Back in the 1980s....I traveled around the US a good bit. I came to some point where I considered five US cities as great places where I'd like to go and live. Lately, I've been thinking about the five.
1. Seattle, WA. Downtown, based on how various locals now describe it....it's become a no-go area. Between petty crime, homelessness, and drugs....it's bad.
Odds of me ever wanting to return/live in the Seattle area....zero.
2. Portland, OR. Basically, same story, with Antifa operations, nutcases, and lack of police.
Odds of me even stopping off I-5 to fuel-up or spend a night in the city? Zero.
3. Monterey, CA. I had this image of Steinbeck-country when I visited. Today? Between taxes, ridiculous state leadership, cost-of-living....it's a zero.
4. Aberdeen, WA. If you review the crime statistics....even for a small town....Aberdeen is one of the highest crime locations now in the US. People will tell you that locals know someone that has been robbed in the past two years.
5. Coeur d'Alene, ID. Probably the only one that has survived on without a lot of negativity, but it's in the middle nowhere.
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Kellogg, forty miles east of Coeur d'Alene, population a squidgen over 2,000.
Staying with the Idaho theme --Salmon, population 3056.
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Was prox to hot springs a priority?
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