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“Respect The Culture!”
March 13, 2023 
Just returned from a week of warm weather in Hawaii and came away with a thought provoking bumper sticker observation.
RESPECT THE CULTURE was actually emblazoned on the tailgate of a small truck. It got us to thinking.
How many of the thousands of newcomers to Boise and Idaho in general come here to join in the lifestyle, rather than change it? Do folks come here to take advantage of cheap labor, cheap electricity, business “incentives,” or do they want to become Idahoans?
We would welcome your thoughts. When farms start growing houses, schools are overstuffed, the roads are insufficient for the traffic volume, and there aren’t enough jail cells, the culture changes.
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Mar 13, 2023, 6:53 pm
In some ways, CHANGING the culture here has been and still is helpful to ALL. It is not 1970 anymore!
A person can be pessimistic or optimistic. Which one are you all?
Mar 14, 2023, 10:20 pm
Aquarius,
Curious as to what is wrong with the current culture in Idaho. What needs to be changed that will be helpful to all? Does the Swedish culture need to be changed in Sweden? How about the Amish, does their culture need to be changed to be helpful to ALL?
Mar 17, 2023, 9:15 am
People are fleeing the failed left coast megacities and coming to Idaho. Why? Because Idaho culture has built and maintained a great place to live. It is insanity to want or try to change what is successful.
Mar 23, 2023, 3:56 pm
Conversations with recent incomers show they leave a place they did nothing to participate in regarding citizen advocacy, then come here and take up the good life, with no plans to do anything to participate in protecting this place from becoming the crap they left behind.