From ‘Joisey’ to Boise: Why I left the New York City metro area for Idaho, the fastest-growing state in the US

• Believe it or not, Idaho‘s population grew faster than any other state in the country last year.
• Here, author Benjamin Rippey details why he and his wife decided to move from an apartment in Hoboken, New Jersey, to a home in Boise, Idaho.
• Boise is cheaper, cleaner, and less crowded than New York City. And gun culture is prevalent.

Boise, Idaho. I could scarcely have placed it on a map a year ago. Now I live here.

I’m a lifelong East Coaster. Having spent much of that in Northern Jersey, I speak quickly and in short sentences. I am read more >>>

Source : BusinessInsider.Com