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Me too. I'm not far away in eastern Idaho but Wyoming has no stare tax and has better schools and some great hunts. The I decided to look for a piece of land near Alpine last week. It looks like Jackson Hole prices have really influenced Alpine. I was amazed how expensive land is in little old alpine. I like Wyoming as a state but would prefer to be on its west side and it's hard to find a town with more than 1 grocery store that isn't crazy expensive on the west side. Cody seems like it would be ok but it's hard to get to from everywhere.

Bb

I'm afraid there is only one "last best place" left in these United States. It is not Montana, Wyoming, or Idaho.

I'm heartbroken to say it is not Texas, although I intend for my ashes to be scattered there...

Alaska could be a contender. I hope so.

I won't mention the name of my last hope. Those who are there know it, hopefully others will not guess it....

Best wishes all,

Bob.

Wyoming isn’t for everybody. That’s a good thing.

QUOTE: Cody seems like it would be ok but it's hard to get to from everywhere.


And......that’s one thing that makes it desirable! 😁 Unless you have your heart set on living with the “uppity, millionaire/billionaires there are lots of smaller towns in Western Wyoming! Though it will require additional time and a few bucks more on fuel......Evanston or God Forbid Salt Lake City aren’t that far away! memtb

Made the move last year to Gillette.

No regrets - should have done it sooner.

Maybe it would be useful to name a few towns in Wyoming that one should avoid?
I will start...

1. Any town on the reservation
2.Shoshoni
3.Burlington
4. Cowely
5. Pavillion
6. Otto
6. Wright
7.Edgerton
7. Midwest

Feel free to add to the list

This should stir some schit up......

I would remove Cowley and put Jackson in its place.

And any town on or NEAR the reservation.

Yep.....Cowley is a darn nice little town! memtb

Ok , due to popular opinion Cowely is off the list....
I understand the desire to add Jackson.... but damn I love that country and the food and drink etc..... the people not so much.
That being said I will add it to the list.... cuz of the liberals and the crazy cost

1. Any town on the reservation
2.Shoshoni
3.Burlington
4. Jackson
5. Pavillion
6. Otto
6. Wright
7.Edgerton
7. Midwest

Fishingnut71: When I decided to pack up, sell out and move my family out of taxington 24 years ago - I debated Montana or Wyoming.
I am glad I went with and have stayed in Montana.
Choose Big Sky Country - you won't be disappointed.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

For those considering relocating to Wyoming .....recent data suggests that it’s a really cool place to live! memtb

https://nwschat.weather.gov/p.php?pid=202203101955-KRIW-NOUS45-PNSRIW

Wyoming is the new Montana it seems.

8. Riverton
9.Rawlins
10. Lander

And both are great places to live.

The only windless place I have found is under my house. With the crawl space door shut. And duct-taped!!!

But we have good points too. #1 we have few communists by percentage. They congregate in a few "liberal' towns (meaning communists can't stand on their own, so they ,love hive-mind. ) Towns with a high percentage of communist idiots are Laramie, Jackson and Lander.

Now consider that a "high percentage" in Wyoming is around 20% or in the worst places maybe 1/3. The thing I do like about MANY Wyomingites is their open contempt for communists, so the incoming one find out pretty fast they need to feel "accepted" in the few commie-areas or they get no respect and are told regularly how stupid they are. I have been to no other state where being a Lib-Tard is called out so regularly. Lib-Tards have thin skin and offence seems deadly to them. I DO like that!

It gets Cold? Ummmmm ...... well ............. OK, yeah. No arguing that.
But not as bad as many people like you to think. Other states get as cold or a bit colder, and few people make a fuss over them. Wyoming has some tendency to be brought up because of extremes and records, but it must be remembered such records happen maybe one time in 50 to 100 years. So.... if I am asked what's the coldest I have ever seen here, it was -64F (not wind chill....REAL temp) BUT. That night broke all the records going back 76 years. Most years late December and most of January the temps get to -15 and down to -25 nearly every night. That's common. Day time highs in the sub-zero to low singles digits most years. So, that's cold, But not all THAT cold. Wyomingites start to pay attention and talk about it when it get near -30 and it's common conversation when it's close to -40. But that quite rare. If you move here from southern California, Texas, New Mexico, Mississippi, Florida Alabama or Arizona you are in for a shock your first winter, but if you come from many other states and simply by a good winter coat, boots, hat and some mittens you'll never have any problems. If I have to go to the south in summer I dress for it. Do the same for Wyoming winters and you'll have no problems. A hint for you is to buy such things in April or May. Getting what you want in the middle off a cold snap is not a good plan. Remember the snow tires BEFORE winter too!

Come to Wyoming with a mind-set to fit in, pitch in and help (not a short term activity but a life style) and go out of your way to let others know it, and in no time you are one of us. Come with the idea of building your own nest egg at the expense of others and you'll find you'd better be 100% self reliant because few will help you if you don't seem helpful to them 1st.

I think county folks are that way any place you go. But Wyoming is the lest populated state in the USA so we have a far higher percentage of country folks than any other state. That's why the extreme difference in fitting in or being unwelcome is so noted about Wyoming. We are no different then Texas country folks, Alabama country folks or Main country folks. It s just that in most places the highest percentage of people are city folks and that's not the case here.

The "golden Rule" you were taught in 1st grade is what gets you friendship and acceptance here faster than it will about any other place you go. And as with country folks in other states as well as what I saw in other countries--- from Burma, Thailand, Rhodesia, Mexico, Paraguay, Cambodia,--- or even right in New York state to have good friends FIRST BE a good friend! Country folks think the same way most places you go. We just "got more of um".

All of these posts on towns in Wyoming, and not one mention of Dubois? The home of Welty's general store, what else would you need? What about Kinnear, population of 44. Much bigger then Morton Wy. So many choices!

Ha, ha. I went to school with a guy whose family moved to Lander from Gebo. Also have an acquintance living in Jeffrey City. No, I have never stopped at Monking Bird.

I was working construction near Soda Springs Idaho quite a few years ago, and we were struggling trying to land a sheet of rolled steel with a crane while building a storage silo.

The wind was pushing it around pretty good, especially because off the shape, as you could imagine.

A co-worker commented on how bad the wind was.

Another from Wyoming said, " This is nothing, the wind in Casper blows harder than this inside my house."

Browning.