Why should we move to your area?

[salmilo]

Kyle & I've been home only a few hours since our recon trip to check out much of WY to start planning to which part of the state we'll move. I absolutely loved Cody, though I understand it's rather liberal compared to most of the state. Casper seems practical for us city folk to avoid amenity-shock after living our lives in big cities. We missed Buffalo, which also sounds like some place I'd enjoy.
Granted, Kyle & I will debate our pluses & minuses, but I'd enjoy learning what you think your community has to offer to us...

[anarchir]

Since I too am researching this I look forward to replies.

[LibertyJunkie]

Buffalo, Cody, and Lander are all beautiful and Id love to live in either of them but they are expensive. MAybe you have got that kind of money but I sure dont. But I find living in the big horn basin satisfying enough.  Here in Worland you have pretty much everything you need (besides a health food store). In just couple of minutes you could be fishing the river or out in the badlands. My family loves hiking in the badlands and searching for dinosaur bones and arrow heads(my husband always finds them but I dont have quite the eagle eye). And in about twenty minutes you can be up in the Big Horn mountains, which in my opinion are the best to hike. One advantage of the big horns is there are no Grizzlys to share it with, however the wolves finially made it out here so stay strapped.

I guess it just depends on what is important to you.  I could never live in Casper personally, I lived in Laramie for a bit and would drive through on the way to visit family. It was always super windy, I can handle cold but cold and lost of wind, no thank you. I mean a wind storm here and there is one thing but wind all the time gets old fast. Laramie was just as bad. In the winter, when we would come back to Worland to visit, it'd be lower in tempertaure in Worland but it felt so much warmer without all the wind.  Maybe that wouldnt make a difference for you but it bugged the crap out of me.

The Worland area is also good for gardening, some call it the banana boat of Wyoming (although I have heard it said about other areas as well). We stay alittle warmer here because of being in a basin, the mountains tend to push the storms around the basin. Although we still get awesome thunder storms.

I wish we would of had a chance to meet you guys and show you around town some but maybe next time. If I was you, I'd look for employment all over and take what you can get.  Moneys not everything but you dont want to stuck unemployed or working at Mcdonalds. Once you get settled you can look for an area that better suits you and look for employment there.

What do you currently do for work? Maybe we can keep an ear out for you.  How soon do you plan to move?

Anyways, let me know if you have any questions about Worland and/or the Big Horn Basin, my husband grew up here and knows alot about the area.

[Brandy]

Glenrock--

Mountains directly south and rolling plains directly north.
Deer Creek runs right thru town and N. Platte river is the northern boundary of the town.
Casper is only 23 miles away for necessities.
Has a hardware store, drugstore, grocerystore, liquorstore. 
Usually very quiet--except for Deer Creek Days this year!
Has many activities going on all year--Missoula Children's Theater, Biker Rally, National Bowhunter's competition, Deer Creek Days, Pioneer Days, Yak-About, etc, etc, etc.
There is one of the best taxidermists in the world in Glenrock--mounted Giraffe in showroom.(if you have need of getting mounted rhino it will only cost you $28,000 )
Winters are definitely winter and summers are glorious only it 90 a couple of times this year.
Awesome homeschool community, a lot of very down to earth people.
Reloading shop--for those that this is important.
Glenrock boast the only 4 star restaurant in the state--atleast that is what I'm to told.

Brandy

[kylben]

What do you currently do for work? Maybe we can keep an ear out for you.  How soon do you plan to move?

I'm a computer programmer, and Sal is a web designer/online marketer.  So we shouldn't be entirely dependent on local employment - I may even be able to keep my current job and telecommute.  But still, I'd like to know that there is some fallback.  My background is in transportation.  I was a messenger driver/dispatcher, and am experienced in air freight and nationwide shipping and logistics. I also have some experience as a shift manager at Domino's pizza, and I could easily go back to that kind of thing in a pinch.

Our move is probably 18-24 months away, but I'm doing all I can to speed that up.  If the housing market comes around, it will help a lot, but I am not too hopeful on that.  Massive inflation would actually help me a bunch on that count, as well as in clearing my remaining debt, though I hate being in a position of hoping for that.

That's an interesting point about the wind.  It certainly makes a huge difference in the winter.  I like that Worland has good T-Storms.  I love me some stormage.

Glenrock sounds promising.  We didn't really look around there much, just saw it from the interstate, but since it is basically a suburb of Casper, it doesn't matter too much about the particulars of the town.  Is that in Converse County?  Is Converse a "good" county for FSW purposes?

I like that Glenrock has an active homeschooling community.  We don't have kids, but one of the entrepreneurial things that's been rolling around in my head is to be a freelance teacher, maybe even start a "school" of sorts, something homeschoolers, or even parents of public school kids, could send kids for some supplemental education in history, math, science, computer science, stuff like that.

Our plan is to move out there, probably to the Casper area for a year or so, and use that time to scope out a more permanent location.  We'd prefer to live on some land, maybe 5-10 acres, within an hour or so of a decent town. We'd be looking for land that has some farming potential, though we don't necessarily plan on becoming farmers, but it's nice to have that option in case the SHTF. And I'd like to have room to eventually build a shop where I could tinker.

[Big Ugly]

Hey, Kyle,
Just remember, what ever place you decide to sinks roots into, it's gotta grab YOU GUYS. Spend as much time up here as you can afford to. If you have the time and resources, quarter the state and spend some time in each quarter - instead of blasting all over the state in a few days. When you were here in Lander, did you manage to get up Sinks Canyon? How about the Dubois area?

If you do go for Glenrock .... remember, no tractors if there are any JBT w/ tasers around.

[wyomiles]

You said...

"Our plan is to move out there, probably to the Casper area for a year or so, and use that time to scope out a more permanent location.  We'd prefer to live on some land, maybe 5-10 acres, within an hour or so of a decent town. We'd be looking for land that has some farming potential, though we don't necessarily plan on becoming farmers, but it's nice to have that option in case the SHTF. And I'd like to have room to eventually build a shop where I could tinker. "

This is a great plan, stick to it and then spend your days off traveling the state and visiting with the FSW folks who live in different areas. When you find the place that "grabs ya" you can then move.

[HardwareHank]

I cannot think of a single reason why anyone would want to move here.

And I like it that way.

[manfromnevada]

In Crook County there is
no zoning,
no land use,
no inspections or permits for
  grading,
  electrical,
  plumbing,
  framing,
  concrete,
  roofing,
  fences,
  signs,
  etc.

There is a statewide permit required for a well, and also for septic systems. Other than that they don't care and have no regulations in this area. Cities and towns are different of course.

The Black Hills in Crook County are beautiful. Forests, wildlife, springs, creeks, etc. But it can be remote. It works both ways.

Mac

[Paul Bonneau]

I absolutely loved Cody, though I understand it's rather liberal compared to most of the state.

Huh?  I never heard that complaint before. People call Lander, or Laramie, or Cheyenne "liberal", but you have to understand it's a different kind of liberal than most places - e.g., "liberals with guns", that sort of thing.

No, Cody is conservative/apolitical. They are like many conservatives everywhere though, in that "socialism is not socialism when we are doing it". The city runs the garbage collection for example, and you can see the same old effects that any socialist program engenders. People are blind to it.

Cody does have its collection of statists running the show, like any town, "left" or "right". They pushed a library levy through (I call it "$6 million worth of sheet rock") but I believe they have given up on the convention center. The newspaper editor is the usual, a great apologist for socialism and fascism.

If you find Cody too "liberal" for you, then I guess you can't be helped. 

[walterc]

We started in Casper (moved there from Salt Lake) and then settled in the Gillette area (Rozet actually).  Campbell County is nice and not near as windy as Casper.  But since we live in far Eastern Campbell County, I have to second the Crook County vote.  Although Campbell County doesn't require building permits and inspections for most things, they do require plumbing and electrical inspections.

Moorcroft is a nice little town, and Sundance is really nice, nestled in the Blackhills.  And it's only an hour or so to Rapid City if you need a "big" city (well, they do have a Sam's Club, Tractor Supply and Cabelas, so I guess it's a big city compared to Gillette).

And I think home/land prices are lower in Crook than Campbell County.

[manfromnevada]

Rozet? Really? I drove thru there, but I blinked, and missed it!
All I know about Rozet is that they had a big grasshopper problem last month. But sometimes I take the side road from Moorcroft to Gillette just for a change of pace and scenery.

Mac

[walterc]

But sometimes I take the side road from Moorcroft to Gillette just for a change of pace and scenery.

That's the way I drive to work every day.  It's a much nicer drive than I90.  When you go over the tracks a couple miles East of Rozet you've just passed our little "neighborhood" (the 7 houses on the right, ours is the gray one with the water tank at the top of the circle).