Sure, it's affordable for me now - back when I was making $32K/yr on a MSP's help desk it would have been almost half of my wage - and that's good money for the

Sure, it's affordable for me now - back when I was making $32K/yr on a MSP's help desk it would have been almost half of my wage - and that's good money for the majority of the population here. Lucky me, I make $85K now working from home - but 4 years ago it was a different story, and there's still plenty of people in the area who are trying to make ends meet. Boise has been really slow to recover from the recession, where many people used to be able to get decent jobs at Micron, HP, Simplot, etc. there's much less available - call centers and other service industry positions have begun to dominate. The median cost of a house in the area is back to pre-2008 levels and rising fast, but wages aren't.