Wyoming second fastest growing state in population % change

[Boston]

So, if people aren't heading for the good life in California and Florida, where are they going?

D.C., Alaska and Wyoming. (Seriously.)

The nation's capital saw 7.6% of its residents arrive in 2008; Alaska attracted 6% more people to the Last Frontier (up a full percent from 2007); and 5.2% more people wanted to be Wyoming cowboys.

http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/americans-tame-their-wanderlust.html

[kylben]

So now there's 5.052 ppl per square mile?  Nope, too crowded for me. 

I bet they're all moving to Cheyenne, its really more of a suburb of Denver by now. Either that, or this FSW thing is a lot bigger than I thought. We're talking about what, something like 25,000 people?

Interesting that so many are moving to DC. People are gravitating toward the center of power. The black hole is sucking them in, I hope Wyoming stays outside the event horizon.

[MichaelNotMike]

Naw, me and DJ told the census worker that 20,000 people lived in our house, then slammed the door.


lol.....

[maxxoccupancy]

Did he believe you?  I did, for a second... until I realized that local zoning laws forbid more than 15,000 people to a house.

[MamaLiberty]

My late husband and I used to sit on our front porch and watch the sunset - way out across the desert. There was a dirt road that ran in front of our place, but the only traffic was the single neighbor going in and out at rare intervals. One evening a strange car came up the road, vanished into the gloom, and then came back down a few minutes later.

Joe turned to me and said, "Danged tourists... getting too crowded around here, Ma... might have to think about moving.

Oh, he would have LOVED Wyoming.

[Rafi]

Interesting that so many are moving to DC.

The fed govt never stops growing. More bureaucracy requires people. People aren't moving to DC because they like DC; they are moving there for the jobs.

[maxxoccupancy]

Truth is that folks have been voting with their feet for a while.  People move from highly taxed areas to lesser taxed areas, and from more restrictive places to freer areas.

[socalserf]

Joe turned to me and said, "Danged tourists... getting too crowded around here, Ma... might have to think about moving.

Oh, he would have LOVED Wyoming.

He sounds like a heck of a guy.
Have you ever written of him ML?

[MamaLiberty]

He sounds like a heck of a guy.
Have you ever written of him ML?

No, I've not written much - though I've shared the story with a few folks in private. Joe was not quite half Cherokee, with much of the other half being Irish. He grew up in southern Texas and actually was a "cowboy" in his youth. He spent much of his adult life in the Navy as a machinist aboard aircraft carriers. He served in Korea and Viet Nam. After discharge, he had a brief second career as a postman.

In retirement (medical disability), he spent a great deal of time working with and for the VFW, AMVETS and other veteran's organizations. He loved his country and his fellow human beings, but came home from Viet Nam with a deep and abiding hate of all things that destroy freedom and deny justice. He died in 1986 after a brief battle with cancer. God rest his soul.