Every time you come home to Idaho after a great vacation with family or friends, you can't help but feel a little empty. Not because reality is setting in after leaving all responsibilities behind for the past ten days or because you've left family and friends to return home, but because your bank account is a lot less full than it was when you left. That's because traveling from Idaho is much more expensive than the rest of the country.

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According to new research, Idaho is the sixth most expensive state to travel from. That means, on average, it costs more to travel from Boise than from Honolulu. The difference is that you expect to pay extra for travel when you live on an island like Hawaii. But believe it or not, Hawaii didn't even make the top 15 on the list of the most expensive states to travel from.

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Alaska is the most expensive state to travel from, which makes sense. It's not close to anything, and it requires melting a lot of ice to get a plane to take off. Utah, Michigan, New Jersey, and Nebraska are the only other states more expensive to travel from than Idaho.

However, Idaho gets double-screwed because, in addition to being the sixth most expensive state to travel from, Boise Airport is also the 11th most expensive airport in America. According to the same research, the average plane ticket from BOI is $419.02. That's more than Portland International, George Bush Intercontinental in Houston, LAX, or even Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu.

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We love Idaho, and the life we've chosen is better than any we could imagine, although Hawaii is starting to look pretty good. With the rising cost of living and the expensive travel to and from our place in the world, we can only hope that people will consider moving to Kailua instead of Meridian. And make sure to let friends and family considering a move to Idaho just how bad we have it!

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