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[Wally Dog]

from the Idaho Statesman 10-21-04
where do these people come from?


Why I hate Idaho

I hate Idaho. From the hobo spiders to rattlesnakes, to the people who dress up in camouflage to pose with their precious newborns, from people who celebrate new life by going out to kill something in the woods, to a newspaper that isn't a newspaper but rather a hunting and fishing guide, Idaho is a miserable place to live.

I don't like rodeos because of the punishing abuse the animals are forced to go through for the sake of entertainment. So as an alternative, Idaho offers a fiddle-fest with bikers and camp trailers for artistic enjoyment, in the dust and the dirt and the snake-infested foothills.

Shakespeare is delivered in the boiling hot, bug-infested outdoors.

The Idaho Statesman can't possibly carry The New York Times Crossword Puzzle; that's up to the corporate owners. But The Idaho Statesman can certainly pander to the gung-ho, kill-for-pleasure crowd that couldn't be bothered to read a real newspaper. Well, spit tobacco and split my gun rack.

I came to Idaho with the assumption that everyone else outside your borders has, that this is a red-neck, gun-totin', rodeo-ridin', white supremacist place. And guess what? It isn't an assumption anymore. It's a belief.

I hate this place.

Jean Lynn, Nampa

 

[MarvB]

Wow you guys got Shakespeare?????????

That gal needs to go back to her townhouse in New Hampshire or somethin.....

 

[Mojave]

I've been to the Shakespere Festival. It only enhances the experience to hear the Boise River in the background and sip a nice glass of wine on a lawn under the stars.

How can anyone not enjoy Idaho? It's one of the prettiest places on earth, and this is coming from someone who has visited a great many places on earth.

This person needs to start packing and get to stepping.

 

[Calif. Hunter]

Rather than complain, why don't they just leave? I would love to pack it all up and move to a place like Idaho, but more likely New Mexico or eastern Arizona...

 

[Ridge Runner]

Sounds like my kind of place. Perhaps she should get into a little gratitude living in one of the most beautiful places on earth and I have never even been there but would give my left thingy majig to live there just from seeing pictures. Maybe she would prefer Iraq

 

[smalls]

Who would ever want to live in Idaho, they have bugs outdoors!!! Oh the humanity.

Seriously, like they don't have a trendy little coffee place in Nampa near the university where a rainbow flag is proudly displayed and hippies with bad facial hair wearing berets are sipping their mochacino's and italian sodas all while reading the latest issue of the village voice and fawning over the end of Phish.

If it is as bad as Ms. Lynn says it is, please someone find me a marketing/advertising job in Idaho!

 

[Mojave]

Well I hate to see someone completely jumped on for their viewpoint. I must admit that Idaho has it's, shall we say, quirks too.

My 5th grade son came home from school the other day with an assignment to read a book (a Newberry Award winning one) which was marked up throughout. The kind of things which were crossed out were words like "corset" and phrases like "too tight blouse" and "he said a cuss word".

Out of curiosity I asked him if he knew what a corset was. After a little prodding he said "Oh yeah, that thing with the ties that they always have in the cartoons." I hope these same mothers who are making my son's teacher waste her time censoring out perfectly innocuous words like these are making sure their children don't watch Tom and Jerry either.

Still one of the prettiest places on earth though.

 

[Calif. Hunter]

Somehow, I figured that your son would know what a corset is - probably knows about teddies and bustiers, too.

 

[wilecoyote76]

Yes, this gal is entitled to her opinions but if she thinks the "Treasure Valley" is red neck, maybe she should get out more and visit some of the other "hick" towns here in Idaho. Boise is way up-scale compared to a lot of places in the gem state.

When we went turkey hunting earlier this spring, we went to 'town' and had breakfast. Well, we knew the people at the cafe were definitely locals because none of them had teeth, or very few anyway, and 90% of the guys were wearing worn-out sweats along with designer velcro shoes! Now that's red neck (sorry in advance if I offend anyone). Good thing about red neck places...the food is out of this world!!

And besides, who is making her stay here? I say get the heck out and see how really bad it is elsewhere. She needs to get out or get a real life!

 

[Elkhunter]

Sounds like that lady is not going to be happy anywhere she resides.

 

[Mntman]

I wish she would trade me places.
She thinks she has bugs, she hasn't seen Missouri yet! LOL
She doesn't know how good she has it and probably never will!

 

[Moosie]

MAybe I should write something about People that bitch about it here BUHuuahhah !!

Get the FUGG out !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[cjcj]

Wallace Idaho!!! hey i was young and drunk at the time....I agree Idaho is beautifull..

 

[tnctcb]

sounds like some other people i read about.said they hated where they came from so they moved and then tried to change everyone where they moved to into people where they came from

 

[Whiskers]

We have the same problem here. We were a small community that relied mostly on commercial fishing and boat building to support us. We have two, two lane roads that intersect in town. One redlight. Then Casino's came to Atantic City 30 miles away. Phila, and New York figured we were a quaint little town, and they started coming to the area. Then they decided we were a little too quaint. Not enough, stores, malls, movie theaters, didn't like the boat races at the end of town. So they had them cancelled. We used to be able to hunt ducks,geese and brant at the end of our street. But the shotgun noise upset some of the more delicate transplants. That has ended. It now takes 10 minutes to get out of my street onto Main St because of all the traffic. Just be glad that these type, hate your area. I would move there tomorrow if my wife would leave her. But the kids are here, we lived here most of our lives, and you know how it goes from there.