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About 7 or so years ago I visited Boise for the first time when I was coming back from a backpacking trip. I instantly fell in love with the city, and if proxi
by ImprovedSilence 7y ago
About 7 or so years ago I visited Boise for the first time when I was coming back from a backpacking trip. I instantly fell in love with the city, and if proximity to family wasn’t a priority for me (I’m on the east coast), I’d have started looking for jobs there the next week. (I may have done a cursory search anyway, but not with any real seriousness.) It surprises me zero percent that it’s been growing like crazy, and I think it absolutely merits being included here.
Denver, on the other hand, has already “arrived” in my mind, as anyone I know who had any inkling of outdoor adventureness in them ended up there 10 years ago, the traffic is/has been a mess for years, and the ski slopes are way too crowded.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoHP used to do a lot in Boise, not sure about these days. As a tech hub in that area, SLC is probably more successful, especially when a growing tech scene in Provo is included (they even have a Starbucks now near BYU, if that is believable). Boise is a lot less Mormon than SLC is (15 vs 50%).
- desert_boi 7y agoBoise's tech scene is still very Mormon. Lots of people commute in from the outer burb of Meridian to downtown. I work in downtown Boise, and my tech lead, middle manager, and his boss are all Mormon. I'm the only guy on my team that didn't go on a mission or go to BYU for part of my schooling.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoIdaho is very Mormon in the south, and Mormons tend to be significant in the tech scene throughout the west (eg at Microsoft in Redmond), so that doesn’t sound surprising at all.