Yawn... Another "I want to move to Wyoming" thread? Okay, here we go again. Zero sarcasm, as always.
First, winter reaction here is nothing like Nashville. When it snows in Tennessee (I used to live in Knoxville), everything shuts down. When it snows in Wyoming, we go to work and your kids go to school. When it snows, your boss 100% expects you to be there on time. If the highway you have to travel is expected to close, they often expect you to sleep at the job site to be able to go to work the next day. "I'm snowed in..." is not a valid excuse, and I've seen more than a few terminated because they thought it was. And it's not done when it stops snowing, because the >60mph winds just move that shit around for the next five days until the next storm comes in.
Think you get to just find some BLM land through On-X and shoot on it? Think again. A rancher has a lease on that land and their herd will be grazing, or a well is being drilled on it and they give a fuck even less. If they hear shooting on "their land", they're coming for you. They know the sheriff, you don't. You will lose.
Think you'll just find work easy-peasy and have a solid job? Think again. Depending on the industry, you'll be wrapped up in the typical boom to bust to boom cycle. This is an energy state with over half our GDP is energy. Even in the Trump years, it was pure bust with ZERO active wells and mines shutting down. That has a massive ripple effect because O&G + coal pays everyone's paychecks here, whether you're in the industry or not, because that's where all the big money is being made and trailer park rich fools blow their money from. As it is, the war on coal and O&G is taking its toll, the economy here is faltering, and people are moving away to find new work. There's a reason our population is stagnated and fallen recently, there's no fucking jobs to make it worth sticking it out.
One plus of living here is your vehicle will absolutely become more aerodynamic. Like a fucking golf ball. We're happy when the hail stays below golf ball size. We're also often disappointed because Mother Nature has other ideas and likes to drop baseballs from the sky.
Enjoy watching wind turbines not spinning, because they're fucking everywhere now. And they're all broken. And they're putting up more by the hundreds and thousands because they keep breaking but California bought the rights and that's what they want. Our own Governor and his administration sold the state down the river to California for more wind revenue, that's how "red" we are. That nice town of Hanna mentioned earlier? Nothing but a wind turbine farm there now. The Virginian in Medicine Bow? Lovely view... Of wind turbines.
But the same as I told the last few, please, move here. We love short sales when things just aren't as peachy keen as you thought they would be.
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