Not a Place for Sardines – Welcome to Wyoming!
Welcome to Wyoming!
It’s one of the least populated States in the US, with only 544,000 people on 97,818 sq mi (253,348 km2) of space (about 1/60 the density of Denmark) and the locals like it that way. Home of the cowboy, the rodeo and the open plains this place sure ain’t for city folk. Rush hour is a car in front of you, a good walk could take you a couple of days and everybody’s eating buffalo for dinner.
On the way here we even passed a bit of a landmark, one of the 4 towns in the US with a grand population of 1 (according to the 2000 census…although the Major claims, as my father so deftly researched, that the population had swelled to 5 by 2002 and stabilized at 3 by 2009). Lost Springs, WY was established in 1880’s by iron-workers searching for natural springs reputed to be in the area (they never found them), and has endured to this day. It’s a typical Wyoming town…a spattering of houses, a few horses, possibly a grocer and then a whole lotta nothing.
Wide open sky and the space to savor it. If you like wild country, this is definitely the place to be.
Ohhhh I cannot wait. Even though we are looking forward to a couple of years as full-timers we also cannot wait to settle in Wyoming. It is my kind of place. No one looking in your bathroom window.
Room to say ahhhhhhh.
Horses.
Friendlies
Wife an I went to the state last July.
WOW! So beautiful, with Prog horn, real Buffalo, ( Bison!), lots of Mule Deer, and evn a good percentage of bears!
We found that we liked the area around Cody, but it is a pretty good sozed city, and going up the highwy towards Yellowstone, we found a house, and a nice barn, with corrals for our horses, a hay field, as well as 25 acres of pastures, with cross fencing, and irrigation from well pumps.
Soooo…. we put some money into escrow, and will get our financing from Lockheed Credit Union.
Yep!
Another Native Californian leaving the liberal socialist state!
Well congrats on your WY purchase! We’re in the state right now and and very happy to be back here.
Nina