The Meth problem is everywhere....anywhere there's rural land, there's meth sooner or later.
The main Couer D'Alene issue for us the the "LA" types moving there. The typical rude, self involved, botox types.
We're from Los Angeles, but we're just north of it...we're horse people. We live on a ranch. We like to rural living. These people want to turn Idaho into LA. I makes us crazy...
Couer D'Alene winters aren't Wisconsin or Iowa harsh. It snows, but it's not brutal!
Well, we're still thinking about moving there. The thing that first attracted me was the fact that for what I can sell my house in San Diego for, I could buy 2 or 3 houses up there WITH land.
Hopefully that won't change too much in the 10 years we have left till retirement.
We also liked Bend, Oregon and Spokane Washington areas.