There is a bit of a callus on rokslide or any other outdoors forum where someone wants someone else (all of these people are grown ass men (in theory), to tell them it is ok to leave home and move West.
I am from Wyoming, and I want to move back there and I get that. But I am currently overseas doing military stuff, and I will return some day. It's my home and I have family there. This is a huge thing, Wyoming people are not friendly to each other and even more not friendly to anyone who is not from Wyoming. Most westerners are the same way.
The most recent version of the Unknown Munitions podcast had a similar piece of wisdom.
Where the guy that owns 6th Day Arrows basically said, Casper is kind of ok and I live in Wyoming because of the opportunity to hunt. He moved from Alabama and was a successful business owner in his 50's. So not the same thing at all.
She is going to have concerns.
1. Will she make friends? Probably, my daughter is a nurse and has moved many times and all her little girlfriends are from her work.
2. Does it suck to not live near family? 100%. We are 10,000 miles away in Germany on our 3rd overseas assignment. We love Europe and I have killed a ton of stuff, but that doesn't make it worth it to be away from family.
3. Can you afford to live in Wyoming? I will answer this with this thought. I was looking for a place to buy in the bighorn valley near Lovell yesterday. A town of 800 people. $500,000 bought decent house with 4 bedrooms in town made 15 years ago. Casper has a bigger market, Sheridan has a more expensive market. You could probably live on the I-80 corridor in the prison town or closer to Utah and do a lot better housing wise. My home town or Riverton sucks, and it is cheaper. Lander is more expensive, as it is one of the nicer towns in Wyoming. Cheyenne sucks, the wind blows as much as Casper, and it is closer to Colorado. The only positive attiribute of Cheyenne is that half my family lives there (the part that doesn't live in Casper or Riverton) and it is in Wyoming so you can get most of the tags OTC vice living in Fort Collins and wishing you drew a tag in Wyoming.
4. Will you make friends? Maybe, I would not expect anyone to bring you into their hunting fold for a very long time.
5. I don't know anything about guiding for ducks, but I guide antelope part time. Even as an outfitter I would have to have a real job. What are you going to do for a real job? My nephew is a duck guide in Riverton, and he scraps together a living driving heavy equipment the rest of the year. I worked with a lot of guys that had a guide license when I was in New Mexico. None of them were full time guides. They all had real jobs 300 days a year.