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- [Briggs] What is going on everyone,
let's take a look at the positive side of Idaho.
In the past, we've done some positive
and some negative videos about Idaho.
Whenever I do, I always get comments like
you just said Idaho sucks, now you say, it's great.
Make up your mind. Here's the thing.
Every place on the planet has its positives
and its negatives.
And then some things that are positive to one person
are a negative to another person.
I'm just pointing out some of the things you should know
before you move there.
Number two on this list is a perfect example of some people
find it as a negative others find it as a positive
Today we're looking at the bright side of Idaho.
Idaho regained the number one spot
of the most move to state last year.
It had slipped down to number three for a couple of years,
but it's back at the number one spot.
The gem state has almost 2 million residents right now
and the median household is around $52,000.
There's a lot of reasons people are moving to Idaho
and I'm gonna explain 10 of 'em,
in no particular order right now.
Number 10, their economy is booming.
Idaho has continued to have a booming economy
for more than a few years now
and it doesn't look like there's any chance
of it slowing down anytime soon.
According to the 2021 US news Best States Ranking,
Idaho doesn't just have the number one spot
for people moving there,
They also have the number one spot for economic growth
and fourth for fiscal stability.
So things look good for their future.
Even during the pandemic,
they're one of the least effected states
when it comes to work, workers,
unemployment and all that stuff.
Compared to the state's cost of living
their wages are pretty good too.
Number nine, a low cost of living.
Idaho has a low cost living.
That is always one of the main drivers
when a state is popular.
Cost of living and employment
are always at the top of people's lists
When they're looking for a new place to live
and Idaho is doing really good.
Matter of fact we just did that thing
where we kind of show how the cost of living is
compared to a hundred dollar bill.
Idaho came in 21st on that
and that's one of the states where
the value of a hundred dollar bill is better
than the national average
matter of fact a hundred dollar bill
compared to the national average in Idaho
is $107 and 80 cents.
That just sort of shows you
they have a really low cost of living.
Number eight the great outdoors.
Idaho has six national parks, reserves,
historic sites and monuments.
So those are like the tourist attraction, outdoor things.
If you're a local, you know, there's tons of hiking,
camping, fishing is insane there.
Anything you wanna do outdoors
is gonna be good in Idaho.
I mean, maybe not surfing and fishing for Marlin, okay?
you need the ocean for that. They don't have the ocean.
They got plenty of lakes, streams, rivers,
anything you need.
You wanna cast a line out, catch a fish,
whatever you wanna do,
you're gonna be able to do it almost anywhere in Idaho.
I say almost anywhere
cause they got a lot of those weird prepper people,
you know, that think the end of the world's coming
they're like hermits, they live out in the woods.
You gotta to make sure you don't go too deep
into the backwoods of Idaho.
you don't want to run into those people. They're not right.
Number seven, It's safe.
Idaho is ranked the third safest state in the nation,
right behind Maine and New Hampshire.
Nothing goes on in Maine and New Hampshire,
so you know you're doing good
when those are the only two states
that beat you in the ranking.
Now if you break it down,
they have the third lowest property crime rate in the nation
and their violent crime rate is 10th in the nation.
So you're safe, your stuff's safe,
It's a great place to be safe in general.
You don't have much to worry about walking the streets
in Boise or something like that.
Boise is one of the safest state capitals in the nation.
I mean, they'll never catch up with Montpelier,
which is Vermont state Capital.
When I'm looking at crime rates and stuff,
sometimes I'll go to the city and I'll see what kind of news
and what crime is in the news there and stuff like that.
And Montpelier Vermont,
they had a guy that was screaming profanity
a couple of years ago.
And this was the second time he'd been told not to
at a public park.
That was their big headline for their crime beat.
But if you wanna live in a nice, good, safe state,
Idaho is one of your best options.
Number six, environmentally friendly.
Idaho is a very environmentally friendly state.
It's not just the state,
the people are very conscious
about their natural environment.
And normally you wouldn't find this in a red state,
which Idaho is very much Republican red state,
but they are very environmentally friendly.
They're ranked actually 10th in the nation, which is solid.
I guess when you have so many people that love the outdoors,
you know, they're doing things outdoors,
they're conscious of their environment
and they wanna take care of it.
So if that's your thing, move there,
they have very clean water and their air quality
is always great.
Even in their bigger cities
which like Boise and Idaho falls.
Those are big for Idaho by the way.
But the air quality in their bigger cities is great.
Number five, fresh food.
Idaho takes pride in their fresh food.
They have a lot of farming here.
It's big agricultural state so they have a lot of farming
and a lot of the food isn't shipped in from out of state,
they grow it right there in Idaho
Per capita Idaho is one of the lowest consumers
of fast food.
They're also one of the healthiest states
depends on the year,
but they're always ranking around the top five,
maybe number four or number six, somewhere in there.
They're always around there as the healthiest people,
they get outdoors,
They don't eat a lot of fast food and their food is fresh.
Now what seems kind of weird,
but you'll see when you get there,
it's a thing and they are very proud of it.
Now, when I say proud,
you'll go to the restaurants and you'll see,
but you know, are high school kids
talking about how fresh the food is. No.
And if you're one of the people that think
that Idaho only grows potatoes,
you're in for a rude awakening, carrots,
beets, mint, onions, dairy products, they got it all.
Number four, you'll get all four seasons.
Now to some of you, this doesn't seem like a big deal.
I grew up in Southern California,
I moved to Oregon and to get all four seasons,
including nine months of rain, the change is nice.
If you're from Phoenix area, Tucson, Southern Texas.
You know exactly what I'm talking about.
It is nice to get someplace where they actually
might have some snow, things like that.
It's, kind of refreshing when you grow up in a desert state
and this is one thing that people like about Idaho.
Their weather does get a little crazy sometimes,
but at least you're getting different weather.
Like I said, I grew up in Southern California,
not too far from the beach and it never snowed there
in my entire life.
It's supposed to snow here in Portland, Oregon,
in a couple of days and we're all excited you know,
that's a big thing for us.
And if you do come from a place like Florida
or something like that
where you really don't get all the seasons,
this is a nice, refreshing change.
Number three, it's very much a red state.
So if you don't know American politics,
you got your red states, which are Republican conservative
and you got your blue states,
which are normally Democrat liberal.
Now I'm not talking bad about either party right now.
I'm just telling you that this is very much
a red state Republican and they like it that way
and they wanna keep it that way.
At least the locals do .
And they have a lot of problems
with Californians moving there
that are trying to change their state. Things like that.
That's an issue for them.
But if you are a Republican and a conservative,
this is a great state for you.
I mean, they'll have all the values,
all the things you want are going on here in Idaho.
And I know people will leave comments about that.
cause I actually mentioned something about politics.
It's part of American life that's what we do here.
We deal with American life and living in America
here on this channel. And that's part of it.
My opinion is both parties have good
and both parties have bad,
which one is worse than the other one
just depends on where you get your news from
and probably how you were raised or where you grew up.
That plays a big part of it too but yeah,
each one has their good and each one has their bad.
Number two. It is very gun friendly.
Now this is the one I was talking about
where some people will see it as a positive
some people will see it as a negative.
I mean the red versus blue state thing is the same category
you know, some people think it's great
some people think it's horrible,
but Idaho is a very gun friendly state.
Whenever you look at, you know,
they have different rankings,
there's no real way to rank it,
but they're always in the top five
when it comes to gun friendly states.
As an example, the percentage of people
that own guns there is pretty high.
For comparison the state that has
the lowest gun ownership percentage is Massachusetts
with 14.7% of the population owning firearms.
Montana being the highest with 66.3 ,Idaho is 60.1.
So they're pretty high.
They're number four on this list I'm looking at right here.
I was looking at that list and I found it very interesting
that Oregon is considered one of the most liberal states
and liberals usually don't have guns is what they think,
not in Oregon,
there about 55% of the population own firearms.
Vermont's right behind them.
That's another incredibly blue state.
All right, before we get to number one,
don't forget we have another channel called On this day.
There is a link for that below.
All right on to number one .
And number one, there's no traffic. Idaho has no traffic.
You will be hard pressed to find some,
even in their bigger cities like Boise.
And if you know,
there's five cars ahead of you at a stoplight,
that's not traffic.
If you think you have traffic in Boise
or something like that or twin falls,
move to San Francisco for three days,
you'll cry in traffic. That's how bad it is.
Los Angeles is even worse.
When it comes to traffic, Idaho ranks number five.
Now I've seen other things where they're ranked
number six and seven,
but I go by the bureau of transportation and statistics
and they have Idaho at number five.
They also rank Idaho as the third best
for transportation infrastructure,
meaning the rail and the roads are just excellent condition
compared to other states.
I'm sure someone's gonna leave a comment
about some crumbling road they have there.
Every state has those.
You just have the least amount of them
per miles of actual road laid down.
I was reading one thing and most people
their biggest complaint about the traffic
is when geese get in the road
and they gotta wait for the geese
to get out of the way.
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All right, that's today's list.
Hope you guys enjoyed it,
hope you got some information out of it.
If you're thinking about moving to Idaho,
it's not a bad thing to think about. It's a great state.
All right, everyone have a great day,
Be nice to each other.