I recently (September 2009) moved out of California for a variety of reasons, and it looks like I got out just in time because California recently passed laws against the mail order of ammo and has also either introduced a bill or passed a new law (I can't remember which) requiring registration of long arms as well as the illegal defacto registration of handguns already in place. If the registration of all firearms hasn't passed yet in California, it's only a matter of time before it does.
I came to Oregon to escape the egregious and appalling California laws, and for the rain and abundance of trees and greenery because in addition to the many outrageous and appalling laws, rules, and regulations in California I was sick and tired of California drought conditions and of looking at dead grass and yellowing (not "golden") landscape because of the dead grasses and plants that only turn green and flourish for a couple of months during the winter when it rains in California. In the western part of Oregon things will grow and stay green most of the year without artificial irrigation. At the moment we are only renting a house in Oregon because I wanted to give myself some time to get to know Oregon before deciding where to buy a house, but it would not be difficult to change our destination to Wyoming.
I've always been interested in the Free State Movement, but New Hampshire is out of the question for me for a variety of reasons (my severe inflammatory arthritis among other things) and stumbled across FSW about a month ago. A couple of days ago I bought a copy of Molon Labe by "Boston T. Party" and that book is what brought me back to this forum. I will be looking around to get the "feel" of the forum and investigating the geography and demographics of Wyoming because I still haven't decided on a "final resting place" for my wife and I. We are both retired aerospace engineers (me in Pasadena, California and she in Chengdu, China) and could very easily move to Wyoming instead of settling here in Oregon. I'm a "country boy", but my wife is a city girl and wants to live in the city, and as much as I hate living in a large crowded city I must live near a city large enough to have a rheumatologist because I must see a rheumatologist every two months due to the chemotherapy drug I inject weekly to control my arthritis.
This may not be the right place to ask this question (if not, where should it be posted?), but I wonder if FSW people just move into whatever part of Wyoming they choose, or is there any attempt at some sort of coordination effort to maximize our political clout, such as that described in the fictional book "Molon Labe? Maybe a recommended list of towns or counties where those who seek freedom are most needed? My choices are somewhat circumscribed by the limitations imposed upon me by my health condition and need for medical support, but within those bounds I could live pretty much wherever I choose because I have saved a reasonably sized retirement fund that should be enough to see my wife and I through the remainder of our lives provided that I can convert my FRNs into something real and tangible before hyperinflation strikes.
