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This is half-facetious but... is there any way to address how bad Nampa sometimes smells? We have casually considered moving there from Boise but we're afraid we'll accidentally end up somewhere that reeks when the wind comes from the right direction.
Also half-facetious... It's a federal problem end all agricultural subsidies and the sugar beet industry will collapse taking the the sugar beet factory with it.
Thirty years ago there were three big problems Amalgamated, the meat packing plant, and sewage processing. The three of them were spaced around the city so that you could get a smell any wind direction. The meat plant is gone, the city has and is dumping a ton of money into water treatment, and the sugar beat factory has had several rounds of of projects to mitigate the smell. Now, I only notice a sugar beat factory sporadically during the fall beet campaign if the conditions are just right, and I'm relatively close. So yes, don't buy a house next to the factory (granted that means farther from the freeway), but 90% of the town is now fine with only a few days a year where you might get a whiff.
While it pains me to say, if I was going to move back to that side of the valley I'd probably look at Caldwell. I think downtown Caldwell is far superior to downtown Nampa now. I haven't looked at how worse the gang issues are, but no matter what it pales in comparison to the late 90's early '00s.
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