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Why live in Boise
Boise, Idaho, a city of over 211,473 that combines small town comforts with big city conveniences, consistently rates among the top U.S. communities to live.

Why? Maybe it’s because residents enjoy four distinct seasons but the weather is moderate enough to allow an average of 325 golfing days a year. Or maybe it’s the low crime rate, reasonable cost of living, or the committment of corporations and individual citizens to preserving Boise’s quality of life. Thirty-two neighborhood associations promote that quality in the distinctive neighborhoods that constitute this rapidly growing urban center.

Neighborhoods
Let’s look at some of those neighborhoods. We’ll start to the east, where you can still see remnants of the Oregon Trail as it headed into the Boise valley. Lucky Peak Reservoir, a major water source and recreational area, lies 10 miles east of Boise. Near it are corporate headquarters for Micron, and the neighborhoods of Surprise Valley, Columbia Village and Harris Ranch.

Capitol
The Idaho State Capitol is the only statehouse in the country heated with natural geothermal hot water. Boise’s geothermal resource also heats the Victorian mansions lining Warm Springs Boulevard, the main road leading into town from the east. On this route you’ll discover the old Idaho Penitentiary, in use until 1973 but now open for tours, and the Idaho Botanical Gardens.

Boise Businesses
Along the cottonwood-lined banks of the Boise River, in southeast Boise, are headquarters for Albertson’s and The Washington Group (formerly Morrison-Knudsen), the campus of Boise State University, restaurants, offices, and housing ranging from apartment complexes to estate homes.

Foothills
To the north, the city is bounded by the Boise Foothills. Here, public lands and planned developments are linked by the Ridge to Rivers Trail System providing lots of open space for residents to visit our natural environment.

Downtown
Downtown Boise has experienced exuberant revitalization in recent years, and has become a place where citizens work, shop, eat and live. Several large condominium towers and apartment complexes provide downtown living, and the historic districts of Boise’s North End, East Boise and the Warm Springs district are just a bike ride or a walk away. An active redevelopment corporation is assuring the continued growth of downtown while preserving its many historic buildings, such as the Empire, the Idanha Hotel and the 8th Street warehouse district.

The Northend
The North End is a widely diverse neighborhood, with its main thoroughfare picturesque Harrison Boulevard. The North End is one of Boise’s oldest neighborhoods, with most of its 4,500 homes built in the first half of the twentieth century. Quiet, tree-lined streets make walking and biking a great way to get around.

The Bench
Boise’s airport, now completing phase two of a major expansion, sits to the south of Boise, at the end of Vista Boulevard. North towards town the historic Boise Depot caps Depot hill. The city purchased the Depot in 1996 and the last Amtrak passenger train rolled out of town in 1997. From the Depot’s luxuriant gardens you can look north down Capitol Boulevard to the State Capitol.

The area around the Depot is called the Bench, another neighborhood known for the diversity of its housing. Just west of the Depot, homes along the rim overlooking Kathryn Albertson Park have some of the best views in town. These quiet, tree-lined streets are experiencing rapid growth as the 1950’s ranch-style and brick homes are purchased from the original owners by young families.

Residential Growth
The West Bench sits between the congested commercial strip that is Fairview Boulevard and Mountain View Drive, on the bench above Garden City. This older neighborhood grew up in the 1950s and ‘60s. It is convenient to the Boise connector to I-84 and near the Boise Towne Square Mall.

Boise’s greatest residential growth in the past decades has been to the west and southwest, in neighborhoods built to house growing families, with curved streets and cul-de-sacs the norm. West Boise is home to Hewlett-Packard Company and the West Boise YMCA. It’s also the site of the old town of Ustick, where a cottonwood tree recognized as the nation’s second largest grows.

Boise Facts
Population:...........................................211,473
Median household income:.....................$42,432
Total number of housing units:...............77,950
Median home value:..............................$206,830
Median rent payment:...........................$565/mo
Median time to commute to work:...........18 min
Pop. with H.S. degree or better:..............57.6%
Pop. with bachelor's degree or better:.....33.6%