That’s one of the biggest travesties of that area, the destruction and dilution of the founding families and farms. The population explosion of the seventies and liberalization of the universities overwhelmed and overtook the values and Christian morals of the founders who settled the area. The number of abandoned churches tell the story.
Laramie is libtarded and drug’d up because of the college. Wyoming in general is still Wyoming, but not without its drug problems in some areas like much of the country. Life is hard there. Winters are brutal some years and I always hated that fuk’n wind. Friends and family reporting this is one of those wicked winter years. Perils of the Prairie I call it. Beautiful country with some of the best hunt’n and fish’n you could want. The jobs are either really good or poverty livin’ across the state. Not an easy place to just drop in on and start to make your way. Cheyenne I never liked. Worked about year in Casper forty years ago, was a great cowboy town then, can’t say what it’s like now. Rock Springs and Green River area are tough unless you work railroad or energy sector. Lots of Mormons there so good luck. Jackson Hole and Yellowstone area, better have lots of money. Riverton, Lander and Thermopolis areas are probably where I’d go if’n I was look’n to go back to Wyoming. Maybe even that area east of Gillette near Spearfish. Been in the Southwest now way too long so that ain’t gonna happen. The winters would kill me.
Good point on the weather. Its often about 3 months of "summer" then 9 months of winter/wind/etc.
Laramie is in Albany County and is the most poor county in the state (even with the college).
Drugs are a major problem damn near everywhere. Meth is the big one.
I used to have to travel to Casper for Work from time to time. If it was a day that ended in Y, you would grab lunch at the "mall" and try to county the knocked up teen's that were underage and had tats. It was interesting to see.
Jackson Hole is not "wyoming". Its a blue life raft in wyoming that costs so much to just visit you are better off not bothering unless you have more money than brains.
Lol, I always considered July 4th first day of winter in Wyoming.
I do recollect a barroom brawl or two in Casper because of the overly friendly gals to outsiders. Same in Rawlings, but the women weren’t near as purty. Plus we was pretty much all long hair’d shit kickers so trouble was bound to come along sooner or later. Not long hair’d hippy types mind you, but to a man farm or a cowboy raised. Once that was realized by way of fist, fury and blood we was all good buddies.
Jackson Hole was disgusting forty years ago, I’m sure it’s worse now.
Yeah buddy, about that War on Drugs……we winning yet?
Yessir, in the early years it was a unique and wholesome place to live and raise a family. Pisses me off too. I loved the area, both the prairie grasslands and the mountains. Felt like you were in a different time than the rest of America and we was, but boy did it evaporate quickly. Pretty much in one generation. Sadly mine and sadder yet, because of the better money to be made, most of us boys turned to the jobs and businesses that destroyed it. Kodak moved in up by Wellington bringing a bunch of New Yorkers and other easterners to the area and from then on it was downhill. Us boys took them construction jobs. Pipelines, roads, houses, new businesses and the infrastructure to them offered up a “better” life for us. The country had been and was in a depression more or less, mechanized farming didn’t require so many hands on deck anymore, the big beet factory shut down and along with the flood of people from all over moving in it turned out to be a perfect storm to destroy. Just like that and it was all gone. Farm lands and ranches turned into subdivisions and shopping centers and malls on both hill and dale. In my lifetime it went from standing on Longs Peak on New Years Eve at fourteen years old and looking out with awe over the prairie having just a cluster of lights here and there to standing on Longs Peak on New Years Eve at forty five years old and seeing with disgust an ocean of lights north to south out towards the east for as far as one could see.
On another view... The majority of the states land is owned by the federal government. Its something like 70%+
So in a way.. Saying "Fuck off we're full" is a bit more literal than other states where most of the land is privately owned.
It also keeps land/housing costs way higher than it should since the people that do own land often own a LOT and refuse to sell it to developers... Partially because they hate people and over populated metros.
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