[Jigsaw John]

We were really blown away in the Boise Eagle area. Have friends up there and even they didn't know how people working in the Boise area could afford the home prices. They told us if you can make $15. an hour in Boise your doing pretty good. Yet most all the nicer homes there are now going for anywhere between $375,000 and $700,000. We went and looked. It was amazing. We saw some nice homes for about half a million, but no way I could work there for what the wages are in Idaho, and afford those prices.

[kstewskis]

I have no idea how they do it.

Even at "professional" wages, those kind of prices on a house doesn't come easy.

[MarkeyD]

Those are the houses the Californians are buying. They sell their 1500 square foot home in CA for 800K and then move here. I'm acquainted with a lot of the people that are doing this.
For example, I saw an article in Money where the ex CFO of Men's Wearhouse was retiring at the age of 44 and moving to Eagle where he was going to become an assistant coach at Eagle High School.

[MarkeyD]

A lot of people are like me these days. I work from home for a company in Chicago. All I need are a couple of computers and an internet connection. I don't have a commute, so I'm not really contributing to the air polution. I only drove about 2500 miles in 2005.