For the past three years I have been wanting to leave CA . I move in the first week of January 2015. The house in Carmen ID, the day we made the offer to buy.
Well done, sir! That looks like a wonderful place, and I'm sure you'll enjoy it alot. I know I would!
I've got family up in CD'A, they go back to the homesteading days. According to them, the first thing you need to do is get your ID lcense plates on your vehicles asap. Kalifornians are root of all ills, by their lights.
Good Luck Mickey on the new place. I hunted there in 1990 near Gibbonsville. Check out Haverman's hardware store in Salmon, they have many of Elmer's mounted heads. And change your license plates quick!!
Very nice. I was born, raised and lived (short of college in SLO) my first 35 years in the Cal East Bay. Though I am currently wrapping up a career working in Korea and have spent the past 10 years living/working outside the US we have landed two homes to retire to. One is in the Texas Hill Country and the other is in north Idaho. Best decisions we have ever made. Here's to a long, healthy retirement for you.
I can't imagine moving from SF to ID. Culture shock. Instead of the pretentious neighbor got a new BMW to replace his 2yr old Mercedes, smog reports and "Let's do italian for lunch; I know a great hole in the wall restaurant" with double tall mocha latte to "Hank borrowed the .243 to get rid of a few coyotes that were hanging out on his property."
Get a good bird dog and you'll make friends quickly.