The competition is stiff. Great jobs seem limited. And America's economic outlook is looking poorer and poorer with each visit to the gas station. But life during and after Covid-19 has brought us a few silver linings and fresh perspectives on the remote workforce. In fact, if Covid taught us anything at all, it's that employees are just as, if not more, productive working from home than they are in conventional office settings.
Few are called here for the exact same reasons, but contrary to popular concern, it seems most are intent to preserve what inspired their relocation. So is it just our reluctance to change that has us suspicious of one another?
Boiseans, like a lot of Americans, tend get their scoop on a city like Chicago from national headlines or buzz-worthy scandals. Gang crime, old-school mobsters, da Bears, Kanye West, aesthetically pleasing-to-some firefighters, politics, and pizza are topical references a lot of smaller-town folks are fascinated with. After living in the Treasure Valley for nearly eight years, I get that. What makes me laugh after all this time are the questions my fellow Boise locals ask when they find out I'm a Chicago native. From the funny to outright awkward, the following are questions real locals have really asked me since I made Star my home. Laugh along with me and message me with any other questions you want me to answer!
Reviews about our growing Boise hamlet tend to run or hot cold. Like Pepsi versus Coke or the 2016 presidential election, people take sides and unfriend their parents on Facebook over it. Check out the seven super negative reviews by these residents who don't deserve our Treasure Valley!
Dear Miss Betty, Several times I’ve hoped to find you at work in your garden or sharing a kind conversation with the crabby lady no one likes in your senior living community. 11 months have passed since that day at the dealership. The chance that we’ll meet again seems less likely by the day, but I’m not giving up. I harbor the hope that someone you know will read this letter and bring us together for that lunch date we talked about.