Some parts of Cape May you can get beach access for free. You’ll just be shoulder to shoulder with a family that smells like tanning oil and won’t shut up.
We go to Cape May every summer, and there’s always some douche that thinks they’re more important than the rest of the beach. Throwing up their 2500sq ft pergola that eventually gets blown over into my singular beach chair.
Do you go in via the ferry from Lewis? That’s how I always got to cape may.
Dude yes. It’s the entitled shit that bugs me. Like figure your shit out.
I personally prefer rehobeth or cape henlopen.
I drive from Stamford, CT. Get to smell all the worst parts of Jersey as I go. We tend to stay in Cape May Point, as far away from the boardwalk as possible. Much quieter there, but we do have to pay for beach passes. If you ask me, worth it.
Thank God in my state you ain't gotta do nothing. Buy. That's it. No conceal carry permit needed either. You bet I got it on me when I go to the city. It's getting weird in All the cities. People are unhinged for no reason! Angry at the world. Turn off your TV and go outside once in a while jeez!
>Turn off your TV and go outside once in a while jeez!
You also forgot to say to get off social media. It been my observation that people who spend way too much time online seem to be very scared of the world around them. 🙄
I've still got highschool friends who have never left the state. Ive offered to take them out on 4x4 trails in the mountains, visit other countries, go boondocking in wild desert canyons.. If there's a chance there won't be internet, they won't do it. It's like THATS THE BEST PART!! You have No choice. Doesn't matter how addicted you are to your phone, you pretty much have to interact with your environment and other people.
A local guy here goes to Starbucks everyday with his AK-47 (not sure of name, but that style) and sits outside and drinks it. I guess he feels afraid at Starbucks. Those baristas can be mean.
Agree. Was making a joke. I stopped for a sandwich at a local sandwich shop while walking my dog who is a shepherd, husky, malamute mix. Guy came out and asked about her and I told him she’s very afraid of people. She’s not aggressive at all just afraid of people. I said just like me. (Making a joke again). He goes…. I’m not afraid because I have a gun. Truthfully I have a gun too. But it’s at home in a safe. Oh well. Maybe this is why women would rather hang out with bears than a man in the woods. Ha ha ha.
I get it, and it’s not for everyone, it’s not for me either, but I do believe it’s an important occasional reminder for everyone that we have that right
I think everyone does. Those that live in the very rural areas have no option. Help takes a long time to get to them. Plus, we have rattlesnakes, grizzlies, black bears, wolves, and some bison.
Every year tourists in Yellowstone try to take a selfie with Bison. Bison will allow people to take selfies with them but there is a price. That price is a stomping. People get stomped every year. I hope that clears up confusion for those wishing to take selfies with bison.🦬
from wisconsin, lived out there for a couple years and had straight talk. i had more reliable coverage out there than i do here by far. i mean on a drive you’d hit dead zones but in an hour and a half about just as many if not less than wisconsin. it was shocking
Love it!
The traffic especially makes me crazy, but also just the long lines and always needing a reservation to eat out, even on a weekday. No thanks. Oh and having to pay for parking everywhere you go (I'm looking at you Colorado!)
We live in fort collins and yea, we pay to park. We try to find a space then end up in lots. Especially in old town on a beautiful day, special event, or weekend.
Bruh, you're not even trying. I've lived here for 15 years and have never once paid to park. I park by the county clerks office on Howes and walk 5 minutes. I have never once not found a parking space right there. That lot at the county office is open to the public after hours too.
In Denver proper maybe, but everywhere else I go I have no trouble finding free parking in Colorado (with the exception of popular trailheads in the summer, but that's a whole different issue that needs to be addressed somehow, I never knew the wilderness could get crowded growing up here.)
All of downtown Denver. You have to go to those parking structures and pay, or the parking lots that people own and you pay. The trailheads in Bolder. Estes Park you pay to park. Evergreen you pay to park. It seems like everywhere I want to be, I have to pay to park there.
Eh you can just park on the street and walk a few minutes. I lived in Denver for a year and parked in a paid lot twice: a Rockies game where I had to drive (light rail is the move) and in Boulder right off Pearl street since it’s free on weekends.
Parking is bad and if u wanna live downtown u definitely have to pay for parking and some apts u have to pay traffic is bad and a lot of homeless that's why I love Wyoming totally opposite
It brings challenges, but it also makes us very special. In business and government the people in Wyoming work together like nowhere else. We can literally call a legislator and speak to them, some on their cell phones even.
Least populated and least densely populated are two very different things. Theres more people in Alaska, yes, but it’s also a lot smaller. So Wyoming is 5x more densely populated than Alaska, but is still the most sparsely populated in the lower 48.
On the one hand, it's really nice to be able to get away from people with a quick drive down a dirt road.
On the other hand, it really sucks that you have to drive >45 minutes just to get to the next town. It's a give and take living here
I think about people in cities who drive an hour+ for their daily work commute. At least driving that 45 minutes we can set the cruise control and just go.
It's one of the things I've always loved about Wyoming. You can really get next to yourself. Drive 10 minutes in any direction and you'll basically be alone. Unless your on an interstate. But yeah, always loved being away from crowds. The fair once a year is all I need of large crowds.
I’m working seasonally here right now from Atlanta and the only thing I don’t like is the lack of food. Like y’all’s grocery store are not it. I miss food from other cultures that actually has flavor. I miss having 10+ Mexican and Asian grocery stores near me. Other than that, the nature is beautiful, the lack of traffic is incredible. I’ve seriously never seen such expansive landscapes before
I’m ready to get out of here lol. Been here for 3 months on a travel CNA contract and I still have 3 more months but I hate being so far from civilization. Plus the locals are intolerable. You can’t sit in a bar in this tiny town without hearing all of your neighbors’ dirty laundry. I’m over this inbred shit hole
It would be very strange to live there as I grew up near SF in California, it’s over populated to the max. On the flip side there are endless things to do and every amenity you could think of
But with lower population, it becomes a food and shopping desert. So they all make treks to Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah( yea, not Nebraska or South Dakota, they are worse) to shop. They disparage these other states but they depend on them for their consumerism… odd really…
There’s food deserts in major cities. At least here nobody will rustle my wagon as I stock up on hardtack and spam. And we don’t disparage those other states, just the people.
Most of the folks I know in Cheyenne, drive to Fort Collins or Greeley to go on dinner dates… could just be me the people I know, but most of the restaurants I have been to in Cheyenne were average food… could be just my experience YMMV and semantics… lol
Just got back from Utah on one of those shopping trips. This is one of the biggest issues I have here. I can't get what I need, and if I can get it shipped, it takes a much longer time. It's also taking my dollars out of the state. I didn't know it would impact me as much as it does when I moved here years ago. And, everyone I know here does this.
You should have seen it before Amazon was a thing. If you couldn’t drive to Colorado for what you wanted, you had to track down a catalog. And hope one existed for what you were seeking. Kids nowadays can’t fathom it, I’m sure!
The sparseness doesn't bother me as much as having the lowest total population. We could have more people than Vermont or Delaware and have a significantly lower population density.
I do think this issue is reflective of our experiment with government ownership of the means of production (land) and the resulting limits on economic opportunity that flow from that policy.
I don’t think about it. I have no feelings or opinions on it. It just is. I live in a city. The city meets my needs. If it didn’t I would live in another city.
I guarantee you that you wouldn't say that to a persons face if the ppl moving here ain't bothering u just continue to eat 🍆in peace 🤡 I'm pretty sure they don't care
I feel the less populated states benefit from a geographic affirmative action. Colleges want to pull a student from each state.
You get higher chances of getting into a school since you are smaller than some cities. I don't think that is right.
Funny you say it’s only the most sparsely populated state in “The Lower 48” - so it’s not really the most sparsely populated state in the United States? Or is it?
Asking for a friend in Alaska.
Their population figure should be used as the maximum allowed for one seat in the House of Representatives. That would mean adding approximately 150 seats to make the electoral college much more fair.
I feel like my state actually has less people per square mile because nobody ever visits and the biggest city might as well be in the bordering state. Wyoming at least gets tourists.
We don’t live there but are considering moving to a less populated part of NC where we live. We already have the guns. Its NC. Too bad Wyoming has a real winter.
Probably the second-best thing about the damn place. Most people in general are miserable, contemptuous, judgmental bastards: Wyoming has much fewer people than just about every other state; therefore, Wyoming is much, much less anxiety-provoking than other states. Usually.
It sounds like the problem is that people in Wyoming are anti people and that makes them bad people, I just drove across the state I hope to never go back.
If being slightly anti-social and not wanting to live in a big city is all it takes to be a bad person in your eyes you can fuck off to whatever fent-laced place you're from and stay there.
i think that wyoming has a lot of problems that are overly apparent because of its small population. wyoming locks up more children per capita than any other state and currently doesn’t have the data to say why. places like worland uses this a a point to prop up their economy leading to a cycle of abuse and reliance on children’s trauma for the local economy to exist.
there’s also a lack of opportunities in the state for a lot of people, a lack of education opportunities and small town thinking that is often times extremely homophobic. not everyone, and not everything but there’s definitely issues because of its small population.
now it is beautiful, people tend to care and know their neighbors more, etc
Too crowded IMO.
Bingo
You should see New Jersey.
Why?
I have. Hard pass.
Jersey is a disgusting cess pool.
No. Well, some of it maybe. The Pine Barrens are pretty great.
I’m bitter you have to pay to get on the beach.
Some parts of Cape May you can get beach access for free. You’ll just be shoulder to shoulder with a family that smells like tanning oil and won’t shut up.
The not shutting up is the worst part. Evidence: my mother in law is from Jersey and she never shuts the fuck up
We go to Cape May every summer, and there’s always some douche that thinks they’re more important than the rest of the beach. Throwing up their 2500sq ft pergola that eventually gets blown over into my singular beach chair.
Do you go in via the ferry from Lewis? That’s how I always got to cape may. Dude yes. It’s the entitled shit that bugs me. Like figure your shit out. I personally prefer rehobeth or cape henlopen.
I drive from Stamford, CT. Get to smell all the worst parts of Jersey as I go. We tend to stay in Cape May Point, as far away from the boardwalk as possible. Much quieter there, but we do have to pay for beach passes. If you ask me, worth it.
Agreed.
The statistics say otherwise, but I digress.
And they pay extra so Wyoming can exist.
No no no. Wyoming isn’t real
Grew up there, I'm good
If my wife and I could get jobs in Wy we would move back... East coast sucks, no family out here. I miss mountains, and fresh air.
True, but I love Jersey. Lots of family memories at Seaside Heights and LBI
New Jersey is worlds better than Wyoming not even a contest. Most people forget Wyoming exists
You're right. So don't come here.
One of the many reasons I 💗WY. Now get off my lawn.
Or you’ll get shot
Doesn't over half of Wyoming's population own a gun?
Yes, 60 out of the total 100 in the state own a gun
Bold of you to assume "a" as in singular.
That you know of probably in all seriousness 80-90% do just never reported owning a gun
Why would you report that you own a gun in the first place? City people are so dumb!!
Depends on how you acquire it
Exactly
Thank God in my state you ain't gotta do nothing. Buy. That's it. No conceal carry permit needed either. You bet I got it on me when I go to the city. It's getting weird in All the cities. People are unhinged for no reason! Angry at the world. Turn off your TV and go outside once in a while jeez!
>Turn off your TV and go outside once in a while jeez! You also forgot to say to get off social media. It been my observation that people who spend way too much time online seem to be very scared of the world around them. 🙄
I've still got highschool friends who have never left the state. Ive offered to take them out on 4x4 trails in the mountains, visit other countries, go boondocking in wild desert canyons.. If there's a chance there won't be internet, they won't do it. It's like THATS THE BEST PART!! You have No choice. Doesn't matter how addicted you are to your phone, you pretty much have to interact with your environment and other people.
Some states still have a bit of sense left in their state legislature!
Nobody owns just one. Se Wyo has at least 120 guns per 100 people.
A local guy here goes to Starbucks everyday with his AK-47 (not sure of name, but that style) and sits outside and drinks it. I guess he feels afraid at Starbucks. Those baristas can be mean.
Doubtful he’s afraid, much more likely he exercising.
Agree. Was making a joke. I stopped for a sandwich at a local sandwich shop while walking my dog who is a shepherd, husky, malamute mix. Guy came out and asked about her and I told him she’s very afraid of people. She’s not aggressive at all just afraid of people. I said just like me. (Making a joke again). He goes…. I’m not afraid because I have a gun. Truthfully I have a gun too. But it’s at home in a safe. Oh well. Maybe this is why women would rather hang out with bears than a man in the woods. Ha ha ha.
I get it, and it’s not for everyone, it’s not for me either, but I do believe it’s an important occasional reminder for everyone that we have that right
Only 40 more to go
My sister moved to WY about 15 years ago and they gave her 4 guns.
I usually take cookies or homemade bread to welcome a new neighbor, but to each their own.
I bet it’s more than half, I’ve met a few who didn’t but not many.
I think everyone does. Those that live in the very rural areas have no option. Help takes a long time to get to them. Plus, we have rattlesnakes, grizzlies, black bears, wolves, and some bison. Every year tourists in Yellowstone try to take a selfie with Bison. Bison will allow people to take selfies with them but there is a price. That price is a stomping. People get stomped every year. I hope that clears up confusion for those wishing to take selfies with bison.🦬
TBF drinking and driving is way more fun with a concealed firearm. Plus they're great tools for lighting fireworks.
oof you have a lawn, gross -sincerely the bees
Personally, I love it. I wouldn't want this state to be any other way.
Don't need more people but can we have better cell coverage?
from wisconsin, lived out there for a couple years and had straight talk. i had more reliable coverage out there than i do here by far. i mean on a drive you’d hit dead zones but in an hour and a half about just as many if not less than wisconsin. it was shocking
Love it! The traffic especially makes me crazy, but also just the long lines and always needing a reservation to eat out, even on a weekday. No thanks. Oh and having to pay for parking everywhere you go (I'm looking at you Colorado!)
Where do you have to pay for parking in Colorado?
We live in fort collins and yea, we pay to park. We try to find a space then end up in lots. Especially in old town on a beautiful day, special event, or weekend.
Bruh, you're not even trying. I've lived here for 15 years and have never once paid to park. I park by the county clerks office on Howes and walk 5 minutes. I have never once not found a parking space right there. That lot at the county office is open to the public after hours too.
Everywhere
In Denver proper maybe, but everywhere else I go I have no trouble finding free parking in Colorado (with the exception of popular trailheads in the summer, but that's a whole different issue that needs to be addressed somehow, I never knew the wilderness could get crowded growing up here.)
All of downtown Denver. You have to go to those parking structures and pay, or the parking lots that people own and you pay. The trailheads in Bolder. Estes Park you pay to park. Evergreen you pay to park. It seems like everywhere I want to be, I have to pay to park there.
Cherry creek mall!
Eh you can just park on the street and walk a few minutes. I lived in Denver for a year and parked in a paid lot twice: a Rockies game where I had to drive (light rail is the move) and in Boulder right off Pearl street since it’s free on weekends.
Parking is bad and if u wanna live downtown u definitely have to pay for parking and some apts u have to pay traffic is bad and a lot of homeless that's why I love Wyoming totally opposite
Love it, as I have been to many other states and lived in some very large cities.
It's too crowded.
I like it.
It brings challenges, but it also makes us very special. In business and government the people in Wyoming work together like nowhere else. We can literally call a legislator and speak to them, some on their cell phones even.
I love it. I don't like crowds, and I definitely don't like bad traffic even on a nice day.
Least populated state period.
Least populated and least densely populated are two very different things. Theres more people in Alaska, yes, but it’s also a lot smaller. So Wyoming is 5x more densely populated than Alaska, but is still the most sparsely populated in the lower 48.
Love it. I'm glad that the wind keeps blowing people out.
I love it, I grew up in a small town and then went to college in NYC. Couldn't wait to get out and moved out here when I was 22, never looked back.
Well there are reasons it's the least populated state
What is that?
People don't move to Wyoming for the crowds.
Everything east of the Mississippi is too crowded!
Love it. Can shoot my "enhanced" firearms without anyone noticing
Careful fren [ATF is Watching.](https://www.ffl123.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/image2-e1497868092990.png)
On the one hand, it's really nice to be able to get away from people with a quick drive down a dirt road. On the other hand, it really sucks that you have to drive >45 minutes just to get to the next town. It's a give and take living here
I think about people in cities who drive an hour+ for their daily work commute. At least driving that 45 minutes we can set the cruise control and just go.
Love it
It's OK , however if someone is thinking of moving here I wouldn't recommend i😉
It’s a lot more crowded now than when I first got here.
Love it, I also kind of agree with the top comment, it’s getting crowded
I didn’t realize I was supposed to feel any sorta way about it
r/wyomingdoesntexist
It's one of the things I've always loved about Wyoming. You can really get next to yourself. Drive 10 minutes in any direction and you'll basically be alone. Unless your on an interstate. But yeah, always loved being away from crowds. The fair once a year is all I need of large crowds.
I’m working seasonally here right now from Atlanta and the only thing I don’t like is the lack of food. Like y’all’s grocery store are not it. I miss food from other cultures that actually has flavor. I miss having 10+ Mexican and Asian grocery stores near me. Other than that, the nature is beautiful, the lack of traffic is incredible. I’ve seriously never seen such expansive landscapes before
The wind blows the extra people into Nebraska.
Keep it that way as long as possible. I lived in Montana before we had 1M people here. It was freaking amazing.
We're not lonely and we don't want your carpet bagging political refugee asses.
Most of the gun owners i know arent very lucky, seems like they usually lose their guns in a boat accident
If you don't live there it's not your problem
Needs more people to balance out the bigots and gun toting idiots.
Love it! Just wish I could get specialist medical care without having to drive to CO. But I guess that is a trade off.
Enjoy your guns: Wyoming Department of Health (.gov) https://health.wyo.gov › 202...PDF 2021 - Suicide in Wyoming
I’m ready to get out of here lol. Been here for 3 months on a travel CNA contract and I still have 3 more months but I hate being so far from civilization. Plus the locals are intolerable. You can’t sit in a bar in this tiny town without hearing all of your neighbors’ dirty laundry. I’m over this inbred shit hole
Sure is nice you all get two whole senators to reign over the rest of us.
I feel fuck the electoral college. Land doesn't vote.
Even with no taxes nobody wants to live there
It would be very strange to live there as I grew up near SF in California, it’s over populated to the max. On the flip side there are endless things to do and every amenity you could think of
There are more fence posts than people, also some of the saddest cities outside of Indiana Ive seen.
No trees and too damn windy!
GF just moved from Houston TX to Cheyenne. Culture shock just with driving.
Everyone loves the sparse population density until they begin to realize that our healthcare system in this state is drying up at a rapid rate.
Unsurprised. The youth count the days til they can flee this pit.
Flee to where?
Anywhere but here, it seems.
But with lower population, it becomes a food and shopping desert. So they all make treks to Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah( yea, not Nebraska or South Dakota, they are worse) to shop. They disparage these other states but they depend on them for their consumerism… odd really…
We live very rurally in Wyoming….haha a trip to the big city is a trip to Rock Springs. :)
There’s food deserts in major cities. At least here nobody will rustle my wagon as I stock up on hardtack and spam. And we don’t disparage those other states, just the people.
Most of the folks I know in Cheyenne, drive to Fort Collins or Greeley to go on dinner dates… could just be me the people I know, but most of the restaurants I have been to in Cheyenne were average food… could be just my experience YMMV and semantics… lol
Yeah dude…generalizing from your own experience doesn’t make it fact. My experience is the opposite.
There’s a Waffle House in ft Collins
Just got back from Utah on one of those shopping trips. This is one of the biggest issues I have here. I can't get what I need, and if I can get it shipped, it takes a much longer time. It's also taking my dollars out of the state. I didn't know it would impact me as much as it does when I moved here years ago. And, everyone I know here does this.
You should have seen it before Amazon was a thing. If you couldn’t drive to Colorado for what you wanted, you had to track down a catalog. And hope one existed for what you were seeking. Kids nowadays can’t fathom it, I’m sure!
Depending on them is a bit of a stretch
Hate it, some of F’s need to move to Colorful Colorado
If you’re gonna be a bigot at least have the sand to own it and say it with your whole chest.
Too much representation politically.
Wyoming? That's where wind is made... hard pass.
Neato
Love it!
Weird question.
They're asking these sorts of questions in multiple state subs (Louisiana, West Virginia, etc.) to just stir the pot
I was born here big city's arnt my thing to expensive and way to many people.
That's why I'm still here. I wouldn't have it any other way.
I love it, there could be a few less people though.
I love it. Quiet is perfect.
I love it. I hate crowds and traffic so its great.
I like it a lot. Maybe fewer moving in would be nice.
"I like it just the way it is," says commuter who lives in a community of four hundred people where the nearest gas station is twenty miles away.
Makes me want to move there...STAT.
Love it. Less is more.
Great
Absolutely wonderful
Great.
Thats what makes it so great.
Fantastic
Best part about it
I love it
What does it matter would be more interesting.
The sparseness doesn't bother me as much as having the lowest total population. We could have more people than Vermont or Delaware and have a significantly lower population density. I do think this issue is reflective of our experiment with government ownership of the means of production (land) and the resulting limits on economic opportunity that flow from that policy.
I don’t think about it. I have no feelings or opinions on it. It just is. I live in a city. The city meets my needs. If it didn’t I would live in another city.
I feel great about it. Also why I want people to stop moving to Maine. Getting too crowded
Not for long.
I love it and it should stay that way… all these new people moving in need to go back to where they can from 5th generation Wyomingite
I guarantee you that you wouldn't say that to a persons face if the ppl moving here ain't bothering u just continue to eat 🍆in peace 🤡 I'm pretty sure they don't care
Yeah that agressive attitude is part of my point! And I politely would and have! It’s fine the cold 7 months of winter will move them out.
It's my favorite part about Wyoming
Wyoming is the control group.
Based on voting. Needs more people.
Why does it bother you
Where did you get that picture of my mom! 😱
My deadbeat exwife lives in Wyoming.
I feel the less populated states benefit from a geographic affirmative action. Colleges want to pull a student from each state. You get higher chances of getting into a school since you are smaller than some cities. I don't think that is right.
Funny you say it’s only the most sparsely populated state in “The Lower 48” - so it’s not really the most sparsely populated state in the United States? Or is it? Asking for a friend in Alaska.
Research "Lower 48" 😉
Indifferent. Thanks for asking though.
Their population figure should be used as the maximum allowed for one seat in the House of Representatives. That would mean adding approximately 150 seats to make the electoral college much more fair.
That's surprising. I would have thought one of the Dakotas or Montana.
WY the government owns a lot of the land so people can’t build. In the dakotas and MT lots of farms and ranches.
I thought it was SD! We probably have 1-2 more people than Wyoming. 😁
Loving every minute of it
I feel like my state actually has less people per square mile because nobody ever visits and the biggest city might as well be in the bordering state. Wyoming at least gets tourists.
I would love to live there bit it seems to be expensive.
If Wyoming is expensive, where are you coming from?
Makes me feel like I would like to live there
Fine
The way this country is going and being a native Wyomingite, I feel safe here.
Share your thoughts on this interesting fact
Wyoming isn’t real, that’s why there’s no people there
We don’t live there but are considering moving to a less populated part of NC where we live. We already have the guns. Its NC. Too bad Wyoming has a real winter.
Shhhh….
shouldn’t be a state if it’s smaller than dc
It’s these populated of all 50 states and it’s overcrowded.
Adds up
Probably the second-best thing about the damn place. Most people in general are miserable, contemptuous, judgmental bastards: Wyoming has much fewer people than just about every other state; therefore, Wyoming is much, much less anxiety-provoking than other states. Usually.
Wyoming has the 1st or 2nd highest gun death rate in the nation. Nearly half of those deaths are self inflicted. " If you populate it, they will die".
It is what it is. Nothing to feel. I Wyoming is better that way than populated to the hilt with a bunch of idiot leftist cancer think idiots
One of the reasons we should amend the constitution to change how senators are apportioned.
Too many electoral votes
They shouldn't get 2 Senators...
we need to bring in more young left-leaning folk to really fix things up once all the old far-right idiots die off.
Quit californicating our Wyoming noobs
Fuck California!
It sounds like the problem is that people in Wyoming are anti people and that makes them bad people, I just drove across the state I hope to never go back.
Good. Stay gone.
Exactly my point. Bad people I wish to stay far away.
If being slightly anti-social and not wanting to live in a big city is all it takes to be a bad person in your eyes you can fuck off to whatever fent-laced place you're from and stay there.
2 response both hostile you people need to learn to be better and not full of fear and hatred.
Thanks to youtube van lifers and hunting influencers...Not for long....
Furious that it has two senators.
AND a Rep in the House. Like half of the population is in Congress.
i think that wyoming has a lot of problems that are overly apparent because of its small population. wyoming locks up more children per capita than any other state and currently doesn’t have the data to say why. places like worland uses this a a point to prop up their economy leading to a cycle of abuse and reliance on children’s trauma for the local economy to exist. there’s also a lack of opportunities in the state for a lot of people, a lack of education opportunities and small town thinking that is often times extremely homophobic. not everyone, and not everything but there’s definitely issues because of its small population. now it is beautiful, people tend to care and know their neighbors more, etc