It's easy to feel cynical right now. The snow, sleet, gloom, and rain can get a person down, especially in the spring, when it feels like winter will never go away. Why do we live here again? What's so good about this place to keep us here 12 months of the year? So we asked around. We Facebooked the question, cold called on the telephone and went out and asked folks: Why should anyone move to Coeur d'Alene? Some answers were jokes, plenty were serious, some seemed obvious and others surprising. "Don't move here," said Alison Lawhead, buying movie tickets at Riverstone on Friday, who thinks Coeur d'Alene is the perfect mesh of small-town vibe and big-city atmosphere. "So the people who were born and raised here can have it to themselves"/Tom Hasslinger, Coeur d'Alene Press. More here.

Question: Why would you tell someone to move to the Coeur d'Alene area?