WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.240 Hey folks, Curtis Stone here. We're back with our video series exploring all the states and 00:05.240 --> 00:09.700 provinces in North America and analyzing them through this context of homesteading. 00:10.340 --> 00:16.560 Today we're going to look at the great state of Idaho and a couple of things off the top about 00:16.560 --> 00:23.680 Idaho that are important. One relevant today's economy in today's economy is that Idaho is 00:23.680 --> 00:27.580 expensive. You look at real estate in the good areas, which we'll look at. 00:28.260 --> 00:34.760 It's very overvalued. You can find homesteads in other states. 00:35.900 --> 00:43.220 Let's say you compare similar homesteads that you would find in Idaho to places like Missouri, 00:43.540 --> 00:55.040 Arkansas, maybe not Texas, but Michigan, Kentucky. You can literally get 10 times more land for 00:55.040 --> 00:59.300 the same price. Keep that in mind. A lot of people want to move to Idaho because of its 01:01.580 --> 01:06.400 conservative politics. A lot of preppers are moving there. I find there's a lot of like-minded 01:06.400 --> 01:13.260 people in Idaho. I like Idaho. I live fairly close to Idaho in southern BC here. I like it. 01:13.440 --> 01:18.120 It's a similar climate to what I'm used to. You're going to see climate zones vary from 01:19.600 --> 01:31.240 up high in the mountains. You'll see as low as zone three. You can get up to zone six and seven 01:31.240 --> 01:38.480 in some parts. A big chunk of Idaho is really not that nice. I would say most of southern Idaho, 01:39.260 --> 01:48.100 it's really dry. When you're down in the valleys, it's just all big eggs. It's you 01:48.100 --> 01:56.740 want to live in this stuff. It's all dependent on wells, big aquifers that are feeding all of this 01:56.740 --> 02:02.480 big egg. Those aren't very resilient aquifers and you're surrounded by poisons and chemicals, 02:02.700 --> 02:08.000 so you probably don't want to be there. I find the best parts in Idaho are up here in the 02:08.000 --> 02:15.080 green zone. Basically, this zone here is the best part of Idaho, but it's also difficult to 02:15.080 --> 02:23.000 find property. Food for thought there. Your no-go zones are pretty much just the big city. 02:25.760 --> 02:36.700 Even Coeur d'Alene up here, I might not want to live right in here, but it's not a bad place to 02:36.700 --> 02:41.860 be actually. If you're up around in some of these zones, you might find some pretty cool 02:41.860 --> 02:49.480 properties. There's a lot of amenities in Coeur d'Alene. You can just go over next door to Washington 02:49.480 --> 03:00.760 to go to Spokane where they don't have, do they not have state sales tax in Washington? I think 03:00.760 --> 03:06.140 that's the deal. I know a lot of people who've lived in Vancouver, Washington and then they 03:06.140 --> 03:13.780 commute down to Portland to buy stuff and so they save because one state doesn't have 03:14.780 --> 03:19.680 income tax and then the other state doesn't have sales tax, so something like that. I forget 03:19.680 --> 03:25.140 either how it works out, but having that little state diversification isn't so bad. There's a 03:25.140 --> 03:29.040 lot of amenities in Spokane. It's actually not that bad of a place. It's a liberal city 03:29.040 --> 03:33.400 when you get in there downtown, but to go in there to get materials isn't so bad. 03:34.920 --> 03:41.360 It's quite nice. A lot of people also live up in the Sand Point area, getting closer to Canada, 03:42.760 --> 03:50.300 cool town, amenities like minor people, stuff like that. It's nice. It's got a nice diversified 03:50.300 --> 03:56.180 climate. You're mostly in a Boreal climate up here and then down lower down here you're in 03:56.180 --> 04:02.800 the semi-arid steppe climates which are not as conducive to homesteading. 04:03.920 --> 04:11.000 Let's look at some areas we want to focus on, the good areas and they're all going to be up in 04:11.000 --> 04:18.000 this part up here because it's green. There's water. There's no big ag or there's very little 04:18.000 --> 04:23.020 big ag. You can see down here right outside of Coeur d'Alene in the peri-urban areas. 04:23.020 --> 04:27.140 You've got some center pivots in there. You've got some conventional agriculture, but 04:27.840 --> 04:28.860 there's not a ton of it.