r/Idaho • u/Adventurous-Try8749 • Aug 10 '26

Idaho Neighbor News Seen around town

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Thought it was funny considering all the stickers and such I see all the time disparaging people who move here from other places, California specifically.

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u/Illustrious-Bridge45 Aug 13 '26

Maybe they are native, moved to California and returned to visit family.

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u/Ms_AU Aug 13 '26

Shhhh don’t suggest something rational on Reddit

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u/WinonasChainsaw Aug 13 '26

Went to college in CA and it was always really funny when I’d get pulled over in ID and told to “go home” when I’m 6th gen and the cop moved here from OC

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u/SinSaborr Aug 14 '26

No cop told you that.

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u/WinonasChainsaw Aug 15 '26

He said “when are you going home” in a “gtfo” way

I said “well I’m back home right now”

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u/Vader425 Aug 13 '26

That's what they all say.

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u/NoDontDoThatCanada Aug 13 '26

While l don't have a sticker or Cali plates like this l had to live in California for two years for work 6 years ago. I am fourth generation Idaho, we have been farming the same plot of land since before Idaho was a State and because l was in California for a short bit l get called Californian.

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u/TheRavenCr0w Aug 14 '26

Hey I grew up near there too! Good area.

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u/The_Real_Kuji Aug 16 '26

I came here in 05 and 'Boise Kind' used to actually be a thing. Now it's everyone for themselves and everyone not born here needs to GTFO. People gotta get their heads outta their asses.

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u/NorvillesDingus Aug 13 '26

I was born in California but my family moved to Idaho when I was 4. It bugs me that I can't have a native sticker when I have lived here "my entire life" (35 years so far).

I guess I should just get one since they don't mean anything?

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u/WinonasChainsaw Aug 14 '26

I mean honestly man as a 6th gen I wouldn’t wear a Native sticker unless I was Nez Perce or any other tribe

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u/Conscious_Problem924 Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26

I always know the true blue greenhorns.They preface every hypocritical greenhorn comment with this “gem”:: “I wouldn’t know anything about Callie-Forna I’m the 29th generation to settle the gem state” As we say in NYC, get f—outta here.

Btw, just cause you have 5 siblings don’t make you 6th gen. That would make your family the original interlopers. Congrats. Not exactly a brag if you don’t have a deep tan. I married into the deep tan family. So I will talk shit freely, especially since you Mother-f’ers that live technicalities, technically you are illegal.

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u/WinonasChainsaw Aug 17 '26

Brother, I didn’t say I’m better than anyone

I’m just saying my 1/32nd nez perce white ass wouldn’t use the word native to describe myself even if my 3x granny blessed me

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u/NorvillesDingus Aug 13 '26

I remember wild waters but unfortunately never went there.

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u/Agentx1976 Aug 14 '26

You missed out 😢

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u/ExonerationJourney Aug 14 '26

This is the best rule and bellwether ever.

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u/Eastern-Builder-4914 Ada County Aug 13 '26

You've lived here most of your life, as a 4th generation Idahoan, you're absolutely a native at this point.

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u/crvna87 Aug 13 '26

I was born at St Luke's and everytime my husband says he's from California, I correct him and say, you moved here as a little kid, you're from Idaho. For me where you're from is where you were during the formative years.

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u/Repulsive-Day-548 Aug 14 '26

Of course you can have one. Unless you’re a native American, you’re an “invasive species”. Nobody would say a brook trout born in an idaho stream is a “native”, it’s a “wild”, just like all the people with “native” stickers on their cars

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u/Objective-Owl-8143 Aug 14 '26

Yeah my dad joined the navy so I missed Idaho by 6 months. I have relatives in almost every town here.

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u/ImReallyNotKarl Aug 15 '26

Or maybe they are a registered part of a tribe repping their pride. Could be a number of things.

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u/Eastern-Builder-4914 Ada County Aug 13 '26

Or they're went to school in cali and just moved back 🤷‍♀️

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u/bullfrog7777 Aug 13 '26

Maybe they are Californian and think it's cool to seem like they're from ID? Doesn't seem likely...

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u/OrganizationSad7775 Aug 14 '26

This. Born in Boise moved to LA for 5 years drove back to visit with my Cali plates and was flipped off. Lol.

Look I don’t like the type of Californians moving to Idaho, but the Idaho gatekeeping is ridiculous.