The TRUTH About Living in Coeur d'Alene Idaho - Pros & Cons 

Well it's a beautiful area I'll give you that yes it has allot of great features for a city and a small town!!! Thank you for sharing this video of good and bad of living there it's like anywhere else you live there and then you can grow with it like you did and change with your surroundings and always plan ahead for anything and everything!!!! Have a great day be safe happy healthy in all you do and want take care of yourself and your family enjoy your day

I’m even more excited about moving my family to Idaho ❤ Thank you so much for your inspirational to me video of your pros and cons in Coeur d’Alene Idaho. This means allot to me and my little family as we need a stable safe community and town to call home 😊

Beautiful presentation. I’m originally from lake como, Italy. I have been living in Palm desert California for 27 years and things are changing so fast there! Unfortunately not for good. We will visit Coeur d’Alene very soon, I love the small community idea and above all I love nature.

I have had an amazing dinner at the Cedars years ago on the 4th of July, what a treat!

Don't move here if you are afraid or offended by guns and seeing people openly carrying. Live and let live means don't shove your liberal views in our face or use them to change the environment here, go to Spokane for that. Also winter is basically late October to May. Don't be surprised to see snow in the Summer too. Summer is basically July to August. Fall is Sept to mid October. Love the sun then don't move here either, we have way more cloudy days through the year. Fire season in August is awesome as we get fire smoke from our area and the entire country. Locals have little use of town amenities due to tourists (Spokane) invading.

Yes, we are a very into our hunting, fishing and guns, so do not move here and glare or make snooty comments about me because I open carry. Don't like it? Leave. It's videos like this that has ruined our little town; contributing to the traffic our roads are not equipped to handle and exploding our real estate market to the point that people from here cannot afford to live here. Rents are through the roof and minimum wage is still around $7.25 an hour. This is frustrating...

I've lived here for 26 years, it used to be a wonderful, small town, place. No longer. Overcrowded and overpriced now. Public friendliness is gone, and traffic accidents are frequent, just to name a couple of heartbreaking changes. For all thinking of moving up here, keep in mind the housing and rent prices are very high. Average wages do not support the cost of living, do your homework.

I remember the the CD'A BEFORE Haggedon got ahold of it. Even sadder I remember the prettier farther northern lake Priest Lake before the God awful people with more money than sense started building their lake mansions. I really wish Seattleites and Californians had never discovered the panhandle. Now we live in N.Central Idaho. Thank God we are so remote no one really wants to live here. Cda is not the same. Sandpoint and Priest lake have all been taken over by the rich. Sad.

Silver Valley just outside CDA is beautiful and affordable, next big boom going that way but still very reasonable, skiing and kayaking, UTV, fishing, hunting, hiking, mount biking is endless. Pinehurst, Wallace, Kellogg all great areas to live

The blue achids were early fall like September or early October. I remember they were still there the day my husband and I went on a cruise together. I just looked that up, it was 10/15 and it was the end of the aphids season. Restaurants- my husband and I like Bardenay, Dockside (closed for a month) and Wolf lodge. Texas Roadhouse is a chain, but they are great and always have an insane line even during the week. Ive lived here a little over 5 months and I've only seen one homeless person. I moved here from New York City. I grew up in Buffalo so I was prepared for the winter. I just expected what I grew up with and it's been tame lol. Meanwhile, my co-workers (some even grew up here) "I thought we were done. Why is it SNOWING???" (about Monday night). The only thing I will say is that in the winter you can really only bike the bike trails and no bike lanes. I'm lucky that I live by Prairie Trail and work downtown. We have AWD and studded tires. CdA isn't that affordable. We are in a roommate situation where my husband has been for 10 years. Their landlord hasn't raised the rent much, but we were looking at getting our own place and we'd have to pay more than what the rent is here (with the landlord, not our cut) for a much smaller place.

I would absolutely love to live in Coeur d'Alene. It's like, the same state, but better (I'm from Twin Falls btw). Y'all've got trees up the wazoo, it's way up north so it's gotta be cooler and colder, the architecture and food choice looks better, the proximity to actually important places is phenomenal, I bet y'all could see glimpses of the aurora borealis at times in the winter, etc etc.

Love this Guy and this is my first time in this channel, but I love how Well he Covered many Aspects of Daily Living in CDA.

Love the low key "shut up about the traffic, locals.. you've never been anywhere." 🙄

Anywhere there's snow, pine trees & water my heart is there. Now- just need to figure out how to move there.

The lake looks beautiful!

Excellent as always, Trent!

Try the fishing guide tips. Our guides have soup with canned soup in Reno Nevada and your power for the interstate in beowawie Nevada!

If you are on medication, please make arrangements with your md before you move to have 6 months of refills because it can take 6 to 9 months to get into an md. Urgent care and ER will not refill all meds and wait times in the ER can be 8 to 12 hours and urgent care can have wait times up to three hours at times. We dont have enough healthcare professionals to care for the population here let alone the ones moving in and we are having difficulty recruiting more due to high cost of living. Good luck and please plan accordingly. We've been discovered and we are having major issues due to growth. You all have been warned. I'm sorry Trent. I like you and I know I am not helping sales for you. I'm just being honest.

I’m from the deep south and this is my dream city to retire to.

Sure has changed since I lived there in the first half of the 1980’s! It is hard to recognize it at all. The lake looks twice as big now.

Love your vids. I’m a military officer and looking for my forever retirement spot west of the Rockies

I love the algorithm. Good stuff homie

My sons & daughter still live there.thanks for the update.I plan on visiting this spring from the St. Lawrence seaway.N.Y.

Cons... Definelty not the roads. MY private road with 5 other owners is far better than all the frwys, hwys, and roads in all of CA. IDHAO LIFE IS BETTER than all the states combined. YES, LIFE HERE is more $$$ MEANS YOU Must BE PREPARED. Don't mess around in Idaho. That's why it's better here. PERIOD. Great video. GREAT PLACE TO LIVE. CHANGE IN INEVITABLE.

That lake is full of heavy metals from the mining!!😂😂. The biggest Superfund secret in all of Idaho!!

hope post falls us comming and future of north Idaho part 2 is coming 2

I know you said to have an already built and developed home in those areas you’re looking at high 5s into the high 7s but what about buying 2-5 acres of land and building something about 12-1600sqf ?

I LOVE all 8 seasons in North Idaho.

idaho is full.

There has been legendary snow some winters and equally legendary cold temperatures - a lot of people coming from elsewhere will find this a shock to the system, so to speak. And one has to be well prepared across the board to go through the winter season and do so well. (Especially when living on a rural location.) Like a lot of things it can be okay if you’re prepared and braced for what’s coming. Is always a good idea to be able to live reasonably for a week with no power - this is good advice for about anywhere. But in winter time, you need to have a credible backup option for heating in event of utilities disruption. If prepare then can be okay - and not every winter will be an Armageddon level event, but sometimes they are. And winter has its own outdoor activities that are a lot of fun for those willing to just embrace it and go with the flow. Just keep in mind that living on rural property in this region is not like other parts of the nation. It can get rather challenging at times. Have to plan and anticipate how those challenges will get dealt with. And when it’s hot and dry in the summer, forest fire is a damn real concern (can’t stress that enough). Need to think about how to mitigate the risk of a fire taking out a home. Means got to think and act on keeping forest areas on property in good condition - don’t let dead wood trees and dead wood on the ground get out of control. Think seriously about how close trees are to the home itself, etc. Am very serious - living rurally in this area has its rewards but you got to be a person that will take charge and be in control - instead of live passively thinking “the system” will always shield you. Just having an insurance policy is not going to cut it. Got to be in charge of these issues.

So many people are moving here during the summer I can’t even walk downtown like I used to in middle school with my friends! Now I’m a senior in highschool and it’s insane!

We want to move there, but my spouse, (who works IT) is required by his employer to reside in our present state. We tried to look for jobs that would allow us to move, but we have not had success. Hopefully in a year or two. God’s will be done. We would be thankful to be a part of the community out there. 🙏

Moving there with the family! Put our home on the market a few months ago. What a wonderful market right now btw. Goodbye California!

Does anyone manage to get by with 2WD vehicles and good snow tires in the winter?

Don't apologize for bad-behaving cops.

It is the largest town in the Idaho panhandle and it is in the Pacific Time Zone.

Great video. But the monotonous background noise was making it hard to concentrate on what you were saying.

You meant hypodermic needle, not "epidermic." The latter isn't really a thing.

How is the weather Mid - may? Sunny? Warm? Or rainy cold?

Thanks for sharing; take care

4:20 I wouldn't exactly say that Coeur D'Alene is a 'live and let live' town in the way it seems to be implied in this video. The example of a British women here contrasted with the idea that "you don't have to be a gun-loving republican" is telling... People moving to this area ought to be aware of its very serious past with White Supremacy (there were literal marches/parades only a couple decades ago) and an on-going struggle with radical politics. It was just last year that a hate group was planning on brutalizing the local pride parade but they were stopped by FBI agents right before they would have gone out to commit the violence. I will say that I grew up in the area, visited often and I've never personally encountered any of this extreme side of the community and the city is otherwise a lovely place, just have to be aware of the history.

I have considered Coeur d'alene since I read there's a swath of traditional Catholicism there.

I Love being Retired since January 1ST. 2007.

Here doing my research.... my family has had enough. Tried living in Southern Oregon after northern Cal but still can't kick the "blues" if ya know what I mean. Desperately seeking normalcy, and we love the outdoor adventures as well as hibernating in winters! Would love to call you soon!

Conservative people generally are live and let live; the attitude of freedom, leave us alone. The left is more concerned about putting rules on people.

Cons: Drag show in the park where your kids play.

It used to be an amazing place, now a single bedroom apartment is almost $1,500 a month. This is a Utopia for the rich, don't even bother moving here. 20 years ago, it was awesome and now it's an overcrowded s*** hole.

You seen that pothole at Walmart? Crazy!

I just tried emailing you and email address was not accepted🤷🏻‍♀️

Yeah the no traffic thing is bs imo haha. Took me 50 minutes to get from Hayden to Rathdrum the other day. Its literally an 11 mile drive lmao.

Crowding ruins everything. It's happening to lots of parks in Idaho. Redfish Lake is a prime example unless you like crowds and looking for a parking space.

ha, ha, ha, HA, HA, HA, "CDA has Wintery, Winters" that was Cute.

Moving there in March for work. Would it be beneficial to move to a surrounding town?

western conifer seed bugs. They're over here in upstate NY now too.

Totally agree. The cops in this town want to question you for anything. No love lost there. I got pulled over, 3 times in a 15 Block radius, last summer in my commuter car because I had a headlight burn out on me. The first cop was a dick, second cop was sympathetic, and third cop apologized and told all officers not to pull me over. I was the DD for my wife and our friend who went our for dinner and drinks, and I I just them both to get home. Did I get a ticket? No. But after the first cop did a thorough search of my car, unjustified, was the moment I knew they had too much time on their hands.

Reaching out ...my daughter works there has to down size to a different apt...do you know anyone that would work with credit issues that's stopping acceptance...she works full time and a part time job...I live in different state she lives there...her lease goes up Friday...plz send info she can call to work with renter..she has a son. .thank u so much this is her Mom reaching out to try to help....thank u so much 6/2024

What are some of the careers there?

Moving from Texas to Coeur D’Alene this was so helpful trying to prepare for the winters 😅

My brother is letting me drive his car while he deploys next week in the Navy. "My car" will have CT plates. We'll see how people react when they see CT plates in CDA! CA plates are worse imo

Pho Thanh on 4th St by the freeway. Ugly little place but you don't go there for the ambiance. You go there for the food. Best Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup you'll ever have in your entire life.

need to find a rent house in May June time

I'm curious, are you using Descript to edit these? Studio Sound perhaps?

Trent, I don’t know about CDA, but in Athol we also have a ton of yellow jackets and pine cone beetles along with the stink bugs during “bug season.” And no, we don’t know traffic up here. I came from the land of six traffic lanes in both directions, much of the time traveling at 10 MPH because of the traffic congestion. We don’t have traffic . . . yet.

I’m looking to come out in March for 5 days to see how CDA is, seems like an amazing place. Vegas is turning into California and ‘not the best’ people are moving here. Looking to purchase like an acre somewhere, maybe Bonanza Ranch? I’ll reach out to you or your team about a week prior. Thanks for the informative video!

I liked the presentation and the presenter, but I could have done without the edgy backgournd music with the super short loop. Was this some sort of subliminal warning about CDA?

Traffic definitely gets a little crazy in the summer, prepare for that. Everyone from Spokane loves CdA so you get 2 cities packed into one sometimes

The crime rate is low because up here in northern Idaho we are very pro gun and thousands and thousands of people concealed carry their firearms so you do not know who is armed and who is not, that a lot of criminal activity

Trent, talk about the churches. What is available.

What’s the best cell phone service to get in northern Idaho?

5:29 / 18:20 were actually getting a Trader Joe’s soon! It will be right next to Pilgrums! Or however you spell it 😂 I’m supper excited! Then during the summer I can go to a Trader Joe’s that isn’t too far from my house! Although my house is classified hazardous right now at the moment I’m still here watching this vid on my (kind of) hometown even is video was from a year ago! I work as a student mentor at where the old museum used to be! The educational rights system place now I believe. But I help students want to learn how to make art in so many different ways! I’ve met many different kids with many different disabilities and it’s such a unique job to have! It’s so powerful and wonderful here in Idaho! … just hope people treat others nicely when they move here. We’ve had lots of rude rivers recently and it’s quite scary! 😱 I recommend biking! Or walking. But otherwise that I give my hometown an A+!

Did you know any of the people from the movie kid cannbis? like nate norman or christoper clark?

Thanks for my tea. I know cowboy club. Take coffee boiler and horses.

Why not list that there's 52 nuclear reactors in Idaho and that the water has Uranium and Radium in it along with many other pollutants??? Seems like a bigger issue that should be brought up 🤔

I’m actually moving there here soon. This was very helpful. Thank you

Okay, i'm on my way. It looks beautiful there!!

I am from Oregon but my entire family is from there including my mother. Trying to get away from the crazy libs for a more wholesome feel. Is it easy to find rentals? Is there disc golf courses nearby?

please tell me about Rexburg.

500K for a house or palace? Millionaire's only

@LivingLifeNorthIdaho I would be interested in knowing what surrounding city's around Coeur dAlene ID still have affordable cost of living. We did like Sandpoint ID but where wondering about communities in that general proximity around Coeur dAlene ID. Thank you. Love your video's. With in a year making the jump from WA. I can feel the difference when we visit.

I had heard that the local people in Idaho are not happy with people from California moving into their state. I live and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and now looking to move out due to the crazy people and government. Taxes are going up and the government is even more crazy with spending our hard earned tax dollars. I don't have the same views as most Californians and I did vote for Trump so I'm a minority. I'm retiring soon and plan to move out of California like many have already. I'm sure many don't want their state to turn into another California which a agree with. I don't want that either. What do you see happening in Coeur D'Alene and how do the locals feel about the changes that are going on?

Can you help people rent in Coeur d’Alene

What happened to the second amendment vid?

How is Coeur d'Alene for the retired demographic? Temperatures? Is this similar to Calgary?

If you are so tolerant, what is wrong with being a hinter or a Republican?

I don't like the Pol officers, being rough around the edges. I used to live in NY and I moved out 1996 for that reason.

What’s your take on this being a sundown town. Can you share experiences or showcase a person of color who can share what it’s like for their perspective

No traffic in CDA😂😂😂😂😂

I know and understand a lot of people from other states loathe Californians, historically we haven’t been sending our best but there are many, many financially responsible conservatives in Californians that want out, that want to live in freer more merit based societies that probably would and could handle the climate in Boise who could help shore up the “Reds”

No employment.

Did you happen to go into that massive pot hole going south on Ramsey at Courcelles?

You're probably now well aware of the infamous family that's put a spotlight on the town. And because of it, the stats of offenders is staggering. It puts the con in convict. Take care.

I would like to know about jobs, I want to move to the north Idaho, but I will need a job.

Coeur d Alene is a destroyed mess. Thanks California

Planning a visit in September. I wanted to move up there just before COVID hit, then it got stupid expensive. Where I currently live is just getting to be downright dangerous. I'll be looking to rent, not interested in buying. Do you manage any rentals? Thank you for a very good video.

I live in CDA idaho and there is a ton of traffic here

I could

:Poor Cour d'alene, LIke many many , what used to be great places, has been taken over by loons from California.....

I want to live there ❤

Expensiiiiiiive!!!!

There was a realter that got his ass kicked for bashing a city in north Idaho and it was not Coeur D' Alene, Idaho.