Salmon Idaho is still a very conservative little town, and most of the out of staters who are moving in have the same mind set. The issue would be the remoteness and if you need to be close to major stores, medical, etc. it could be too isolating for some.
I have spent the last 12 hunting seasons there chasing deer and elk and have made many friends who have lived in Salmon most if not all of their lives.
We are doing a two year trial run to see how we like the area and if we decide it works for us, we may just build a nice little Barndominium and stay longer.
There is NO perfect place, but some places are closer than others!
Here are a couple more classic photos from the late 1940's
The top photo is my friend Dwight posing with Sheriff Bill Baker's father up at the Baker homestead/ranch.....the ranch was 140 acres with lots of water an high up the hills above the Salmon River about 28 miles south of Salmon above Elk Bend....
The 2nd and 3rd photos show the cabin that old man Baker built from logs on the ranch in 1940......they lived up there year round and did some cattle, sheep, etc. over the years......sometimes snowbound during the winter for weeks on end.