Orofino Idaho - Is There Any Place Worse and Why?

[Help_I_Live_In_Idaho]

Never been in such a screwed up hick hell. Seems like in the 70 when logging went to hell everyone with a brain left and all the druggies and mentally ill, and developmentally disabled folks couldnt get out.

It seems like the 18 year olds with something going for them all leave for college and never return and this leaves all the riff raff behind.

Its really scary here - trying to get out.

[libodem]

1. I've heard that Butte, Montana is pretty bad

[Help_I_Live_In_Idaho]

2. Yeah I heard that too

;) ;)

[Zambero]

7. Butte's not so bad

My wife and I spent a week there on vacation this past summer, mainly for the historical aspects. Butte has a long-standing reputation as a rogue mining town of sorts but there's also evidence to suggest that it has entered the 21st century. Obama had been there a few weeks earlier (on July 4th) and by all accounts was well-received.

[EcoRover]

9. I love Butte America

I moved to Butte some years ago and stayed by choice. It is a great historic little city, with friendly people, lots of social/cultural activities, and tremendous 4-season outdoors recreation. It's definitely a working class/egalitarian/traditional labor Democrat kind of culture, though, so not for everyone.

[Left Is Write]

3. My cousin lives there.

I'm in Boise.

[sagetea]

4. Well,

I live in Payette, Idaho. And I can honestly say....
It sucks!!!!!!! We moved here from Seattle, we thought it would be nice to own some land. Now except for our house and land we have all but left that town. In February, I pulled my daughter out of the school in Payette, and put her in a charter school in Middleton, close to where I work.
We have been here for 5 yrs. and I still have no friends, it sucks and I hate living here. I have had my yard signs (Political)stolen, ripped, etc. my house egged, some old woman came up to me in a parking lot and started yelling at me about my bumper stickers...ugh, just thinking about it makes me angry all over again!!!
I have to drive into Boise, just to see normal people that I can actually relate to.

[Help_I_Live_In_Idaho]

5. That's It Exactly

We moved here from another hick town in northern Idaho, but it was friendly. We thought, well, It will be just as conservative but it couldn't be any worse. WRONG.
Three years no friends except a a racist that keeps asking us over for dinner or drinks so he can inflame us with his gross racism, sexism and how terrible he treats his wife who is a worse racist than he is.
On the other side we have new residents who are fundamentalists from California getting away from the "evil secular humanists" like us.
We have a fellow across the river that has four American flags on his jeep. Then there is my workplace where I am a pariah because I'm a liberal. Haven't been fired yet though. I work with 20 people who will have nothing to do with me. Hey, I wasn't born here and I don't have any famous cowboy or logger relatives. I'm the only male in this company and I make as mush as $10 and hour less than the women and I have the most education and experience and manage their work. Don't expect this "right to work" state or the department of employment to help with that - they all know each other and would call my boss if I showed up there. Don't suggest going federal or out of state Idaho does whatever it wants and laughs at the feds and lawyers.
One good profession many people have adopted is drug dealing. They tolerate the big fellows especially the locals because it pumps money into the community coffers. Just don't get on their bad side; I mean the police prosecutors, town fathers or any of the "people of the corn" who they regard as their friends. The reason it is so damn unfriendly in all these towns along the Clearwater river in Idaho is that they cant afford to be

[mallardlarken]

6. Make the best of it all.

I am sorry you feel that way about Orofino. I have lived here my entire life and left to live in Oregon. Needless to say I came back, I guess I always held it in my heart that I am the way that I am and screw anyone else for not liking it. People liked me more because of that. oh yeah I do have "famous" logger relatives. I have always be liberal in a very Conservative family. I have to admit that the cops in Orofino are tainted, and I can't stand them, but as for friendly. I think we can be pretty friendly at lease I know I can. Just be yourself and screw everyone else and what they say. I have always done that. I got a long fine.

[Help_I_Live_In_Idaho]

8. They are friendly to you because you are not an outsider...

Try living here as an outsider. All the jobs go to people's friends and relatives. Age discrimination is the order of the day; You can't form a union; and the poverty is so bad it reminds me of the old movies about the people in the Ozarks. Finally the level of dumb is over the top. It is beautiful, if you could stop people from littering everywhere. And the Mormon Church runs the place and is the dictator of Idaho.

I still live here but who can make a living and eat with a PhD, and MBA and 24 years of business experience my wife makes 24 K Per year. You think its a nice place - Come On Down to Orofino

[capndanger]

10. come to boise.

its better here. :)

[cayanne]

11. Come up to Sandpoint

It's wonderful. I lived in St Maries for a while and it sucked. At least Orofino is near Lolo Pass and has good fishing. Why are you in Orofino and what do you do there that prevents you from leaving? Come up and check out Bonner County, it is magical and beautiful.