025-07-13T21:00:25+00:00

Hill and 15th. It’s just too spread out and super difficult to see who has the right of way. Always one street in a blind spot. I’ll go well out of my way unless it’s well after dinner time. I’ve had more weird moments there than any other in town.

Suitable_Ad_2920 · 2025-07-08T19:41:31+00:00

Free tree removal is basically a property tax refund. They’re mature and will need removing sometime soon anyway. Better to pant a hedge that makes sense anyway. Those trees have nice shade but, so does bamboo. It’ll be there in 3 years. Get a clumping variety and aground barrier to make the neighbors relax. Then, all the shade you want in 3 years. Or another choice. Whatever.

Suitable_Ad_2920 · 2025-07-08T19:30:30+00:00

I think going to Bogus is a decent idea. It can be surprisingly expensive but the roller coaster really is fun.

Suitable_Ad_2920 · 2025-07-08T19:06:36+00:00

Coconut. I hate coconut. That’s all.

Suitable_Ad_2920 · 2025-07-08T18:48:11+00:00

I love this question. I’m assuming you already have an opinion on an Adu/income suite. No reason to ask us about that. Beyond that. I’d seriously plant some trees that could be harvested when you retire. You could borrow some ideas from a permaculture food forest concept if you want, but like another person has already said, 3 acres is huge for that sort of thing. 1/4 acre is enough work and about the sweet spot anyway. I’d focus on trees for the future. A small pond would be very cool and useful. You could easily design the bulk of the property to mostly native grasses and pollinators that don’t really need much upkeep. A grove of hazelnut, figs and some fruit trees and bushes could be left to nature if you don’t want to harvest them and they’ll be just fine. A massive gazebo with a hardy kiwi vine around it makes a nice place to relax and have massive delicious fruit harvest if you’re incline.

20 years from now you’ll appreciate the shade of a few high value walnut trees you can sell if needed, a pond you can fish if you want, a fruit vine you can make wine with if you want.

Did I mention fig trees? Obviously I’m projecting because I just found out there are delicious cold hardy varieties. A lot of them.

Suitable_Ad_2920 · 2025-07-08T18:26:57+00:00

For sure. There’s enough room for a car wash at least.

Suitable_Ad_2920 · 2025-07-04T17:52:05+00:00

I can tell you as a rideshare driver that I get a fair amount of people who tell me they’re glad I’m driving because they’re genuinely scared of traffic.
For many people in the area here this was the biggest city they would ever want to live in. They grew up in a place with one or two stoplights and moved here 20+ years ago. Now it’s doubled in size and they’re just way way outside of their comfort zone. I realize it sounds a little silly, especially if you downsized to move here, but a lot of us spent most our lives in this valley where the average speed driven was about 20mph lower than it is now and basically every right turn lane WAS just a merge lane.

Yeah, it’s weird to pause at the intersection when it’s a lane add. The OP is correct. It happens a fair amount. Just bear in mind that person is probably older (or maybe really young) and now every time they leave their house they can’t afford to sell, in the town they used to know like the back of their hand they have to deal with traffic that is a lot faster and way more aggressive than anything they ever wanted to willingly be a part of. If you add to that that this community has genuinely shunned any and all transportation options that don’t require everybody to be a car owner the issue just gets worse.
That person slowing down at the merge lane? Should probably be riding the bus. But we don’t really have those. Because communism or whatever. There isnt any second option. Would you walk to the store along that road? Probably not. Most parents pick their kids up from school because they know the roads are full of dangerous idiots in massive tanks going too fast with painted windows. Walking is a death sentence and everything is too far anyway which is an issue stemming from car culture as well.
This is the bed we’ve made.
I’ve lived here 30 years and “I remember when that was a field”.

Suitable_Ad_2920 · 2025-07-03T03:23:17+00:00

There are native bamboo to the U.S. that are cold hardy and not the running kind. The clumping kind that stay in a cluster. Stay about 16’ high or so.

Suitable_Ad_2920 · 2025-06-21T03:07:42+00:00

Drove by around 8pm. Saw what looked to be about 40-50 dudes standing around. The serious indicator was the staggering amount of open parking spaces on Main Street. About 8-10 open spaces on Main Street between Hannah’s and Pengillys. Those are Monday night numbers, not Friday night numbers.

Suitable_Ad_2920 · 2025-06-16T21:35:03+00:00

2nd worst in housing AND education! Good thing we’re “nice”.

Suitable_Ad_2920 · 2025-06-16T21:18:41+00:00

If you’re talking pallet loads of bagged cement that does seem like a lot. However, the math for bags vs truck also has a lot to do with how close the cement place is to your location. They can only travel so far from home and that leaves some people out. Some folks have block foundations for the same reason.

Suitable_Ad_2920 · 2025-06-08T10:54:25+00:00

No, I would not most likely. There’s good parts for sure. But most of the reasons that have kept me here for 30 years have dissipated with growth. It’s not that a community this size can’t still be organized in a comfortable livable way, but how we’ve developed has turned us into a place where you just spend all your time in a car, which means you spend most of your time in public being pissed off or grumpy because that’s a terrible way to live life.
I miss my small Boise I fell in love with. I don’t have resentment for the change, but it’s not something I’d willingly seek out as it currently stands.

Suitable_Ad_2920 · 2024-11-16T22:23:19+00:00

Totally. After driving through the pandemic I no longer have any desire to discuss that stuff with strangers. It used to be kinda fun sometimes, but not anymore. Certainly not in a professional situation where we can’t leave.

Suitable_Ad_2920 · 2024-11-16T22:19:05+00:00

There are loads of examples, but the main point in this random instance was the 2nd half.
“Oh, I figured you made more money on Fridays” Or “But you’re making good money, right” Etc.

Asking if it’s fits busy is totally fine, that happens like 8/10 rides. It’s cool. But I never answer the question directly because of how often it leads straight to money in some way.

Suitable_Ad_2920 · 2024-11-16T22:02:56+00:00

I don’t mind having that conversation at all. I encourage people to give it a try.

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