wyoming

[Niki09]

I hate colorado.... not gonna lie.... After watching Jericho for a week straight I have decided I will not be living in Denver anymore (haha).

I have been to wyoming once... to glendo to go boating/camping. I love it. I want land...

votes... wyoming yay or nay?

any good towns y'all know of?

[oly]

I like the Tetons area near Yellowstone, I dont like the flatter areas that gets them horizontal snow storms.

[iceman]

small town

small towns like boulder...(not Colorado)
have some great places to buy land and build a good hold-out
I have a small place up that way...no one around for miles

[mdogspot]

Small population, no state income tax, hunting ,fishing, not to many Libs. Ya that sounds prettty good to me.:) Only bad thing is the freakin wind:mad:

[West Texas!]

Employment would be challenging as well as finding housing.

[Niki09]

Small population, no state income tax, hunting ,fishing, not to many Libs. Ya that sounds prettty good to me.:) Only bad thing is the freakin wind:mad:

no state income tax? hmmm....

hunting & fishing is good and few libs is even better... what can I say I like the 2nd Amendment, I'm a repub :)

yeah I remember when we went a few summers ago the wind was intense...

[Niki09]

small towns like boulder...(not Colorado)
have some great places to buy land and build a good hold-out
I have a small place up that way...no one around for miles

iceman,

thanks but I REALLY do not like colorado :)

[Niki09]

Employment would be challenging as well as finding housing.

employment not as much, I'm a stay at home mom & my hubby is testing for the Fire Dept here in denver & we have guys on the dept who live in WY and drive out. I know it's far, but it will work for now.

and housing? really? whY?

I found some great houses in wheatland yesterday & one of my dad's firemen lives there so we would know someone right off

[shadowwalker]

Housing here is tight, but getting better. Still almost all housing is overpriced as hell. Employment is starting to tighten up too. With the extraction industry slowing down almost all jobs are getting affected. But that is the boom and bust of Wyoming. Been that way for over 70 years. Yes the wind does suck, but you kinda get used to it. Kinda.
The hunting and fishing, well I can't lie, it's great. That is the exact reason I moved back here from TN.
Life here can be hard, but that's what I'm hoping will get some of the recent transplants here to scoot on out. I really get tired of hearing how much trouble they have adjusting to life here. Can't they remember how to get "home"? Ha,ha.
Have you looked into western Colorado? Maybe Grand Junction or Cortez, Craig? Just to name a few.

[Niki09]

Housing here is tight, but getting better. Still almost all housing is overpriced as hell. Employment is starting to tighten up too. With the extraction industry slowing down almost all jobs are getting affected. But that is the boom and bust of Wyoming. Been that way for over 70 years. Yes the wind does suck, but you kinda get used to it. Kinda.
The hunting and fishing, well I can't lie, it's great. That is the exact reason I moved back here from TN.
Life here can be hard, but that's what I'm hoping will get some of the recent transplants here to scoot on out. I really get tired of hearing how much trouble they have adjusting to life here. Can't they remember how to get "home"? Ha,ha.
Have you looked into western Colorado? Maybe Grand Junction or Cortez, Craig? Just to name a few.

I really really hate colorado, I'm only "stuck" here because of my husband (damn him). Housing seems SO cheap compared to here. But I would rather take someone in WY's word than the net. Jobs we can work around.

When you say life can be hard? And people can't adjust.. what do you mean? Give me some ideas what I need to adjust to?

I honestly can't wait for the hunting and fishing and the wind I can deal with. Hey maybe I'll get a wind turbine and when TSHTF I'll use it to power my house!?!? :) Just an idea....

I'd love to hear more from you. I am pretty set on WY. But if you really think it's a bad choice I'd love your knowledge!

thank you

[Cowboyup65]

I too have thought of wyoming since early 90's, but was never able to locate enough work out there to support the family.
No I am looking at getting out of construction because of the fustration of it and what the income has done to the family.
I have been off work now since 21st of Jan, and may start work next week, installing Sat dishes, yahoo!

I too would love about 40 acres in wyoming or more someday, a cowboy just needs his space.

[Niki09]

I too have thought of wyoming since early 90's, but was never able to locate enough work out there to support the family.
No I am looking at getting out of construction because of the fustration of it and what the income has done to the family.
I have been off work now since 21st of Jan, and may start work next week, installing Sat dishes, yahoo!

I too would love about 40 acres in wyoming or more someday, a cowboy just needs his space.

good luck with the job thing, I hope it works out for you!!!

I'm not a cowgirl, but I'd like to be and 40 acres in wyoming sounds like ticket to me!!!

[shadowwalker]

sure I will explain. Well the first thing I hears about from implants/transplants.
There isn't anything to do. Well partly true. Wyoming towns are far and few between. If you get the urge for a big gulp and candy bar. You might have to drive 30 minutes minimum to get them. The shopping people are used to having within 10 or 20 minutes of "home" are a couple hours drive or maybe in another state. To me anyway in Casper(the biggest city in the state 61,000 people) there are no good restuarants, most every place is a hit or miss on the food. Now this may be petty, but when I go out for a good dinner and spend over $50.00. I want to be able to eat a good steak. Not here. Hey you can spend over $100.00 for two people and still get less than good. And yes I do know good, I have ate at some of the best restuarants in the nation. Most to me are just "pretty on a plate". I told that to a waiter in L.A. once and he almost passed out. Now that was funny.
Better get used to solitude. There is alot here. Most cities stuff ends say at city limit signs. Water,sewer,cable tv.etc. Thats usually about 2 or 3 miles out of town. You can be 5 miles out of town and have a snow storm or good rain say maybe less than 1 inch of it. And be homestead bound for 2 to 5 days or more. We do have good electric service and this is one of the few states I have lived that the service is very good, dosn't go out much at all. The state is getting more metro-ized with soccer moms and the stuff that goes with a family existing today. The wind does blow most of the time, that's just how it happens. Winter is a time of slowdown here with alot of activities ending and others starting. Thats a fair low down on how stuff happens. Being in Colorado it's hard to see some of what I posted, but think like someone coming from say back east or the west coast. With almost every whim within a few minutes of your home. The shock is bad to some of them. The wind and winter drives some of them out the first year, and lack of "reasonable" jobs. I never have got a good explaination of what one of those it yet!
Now for hunting. And I hate to say it but at least people here are like minded with me, so here goes. If you really try, and have the time and money. You can hunt "something" in this state just under nine months a year!!! That sucks, I never had enough of the last two to enjoy that,ever......The fishing is also great with liberal limits compared to other states. Many different species of them. We have some of them in only one lake or stream in the state. That's cool to me.
I'll give you the places to check online here for about how the state is.
Casper star tribune, is the statewide paper,wyoming at work ,is the state job serivce, City-Data.com, go to wyoming for another good forum on us, hope it sheds alittle light on wyoming in general.

[Niki09]

sure I will explain. Well the first thing I hears about from implants/transplants.
There isn't anything to do. Well partly true. Wyoming towns are far and few between. If you get the urge for a big gulp and candy bar. You might have to drive 30 minutes minimum to get them. The shopping people are used to having within 10 or 20 minutes of "home" are a couple hours drive or maybe in another state. To me anyway in Casper(the biggest city in the state 61,000 people) there are no good restuarants, most every place is a hit or miss on the food. Now this may be petty, but when I go out for a good dinner and spend over $50.00. I want to be able to eat a good steak. Not here. Hey you can spend over $100.00 for two people and still get less than good. And yes I do know good, I have ate at some of the best restuarants in the nation. Most to me are just "pretty on a plate". I told that to a waiter in L.A. once and he almost passed out. Now that was funny.
Better get used to solitude. There is alot here. Most cities stuff ends say at city limit signs. Water,sewer,cable tv.etc. Thats usually about 2 or 3 miles out of town. You can be 5 miles out of town and have a snow storm or good rain say maybe less than 1 inch of it. And be homestead bound for 2 to 5 days or more. We do have good electric service and this is one of the few states I have lived that the service is very good, dosn't go out much at all. The state is getting more metro-ized with soccer moms and the stuff that goes with a family existing today. The wind does blow most of the time, that's just how it happens. Winter is a time of slowdown here with alot of activities ending and others starting. Thats a fair low down on how stuff happens. Being in Colorado it's hard to see some of what I posted, but think like someone coming from say back east or the west coast. With almost every whim within a few minutes of your home. The shock is bad to some of them. The wind and winter drives some of them out the first year, and lack of "reasonable" jobs. I never have got a good explaination of what one of those it yet!
Now for hunting. And I hate to say it but at least people here are like minded with me, so here goes. If you really try, and have the time and money. You can hunt "something" in this state just under nine months a year!!! That sucks, I never had enough of the last two to enjoy that,ever......The fishing is also great with liberal limits compared to other states. Many different species of them. We have some of them in only one lake or stream in the state. That's cool to me.
I'll give you the places to check online here for about how the state is.
Casper star tribune, is the statewide paper,wyoming at work ,is the state job serivce, City-Data.com, go to wyoming for another good forum on us, hope it sheds alittle light on wyoming in general.

well I know I'm from Denver (and Cali before that) so people think city girl. That I am not. I hate the city. I am a homebody and have one whole closet FULL of craft, scrapbooking, and rubber stamping crap, which besides chasing around my son, keeps me pretty occupied. The 2 things my son and I like to do the most is swim (we will have a pool when we buy) and go to the zoo. Any zoo's in WY? Other than that we stay home and find stuff to do.

As for shopping, well I hate shopping, it's boring, and we live on about 2400$/month so I know we don't have it to spend anyway. Since I recently lost 60lbs, my mother told me I HAD to buy jeans because when I walk people could see my butt, after about 10 mins in the store I was over it and bought some workout pants. (I still own no jeans LOL).

As for going out to eat, we just don't. I have to be frugal on our budget. I make everything at home, from scratch. You can't find food like mine anywhere. I am without a doubt the best self taught cook I know. Not to toot my own horn but I am :) HAHA. SO thats ok with me too.

Solitude is ok with me, I sort of like to keep to myself. Most people do not get my deeply imbedded marine sense of humor, love of cars (apparently it's weird when girls KNOW and love cars) and guns. Plus I REALLY enjoy taking care of hubby and kiddo and find that occupies 95% of my time.

As for the cold.... I hate cold... HATE it. I LOVE the snow, just not the cold, but Denver is cold as a$$, and I have learned to adjust (man I miss cali) I want a fireplace & I can bundle up.

Can't wait to hunt and fish.. can't wait for hubby to get hired on a fire dept so we can afford more hunting. And fishing.

yeah send me links I'd love to learn more.... also how are schools there? my son's education is really important, and my husband will leave me if I can't find our son an ice hockey team to play on. So yeah, thanks for your feedback and info... keep it coming, if you want to talk I will listen!

[shadowwalker]

I don't keep much up with the schools. I let my brothers and sister do that with their kids. My daughter and step daughter are both almost 30 and no grandkids...