Idaho has lots of guns but a homicide rate similar to Canada. Boise is one of the few substantially sized cities in the U.S. with a homicide rate in the same ba

Idaho has lots of guns but a homicide rate similar to Canada. Boise is one of the few substantially sized cities in the U.S. with a homicide rate in the same ballpark as European cities (around 1 per 100k). The combination of orderliness and freedom is how America is supposed to be. It has a similar median household income to California once you adjust for cost of living: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1nemaep/oc_costofliving_adjusted_median_household_income/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1nemaep/oc.... It has among the lowest income inequality in the country: https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/income-inequality-by-state https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/income-ineq.... And similar income mobility to the California or New York: http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/neighborhoods/ http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/neighborhoods/. It has a lower poverty rate than California or New York: https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2025/09/spm-below-official-poverty-rate.html https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2025/09/spm-below-off.... Better education than California and better on most subtests than New York: https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/profiles/stateprofile?sfj=NP&chort=1&sub=MAT&sj=&st=MN&year=2013R3 https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/profiles/stateprofile?sfj=...