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Re:Ketchum, Idaho, Has Plenty of Available Jobs, but Workers... by Ccecil on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @12:18PM (#27762817)
Idaho did the opposite in 2017...they created laws preventing any town from blocking vacation rentals in any way. Also, they have non disclosure laws which make the state very nice for real estate investors.

I wonder how many people moving here know that the lake was supposed to be a superfund site...or that their nice little cottage was a meth lab just a decade ago.

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Re:Ketchum, Idaho, Has Plenty of Available Jobs, but Workers... by notional on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @12:34PM (#27762990)
oof does not sound like a place to have a new born

https://www.nap.edu/read/11359/chapter/2#6

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Re:Ketchum, Idaho, Has Plenty of Available Jobs, but Workers... by Ccecil on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @12:39PM (#27763052)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Valley_(Idaho)

And that is why.

Heavy metal contamination...and not to mention the arsenic. 100 years of mining silver did a number on the downstream (Lake Coeur d'Alene).

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