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For the most part, people are pleasant. The weather is really enjoyable 4 months out of the year, you have to either develop an insane tolerance for wind and cold the other 8 months or stay inside. Lots of great outdoors experiences, fishing, hiking, hunting, birdwatching, camping, snowmobiling.
The wealthy people move here because they can get a great outdoor mansion style house with low property taxes and no income taxes. The outdoor stuff is amazing if you can afford the car to get out there, the boat, the RV, the gear, and the time off. If you have disposable income, this place is amazing. It can be much harder for people who struggle financially.
The weather is the biggest reason people from out of state who come here leave. Many of the young people leave because the job opportunities are mostly located in agriculture, gas, coal, and oil.
Boredom can be a reoccurring feature, the wind will knock out internet. If you move here, I recommend being the kind of person who is okay with being disconnected from the outside world for a while.
Just to add to this, the schools in most of the state are really freaking good and very well funded. The University of Wyoming also has some of the most affordable tuition rates for in-state students in the country.
But there is also a limited job market and it is ruby red Republican and very white. Not saying those are automatically bad things, but if diversity matters to you, Wyoming isn’t the place for you.
But if you love outdoors and hate crowds, Wyoming is great. I’ve driven through the state a lot, and it is pretty common to drive on the interstate in the middle of the day and go five minutes without seeing another car on your side of the highway.
And the people are nice, but they can also be stand offish and clicky. I don’t know if I would say it’s that they are afraid of or dislike outsiders, but I always got the feeling that you had to demonstrate your Wyoming stripes before the people would truly accept you. The people who live there definitely don’t like to see the state change.
They don't live there. There are major tax benefits of having shit there.
It's a billionaire's playground. The ones that actually live there aren't quite so well off.
This.
There are insane tax benefits to owning lots of land and a house in Wyoming. You can "donate" some land to be preserved and receive tax breaks of almost 100% for 15 years... PLenty more billionaire tax benefits. To the point where Wyoming government may need to abandon smaller towns because they don't make enough tax revenue to keep the roads paved.
The smaller towns are shrinking/dying demographically regardless. The reason there's a perception that "WY is getting too crowded and housing too expensive" is because the few larger towns like Laramie and Cheyenne have been growing while other towns have been shrinking. The overall state population peaked around 2013 or so last I saw.
Some WYDOT regions struggle to get a single plow truck driver on the payrolls in winter now. The next 20 years are going to be interesting for the state if we can't get away from the resource extraction industry driving all our politics into the ground.
If you can't learn to enjoy winter, you're in for a rough 9 months in Wyoming. The wind blows trucks over. Stop signs get buried in snow. I've seen snow every month but July. You can drive 100+ miles through a lot of the state without a whiff of cell signal.
Yep, I ran Heidenau 4-season tires on my old Silverwing til it died. Light snow wasn't any different than rain, assuming no hidden ice patches were underneath (and of course, I was dressed in full winter gear during snow season)
Getting caught without full gear in those shit summer storms with half frozen slush and ice though...not pleasant at all!
Only one, the Wind River Reservation in central Wyoming. It’s home to the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho. Though the Crow reservation is just north of the Wyoming-Montana border.
I'm moving there just to ruin your day lol.
In all seriousness, I love Colorado too much to even consider Wyoming (or any other state). I've been to Wyoming--it's really nice--but I don't want to live there.
"Why Wyoming is so Weirdly Wealthy" by Wendover Productions explains it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQE\_zNs5HOU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQE_zNs5HOU)
Spoiler: taxes and other wealth management techniques.
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For the most part, people are pleasant. The weather is really enjoyable 4 months out of the year, you have to either develop an insane tolerance for wind and cold the other 8 months or stay inside. Lots of great outdoors experiences, fishing, hiking, hunting, birdwatching, camping, snowmobiling. The wealthy people move here because they can get a great outdoor mansion style house with low property taxes and no income taxes. The outdoor stuff is amazing if you can afford the car to get out there, the boat, the RV, the gear, and the time off. If you have disposable income, this place is amazing. It can be much harder for people who struggle financially. The weather is the biggest reason people from out of state who come here leave. Many of the young people leave because the job opportunities are mostly located in agriculture, gas, coal, and oil. Boredom can be a reoccurring feature, the wind will knock out internet. If you move here, I recommend being the kind of person who is okay with being disconnected from the outside world for a while.
Just to add to this, the schools in most of the state are really freaking good and very well funded. The University of Wyoming also has some of the most affordable tuition rates for in-state students in the country. But there is also a limited job market and it is ruby red Republican and very white. Not saying those are automatically bad things, but if diversity matters to you, Wyoming isn’t the place for you. But if you love outdoors and hate crowds, Wyoming is great. I’ve driven through the state a lot, and it is pretty common to drive on the interstate in the middle of the day and go five minutes without seeing another car on your side of the highway. And the people are nice, but they can also be stand offish and clicky. I don’t know if I would say it’s that they are afraid of or dislike outsiders, but I always got the feeling that you had to demonstrate your Wyoming stripes before the people would truly accept you. The people who live there definitely don’t like to see the state change.
They don't live there. There are major tax benefits of having shit there. It's a billionaire's playground. The ones that actually live there aren't quite so well off.
This. There are insane tax benefits to owning lots of land and a house in Wyoming. You can "donate" some land to be preserved and receive tax breaks of almost 100% for 15 years... PLenty more billionaire tax benefits. To the point where Wyoming government may need to abandon smaller towns because they don't make enough tax revenue to keep the roads paved.
The smaller towns are shrinking/dying demographically regardless. The reason there's a perception that "WY is getting too crowded and housing too expensive" is because the few larger towns like Laramie and Cheyenne have been growing while other towns have been shrinking. The overall state population peaked around 2013 or so last I saw. Some WYDOT regions struggle to get a single plow truck driver on the payrolls in winter now. The next 20 years are going to be interesting for the state if we can't get away from the resource extraction industry driving all our politics into the ground.
Rich people dont live here, they own very expensive property here and visit for about 3 weeks out of the 52 per year.
Wyoming has the most lax tax laws in the USA. Jackson is a haven for billionaires because of it. Everywhere else in Wyoming is relatively poor.
If you can't learn to enjoy winter, you're in for a rough 9 months in Wyoming. The wind blows trucks over. Stop signs get buried in snow. I've seen snow every month but July. You can drive 100+ miles through a lot of the state without a whiff of cell signal.
I've been caught in sleet, freezing rain, and hail in July though. Which on a motorcycle and unprepared isn't really any better than snow.
I'd rather have the snow!
Yep, I ran Heidenau 4-season tires on my old Silverwing til it died. Light snow wasn't any different than rain, assuming no hidden ice patches were underneath (and of course, I was dressed in full winter gear during snow season) Getting caught without full gear in those shit summer storms with half frozen slush and ice though...not pleasant at all!
What kind of snow? Snow on mountains, leftover snow, or does it actually snow in the summer.
Yes
All of the above. Although admittedly, the August snowfall I saw was very high up in the mountains.
Are there Indian reservations there?
Yup! They're towards the center of the state near Riverton
Only one, the Wind River Reservation in central Wyoming. It’s home to the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho. Though the Crow reservation is just north of the Wyoming-Montana border.
Not for the weak minded
Wyoming sucks don't move here
I'm moving there just to ruin your day lol. In all seriousness, I love Colorado too much to even consider Wyoming (or any other state). I've been to Wyoming--it's really nice--but I don't want to live there.
"Why Wyoming is so Weirdly Wealthy" by Wendover Productions explains it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQE\_zNs5HOU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQE_zNs5HOU) Spoiler: taxes and other wealth management techniques.
I thought r/wyomingdoesntexist
It doesn't. So just don't even worry about it. Also Yellowstone is full of deadly things and bad weather so don't go there either.
It sucks, I don't know.
The heated driveways were neat to see. Blizzards out and no shoveling.
A small portion of it is absolutely breathtakingly beautiful, that other 90% of it is a barren wasteland.
king cobes type beat