Tell me why I shouldn't move to wyoming...

[TaperPin]

Moving to Wyoming is like wanting to date a gal with a temper - you can chit chat online for a year, spend every other weekend together, learn everything about her, even get her name tattooed on your neck, but until you actually live with her when she’s not on best behavior, you can’t really know if it’s the right flavor of crazy for you. Lol

 

[*zap*]

won't be far behind you

Carpool

 

[StuckInTheEast]

Moving to Wyoming is like wanting to date a gal with a temper - you can chit chat online for a year, spend every other weekend together, learn everything about her, even get her name tattooed on your neck, but until you actually live with her when she’s not on best behavior, you can’t really know if it’s the right flavor of crazy for you. Lol

I think that can be applied to about anywhere...but I totally get your point, hence the extensive research and travels. I love what I've seen and experienced of Wyoming so far...but i dont love anything enough for a neck tatoo You are correct though and I fully understand that you don't know what any place is truly like unti you live there full time. We expect a learning/adaptation period wherever we may go.
Winters will be a change I'm well aware of. We fare better in cold than the heat and humidity of the midwest. I know how to layer and stay warm...can only take so much off to stay cool in public though.
I'm aware no place is paradise in this life, we're just looking for a place that may suite us a bit better

 

[manitou1]

The fires were brutal this year. I bet half a million acres burned within 50 miles of Sheridan. This was a scorcher of a summer/fall, which was a drastic change from last summer when it was cool and wet. Last winter was great, but the winter of '22/'23 seemed to last 7 months. It felt like we were in Alaska.

In the 4 years I've lived here, I've come to realize that Wyoming is a glorious place with few people largely because of how extreme and unpredictable the weather is. It's very different from anywhere else I've lived (WA, OR, ID, IL, NH). Luckily, my wife handles WY weather better than I do, but I guarantee you it ain't for everyone.

Almost a million acres in total for WY.
The fire next to our place was the largest prairie fire in WY history.
The forest fires were the largest in WY history too.

 

[Blandry]

Pfft... we get 65 mph winds here outside Buffalo and some reach 85 mph+. 40 is a gentle breeze, lol.

Wind is the hardest part of dealing with WY for me. 40-65 mph winds for a week straight can be maddening.

Re-shingled parts of our roof on our NEW house six times in 2021-2022. Also had to replace facia about five times.

The wind outside of rock springs blew the fenders off of my jeep once. I couldn't believe it.

 

[Mojave]

I am a native Wyomingite (yes that is what we are called for some reason). 2nd Generation on one side and 1st generation on another, not that it matters.

Wyoming is freaking hard.

We usually have jobs, lots of jobs. Some pay some don't. I last left in 2000 and finished out my 20 years in the military. I always look for jobs I'd be willing to do there. Some times I get an interview, and sometimes not. I have worked for about 5 different federal agencies and Wyoming is a tough nut to crack.

Things are expensive in Wyoming. Not as bad as Montana in most places. Of course make a circle around Yellowstone or Jackson and triple the price. Get within 80 miles of Jackson and multiply the price by 10.

Because of the constant ebb and flow of immigration into Wyoming, I don't think it has much of its own defined culture as remote areas of Montana, Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon or Idaho does. I don't mean non-American immigrants.

Wyoming got a lot of people after Hurricane Katrina. The oilfield booms and bust keep a pretty cyclic group coming and going from Texas. I have been told that the solar eclipse a few years ago during covid, was an absolute train wreck for immigration into Wyoming.

I went to all of elementary and juniper high in Wyoming and went to High school in Wyoming and Montana. 2 years in each state. The number of people I still know in Wyoming who live in Wyoming is pretty small.

I bet 7/8ths my graduating class still lives in Deer Lodge, Helena, Missoula, Livingston or Kalispel.

Wyoming has a lot more problems with drifter crime than Montana does. More rampant drug use, more everything bad.

People will tell you about the winters. They do shake up the migration of people pretty well.

The wind is the worst though. Especially in Casper and Cheyenne. Especially in February and march at 8 or 9 degrees. Plus a -30 or 40 wind chill.

I had a job interview in Miles City Montana last week. I thought that might be a good deal, but every house less than 20 years old was $500,000. 1940's houses that should be $80,000 are $350,000. Nothing new built in years. I ended up talking to a realtor, and calling them and telling them I didn't want the job.

 

[IDVortex]

It's no California, so no nice beaches, warmth. So I'd suggest Cali. You can hunt all 3 different breeds of elk, muley deer, black tail. They have good bear hunting, and fewer hunters.