Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Chance to move to Buffalo/Sheriden WY Area, looking for info!

I have been out of work since may. Now I am looking at Sheridan. I would jump on it before someone else does. I am into computer and electronic repair.

I haven't lived there but love to visit the area and have hunted east of Buffalo for several years. If I could make a decent living there I would do it in a minute. 2 of my favorite towns.
Really nice people in my opinion as well, I always feel welcome.

It's 40 below zero this week, with 30mph winds.

You better stay in NH.

One of the best moves I made was moving from Houston to Calgary early January 2005 arriving at 25 below. Piss on the weather unless you plan to die there.

I live about 125 miles north of Sheridan. Work in the Sheridan - Buff area a few times a year.

As to wind, my take is Buffalo is a bit worse for wind. Yes winter weather can be a bit harsh, but like many places out here, weather moves in and a few days later it's gone. May be cold as heck, but clear and bright. I can live with that compared to the dreary gray that sets in for weeks in the midwest and east.

As to prices, yes if you get out of town and buy something with a little land, the prices are going to skyrocket. There are some nice towns north of Sheridan (Ranchester, Dayton etc.) that could be options for housing.

Were I you, I would get my bum out here, look around in person and take the job. Things will work out. Not often an opportunity to relocate to an area like that and have a good job available.

Feel free to PM if you have questions. I am in Montana but have some connections down in the Sheridan-Buff area including some very close friends that live in Buff that would be good resources.

Bob H, these folks are providing some excellent/accurate insights and what seems to be some good advice as well. I have been up there quite a bit and like the area a lot - and know a gal that grew up in Buffalo and lived there for a long time. A phone call may be possible if you are interested.

I understand the family/cultural/homeland pull - grew up in the East and know New England very well - had an extended visit last Spring. But, jumped to the SW soon after we married and for 55 years have never looked back. For us, the sense of space, freedom, opportunity and natural beauty - all great.

The most expensive houses I looked at when we were moving out of Denver 17 years ago were in the out of town (rural) areas from Buffalo to Dayton along the Big Horns. It is a great place to consider and if the job is one you are interested in.

Lots of public land hunting in the Big Horns.

It can be brutal in the winter.

Buy your license plates before you move to your house so the neighbors don't know where you came from. (This advice was given to me by a Wyoming game warden) Wyoming folks are not always friendly to out of state folks who move there.

The reason rural housing is more expensive than living in Sheridan is it is more desirable. Check prices in Ranchester and Dayton to get a perspective on how expensive it an be.

Good luck with this if you decide to do it.

I lived most of my life in Wyoming and this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard about Wyoming. Folks are very welcoming. Just don't buy 20 acres and pretend to a be a rancher and you'll get along fine. Buffalo area can be very expensive - up through Story and to Sheridan. Dayton is a lot less coin and it's closer to the mountains. The websites aren't going to help you out. You're going to need to get the lay of the land and go out there.

Horsepucky.

It isn't horsepucky. It was the first thing he said when he saw my Colorado plates. His point was there was a lot of resentment about out of state people coming into the area and fishing and hunting on public land. You may not like what he said, I didn't, but it is what he said.

You "live" in NH? The answer is "go".

They aren't going to figure out where your from? Horsepucky.

If you have a job offer that won't evaporate in 5 years, I'd jump on it big time.

The other thing is, you might want to seriously consider living IN TOWN where the streets get plowed. Out of town, you get to plow yourself out. Pavement is your friend, gumbo is not. NH is not Wyoming. NH would be part of a county in Wyoming. The distances are epic compared to what you have lived with your whole life, and so are the winters.
The country is right there, Sheridan is next door to the boondocks, no more than five minutes.
I'd look for a solid house, fairly modern, IN TOWN. Insulation definitely a factor. Get yourself stable, give yourself a couple of years to settle into things, and only then, if you crave moving out of town, should you. Then you can buy a place at a good price from some Easterner transplant that is sick and tired of plowing out all the time.

Any State that voted 71% for Trump/Pence must have a lot of good things going on.

I am a retired Wyoming Realtor. This is sound advice. Very sound.

I don't doubt for a minute he said that, Wyoming is no stranger to idiots.

What he said IS horsepucky. We welcome newcomers that buy into the Wyoming lifestyle and culture.

What gets us ticked off is the folks from California or wherever who come out here to get away from where they lived, then immediately start trying to change Wyoming into the place they just came from. "That's not the way we did it in California" is certain to get you the cold shoulder from the natives. "You would never get away with that in California" is one of the reasons we live in Wyoming. They bring their dopesmoking, Prius-driving, artsy-snooty lifestyle, their bratass kids with the crotch of their britches hanging down around their knees, their endless complaining about how we do things out here and wonder why we are not more welcoming to them.

The OP should grab the job and move on out, he can change his license plate at his leisure.

Be great hunting

Aaaah Greenie. That's different. I had to pay extra to not have green license plates here in Colorado. Folks in Wyoming get a little tired of seeing green license plates at their favorite fishing and hunting spots. Nothing to do with moving to Wyoming. I put a steamboat syticler and Wyoming license plate holders on my truck and that cancels out the Colorado plates.

There used to be signs in Bars and Restaurants,that read, We Don't give a fuack how you did it back home. Buffalo and Sheridan are nice towns with nice people.

Don't have much info to help you make your decision other than to say I wish it was me:) Both Sheridan and Buffalo are on my short list of cities to relocate to. But I'm still 2-3 years from making the move. Have been in those 2 towns regularly for the past 9 years, everyone has been great - even though I have Oregon plates on my rig which is only slightly better than California but not much.

To me, Sheridan is about perfect, seems to have everything you could need, great antelope hunting not far away and mule deer and white tails. Whats not to like?? And I might be the only person alive that actually kind of likes the wind so its perfect:)