Anywhere in the Northwest is great, and is everything you mentioned, just stay away from the big cities. They're like all other big cities.
Thanks for the northwest geographical recommendations, folks.
North Idaho is honestly what got me looking at the NW in the first place. I saw the movie DANTE'S PEAK, and at the beginning when they pulled back on that idyllic little downtown area, I said, "I don't know where that is, but I want to live there." When I saw the lake in front of Grandma's cabin, I stared with my mouth open. I did a lot of research and found that the little town was Wallace, Idaho. Grandma's cabin was in some entirely different area, but still North Idaho. Spectacularly beautiful.
Any certain areas to recommend within North Idaho, TLI?
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