What I like about being farther north is that the parasitic Obama voters like warm weather. It may be harder to grow your own with the snow and cold in Idaho, but it's a whole lot easier to keep what you grow. Granted, you can "shoot, shovel, and shut up", but you have to be awake and alert to do that. I'd rather have the reduced need to patrol the acreage.
Around my place on one of the least populated areas on the Rockies, burglary, theft and vandalism have been very common over the past ten years or so. Local crooks come from nearby towns and other so-called developments to do it.
The ground is dry, hard packed and sterile. Required permits and property taxes (most of the very few residents being from New York or New Jersey and desiring regulations, fees, etc.), favoring fake open range cattle operations (only seasonal—too cold for cattle), inhibit greenhouses.
Hard freezes come during mornings at any time during summer. Water rights laws only allow water for any outdoor usage (like gardening) on lots more than 35 acres. The bugs are numerous and very hungry for gardens (larvae from potato beetles, larvae other beetles, locusts,...) along with the jack rabbits and cattle (from seasonal development-wide cattle leases required for property tax reasons) and the hordes of prairie dogs for miles and miles.
Gardening can be done, but it’s very complicated and expensive. Planning and preparations for gardening must be done years in advance. A garden here must be like a climate-controlled fortress.