Hey folks, Curtis Stone here. We're back with our video series exploring all the states and
provinces in North America and analyzing them through this context of homesteading.
Today we're going to look at the great state of Idaho and a couple of things off the top about
Idaho that are important. One relevant today's economy in today's economy is that Idaho is
expensive. You look at real estate in the good areas, which we'll look at.
It's very overvalued. You can find homesteads in other states.
Let's say you compare similar homesteads that you would find in Idaho to places like Missouri,
Arkansas, maybe not Texas, but Michigan, Kentucky. You can literally get 10 times more land for
the same price. Keep that in mind. A lot of people want to move to Idaho because of its
conservative politics. A lot of preppers are moving there. I find there's a lot of like-minded
people in Idaho. I like Idaho. I live fairly close to Idaho in southern BC here. I like it.
It's a similar climate to what I'm used to. You're going to see climate zones vary from
up high in the mountains. You'll see as low as zone three. You can get up to zone six and seven
in some parts. A big chunk of Idaho is really not that nice. I would say most of southern Idaho,
it's really dry. When you're down in the valleys, it's just all big eggs. It's you
want to live in this stuff. It's all dependent on wells, big aquifers that are feeding all of this
big egg. Those aren't very resilient aquifers and you're surrounded by poisons and chemicals,
so you probably don't want to be there. I find the best parts in Idaho are up here in the
green zone. Basically, this zone here is the best part of Idaho, but it's also difficult to
find property. Food for thought there. Your no-go zones are pretty much just the big city.
Even Coeur d'Alene up here, I might not want to live right in here, but it's not a bad place to
be actually. If you're up around in some of these zones, you might find some pretty cool
properties. There's a lot of amenities in Coeur d'Alene. You can just go over next door to Washington
to go to Spokane where they don't have, do they not have state sales tax in Washington? I think
that's the deal. I know a lot of people who've lived in Vancouver, Washington and then they
commute down to Portland to buy stuff and so they save because one state doesn't have
income tax and then the other state doesn't have sales tax, so something like that. I forget
either how it works out, but having that little state diversification isn't so bad. There's a
lot of amenities in Spokane. It's actually not that bad of a place. It's a liberal city
when you get in there downtown, but to go in there to get materials isn't so bad.
It's quite nice. A lot of people also live up in the Sand Point area, getting closer to Canada,
cool town, amenities like minor people, stuff like that. It's nice. It's got a nice diversified
climate. You're mostly in a Boreal climate up here and then down lower down here you're in
the semi-arid steppe climates which are not as conducive to homesteading.
Let's look at some areas we want to focus on, the good areas and they're all going to be up in
this part up here because it's green. There's water. There's no big ag or there's very little
big ag. You can see down here right outside of Coeur d'Alene in the peri-urban areas.
You've got some center pivots in there. You've got some conventional agriculture, but
there's not a ton of it.