I used to live in Casper, one of the windiest cities in the country. You get used to the cold and while it does get ridiculously cold, Wyoming weather is very variable and warms up quite a bit in the winter in the major towns.
As a person who has lived in Wyoming their whole life, I can confirm that the weather hates us. One time, when I was fishing with my old man, it started snowing on us in the middle of June. We often joke that their are only 2 real seasons in Wyoming, Winter and Construction.
I've lived in Wyoming my whole life. We like it this way, empty. Like other comments have said, the vast emptiness and the ability to get lost is kind of amazing. Anyone can go be alone. It's one of the few places on the planet you can actually do that and it lends itself to being amazing.
Population growth will be a curse when the fresh water runs out. People who water golf courses in desert environments are morons. Watch how California destroyed their ecosystem with massive population growth - then those same Californians moved in massive numbers to Colorado once they " ruined" California. Once they gave ruined Colorado people will flee to Wyoming Montana and the 2 Dakotas. Stay away from us, Ex- Californians, you guys are not welcome. Fresh water will become the new black gold. And NO , you may NOT pump great lakes water to the West.
The drive between Cheyenne and Casper makes me think I am on a different planet it was so amazing . Would love to experience living there maybe someday.
Technically everywhere is ridden with civilization. American settlers, native american tribes, and more have 'touched' the land. The fact that the only large bison herds exist in Yellowstone should tip you off
honestly here in wyoming that is the most appealing this to the people that live here. I hated it my whole life until i got to experience life in slc, Denver, then Houston. I'm back now and may move from the current location, but I doubt I'll leave the state. it's nice being around self sustaining, moral people. and while not all wyomingites are that. it is ridiculously higher then anywhere else I've been.
As someone who has spent a lot of time in both states, wyoming is far colder and windier than colorado is. Wyoming also didn't have the massive gold rush that Colorado had, so there was no population boom like in colorado in the late 1800's and early 1900's. This allowed people to buy a lot of land for cattle ranching.
What's it like to live in Wyoming? Do you know what kind of industries it has and what jobs are available? Do you think it's a good place to retire? If you settled in the south of the state, (e.g. near Cheyenne) would you be close enough to visit Colorado, while living more cheaply and quietly in sparsely populated Wyoming?
I went there for the first time a couple of years ago. Terrifying wind. I would race past any semis on the highway for fear of them tipping over onto my car! I'm an Okie too!!! (Oklahoman, you know, where the wind comes whipping down the plain, and the waving wheat.... O:-)
As a Colorado transplant to Wyoming, I can say with absolute certainty no one in Wyoming thinks the differences between the two states are a bad thing.
As a Northern Colorado resident I can confirm that as soon as you drive past the Wyoming border the wind wants to blow your car onto the other side of the highway. Temps are often 15-20 degrees colder in the winter as well. My experience is that two states have vastly different climates, with that of Colorado being much more hospitable.
It's the Carr exit. There's a magical line there where the wind really picks up. That, plus the temp difference (Cheyenne's hottest day on record was 100 degrees) and the 1300' altitude difference between Cheyenne and Fort Collins makes a big difference in livability.
Most "major" towns in Wyoming (i say major meaning big by Wyoming standards) are roughly about 100 miles apart from each other because that is about how far a steam engine would go before it had to stop to refill on water. It is also why most towns are built on or near a water source.
I used to believe the same thing. It was actually about 25 miles when the railroad first came through. And a lot of ghost towns along the way at those points.
@@freedomunrestricted I believe you’re referring to horse pulled wagon trains. Pending on location and terrain, most wagons traveled roughly 21-25 miles a day, hence the towns located every 25 miles. Steam engines prior to tenders, had a range of about 10 miles. Later on, a steam engine could travel anywhere from 100-150 miles before they where required to stop to refill.
Glad to see a video talking about my home of Colorado. But please do not say that Wyoming has mild weather. It is somehow much noticeably colder year round and the wind is absolutely insane on the plains of Wyoming. You also forgot to mention the housing crisis in Colorado. Many residents I know cannot even afford to own their own homes. A lot of us rent for ridiculous rates but can't move because we have nowhere else to go.
yeah. notice on the housing thing. i moved from colorado to dc for work and all the people in dc warned me that the rent was going to be super duper crazy high and the cost of living is just untenable in dc at my wage (about 80k/yr, same as it was back home) rent is lower in dc and I'm living more comfortably because of it. gas is twice as much though.
i’ve been in co since i was 11 and it’s gonna break my heart when i move away bc i simply cant afford to buy a house here. houses with less sq footage than my apartment are going for 500k which is absolutely fucking insane.
I recently (well, October 2022) moved from Colorado Springs (COS) back to West TX because when I looked for a property to BUY back then (was renting in a nice/upscale Class A "luxury" apt complex, of which COS has many to choose from!) it was when home prices & mortgage interest rates were quickly rising (along with the also-happening auto-market insanity!), so both home prices and mortgage interest rates were artificially overvalued/inflated. Back then, an older home (forget NEW!) in an older (1980s-90s) neighborhood in a less-desirable/questionable area of COS (meaning, Fountain CO, just south -- nothing actually in COS proper for that as they were more expensive) was ~$380K -- no thanks! And my apt complex was raising my next 12-month lease by 14%. I COULD have paid that $200 extra monthly, but couldn't justify it. And what if it went up another 14% for me NEXT lease (who could say)? So may as well leave CO sooner vs. later: If I bought a property, wasn't going to pay an inflated interest rate on top of an already over-priced house). And if I continued renting, it'd also be at high/inflated rates. Moving back to TX (ELP) to "regroup" seemed best. And while there, work on preparing to buy in the future so my time would be well spent (meaning, getting ready fro the mortgage pre-qualification process, like improving my DTI Ratio %). So that's what I'm doing now here in TX (and am progressing nicely). Since I really DO expect the housing market to become more affordable in CO -- especially COS (would not want to live in Boulder, Denver or Pueblo) -- AND the mortgage interest rate to come down as well (my MAIN obstacle to buying presently) -- I'm planning to return to COS, rent first and immediately commence-a-looking (!) for an "affordable" property to buy -- a smaller town-home or carriage-home: Single-family detached new/newer home are still too expensive (~$600K and up). And while I have seen home prices coming down for a while now (even if only slowly!) -- which is GOOD news -- the high mortgage interest rate (even for VA loans) remains an issue. For me it does anyway, being an average Joe and not paying cash-in-full/up-front for the house like "rich" people do -- they don't need to carry a mortgage and so don't care what the interest rate is. Of course, a lot can happen in the next 2 years so I can't be 100% sure what I'll do then, but for now that's Plan A: Move back to COS. I do have a Plan B and C though: Plan B is to give up on CO and move to FL (a 55+ community such as The Villages or OTOW for 2 examples), while Plan C is just stay here in WAY cheaper (even now!) West TX (ELP). Only time will tell...and since politics/values are a huge consideration for me, if CO gets too much more blue I may need to bail on it. But so far, since COS itself leans red, that's one main reason I'd choose to live in THAT city vs. the others. Wyoming? Have never been there (or even Utah) so can't say anythign about it from personal experience -- or it's "vibes," which is important factor for me, how I FEEL about a place -- but having lived on COS twice I'd really prefer to go back there instead. :-) -- BR
I have lived in both Wyoming and Colorado and have traveled each state extensively. The weather and terrain might seem superficially similar, but they are actually very different. Wyoming's weather and terrain are much harsher than Colorado's. Colorado is like a lush tropical jungle compared to the cold, frozen desert of Wyoming. One trait they share is that both states are incredibly beautiful. *The Tetons are the most beautiful mountain range in the world.*
lush tropical jungle?? LOL! I've lived in Denver, Boulder and Colorado Springs and I would hardly ever say the weather in Colorado comes close to a "tropical jungle." In fact, it is a humid day if the humidity hits 40% -- the only time you see that is during storms. Typically the humidity is well below 30%. Now Maryland is another place I've lived and that is far more humid and deserving of that title. The one great thing about living in Denver is that through the airport, you can get to any other airport in around 3.5 hours tops. It's not perfectly central to the US, but the airport really influences and makes Denver much more relevant than anywhere in Wyoming. Having lived all over Colorado, every city has its own unique vibe which is very hard to articulate unless you've lived there for a while. Colorado is truly a "mosiac amalgamation" of so many political views that somehow more or less are able to cohabitate in harmony. Denver is truly an amazingly beautiful city but I've heard it has changed a lot since I left in 2013.
Nothing like presenting a personal opinion whose foundation is even no doubt dubious (doubt you've personally visited all, or most, or even that many of the mountain ranges in the word), as fact... and making it bold text for good measure.
Born in Colorado. Went up to wyoming in 2017 to see the eclipse, and I was definitely impressed by how empty the place was. Glad to see a video explaining why!
@@williamreynolds6132 That was the worst traffic I've ever seen in my life. Literally sitting still with the engine off on I-25 for 10-20 minutes at a time coming back from Casper. I think it took us 14 hours to get home on a drive that normally takes ~5.
I travelled from the UK and spent time on a Ranch west of Lovell towards bighorn lake. It was a real eye opener, as I have never experienced such vastness of place and at times being truly alone from other people. It was over 30 years ago and I was very young, but I will never forget it. Here in Europe, even in some isolated and sparse places you are never truly alone, but in Wyoming you can really step back to a time before industrialised population boom times, wonderful!
The American West has such great natural beauty with tremendous variety but so many noteworthy sites like the grand canyon, crater lake, monument valley and so many national parks are so far apart from each other. Still, Wyoming is quite beautiful!
I grew up in rural Kansas (largest town within an hour's drive was around 1200 people) and always loved the general isolation. When I graduated and started working, I looked to companies who had sites and offerings in Wyoming for several reasons. I like the cold, the thrill of intense weather, the overall general freedom in terms of laws (especially when compared to Colorado), lack of people, being able to afford a home and food, and the job prospects offered there that you can't get anywhere else. Wyoming is the perfect place for me.
I lived in Wyoming until I was 10 and then Colorado until age 24. I remember being thrilled when we moved from Laramie to the Denver area, having always wanted to live in a big city. But now I appreciate the vast emptiness of Wyoming. Both states have a lot to offer.
@@BG-bx4ey Wyoming is RED,,,,,,,,Colorado used to be,,,,,now they are rainbow hair colored doped up Hippi's, Denver airport is one of the most satanic sites in the USA, and they are going to bring back the wolves and wipe out all the Elk and Deer,,,,,and Moose,,,,,,and Sheep,,, and MT Goat
I drove through Wyoming and went for the Tetons and stuff. It’s genuinely one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been. The emptiness is eerie but powerful in a way.
Now that you've experienced the isolation, please discourage others from giving me shit when I say I disliked living in Alaska. It doesn't matter how beautiful it is if you're fking lonely and nature is trying to kill you most the year.
@@blackcherry6877 if isolation is what you want. Just be sure if you are dragging kids up there they're not going to hold it against you down the line for isolating them far away from kids their own age.
Tetons are on my list, but there is an abundance of locations more suitable in almost all the planes and western states. Wyoming is that way because they want it to be.
I'm a meteorologist in Cheyenne and I'll be real with you, mild isn't the right word for our weather. I like to call it Triple W. Wild, Wyoming, Weather. From winds that regularly gust over 40 MPH (I grew up in STL and never saw a High Wind Warning before. Now I'm in one every other day), temperatures that will get over 70 for a few days and then back down to freezing, we hit -36 and a wind chill of -60 this winter alone. Meanwhile Fort Collins is always nice comparatively. Sometimes I wish the station was down there so I could be warm
I grew up in Laramie, and always took the constant wind for granted. Recently, I've been spending time in Cheyenne. I was shocked at how much windier it seems to be there! Who knew? What's your take on that?
I moved to Wyoming when I was 12. I lived there for many years. I got married, then divorced and then moved to Wisconsin. Wyoming is a very large empty state, but it's beauty will call you back. Nothing like seeing a Semi being picked up by the wind and flipped around and landing back on all of it's wheels. The winds are very strong around Douglas and Glenrock. It's just crazy. My favorite story about the weather is when I went on a picnic one afternoon up on Casper Mountain wearing shorts and a tank top, and I am throwing snowballs at my husband!
The presenter failed to mention that 85% of Colorado's population is situated along the front range. This is because the mountains create a break for the incoming storms, resulting in a six or seven mile wide swath from Fort Collins to Pueblo that is insulated from the worst of the storms coming in from the west. Wyoming mountains are not situated thusly, and therefore cannot provide a natural shelter for people living in the shadow of those mountains.
Weather weather weather. Colorado has nice warm days in the middle of winter. Wyoming has eight months of winter and the nice days happen to be extremely windy. Aka thank you I couldn't agree with your point more
Cheyenne, however, is situated on a tilted mesa, which provides a decent amount of protection. It looks flat, but the heavier parts of storms tend to actually be dragged by gravity 25-30 miles east of town towards the Nebraska border where it flattens out. Nebraska and Kansas get more storms overall but are subsequently much wetter in the spring and are easier to farm, the benefits of which outweigh the risks. We also have the COLDEST town in the lower 48, Laramie, due to an unusual accidental windchill factor artificially caused by Interstate 80 having been channeling the winter winds towards them like a river since it was carved through the hills back in the ‘60s.
I live in Cheyenne. This video has more than double the views than the entire population of Wyoming. I love it here because it is one of the only places in the world where nature in clearly still intact. The air is clean and the traffic jams don't exist. I like to watch deer eat my neighbors grass. HIgh populations shouldn't be the metric of a successful society. The people of Wyoming are hardworking, genuine, and kind. Feel free to visit
@@mylesharvey6488 it needs proper representation. There are 5x as many people living in just my home county. We don't get two senators. Why do the bumble f*cks get to decide the law for me? I'm the one who doesnt get proper representation.
From having lived and worked in both states, I'd say it's as simple as this. The southern half of the Rockies has tolerable winters, the northern half has brutal ones, and I put the line between the two at the state CO/WY border. I spent most of my time between those two states in Colorado, but it was only in Wyoming that I ever couldn't see my bright red gloved hand more than 6 inches from my eyes because of wild whiteout conditions, only in Wyoming did I get my 4x4 work truck stuck in sudden blizzards, only in Wyoming did I have to spend multiple nights under piles of blankets holding my terrified fiance, stuck on the side of I-80 because forecasted tolerable snowy conditions suddenly became whiteout ones. There's 556 miles of difference between Wyoming's northern border and Colorado's southern one, when you compare the weather averages from Sheridan, WY to Trinidad, CO, you have your answer.
I learned real fast you always carry extra food, water clothes, blankets and a rifle with you. I got stuck on I-25 for 9 hours and I had my guns loaded it was crazy.
As someone who’s grown up/lives in the western slope of Colorado, reading this comment makes me feel like I shouldn’t complain about the weather anymore 😂
@Wayne Noll Welp, they have a KKK chapter in Coeur D'alene (never involved in the Civil War or slavery as they didn't get statehood until 1890). They lifted all restrictions for environmental protection so now they have these immensely toxic and irradiated hotspots. They were founded with Anti-Mormon sentiments to counter the Deseret State's (Utah under Mormon Sharia Law) hilarious attempt at secession from the US only to become a Mormon hive today. It's a joke. God bless the US... except Idaho.
Wyomingite here. All Im gonna say is that Wyoming is an extremely spiritual place and very native friendly. I used to live on the reservation and my Elders taught me a lot, and how the spirituality is so great and vast there. The biggest thing im gonna tell people, whatever energy you bring n give to the land, is what your goin to receive there. Keep that in mind.
I was born in Colorado and I live in Wyoming with my grandparents (to help them out, mainly) for half the year in the Medicine Bow mountain range. It’s honestly my favorite part of the year. I love how away from it all it is and I spend way more time outside and appreciating the world around me. Even if I am just collecting/stacking wood or building/repairing fences for them 😂. I love both Wyoming and Colorado and I’m thankful to experience and enjoy all that they offer me.
The aerial town scene shown at 16:30-16:39 is actually...Pasadena, California. The main street through Pasadena is called "Colorado Boulevard" so maybe that's how you found the stock footage. 😄
Another error I saw was that the closest metro population similar to Denver was El Paso. The Albuquerque population is 562,000 and the Abq metro population is almost a million.
I’d also take issue with the outline of the Rocky Mountains stretching across to California, Oregon, and Washington, which are clearly the Sierra Nevada and Cascade ranges.
LOL nice catch.Everyone thinks no one will notice when they say it's Wyoming and it's not because everyone thinks no one lives here. Lots of movies claiming to be based in Wyoming and Montana were actually filmed in New Zealand. I'm very familiar with both and I can't unsee the New Zealand in these films!!!
As someone originally from Wyoming, I can attest. The winters are very long and harsh with the constant wind. It is a very inhospitable place to homestead which is most likely why it is the least populous state. Very nice in the summer months though!
Now try living in Alaska :) Wyoming is 4.5 more dense than Alaska. And if you took out Cheyenne and Anchorage (each state's most populous cities), it would be 6.8 times more dense.
Been noticing a lot of render issues in your videos, feel like you’re rushing through these and giving yourself a tight schedule. Just know that your fans are willing to wait for good content ❤
If you're a fan of poorly-researched dreck like this, you going to get more of the same. It got so bad with his alternative "facts" that other, better UA-camrs like Emperor Tigerstar had to call him out for blatantly lying. He's always been making trash videos that are fun to watch but dangerous to believe.
I am studying at the University of Wyoming. I have met a lot of people born and raised here. Never have I ever heard anyone wanting Wyoming to turn into something like Colorado. They just like things the way it is - wild.
@@VampireFlutist Seriously I hope you keep in that way. I've live in Reno for 40 years. It was great even 20 years ago..last 10 years it's basically East Sacramento. I'd consider Wyoming but I can't do the winters.
If there's anything that can completely destroy a once beautiful state.....it's an abundance of people. California and Colorado have alot in common there, along with the liberal Dem party.
My memories of Wyoming stem from a mid May cross country road trip. Mid may, snow, and 6.5 hours of barely anything. It was eerie, yet it was beautiful to see.
Drove through Wyoming on a road trip once: white-out blizzard with black ice road conditions in early May, weather cleared to a pleasant spring drizzle and fields of flowers as soon as we crossed border into Montana. I no longer have questions about why nobody lives in Wyoming 😂
This guy will probably go 6 lifetimes studying citiy dynamics never begin2 grasp what not evn1 person of all u putting yr heads 2gether will remotely fathom in comments. Soil. All cities as a rule are founded on good soil. Food. East rockes is farmland. West is brutality. I-70 is thgateway from east 2west. Hence u have tourism & massive teucking thru Denver. Constant over abundance of food. Just like any other city, Denver hence inadvertantly also hinge on soil. All the wealthiest old homesteads sit atop most fertile soil. Kansas city, St. Loius, even Poteau SE Oklahoma, tiny cities middle of nowhere, the soil suddenly becomes richer from rain tumbling over a mountain. Denver is paradise for those migrating west 2east. Vice versa, u dont wanna go any further west then Denver. " He who lands on good soil will inherit everlasting life." All thworlds problems can be solved in thGARDEN. Man was created in EDEN. A fenced garden. ( Lucifer had created hostile souless neanderthals 2promote evolution, which thflood had 2wipe out. )
@@dennissullivan2954 I90 south border...seven years ago. south dakota's weather was better than wyoming's too, it was like...weirdly almost pointedly just wyoming
One part of this you didn't mention is the two states' early transportation histories. Because it's actually easier to cross Wyoming east-west than Colorado, Wyoming was on the main transcontinental route in the 19th century, while Colorado was off of it. Recognizing the importance of this, Denver city leaders paid to build a spur off the Transcontinental Railroad. Then in the 1950s, when the Interstate Highway System was being planned, I-70 was going to dead-end in Denver, but Dwight Eisenhower's wife happened to be from Colorado, so state leaders used her to lobby him for an extension through Colorado toward the West Coast. This was so hard to build (the Colorado Rockies are basically a wall), the last part of the interstate system to be built was in Colorado -- but it was built, and now a major coast-to-coast highway (effectively -- I-70 ends in Utah, but it runs right into I-15, which continues on to Vegas and L.A.) runs right through Denver. DIA is part of this, too -- its predecessor, Stapleton, had all the same locational advantages, but it would regularly get shut down by winter weather, limiting its growth potential. So the state made a major investment, a huge gamble really, in the only new large airport to be built in the US in the late 20th Century -- and it paid off. Bottom line, Denver and Colorado leaders have always just had a ... hustler mentality, I guess you could say? While Wyoming leaders ... I guess they just didn't care as much about money?
I'm glad you brought this up! The relative flatness of Wyoming's Great Divide Basin makes it by far the easier of the two states to traverse east-west, so you'd think Wyoming should have easily bested Colorado on transportation. I really agree with you that Colorado has been very focused on building up infrastructure to make up for that geographic disadvantage.
Not just people. But industry needs to get in and out of the city. Its a forethought that leaders. The easier it is to get to a mountains town. The more likely people will come back.
Yes I agree! My family are Mormon pioneers and they came through Wyoming. My grandmother was a Marsh born in Wyoming. They lived in Evanston and the trains are a big thing. There is more of a Utah, Wyoming and Idaho connection than Colorado to my mind
Good theory, but I -80 runs from Coast to Coast and goes the entire length Wyoming including Cheyenne. Also, I-90 in Northern WY, runs to the West Coast.
Great video! As a native Coloradan, the comment about how we’ve literally never had a time where the majority of the population has been born in Colorado made me both laugh and cry. I love our state, but I do often envy the un-crowdedness of Wyoming. Great job!
Thank you for specifying "Native Coloradan" instead of just "NATIVE". It's kind of annoying seeing European Americans with the condescending "NATIVE" stickers when they're not Native Americans.
I’m one of the rare native Coloradans, and most likely when I retire I’ll be relocating to Wyoming. The metro area of Denver has simply exploded over my lifetime and nothing like the charming city it once was.
I really appreciated that you talked about the definite advantages to an environment like Wyoming. As a native Los Angeleno, city life can most definitely get claustrophobic and ironic lonely at times. The great outdoors is such a cure to both problems.
Seems a lot of people have already said what I was going to say. The weather in Wyoming isn't close to the same it is here in Colorado. My parents live in Wyoming, and when I tell them "It is has been snowing the last couple days," they'll send my a picture of their driveway which has a car in it that you can't see because it is buried under the snow. Edit: Last time I went to visit my parents, I saw three semi-trailers blown over on the side of the road. I haven't experienced wind remotely close to that in Colorado.
Depends where youre at as far as snow goes. In laramie we got a good snow about once a year whereas like dillon/frisco always get dumped on. As for the wind its true. I only weigh 170 and have to put bricks in my pockets so i dont blow away
I've lived in Sheridan, Wyoming most of my life (I'm getting dangerously close to 33) but I have also lived in Denver, Colorado Springs and Laramie. When in Laramie for school, a friend of mine explained to his parents, "You can tell which way the wind is blowing by which way the people are leaning."
It's all relative. Your body acclimates to wherever you are living. If a person who has lived in Wyoming their entire lives suddenly packed up their bags and moved to Hawaii, in 3-months, they'll calling 65-degree Hawaii nights "cold", and you can be 100% certain they'll be using jackets to keep warm.
I moved to Wyoming four years ago. Thanks for this comparison. I will disagree with a mild winter. I haven't wore shorts in 8 months. It snowed today and its mid April. However, when the summer comes it is a paradise.
they just don't understand. crazy how your the closest comment I've seen from a " person from wyoming" yet everyone is so quick to say it's the same here. uh hell no just cuz pants are more comfortable in rf Temps of 40 doesn't mean u relate to the rf Temps of -60
I was born in Denver, grew up in Cheyenne, lived in Fort Collins for several years, and now live Denver again. From my perspective, geographically and culturally, they might as well be different countries. Some thoughts for those that have never been to either: Fort Collins, being the closest major city to Cheyenne (30-45 minute drive), is tucked right against the mountain and is arguably one of the most beautiful modern towns in the world. Cheyenne on the other hand, sits in the middle of grass plains (not even remotely comparable to the geographic positioning of Fort Collins). The vibe of Cheyenne feels like a cross between an old western film and “Breaking Bad”, set in a conservative military town in the 70’s (albeit it still has a lot of charm and one of the best skateparks anywhere👀). Because of the geographic location, Cheyenne is brutally windy all year and often 10+ degrees colder than its closest neighbor Fort Collins. Everywhere from Fort Collins to Denver can get windy as well, but you can feel how starkly the geographic landscape/vibe changes when you cross that border into Wyoming (it baffles me how early settlers ever survived in Cheyenne). Cheyenne is positioned very close to a quasi-mountain area called “Vedauwoo”(a hidden treasure centrally(ish) located between Cheyenne, Laramie, and Fort Collins). However, you have to go at least an hour and a half west through Laramie to reach mountain landscapes (in Wyoming) that compare to what the entire front range of Colorado is built into. Once you get into the northern part of Wyoming, you’ll see some of the most gorgeous landscapes in the U.S. (some of which drastically differ from what you’ll see in Colorado, albeit similar). There’s also a rare abundance of wildlife due to the lack of population centers and even classic cowboys that live in those northern areas, who roam the plains/mountains all day on horses, drinking Budweiesser like water, and who barley use modern technology (straight out of old western films and these are some of the most badass people alive). However, much of what’s between Cheyenne and those northern areas is a vast dessert of arid nothingness with mountain views far into the horizon. Colorado on the otherhand, has a whole different world of stunning geographic attractions, and the major population centers are conveniently packed alongside everything. The cost of that though, is you usually have to venture a couple hours into the Colorado mountains to truly get away from people (unlike Wyoming). The farther south and/or west you venture into Colorado, you start to get into open nothingness territory as well (when driving between the major population areas and the small destination mountain towns), but it doesn’t have the same arid/dreary vibe as when you’re driving through Wyoming (north of Cheyenne). If you’ve never been to either state, the experience is really quite stark in contrast between the two states geographically and culturally (even/especially along the boarder towns/areas). Both states are beautiful and interesting in their own ways and so they’re equally worth exploring if you ever get the chance!
I was born in Denver and live in Colorado Springs now… I go to Wyoming often for camping trips and to get away from humans and all the bullcrap. However, if you want to see true breathtaking beauty and empty calm…. New Mexico is a TRUE hidden gem. It’s the land of enchantment and of you ever drive through that state and explore you will understand why. It calls to me always and I find myself going to New Mexico more than Wyoming these days.
my dad was military, we was spent 3 years in cheyenne, wyoming. Some of the best 3 years of my childhood some of the nicest people ive ever had the pleasure to meet. really got into 4 wheelers and fishing while i lived there. Many people used to mail letters to my family even years after we left. Frontier Days is awesome too.
Ah Frontier Days, good memories there. Sitting in a side by side on a hill outside South Pass watching the fireworks, drinking beers. Wouldn't give that up for anything.
Once went on a (around) 24 hour road trip from Southern Illinois to Boise Idaho. I drove most of the way and Wyoming was the hardest part. We passed through the southern part and I can tell you it is the most alien place I've ever seen. No desert, just kinda vast openness and brown grass, zero trees and light hills. Just vacant nothingness and I was fighting to stay awake because it felt like I was driving forever in the same spot. The entire time through Wyoming, we saw I think two populated spots, one was a packed Walmart halfway through Wyoming and it was weird because there were zero houses for people to live in for as far as the eye can see (remember, mostly flat land and zero trees, so lots of miles). And the other was a town with lots of gas stations and old farm equipment rusted everywhere i think it was Rawlins. 10/10 would recommend getting sleep before passing through
You, like many people that drive through Wyoming on I-80 miss some of the most spectacular scenery in the United States, possibly in the world simply by not leaving that highway. The locals see comments like yours and laugh knowing that the secret they keep of living amongst incredible beauty is kept relatively safe thanks to the location of the busiest road in the state.
Try KS, MT, ND, SD or TX. In those with hills it is real apparent when you crest a hill and the road is straight to the next hill maybe 20 miles away. Then drive it on a weekly basis, that's when you feel like you are not hardly moving.
I made the same trip, but it was covered with snow. Through the whole drive. It was just snow with the occasional jagged rock sticking out. It felt like something from oblivion. It didn’t seem real.
You drove there from Illinois, and Wyoming was the boring part? I-80 through Wyoming certainly isn't the best for scenery, but it's better than the flat copy/paste of the same farm from horizon to horizon of the Great Plains states. Nebraska is like being stuck in a simulation.
Wyoming has a lot of residents who aren't interested in urbanizing their state. While they do welcome visitors, they kind of want to keep their state the way it is naturally and discourage any big change for their area. They want to cherish their environment and keep it isolated and quiet, and have nature take its course.
That is interesting because urban development like apartment towers, condos, and other medium-rise buildings are what allow more cherishing of the environment. Because when everyone wants a single-family home with a front yard and driveway in a suburb.. it greatly increases the physical size of cities and entrenches on natural area.
@@Ryan-093 More cherishing of the environment? More people doesn't mean more cherishing. Keep people away and nature will take its inevitable course. There doesn't have to be a person there to cherish it.
If there aren't cities you don't have suburbs. You have small towns and farmland where people are actually connected to the nature around them instead of the entirely artificial reality of crowded, dirty, crime ridden urban centers. Wyoming has the right idea.
Born in Colorado loved the mountains, but was raised from 5yrs old on in Wyoming, I live between two mountain ranges and I enjoy the small population throughout the state, however the Tetons, Yellowstone, Jackson area gets nearly a million visitors each year. It’s very congested and can take a couple hrs to travel two miles. Beautiful state. We like the small population
Despite its reputation, Denver has relatively warm winter highs that average near the 50 degree mark. There are cold days, but it’s warm enough to support large scale population growth. There is a big shift in winters from Colorado to Wyoming.
Yes, very different. I'd never personally go into Denver b/c its nasty! but in general terms YES lol I stay down South in Castle Rock unless I'm going to see fam in Estes Park. That's liberal ENOUGH for us lol
Nobody cares, internet Karen. I’m so sorry that the culture and the country are passing you by. You can keep clinging to your outdated lifestyle while the rest of us continue marching into the 21st century. Wait, quick…who won the 2020 election?
I'm from NZ and Wyoming is my favorite state of The US. Amazing, isolated rural locations. If you're into these, Wyoming is the place for you. Amazing railroad history Wyoming has too, the home of the biggest, baddest Locos the world has seen. Then, there's the tourist spots of Wyoming, Yellowstone etc. And another great thing about Wyoming- no Vegas like BS.
Please don't be so positive, we all want to keep it that way. LOL Thank you, I have to agree, I've lived in several states and will always look at Wyoming as home.
what do you know about Mathew shepherd? one the media care about his sexual orientation. he was killed over a methamphetamine addiction in which he owed the murder lots of money. never-mind keep spreading falsehoods it will keep more people like you away
Sorry as a geographer I have to correct you on a few things. The closest other major metro area to Denver is salt lake city which by highway miles is 521 miles and much shorter as a the crow flies. It is definitely still and island city I think that's why Denver Airport has some of the most connecting flight stops in the nation, but I just wanted to let you know that. Salt Lake has a low city pop, but a large metro pop if you were just going of city sizes.
Exactly. SLC stat area is about 2.7 mm peeps, ELP 1 mm peeps, Denver, 3.7mm peeps. Very glaring error in this guys video, makes me question the whole thing.
Northern CO resident here that relocated from the middle of CO about 3yr ago. I'll say, we get a small sample of Wyomings weather, which is enough to keep us from going farther north. There are some amazingly beautiful parts of Wyoming, and the residents who can withstand the weather/wind are stronger than I am.
VERY interesting video with lots of information. El Paso, however, is not the closest large population center to Denver at 560 miles away (actually 557 “as the crow flies”). Albuquerque, NM, is just 334 miles from Denver and boasts an urban area population over 900,0000, which is about 50,000 more people than El Paso, according to Wikipedia. Also, Salt Lake City is closer to Denver than El Paso at just 370 miles as the crow flies, and has a metro population of 1.3 million, nearly 400,000 people more than El Paso. Finally, at the same exact 557 miles from Denver is Kansas City, MO, with a metro population of 2.4 million! So, yes, Denver is isolated by distance from other population centers, but not to the degree that this video suggests.
Was thinking the same thing watching this. SLC is the obvious choice for that example, as someone who lives in Denver. I’ve never thought about El Paso as being close or similar.
Agreed; I think RealLifeLore was just looking at city populations instead of metro populations. That's why the Salt Lake City area was completely forgotten about since it consists of many suburbs.
My favourite fact about Wyoming, when trying to explain just how unpopulated we are, is our escalators. There's only 2 in the entire state, both in Casper. Both in banks. Casper also has the largest mall in the entire state, that being the Eastridge Mall. We don't have a lot but its sure fun shocking people with those fun facts
When we went on a vacation in the west we were in Wyoming for a bit, and it was absolutely beautiful. Jackson Hole still had snow, even in August, and white water rafting on the snake river was one of the top 3 experiences of my life. The raft guide told us that “in Wyoming we have 9 months of good skiing, and 3 months of bad skiing” 😂
Jackson is really not representative of Wyoming. It's like Boulder CO - 8 sq m of coastal elite mentality surrounded by reality. There are so many better places and people in WY.
We are looking to move up there from Colorado. I was told they have 3 seasons. July, August and winter. My southern Cali man is trying to act like a tough guy but I tried to tell him. I lived in upstate NY near the Canadian border, so I can't wait to see him freeze his knickers off.
I remember when I was a kid watching the Garfield and Friends cartoon. Garfield stated "There is no such place as Wyoming". Others were rightfully skeptical about this until he stated "Think about it, have you ever met anyone from Wyoming?" It later went to a story of a mapmaker in Italy piecing together the United States, when completed, there was a space left, they put in the word Wyoming, which they explained was an old Italian word for "No state here".
I remember watching that cartoon, in the living room of my childhood home in Wyoming. Fortunately, I was old enough to laugh about it rather than spiral into an existential crisis.
As an Italian I can contribute to the debunking of this theory: "Wyoming" doesn't remotely mean anything in both Italian and any of the other languages we speak.
As someone who used to live in Wyoming. I'm so glad I moved away. I don't ever want to go back and don't plan to. The only time I'll go back is to visit friends their.
As a Wyoming native, I can sincerely and happily tell you that although our weather sucks ass and some places in our state may be ugly, in the summer it’s great and most of our state is the most beautiful of all. It is the best state in the entire US. I love my country and I love my state and the people in it ❤🇺🇸🦬🦬
It's a little weird that El Paso is selected as the nearest city of comparable size when it looks like, in terms of (distance, population), you have Denver (0, 2.9M) and El Paso (600mi, 868k), but then there's Albuquerque (400mi, 915k), Phoenix (700mi, 4.9M), Kansas City (600mi, 2.4M), and Salt Lake City (500mi, 1.2M). Really just seems like a lack of research, given that I identified these other metropolitan areas inside of 30 minutes.
I think he only looked at city proper populations, because I thought the same. I grew up in Salt Lake and it's definitely an area where if you just looked at that, you'd see Salt Lake as actually very small (only about 200,000 people) because most people in the area live in the suburban towns and cities around Salt Lake. Additionally the 1.2 million is just the population of people within the valley, but there are suburban communities of the city in the smaller valleys to the north of Salt Lake, which with those counted in, the Wasatch Front population is closer to 2.7 million people.
@@anthonydelfino6171 I would agree, except that he said 'metropolitan area'. So I think you should check how many folks live in Denver proper. Metropolitan areas are a way to inflate city sizes, and that's what I used in my comment, because that's what RLL used.
@@QuietlyExplained I immediately looked for this comment, because I thought it was a bizarre and incorrect choice as well. I would also say the Metro Area population, or maybe even Urban Agglomeration population, is a better way to compare cities than the size of the city proper. However, that makes his choice of El Paso even more bizarre.
@@anthonydelfino6171 Even by city proper definition, ABQ has over 560,000 people and is only 330 miles away from Denver (roughly the distance from London to Edinburgh, which also has a population of about 560,000 coincidentally). Edit: And Colorado Springs has nearly half a million people and is only 60 miles away from Denver.
At first I thought he was saying compared to cities on the east end of the rocky mountains in which case El Paso makes sense. But I agree, big oversight to forget about other close mountain cities like SLC, Albuquerque & Phoenix
I use to do a fair amount of backpacking in the Wind River range and would like to go back to some of those lakes I use to fish. But alas I would need an escalader to get to them at this point in my life!
My mom was born and raised in Wyoming, and we still have family there. I will never pass up an opportunity to visit the state. The vast empty spaces are a welcome break from the bustle of normal life.
Lived in Cheyenne for 4 years. Only place you can go to lunch and sit next to the governor. Wind is overwhelming, I bought a huge kite and learned to love it. It is easy to be a big fish in a small pond. Cheyenne Frontier Days is a community event wher most of the population are involved in some way.
The VAST majority of Colorado's population lives in a small area. Most of Colorado is actually VERY sparsely populated. Outside of a narrow front range corridor from Colorado Springs to Fort Collins, Colorado is basically Wyoming population wise. Take away that front range population and the population of Colorado is about 500,000 - and this is over 90% of the state.
Isn’t that every state? The people live in cities and the tin foil hat people, cows, and coyotes live in the tiny towns or hillbilly homes on a mountain somewhere.
@@shadowskill111 I think you got that backwards city folks are the loony ones,country folk are intelligent people self reliant and don’t want or need others to survive.
I was born and raised in Wyoming. And you said the thoughts of us Wyomingites perfectly! And an interesting fact, Laramie (the city that has the only 4 year university in the state) almost doubles in population every time school is in session. The actual population is about 20,000. But it is around 30,000 when all of the college students come.
@@kaisailor1 Why didn't you wear wranglers and a cowboy hat, and line dance? Do you hate us? Setting that aside, I think the locals are just disappointed that they pay for a public college that imports ten thousand people a year to the state to teach them to hate the other 580,000 people there, over politics. All the secondary signals that you mentioned are things that, at a glance, help you figure out if somebody is part of the problem or not.
what an excellent video - as a kid, i used to love reading about this sort of thing in encyclopedias and still do - it's just the right level of information to hold your interest and provide an overview of a topic without losing you in too many of the finer details. great job!
4:37 I'm serving a mission in that area, the exact boundaries are interesting because it's Fort Collins, Cheyenne, then shoots up to caster and includes most of empty Wyoming.
As a born-and-raised Coloradan, I can safely say Chief Niwot was right on the money: “People seeing the beauty of this valley will want to stay, and their staying will be the undoing of the beauty.”
John Denver knew this would happen. He spent so much time and money trying to protect Colorado from development. Once he died I swear it developed twice as fast and went downhill. I’m glad he died in a plane accident and didn’t live to see what this state has become. Millionaire own every inch and build giant ugly mansions on every mountain. Then fence off and kill the land and wildlife. Goodbye Colorado…
As a central Wyoming resident let me tell you about the blizzards of 2023. Yes blizzards. Casper set an all time low temperature of -42 right before Christmas. We broke the record of seasonal snowfall and took 2nd place for snowfall in a single storm. And that storm happened in the first week of April. I had 3 consecutive snow days and a half day for my highschool in the FIRST WEEK OF APRIL and as of writing this it is gonna snow again before April ends. I love the snow :)
You guys got shit on this year with the snow along with rawlins. In green river we got a lot of snow and a -37° day but nothing like what you guys got.
Born and raised in CO--you summed it all up nicely. Growing up in CO we usually forgot about Wyoming simply because there's not a whole lot you can do up there that you can't already do in CO. However, I am a little jealous at how WY is growing at a slower rate because of how quickly things tend to change in the Denver area and how that leads to some pretty strong growing pains
You can go camping in Wyoming and never see another camper. You ski some of the best snow in the world without waiting in a lift lol me for an hour or drive on an interstate for hours 5at 30mph to get the the ski lift. You can’t escape the people in Colorado
Years ago, I would travel to Gillette for work for 2 weeks at a time and I did that 3 or 4 times over a couple of years. When one of the older engineers heard I was going he said "You're going to love it Alex! There's a beautiful woman behind every tree in Wyoming!" When I got there, I quickly noticed that there were very few trees... :D As the saying going, nice place to visit. After about 3 days, the awe of the truly "Big Sky" wears off and you quickly realize there's not much to do there. I went to that 1 theater in Gillette several times. And the weather was wild. 40's in the morning, 72 by lunch, a crazy, end of the world hail store moved in around 4 and temps dropped 40 degrees. Crazy. But Wyoming is definitely where the deer and the antelope play.
I grew up in Cheyenne. As a couple other commenters have said Wyoming's weather is much worse than Colorado's. It's a bit strange but you go up I-25 and stop at the border and the wind will be significantly stronger than in Fort Collins. A calm day in Cheyenne was 25 miles an hour or less.
I have lived in Colorado my whole life. The amount of building going on here is insane. When I was born my home town had less then 5,000 people. Almost 30 years later it has close to 100,000 people
Living in the great state of Wyoming, for nearly 50 years, I can tell you it was a joy to watch this video. I too, had noticed a huge disparity in population between Wyoming and Colorado and it’s actually only gotten bigger as the decades go by.
I'm 44 and I've lived my entire life in Grand Jct, Colorado. When I was a kid, I can remember the population of the whole town was around 70k. Today it's about 150k. And it sucks here now.
@@davidfetherston2083 Why in the world would you spend your whole life in Grand Junction? Weed isn't even legal there! I was stationed in Colorado while in the military and went back to school there. I'm still in Denver but leaving for the PNW soon and can't wait!
I love Wyoming. As a college student from Texas I didn’t understand why more people didn’t live here! Now that I live here I completely understand…Wyoming doesn’t exist, keep moving :)
I've lived all over the country and the last 20 years in three different locations in Wyoming (Laramie, Sheridan and now in Cheyenne). There is a distinct difference in weather between the two. While Denver is 5280 feet, the entire southern half of WY (I-80 corridor) is between 6000-7400 feet. That makes a huge difference in temperatures and wind. Well water is extremely difficult to get to here in WY. I would add to this video that Jackson airport is usually busier than Casper, albeit mostly because of the rich private jets owned by some of the residence, but commercially as well. Wyoming is a cold, bitter, windy, desolate landscape and it takes a special type of person to live here.... people would be much happier in Colorado. So move there and not here!!
I stayed overnight in Sheridan while driving through WY. Real nice town. What I don't get is how a nice town like that was developed and survives in the north central section of WY. It seems out of place.
You drive up (and up, and up) from Ft Collins on Highway 287, and just at the CO/WY border, the trees go away. It's like someone laid a ruler across the tree/no tree line and said, "Everything north of here is Wyoming." Pretty much true along the whole border. It has a lot to do with altitude, rain shadows, soil types, and winds. But most of all, the summer monsoon rains that come up thru AZ cover much of Colorado but peter out before reaching Wyoming, and we get more of the arctic winter lows coming down from Canada, with cold dry air and dessicating winds. When I run down to Ft Collins from my home outside Laramie, it is typically 10°F warmer and much less windy than WY. Denver is even warmer. My house is 7500' above sea level, 2500' higher than FoCo or Denver. That makes a huge difference! There is not a naturally-occurring tree for ten miles in any direction. We get maybe 6-7" of precipitation a year. It's not for everyone.😀
I was born in Wyoming the 5th largest in the state at 24000 rock springs. I love it cause I love nature, but it is too cold I'm glad my parents moved to Colorado springs but I will always visit
I drove I-80 through Wyoming. The wind was so crazy when I got to the hotel it nearly pushed me over. I didn't find out until the next day that a tornado had touched down outside the town and that's why the wind was so strong. I missed the tornado on that stretch of road by maybe half an hour, and all I noticed was some really dense looking storm clouds.
Mighta just been our standard wind, we get tornadoes and all but more frequently it's just gusty as hell down by I 80. Not uncommon to see gusts 60-80, tore my roof rack off once on a cold ass night. That road is hell.
@@crimmrichalds3616 I got a call from my girlfriend the next morning to check if I was okay because she heard there was a small tornado that touched down near me. When she was liking at the news/weather where I was.
Back in the '70s, my grandparents moved to Wyoming and won't move. My sister and I were born there, but we moved when we were young. I have a love/hate relationship with Wyoming.
I used to feel that way about my hometown in rural Appalachia in NC. I planned to leave as soon as I graduated high school, years in advance. I've come full circle having lived away from my hometown as long as I lived there. I now long for the peace and solitude I once wanted to escape.
@@justsomeguy5470 Yeah, assuming nothing goes wrong and your car doesn't break down or you don't forget to fill up on gas. Waiting hours for a tow truck outside Yellowstone is not my idea of a good visit. There's no immediate help out in the middle of nowhere. I have no idea why people who aren't evil predators would prefer being so far away from civilization.
@@briangreen430 Appalachia is not rural compared to the emptiness of Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, the Dakotas, or New Mexico. You're still within 20-30 minutes of civilization and meat that doesn't need to be skinned and cooked over a campfire. Trust me. I've been to western NC multiple times and Wyoming once. Once was enough Wyoming for me.
Like I said, love/hate relationship with Wyoming. In the first part of my childhood, I lived in Nebraska, and since I was 11, I've lived in Kentucky. I don't remember living in Wyoming, but we have always visited them. I could just never see myself living there. I'm a Nebraskan by heart.
Thank you for doing a video about these states! I live in Colorado and it's so nice to see a video of our state for a change. We hear about other states and countries all the time, which is fine, but it's great to watch something closer to home. And to learn some interesting facts about our state and our lovely neighbor is the cherry on top!!
Not true, we are mentioned often… for our mass shootings. And all the tech bros and homeless who have flooded in here and destroyed the soul and rugged beauty we once had. Colorado is now just another California. And it’s sad…. I’ll be moving out as soon as possible. I was born here, but I won’t die here. Unless I get caught in a mass shooting which is highly likely.
I spent my childhood in Wyoming. Beautiful country, and generally nice people, but the towns have nothing to do. When I was a kid we used to drive 100 miles to Billings Montana just to go to a K-Mart. All teens could do was just cruise main street and drink. You have to date people in distant towns just to avoid relatives. And small towns do have a different psychology, and Wyoming has nothing but small towns. Counter-intuitively, there's actually LESS privacy and independence in small towns because everybody knows everybody else's business, and gossip is a sport. It's kind of like high school never ends, whereas in cities you can be easily anonymous and avoid running into specific people if you want to, because the whole town doesn't just use one store, gas station, and post office.
This is true I'm from nyc and I never lived in Wyoming but I did live a small town in Wisconsin & I know what u mean about nothing to do, driving distances for stuff & oh the gossip it never ended 😂
Yeah I live in Colorado and I’ve been up there a handful of times. I really don’t mind ruralness, but a lot of the towns in Wyoming just feel gross and have major meth head vibes, even worse than Kansas. Casper and Cheyenne are nice places though!
I grew up in Colorado and we would drive to Cheyenne every Friday after school to get two taco pizzas from Godfathers - before they expanded to Colorado - my home is Colorado, but Wyoming will always hold a special place in my heart too.
As a person from Wyoming i find it absolutley hilarious that there was no mention of Jackson Hole...which is fairly close to Yellowstone National Park and has celebrity houses...
Why is this hilarious? It has little to do with the video. The video compares the two states. If the video mentioned Jackson for any reason it would certainly have to mention comparable wealthy resort towns in Colorado like Aspen, Vail, Breck, etc, that are probably home to ten times as many wealthy people and celebrities as Jackson is (which is largely consistent with the theme of the video).
@@ben_revity Jackson Hole is so well known that its funny they dont mention it but they show a picture of the antler arches there. Doesnt matter if they would have to compare a similair type of city from Colorada. Almost everything ive seen that talks about my home state always mentions Jackson...so yes i find it hilarious that it was omitted from this one. I cant stand Jackson
My son graduated from USAFA last year and still lives and works in Colorado Springs. We are from Louisville Ky. It’s absolutely beautiful there but super expensive and crowded!
Wyoming is one of those places I aspire to live at some point in life. There’s something nice about the idea of living in a place not littered with civilization and commercialism.
And if everyone that thinks that, does it, these places won't be like that anymore, and some of those people will end up being worse off for it too. Some people are cut out for it, but just giving it a try doesn't work out well for some other people, it's not a semester abroad or something. A few people loose their whole lively hood thinking they can just try Wyoming out, our low cost of living comes with low wages as well. Some people end up trapped here because moving away becomes cost prohibitive. Just saying lots of people wax poetic about it, the reality for many is very different.
@@dougkester8952 you're talking about the plains and high desert, not the same as above treeline. Actual Wyoming treeline is like 10500ft, the peaks of the mountains. Even the middle of nowhere places can be wild and beautiful in there own way, it's your choice not to appreciate it. I prefer that people not look into it, keep thinking it's empty.
I’m from Norway. After high school I decided I wanted to Study at the University of Wyoming. After one semester, my 18 year old self had had enough of this deserted and windy place. However, had I been able to do it over again now (that I’m in my 30s) I definitely would!
Another point of note, Denver is on a North/South East/West grid system… except downtown. Which is situated diagonally. This is due to its mining town heritage and miners setting up base camps along the Platte River which runs diagonally through Denver.
13:23 It’s worth noting that, for all our economic differences, the local cultures and values of Colorado and Wyoming had largely remained very similar between 1900-1995, but then began to diverge significantly, both socially and politically. The metropolitan multicultural influence of the new airport to this end cannot be overstated, in my opinion.
Being the first state with legal weed is actually what changed Colorado. Denver was a crap hole prior, then the tax dollars earned have allowed them to gentrify the city. Brought jobs, lowered crime rates etc.
Glad for the positive remarks towards Wyoming at the end.It's one of the few places left in the US where you can live and not constantly be butt crack to butt crack with other people or stuck in traffic on the way to do anything... even if theres much less to do. It's a great state for introverts, summer brings the great outdoors with plenty of solitude, winter brings cozying up with books and hot coffee! It's rarer these days to find people who can function without the constant distraction of city life. But if you are a soul that is at peace with itself and can handle a little isolation, Wyoming is great!
You are right about the traffic. Spent a year in Denver, throw in neverending roadwork and driving was a huge pain. In Wy. for 10+ years now. You can travel 30-40 minutes on a state highway, and not see another vehicle.
Being from Colorado, which just grows and grows and grows, it's a nice relief to be buffered by areas and states that are largely empty. (Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, New Mexico, Kansas) One thing he didn't mention is that much of Colorado is also blissfully empty. Most of our population lives in a narrow strip along the Eastern edge of the Rockies.
I think Wyoming could see more population growth in the future. Now that a lot of people can work remotely full time, I would not be surprised if people start moving to Wyoming who previously would not have been willing to. Remote work seems to be the great equalizer these days and a lot of people are relocating because of it. This has been happening to a huge extent in Montana and Idaho. I think the same will happen in Wyoming on a smaller scale. A lot of people love the idea of living somewhere with a low population and tons of natural beauty, but most of these sorts of places have sucky job markets. Remote work removes this barrier.
100% -- tech gentrification as well as billionaires buying out second / third homes and ranches and increasing cost of living in small cities and towns in the state.
The biggest reason we didn’t move to Wyoming is due to the lack of medical. In talking to locals and a lot of people who were originally from there, a lot of people have to travel to Colorado and Montana for their medical needs.
I was conceived and raised here, but not born because my mother needed a specialist who was too busy to travel here, so she traveled to Fort Collins. I’ve never lived a day there, however, not counting a few hotel stays. Medical has greatly improved since, however.
@The Naygars Depends upon if your wife can do without A MALL. I've lived in Wyoming 44 years working in medicine and I know we lost a number of physicians because it was ONE HUNDRED MILES to the closest mall (in Billings MT). It's also that far to the nearest interstate highway. Cody Regional Healthcare is very progressive and open to providing newer services when possible.
@@eldermillennial8330 I wasn't born with a "shopping" gene or a "mall" gene. I don't even know where Frontier Mall is. If it's in Casper, it's 200 miles & there isn't much of ANYTHING I would drive half that far to get. Well, except an incredible deal on a pre2000s F250...
The appeal of Wyoming, for me, is precisely the fact that it's so sparsely populated. If you want to have a lot of space and some spectacular views, with a shitload of wildlife, Wyoming is fantastic. But I like remote wilderness. I like hiking a trail and seeing nobody that day. Just me, my dog, and uninterrupted nature as far as I can see. It's either that or I like being IN the heart of a dense metro (from Seattle, fuckin love it). The purgatory is the suburban strip mall hell in between. I don't like the middle of that spectrum. Colorado has too many people. Same shit is happening to Washington. Good food tho, great city life. Just kinda fucks up the nature parts too much and property prices are insane, lol.
THIS IS THE FUCKING TAKE HOMIE. Been waiting for this comment. The city has an allure. Glitz, glamour, diverse food, culture, queer people being queer etc. The rural areas have nature, wildlife, fishing, music being played until late at night by friends at a fireplace, but SUBURBIA IS FUCKING HELL. THANK YOU for your comment sincerely. You encapsulated my thoughts so succinctly. The strip mall bullshit with a five guys and a bowling alley in an atomized racist HOA neighborhood is THEE absolute fucking worst thing about American culture in a nutshell. Pure conformity for conformity's sake. A lack of diversity culturally AND naturalistically. It is literally the American version of hell.
You can't buy any land here if you're wanting seclusion. Most is gov owned, the rest is rancher land they won't sell. Housing is like 85% more expensive here than anywhere else I've ever seen. There is absolutely nothing to do unless you enjoy endlessly shoveling snow for 9 out of 12 months a year. Everything is brown except for a month or two of the year. Wind.. so much wind. Always
As a Coloradoan, you can’t really compare WY and CO weather. I’ve met people from WY at the grocery store bc they wanted to get out of the wind. My masseuse got divorced bc of the WY wind (he wanted to stay and she wanted to leave). The wind drove her crazy. Colorado just reduced AZ and NV’s water rights. Water is a hot commodity in the west. I took a water law class. It was very interesting.
When I lived in Wyoming, I was told a story by my neighbor. He said that the wind once stopped blowing for a brief moment, and everyone outside suddenly fell down.
If I recall correctly NV thought Colorado was going to do all these projects when actually they were just proposals which started a fight between the two states over water rights. So sadly I'm not shocked to hear Colorado pulled that in the end
Yikes, never heard of a wind-induced divorce before. When I was 5 we had a little Chevy Vega - very light car - and my mom and me got blown off the road. After that we got a huge Plymouth station wagon with a big heavy engine for ballast. You gotta take that kind of stuff into consideration in Wyoming.
It's nice to know that everyone in Wyoming already watched this in a day.
LMAOOoo
It is hilarious that this video is now going on three times as many views as there are people living in my state lol.
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@@microcolonel lol
@@microcolonel The entire state of Colorado has seen this video, now. 😏
I used to live in Northern Colorado. Wyoming weather is a whole different animal. Not mild by any means
I used to live in Casper, one of the windiest cities in the country. You get used to the cold and while it does get ridiculously cold, Wyoming weather is very variable and warms up quite a bit in the winter in the major towns.
Good it keeps the banana heads and shitheads out
@@Jasperr9999 As someone that lives in SoCal, we had high 80's w/ sunshine this week and literally low 60's w/ rain the next day....
@@noob.168 I’m amazed that you think that’s extreme weather. Then again, you are Californian.
@@Jasperr9999 This is exactly New York weather. This year has been word for word what you described
As a person who has lived in Wyoming their whole life, I can confirm that the weather hates us. One time, when I was fishing with my old man, it started snowing on us in the middle of June. We often joke that their are only 2 real seasons in Wyoming, Winter and Construction.
What's construction?
@@davedave3520 rebuilding things after winter storms
I think that's an American-wide joke. I was raised in Illinois and we've got the same joke. Though generally we are referring to road construction.
@@DrSarcasmable Yes. Clevelanders say it, too.
Well, like we to speak in North Germany, there is no weather at all only bad clothes! ;) Still i love nature and wouldnt change a thing :)
I've lived in Wyoming my whole life. We like it this way, empty. Like other comments have said, the vast emptiness and the ability to get lost is kind of amazing. Anyone can go be alone. It's one of the few places on the planet you can actually do that and it lends itself to being amazing.
Sounds a bit like northern Canada, I love the quietness too. Sort of wish I had better internet though.
Agreed 👍🏼
Population growth will be a curse when the fresh water runs out. People who water golf courses in desert environments are morons. Watch how California destroyed their ecosystem with massive population growth - then those same Californians moved in massive numbers to Colorado once they " ruined" California. Once they gave ruined Colorado people will flee to Wyoming Montana and the 2 Dakotas.
Stay away from us, Ex- Californians, you guys are not welcome.
Fresh water will become the new black gold. And NO , you may NOT pump great lakes water to the West.
The drive between Cheyenne and Casper makes me think I am on a different planet it was so amazing . Would love to experience living there maybe someday.
Nevada has those spots too. Just you and a snowy mountain range
I think it's good that places like Wyoming still exist. Not every place on earth needs to be ridden with civilization.
Technically everywhere is ridden with civilization. American settlers, native american tribes, and more have 'touched' the land. The fact that the only large bison herds exist in Yellowstone should tip you off
Exactly. Keep Wyoming empty!
honestly here in wyoming that is the most appealing this to the people that live here. I hated it my whole life until i got to experience life in slc, Denver, then Houston. I'm back now and may move from the current location, but I doubt I'll leave the state. it's nice being around self sustaining, moral people. and while not all wyomingites are that. it is ridiculously higher then anywhere else I've been.
@@jackb8598 tell people to stop pooping out kids like bunny rabbits and maybe that can happen
@@PearlCityBeats stop preventing people from getting abortions and birth control then
As someone who has spent a lot of time in both states, wyoming is far colder and windier than colorado is. Wyoming also didn't have the massive gold rush that Colorado had, so there was no population boom like in colorado in the late 1800's and early 1900's. This allowed people to buy a lot of land for cattle ranching.
It also doesn't help that Wyoming's main interstate gets shut down for days at a time like 10 times every winter.
What's it like to live in Wyoming? Do you know what kind of industries it has and what jobs are available? Do you think it's a good place to retire?
If you settled in the south of the state, (e.g. near Cheyenne) would you be close enough to visit Colorado, while living more cheaply and quietly in sparsely populated Wyoming?
I went there for the first time a couple of years ago. Terrifying wind. I would race past any semis on the highway for fear of them tipping over onto my car! I'm an Okie too!!! (Oklahoman, you know, where the wind comes whipping down the plain, and the waving wheat.... O:-)
COLORADO STRONG
@@SlackActionBumble Oh come on. It's only been closed about 50-55 days this winter so far. No biggie...
i like the idea that the person overlooking this video just blinked at the same time and never saw it mess up
I thought it was just me lol
saw it as i read your comment
Me: Welp, looks like my graphics card is finally dying.
I thought my phone was acting up, but I wasn’t sure.
I actually thought this lmao
As a Colorado transplant to Wyoming, I can say with absolute certainty no one in Wyoming thinks the differences between the two states are a bad thing.
Nice (sent by a person from Colorado)
@moberg7400 Colorado gang 🤝 Wyoming gang
I doubt many people in Colorado see the difference as a bad thing either.
Its called copium. Look it up.
@@RedXlV Eh I like Wyoming better
Screen blinking at 8:10 is kind of intense
lol gonna give us seizures
True. Thought it was my phone
Glad it's not just me, I was having a hard time and was worried something was wrong with my monitor.
I had to stop watching and just listen. Does it get back to normal?
So I wasn't losing it @RealLifeLore , might need a reupload of this video
As a Northern Colorado resident I can confirm that as soon as you drive past the Wyoming border the wind wants to blow your car onto the other side of the highway. Temps are often 15-20 degrees colder in the winter as well. My experience is that two states have vastly different climates, with that of Colorado being much more hospitable.
It's the Carr exit. There's a magical line there where the wind really picks up. That, plus the temp difference (Cheyenne's hottest day on record was 100 degrees) and the 1300' altitude difference between Cheyenne and Fort Collins makes a big difference in livability.
I'll take the weather you can have the liberals lol
@@Paradiselost2802 ??
@@darkithnamgedrf9495 lol the politics
As a cowpoke who went to UW, this made me lol😂. Fort Collins is like Eden compared to nine circles of hell that Laramie becomes in the winter.
Most "major" towns in Wyoming (i say major meaning big by Wyoming standards) are roughly about 100 miles apart from each other because that is about how far a steam engine would go before it had to stop to refill on water. It is also why most towns are built on or near a water source.
Really? That is very interesting, how the Steam Engine shaped a state's development.
I used to believe the same thing. It was actually about 25 miles when the railroad first came through. And a lot of ghost towns along the way at those points.
@@freedomunrestricted
I believe you’re referring to horse pulled wagon trains. Pending on location and terrain, most wagons traveled roughly 21-25 miles a day, hence the towns located every 25 miles.
Steam engines prior to tenders, had a range of about 10 miles. Later on, a steam engine could travel anywhere from 100-150 miles before they where required to stop to refill.
most towns are built on or near water for another reason...but yeah thats cool.
newsflash - 99% of all human settlements are built "on or near" a water source.
Glad to see a video talking about my home of Colorado. But please do not say that Wyoming has mild weather. It is somehow much noticeably colder year round and the wind is absolutely insane on the plains of Wyoming. You also forgot to mention the housing crisis in Colorado. Many residents I know cannot even afford to own their own homes. A lot of us rent for ridiculous rates but can't move because we have nowhere else to go.
yeah. notice on the housing thing.
i moved from colorado to dc for work and all the people in dc warned me that the rent was going to be super duper crazy high and the cost of living is just untenable in dc at my wage (about 80k/yr, same as it was back home)
rent is lower in dc and I'm living more comfortably because of it.
gas is twice as much though.
i’ve been in co since i was 11 and it’s gonna break my heart when i move away bc i simply cant afford to buy a house here. houses with less sq footage than my apartment are going for 500k which is absolutely fucking insane.
Same
I think housing crisis is now (mid 2024) worldwide phenomenon
I recently (well, October 2022) moved from Colorado Springs (COS) back to West TX because when I looked for a property to BUY back then (was renting in a nice/upscale Class A "luxury" apt complex, of which COS has many to choose from!) it was when home prices & mortgage interest rates were quickly rising (along with the also-happening auto-market insanity!), so both home prices and mortgage interest rates were artificially overvalued/inflated. Back then, an older home (forget NEW!) in an older (1980s-90s) neighborhood in a less-desirable/questionable area of COS (meaning, Fountain CO, just south -- nothing actually in COS proper for that as they were more expensive) was ~$380K -- no thanks! And my apt complex was raising my next 12-month lease by 14%. I COULD have paid that $200 extra monthly, but couldn't justify it. And what if it went up another 14% for me NEXT lease (who could say)?
So may as well leave CO sooner vs. later: If I bought a property, wasn't going to pay an inflated interest rate on top of an already over-priced house). And if I continued renting, it'd also be at high/inflated rates. Moving back to TX (ELP) to "regroup" seemed best. And while there, work on preparing to buy in the future so my time would be well spent (meaning, getting ready fro the mortgage pre-qualification process, like improving my DTI Ratio %).
So that's what I'm doing now here in TX (and am progressing nicely).
Since I really DO expect the housing market to become more affordable in CO -- especially COS (would not want to live in Boulder, Denver or Pueblo) -- AND the mortgage interest rate to come down as well (my MAIN obstacle to buying presently) -- I'm planning to return to COS, rent first and immediately commence-a-looking (!) for an "affordable" property to buy -- a smaller town-home or carriage-home: Single-family detached new/newer home are still too expensive (~$600K and up). And while I have seen home prices coming down for a while now (even if only slowly!) -- which is GOOD news -- the high mortgage interest rate (even for VA loans) remains an issue. For me it does anyway, being an average Joe and not paying cash-in-full/up-front for the house like "rich" people do -- they don't need to carry a mortgage and so don't care what the interest rate is.
Of course, a lot can happen in the next 2 years so I can't be 100% sure what I'll do then, but for now that's Plan A: Move back to COS. I do have a Plan B and C though: Plan B is to give up on CO and move to FL (a 55+ community such as The Villages or OTOW for 2 examples), while Plan C is just stay here in WAY cheaper (even now!) West TX (ELP).
Only time will tell...and since politics/values are a huge consideration for me, if CO gets too much more blue I may need to bail on it. But so far, since COS itself leans red, that's one main reason I'd choose to live in THAT city vs. the others.
Wyoming? Have never been there (or even Utah) so can't say anythign about it from personal experience -- or it's "vibes," which is important factor for me, how I FEEL about a place -- but having lived on COS twice I'd really prefer to go back there instead. :-)
-- BR
I have lived in both Wyoming and Colorado and have traveled each state extensively. The weather and terrain might seem superficially similar, but they are actually very different. Wyoming's weather and terrain are much harsher than Colorado's. Colorado is like a lush tropical jungle compared to the cold, frozen desert of Wyoming. One trait they share is that both states are incredibly beautiful. *The Tetons are the most beautiful mountain range in the world.*
People living near the Himalayas may take issue with this statement :) Oh, but I forgot! To Americans, the United States IS the world.
lush tropical jungle?? LOL! I've lived in Denver, Boulder and Colorado Springs and I would hardly ever say the weather in Colorado comes close to a "tropical jungle." In fact, it is a humid day if the humidity hits 40% -- the only time you see that is during storms. Typically the humidity is well below 30%.
Now Maryland is another place I've lived and that is far more humid and deserving of that title.
The one great thing about living in Denver is that through the airport, you can get to any other airport in around 3.5 hours tops. It's not perfectly central to the US, but the airport really influences and makes Denver much more relevant than anywhere in Wyoming.
Having lived all over Colorado, every city has its own unique vibe which is very hard to articulate unless you've lived there for a while. Colorado is truly a "mosiac amalgamation" of so many political views that somehow more or less are able to cohabitate in harmony.
Denver is truly an amazingly beautiful city but I've heard it has changed a lot since I left in 2013.
Nothing like presenting a personal opinion whose foundation is even no doubt dubious (doubt you've personally visited all, or most, or even that many of the mountain ranges in the word), as fact... and making it bold text for good measure.
Yellowstone = Wyoming
Yeah I’m sure the state you just happen to live in is the best mountain range in the world. No bias at all
Born in Colorado. Went up to wyoming in 2017 to see the eclipse, and I was definitely impressed by how empty the place was. Glad to see a video explaining why!
Same, it was crazy to see locals faces when their town was overflowing with Coloradans. I-25 was crazy coming back too.
@@williamreynolds6132 That was the worst traffic I've ever seen in my life. Literally sitting still with the engine off on I-25 for 10-20 minutes at a time coming back from Casper. I think it took us 14 hours to get home on a drive that normally takes ~5.
Hey I passed through WY that week on a massive road trip circuit, though I saw the Eclipse in Nebraska.
same, my group went to Cheyenne and it felt like it was literally one street and a few avenues
And we like it that way
I travelled from the UK and spent time on a Ranch west of Lovell towards bighorn lake. It was a real eye opener, as I have never experienced such vastness of place and at times being truly alone from other people. It was over 30 years ago and I was very young, but I will never forget it. Here in Europe, even in some isolated and sparse places you are never truly alone, but in Wyoming you can really step back to a time before industrialised population boom times, wonderful!
I play rdr2 too bro
It's so peaceful and beautiful though isn't it :) I fell in love with Wyoming when I visited from NY in 2009.
You should see Lapland. It's an area in the EU the size of the UK with a pooulation of 300 000
@@jmeurman *Greenland and Antarctica have entered the chat*
The American West has such great natural beauty with tremendous variety but so many noteworthy sites like the grand canyon, crater lake, monument valley and so many national parks are so far apart from each other. Still, Wyoming is quite beautiful!
I grew up in rural Kansas (largest town within an hour's drive was around 1200 people) and always loved the general isolation. When I graduated and started working, I looked to companies who had sites and offerings in Wyoming for several reasons. I like the cold, the thrill of intense weather, the overall general freedom in terms of laws (especially when compared to Colorado), lack of people, being able to afford a home and food, and the job prospects offered there that you can't get anywhere else. Wyoming is the perfect place for me.
I lived in Wyoming until I was 10 and then Colorado until age 24. I remember being thrilled when we moved from Laramie to the Denver area, having always wanted to live in a big city. But now I appreciate the vast emptiness of Wyoming. Both states have a lot to offer.
Been in Denver a decade now and I'm about ready to move out to WY, it's too damn crowded, loud, and EXPENSIVE here!
@@SamAndrew27 honestly depends on personality if your more of a loner like I am then Wyoming doesn't sound bad
@@BG-bx4ey Wyoming is RED,,,,,,,,Colorado used to be,,,,,now they are rainbow hair colored doped up Hippi's, Denver airport is one of the most satanic sites in the USA, and they are going to bring back the wolves and wipe out all the Elk and Deer,,,,,and Moose,,,,,,and Sheep,,, and MT Goat
A lot! All WY offers is a great place to hike, great places to fish and hunt and that’s really it.
Laramie is northern Colorado not wyoming. no one in wyoming except those population boosting towing in the south east corner
I drove through Wyoming and went for the Tetons and stuff. It’s genuinely one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been. The emptiness is eerie but powerful in a way.
Meh... it seems like a buzzing metropolis compared to the vast majority of area up here in Canada ;)
Now that you've experienced the isolation, please discourage others from giving me shit when I say I disliked living in Alaska. It doesn't matter how beautiful it is if you're fking lonely and nature is trying to kill you most the year.
@@Jamespetersenwa Lol 😂 And they claim people are moving out of big cities for small towns in Wyoming, Alaska, and Texas.
@@blackcherry6877 if isolation is what you want. Just be sure if you are dragging kids up there they're not going to hold it against you down the line for isolating them far away from kids their own age.
Tetons are on my list, but there is an abundance of locations more suitable in almost all the planes and western states. Wyoming is that way because they want it to be.
I'm a meteorologist in Cheyenne and I'll be real with you, mild isn't the right word for our weather. I like to call it Triple W. Wild, Wyoming, Weather. From winds that regularly gust over 40 MPH (I grew up in STL and never saw a High Wind Warning before. Now I'm in one every other day), temperatures that will get over 70 for a few days and then back down to freezing, we hit -36 and a wind chill of -60 this winter alone. Meanwhile Fort Collins is always nice comparatively. Sometimes I wish the station was down there so I could be warm
I grew up in Laramie, and always took the constant wind for granted. Recently, I've been spending time in Cheyenne. I was shocked at how much windier it seems to be there! Who knew? What's your take on that?
I live in Fort Collins and 100% agree with you.
I believe they said mild in comparison to Lapland.
Good report. Thanks.
So your weather forecasts are even more inaccurate than most forecast prognosticators.
I moved to Wyoming when I was 12. I lived there for many years. I got married, then divorced and then moved to Wisconsin. Wyoming is a very large empty state, but it's beauty will call you back. Nothing like seeing a Semi being picked up by the wind and flipped around and landing back on all of it's wheels. The winds are very strong around Douglas and Glenrock. It's just crazy. My favorite story about the weather is when I went on a picnic one afternoon up on Casper Mountain wearing shorts and a tank top, and I am throwing snowballs at my husband!
The presenter failed to mention that 85% of Colorado's population is situated along the front range. This is because the mountains create a break for the incoming storms, resulting in a six or seven mile wide swath from Fort Collins to Pueblo that is insulated from the worst of the storms coming in from the west. Wyoming mountains are not situated thusly, and therefore cannot provide a natural shelter for people living in the shadow of those mountains.
Thank you
Good 👍 point. The huge mountain also reduces daylight hours making parts of Colorado into "small-sky".
Weather weather weather. Colorado has nice warm days in the middle of winter. Wyoming has eight months of winter and the nice days happen to be extremely windy. Aka thank you I couldn't agree with your point more
@@michailbest1122
The red (Colorado) state has bipolar weather. The plains (Wyoming) state has multipolar weather. Fengshui (風水) matters.
Cheyenne, however, is situated on a tilted mesa, which provides a decent amount of protection. It looks flat, but the heavier parts of storms tend to actually be dragged by gravity 25-30 miles east of town towards the Nebraska border where it flattens out. Nebraska and Kansas get more storms overall but are subsequently much wetter in the spring and are easier to farm, the benefits of which outweigh the risks.
We also have the COLDEST town in the lower 48, Laramie, due to an unusual accidental windchill factor artificially caused by Interstate 80 having been channeling the winter winds towards them like a river since it was carved through the hills back in the ‘60s.
I live in Cheyenne. This video has more than double the views than the entire population of Wyoming. I love it here because it is one of the only places in the world where nature in clearly still intact. The air is clean and the traffic jams don't exist. I like to watch deer eat my neighbors grass. HIgh populations shouldn't be the metric of a successful society. The people of Wyoming are hardworking, genuine, and kind. Feel free to visit
Don't deserve 2 senators though.
How much is real estate out there? And rent for a 1 bedroom. Asking for a friend....
G - From Denver
@@jaya1000 wrong it needs representation!
@@mylesharvey6488 it needs proper representation. There are 5x as many people living in just my home county. We don't get two senators. Why do the bumble f*cks get to decide the law for me? I'm the one who doesnt get proper representation.
Right on, brother! Cheers from Ljubljana, Slovenia.
From having lived and worked in both states, I'd say it's as simple as this. The southern half of the Rockies has tolerable winters, the northern half has brutal ones, and I put the line between the two at the state CO/WY border. I spent most of my time between those two states in Colorado, but it was only in Wyoming that I ever couldn't see my bright red gloved hand more than 6 inches from my eyes because of wild whiteout conditions, only in Wyoming did I get my 4x4 work truck stuck in sudden blizzards, only in Wyoming did I have to spend multiple nights under piles of blankets holding my terrified fiance, stuck on the side of I-80 because forecasted tolerable snowy conditions suddenly became whiteout ones. There's 556 miles of difference between Wyoming's northern border and Colorado's southern one, when you compare the weather averages from Sheridan, WY to Trinidad, CO, you have your answer.
I learned real fast you always carry extra food, water clothes, blankets and a rifle with you. I got stuck on I-25 for 9 hours and I had my guns loaded it was crazy.
As someone who’s grown up/lives in the western slope of Colorado, reading this comment makes me feel like I shouldn’t complain about the weather anymore 😂
I have lived around the Rockies for 35 years. Wyoming devours souls in so many ways. Idaho is the Florida of the northwest. Montana is pretty lol
“Idaho is the Florida of the northwest “? Please explain….
@Wayne Noll Welp, they have a KKK chapter in Coeur D'alene (never involved in the Civil War or slavery as they didn't get statehood until 1890). They lifted all restrictions for environmental protection so now they have these immensely toxic and irradiated hotspots. They were founded with Anti-Mormon sentiments to counter the Deseret State's (Utah under Mormon Sharia Law) hilarious attempt at secession from the US only to become a Mormon hive today. It's a joke. God bless the US... except Idaho.
Wyomingite here. All Im gonna say is that Wyoming is an extremely spiritual place and very native friendly. I used to live on the reservation and my Elders taught me a lot, and how the spirituality is so great and vast there. The biggest thing im gonna tell people, whatever energy you bring n give to the land, is what your goin to receive there. Keep that in mind.
You must be a white passing native.
I was born in Colorado and I live in Wyoming with my grandparents (to help them out, mainly) for half the year in the Medicine Bow mountain range. It’s honestly my favorite part of the year. I love how away from it all it is and I spend way more time outside and appreciating the world around me. Even if I am just collecting/stacking wood or building/repairing fences for them 😂. I love both Wyoming and Colorado and I’m thankful to experience and enjoy all that they offer me.
That’s awesome
sounds like a wonderful life
@@bijoulille8816 thank you! It really is!
@@andrewroberts7428 thank you, it really is! I really love being able to experience the “wild frontier” while I still can.
@@Kenzthekid645 Do your grandparents have a small ranch?
As someone who lived in Wyoming, I would not call our climate "mild"
Welllll. . . It's not the north pole lol. . . Not quite.
@@EpicDrew15 that's because you moved from the only state with more wind than wyoming lmao
@@EpicDrew15 lmao same, used to live in anchorage and then moved to cheyenne. Parents were military
I'd just call it "wind" lol
Would "windy as hell" cover part of it?
The aerial town scene shown at 16:30-16:39 is actually...Pasadena, California.
The main street through Pasadena is called "Colorado Boulevard" so maybe that's how you found the stock footage. 😄
Another error I saw was that the closest metro population similar to Denver was El Paso. The Albuquerque population is 562,000 and the Abq metro population is almost a million.
Haha good catch. Good ol old town.
I’d also take issue with the outline of the Rocky Mountains stretching across to California, Oregon, and Washington, which are clearly the Sierra Nevada and Cascade ranges.
LOL nice catch.Everyone thinks no one will notice when they say it's Wyoming and it's not because everyone thinks no one lives here. Lots of movies claiming to be based in Wyoming and Montana were actually filmed in New Zealand. I'm very familiar with both and I can't unsee the New Zealand in these films!!!
@@cranetoks3448 So nobody notices the cars driving on the opposite sides of the road? 😄
Most awesome place to live, I've lived in Wyoming most of my life been in plenty of other states but I will never leave Wyoming ever!!!
As someone originally from Wyoming, I can attest. The winters are very long and harsh with the constant wind. It is a very inhospitable place to homestead which is most likely why it is the least populous state. Very nice in the summer months though!
Now try living in Alaska :) Wyoming is 4.5 more dense than Alaska. And if you took out Cheyenne and Anchorage (each state's most populous cities), it would be 6.8 times more dense.
Been noticing a lot of render issues in your videos, feel like you’re rushing through these and giving yourself a tight schedule. Just know that your fans are willing to wait for good content ❤
The algorithm will crush them if they don’t maintain their upload schedule.
If you're a fan of poorly-researched dreck like this, you going to get more of the same. It got so bad with his alternative "facts" that other, better UA-camrs like Emperor Tigerstar had to call him out for blatantly lying. He's always been making trash videos that are fun to watch but dangerous to believe.
There has also been a few audio issues in the last few videos
Doesn’t even watch his own video before uploading 💀
No.. we need to learn about Wyoming right now.
I am studying at the University of Wyoming. I have met a lot of people born and raised here. Never have I ever heard anyone wanting Wyoming to turn into something like Colorado. They just like things the way it is - wild.
I appreciate that
Small towns foster close-knit communities. People here are very proud of that, and wouldn’t give it up for the world
@@VampireFlutist Seriously I hope you keep in that way. I've live in Reno for 40 years. It was great even 20 years ago..last 10 years it's basically East Sacramento. I'd consider Wyoming but I can't do the winters.
If there's anything that can completely destroy a once beautiful state.....it's an abundance of people. California and Colorado have alot in common there, along with the liberal Dem party.
@@weirdshibainu honestly we don't want you here
My memories of Wyoming stem from a mid May cross country road trip. Mid may, snow, and 6.5 hours of barely anything. It was eerie, yet it was beautiful to see.
Drove through Wyoming on a road trip once: white-out blizzard with black ice road conditions in early May, weather cleared to a pleasant spring drizzle and fields of flowers as soon as we crossed border into Montana. I no longer have questions about why nobody lives in Wyoming 😂
This guy will probably go 6 lifetimes studying citiy dynamics never begin2 grasp what not evn1 person of all u putting yr heads 2gether will remotely fathom in comments.
Soil. All cities as a rule are founded on good soil. Food.
East rockes is farmland. West is brutality.
I-70 is thgateway from east 2west. Hence u have tourism & massive teucking thru Denver. Constant over abundance of food.
Just like any other city, Denver hence inadvertantly also hinge on soil.
All the wealthiest old homesteads sit atop most fertile soil. Kansas city, St. Loius, even Poteau SE Oklahoma, tiny cities middle of nowhere, the soil suddenly becomes richer from rain tumbling over a mountain. Denver is paradise for those migrating west 2east. Vice versa, u dont wanna go any further west then Denver.
" He who lands on good soil will inherit everlasting life."
All thworlds problems can be solved in thGARDEN.
Man was created in EDEN.
A fenced garden. ( Lucifer had created hostile souless neanderthals 2promote evolution, which thflood had 2wipe out. )
@@TOPMOSTPOP Did you take your meds?
@@TOPMOSTPOP you need to get your GED bro, some English classes would work wonders
I live in Montana
Where the hell are all those flowers I read about? We'll match Wyoming's weather any time!
@@dennissullivan2954 I90 south border...seven years ago. south dakota's weather was better than wyoming's too, it was like...weirdly almost pointedly just wyoming
One part of this you didn't mention is the two states' early transportation histories. Because it's actually easier to cross Wyoming east-west than Colorado, Wyoming was on the main transcontinental route in the 19th century, while Colorado was off of it. Recognizing the importance of this, Denver city leaders paid to build a spur off the Transcontinental Railroad. Then in the 1950s, when the Interstate Highway System was being planned, I-70 was going to dead-end in Denver, but Dwight Eisenhower's wife happened to be from Colorado, so state leaders used her to lobby him for an extension through Colorado toward the West Coast. This was so hard to build (the Colorado Rockies are basically a wall), the last part of the interstate system to be built was in Colorado -- but it was built, and now a major coast-to-coast highway (effectively -- I-70 ends in Utah, but it runs right into I-15, which continues on to Vegas and L.A.) runs right through Denver. DIA is part of this, too -- its predecessor, Stapleton, had all the same locational advantages, but it would regularly get shut down by winter weather, limiting its growth potential. So the state made a major investment, a huge gamble really, in the only new large airport to be built in the US in the late 20th Century -- and it paid off. Bottom line, Denver and Colorado leaders have always just had a ... hustler mentality, I guess you could say? While Wyoming leaders ... I guess they just didn't care as much about money?
I'm glad you brought this up! The relative flatness of Wyoming's Great Divide Basin makes it by far the easier of the two states to traverse east-west, so you'd think Wyoming should have easily bested Colorado on transportation. I really agree with you that Colorado has been very focused on building up infrastructure to make up for that geographic disadvantage.
Not just people. But industry needs to get in and out of the city. Its a forethought that leaders. The easier it is to get to a mountains town. The more likely people will come back.
Yes I agree! My family are Mormon pioneers and they came through Wyoming. My grandmother was a Marsh born in Wyoming. They lived in Evanston and the trains are a big thing. There is more of a Utah, Wyoming and Idaho connection than Colorado to my mind
Yeah, that Hustler mentality and money has completely ruined the state now though. Be careful what you ask for…
Good theory, but I -80 runs from Coast to Coast and goes the entire length Wyoming including Cheyenne. Also, I-90 in Northern WY, runs to the West Coast.
Great video! As a native Coloradan, the comment about how we’ve literally never had a time where the majority of the population has been born in Colorado made me both laugh and cry. I love our state, but I do often envy the un-crowdedness of Wyoming. Great job!
Why cry?
Thank you for specifying "Native Coloradan" instead of just "NATIVE". It's kind of annoying seeing European Americans with the condescending "NATIVE" stickers when they're not Native Americans.
@@xX1234512345xX What about mixed?
I’m one of the rare native Coloradans, and most likely when I retire I’ll be relocating to Wyoming. The metro area of Denver has simply exploded over my lifetime and nothing like the charming city it once was.
@@Halcon_Sierreno rising prices 😢
I really appreciated that you talked about the definite advantages to an environment like Wyoming. As a native Los Angeleno, city life can most definitely get claustrophobic and ironic lonely at times. The great outdoors is such a cure to both problems.
Seems a lot of people have already said what I was going to say. The weather in Wyoming isn't close to the same it is here in Colorado. My parents live in Wyoming, and when I tell them "It is has been snowing the last couple days," they'll send my a picture of their driveway which has a car in it that you can't see because it is buried under the snow.
Edit: Last time I went to visit my parents, I saw three semi-trailers blown over on the side of the road. I haven't experienced wind remotely close to that in Colorado.
Depends where youre at as far as snow goes. In laramie we got a good snow about once a year whereas like dillon/frisco always get dumped on. As for the wind its true. I only weigh 170 and have to put bricks in my pockets so i dont blow away
I've lived in Sheridan, Wyoming most of my life (I'm getting dangerously close to 33) but I have also lived in Denver, Colorado Springs and Laramie.
When in Laramie for school, a friend of mine explained to his parents, "You can tell which way the wind is blowing by which way the people are leaning."
The climate in Wyoming is considered subtropical and in Colorado it’s considered Sub-saharan. Very different in some ways, and very similar in others.
It's all relative. Your body acclimates to wherever you are living. If a person who has lived in Wyoming their entire lives suddenly packed up their bags and moved to Hawaii, in 3-months, they'll calling 65-degree Hawaii nights "cold", and you can be 100% certain they'll be using jackets to keep warm.
Every time the wind blows the trucks lay down for a nap.
I moved to Wyoming four years ago. Thanks for this comparison. I will disagree with a mild winter. I haven't wore shorts in 8 months. It snowed today and its mid April. However, when the summer comes it is a paradise.
As a Wisconsinite we just had snowfall yesterday! I can relate to the needing to wear pants for 6+ months straight haha
Been snowing here in Utah as well, but I will fully back you that the winters and the wind up there are something else entirely!
It snowed here in Colorado too
they just don't understand. crazy how your the closest comment I've seen from a " person from wyoming" yet everyone is so quick to say it's the same here. uh hell no just cuz pants are more comfortable in rf Temps of 40 doesn't mean u relate to the rf Temps of -60
I was born in Denver, grew up in Cheyenne, lived in Fort Collins for several years, and now live Denver again. From my perspective, geographically and culturally, they might as well be different countries.
Some thoughts for those that have never been to either:
Fort Collins, being the closest major city to Cheyenne (30-45 minute drive), is tucked right against the mountain and is arguably one of the most beautiful modern towns in the world. Cheyenne on the other hand, sits in the middle of grass plains (not even remotely comparable to the geographic positioning of Fort Collins). The vibe of Cheyenne feels like a cross between an old western film and “Breaking Bad”, set in a conservative military town in the 70’s (albeit it still has a lot of charm and one of the best skateparks anywhere👀).
Because of the geographic location, Cheyenne is brutally windy all year and often 10+ degrees colder than its closest neighbor Fort Collins. Everywhere from Fort Collins to Denver can get windy as well, but you can feel how starkly the geographic landscape/vibe changes when you cross that border into Wyoming (it baffles me how early settlers ever survived in Cheyenne).
Cheyenne is positioned very close to a quasi-mountain area called “Vedauwoo”(a hidden treasure centrally(ish) located between Cheyenne, Laramie, and Fort Collins). However, you have to go at least an hour and a half west through Laramie to reach mountain landscapes (in Wyoming) that compare to what the entire front range of Colorado is built into.
Once you get into the northern part of Wyoming, you’ll see some of the most gorgeous landscapes in the U.S. (some of which drastically differ from what you’ll see in Colorado, albeit similar). There’s also a rare abundance of wildlife due to the lack of population centers and even classic cowboys that live in those northern areas, who roam the plains/mountains all day on horses, drinking Budweiesser like water, and who barley use modern technology (straight out of old western films and these are some of the most badass people alive).
However, much of what’s between Cheyenne and those northern areas is a vast dessert of arid nothingness with mountain views far into the horizon.
Colorado on the otherhand, has a whole different world of stunning geographic attractions, and the major population centers are conveniently packed alongside everything. The cost of that though, is you usually have to venture a couple hours into the Colorado mountains to truly get away from people (unlike Wyoming).
The farther south and/or west you venture into Colorado, you start to get into open nothingness territory as well (when driving between the major population areas and the small destination mountain towns), but it doesn’t have the same arid/dreary vibe as when you’re driving through Wyoming (north of Cheyenne).
If you’ve never been to either state, the experience is really quite stark in contrast between the two states geographically and culturally (even/especially along the boarder towns/areas).
Both states are beautiful and interesting in their own ways and so they’re equally worth exploring if you ever get the chance!
I love this comment. Thanks for sharing your perspective!
Wow. So interested comment.
Great description of both states, making the case for a mega road trip to see both! 💜🏞️✌️😎🍀
Thank you for explaining this, it's great to know about these states
I was born in Denver and live in Colorado Springs now… I go to Wyoming often for camping trips and to get away from humans and all the bullcrap. However, if you want to see true breathtaking beauty and empty calm…. New Mexico is a TRUE hidden gem. It’s the land of enchantment and of you ever drive through that state and explore you will understand why. It calls to me always and I find myself going to New Mexico more than Wyoming these days.
hey i’m so glad they featured a photo of green river wyoming!! that’s my hometown
my dad was military, we was spent 3 years in cheyenne, wyoming. Some of the best 3 years of my childhood some of the nicest people ive ever had the pleasure to meet. really got into 4 wheelers and fishing while i lived there. Many people used to mail letters to my family even years after we left. Frontier Days is awesome too.
Be real bro we are know Wyoming is a government cover up... It's where you hid the moon landing.
Nice people don't vote for Trump. Wyoming did.
Ah Frontier Days, good memories there. Sitting in a side by side on a hill outside South Pass watching the fireworks, drinking beers. Wouldn't give that up for anything.
Yeah, the Cheyenne Rodeo is something else.
Once went on a (around) 24 hour road trip from Southern Illinois to Boise Idaho. I drove most of the way and Wyoming was the hardest part. We passed through the southern part and I can tell you it is the most alien place I've ever seen. No desert, just kinda vast openness and brown grass, zero trees and light hills. Just vacant nothingness and I was fighting to stay awake because it felt like I was driving forever in the same spot. The entire time through Wyoming, we saw I think two populated spots, one was a packed Walmart halfway through Wyoming and it was weird because there were zero houses for people to live in for as far as the eye can see (remember, mostly flat land and zero trees, so lots of miles). And the other was a town with lots of gas stations and old farm equipment rusted everywhere i think it was Rawlins. 10/10 would recommend getting sleep before passing through
You, like many people that drive through Wyoming on I-80 miss some of the most spectacular scenery in the United States, possibly in the world simply by not leaving that highway. The locals see comments like yours and laugh knowing that the secret they keep of living amongst incredible beauty is kept relatively safe thanks to the location of the busiest road in the state.
Try KS, MT, ND, SD or TX. In those with hills it is real apparent when you crest a hill and the road is straight to the next hill maybe 20 miles away. Then drive it on a weekly basis, that's when you feel like you are not hardly moving.
I made the same trip, but it was covered with snow. Through the whole drive. It was just snow with the occasional jagged rock sticking out. It felt like something from oblivion. It didn’t seem real.
You drove there from Illinois, and Wyoming was the boring part?
I-80 through Wyoming certainly isn't the best for scenery, but it's better than the flat copy/paste of the same farm from horizon to horizon of the Great Plains states. Nebraska is like being stuck in a simulation.
@@Arbidarb frfr
Wyoming has a lot of residents who aren't interested in urbanizing their state. While they do welcome visitors, they kind of want to keep their state the way it is naturally and discourage any big change for their area. They want to cherish their environment and keep it isolated and quiet, and have nature take its course.
That is interesting because urban development like apartment towers, condos, and other medium-rise buildings are what allow more cherishing of the environment. Because when everyone wants a single-family home with a front yard and driveway in a suburb.. it greatly increases the physical size of cities and entrenches on natural area.
@@Ryan-093 More cherishing of the environment? More people doesn't mean more cherishing. Keep people away and nature will take its inevitable course. There doesn't have to be a person there to cherish it.
If there aren't cities you don't have suburbs. You have small towns and farmland where people are actually connected to the nature around them instead of the entirely artificial reality of crowded, dirty, crime ridden urban centers. Wyoming has the right idea.
That's the nicest way to say that they're racist 😂😂😂
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Born in Colorado loved the mountains, but was raised from 5yrs old on in Wyoming, I live between two mountain ranges and I enjoy the small population throughout the state, however the Tetons, Yellowstone, Jackson area gets nearly a million visitors each year. It’s very congested and can take a couple hrs to travel two miles. Beautiful state. We like the small population
Despite its reputation, Denver has relatively warm winter highs that average near the 50 degree mark. There are cold days, but it’s warm enough to support large scale population growth. There is a big shift in winters from Colorado to Wyoming.
Jesus Christ, dude. You are not going to convince anyone that Denver, Colorado has mild winters. Next tell us that water is dry, you clown.
Sounds like I should go to Cheyenne and not Denver in that case.
Yes, very different. I'd never personally go into Denver b/c its nasty! but in general terms YES lol I stay down South in Castle Rock unless I'm going to see fam in Estes Park. That's liberal ENOUGH for us lol
Nobody cares, internet Karen. I’m so sorry that the culture and the country are passing you by. You can keep clinging to your outdated lifestyle while the rest of us continue marching into the 21st century.
Wait, quick…who won the 2020 election?
I lived in aurora colorado…..not once did I see 50 degrees during winter. Not once
I'm from NZ and Wyoming is my favorite state of The US. Amazing, isolated rural locations. If you're into these, Wyoming is the place for you. Amazing railroad history Wyoming has too, the home of the biggest, baddest Locos the world has seen. Then, there's the tourist spots of Wyoming, Yellowstone etc. And another great thing about Wyoming- no Vegas like BS.
ask Mathew Shepard about wyoming
Honestly, it's a good comparison to NZ's South Island. It's relatively sparsely populated compared to the North Island.
Please don't be so positive, we all want to keep it that way. LOL Thank you, I have to agree, I've lived in several states and will always look at Wyoming as home.
@@sniffingyourbuttcheeks locomotives
what do you know about Mathew shepherd? one the media care about his sexual orientation. he was killed over a methamphetamine addiction in which he owed the murder lots of money. never-mind keep spreading falsehoods it will keep more people like you away
Sorry as a geographer I have to correct you on a few things. The closest other major metro area to Denver is salt lake city which by highway miles is 521 miles and much shorter as a the crow flies. It is definitely still and island city I think that's why Denver Airport has some of the most connecting flight stops in the nation, but I just wanted to let you know that. Salt Lake has a low city pop, but a large metro pop if you were just going of city sizes.
Exactly. SLC stat area is about 2.7 mm peeps, ELP 1 mm peeps, Denver, 3.7mm peeps. Very glaring error in this guys video, makes me question the whole thing.
Northern CO resident here that relocated from the middle of CO about 3yr ago. I'll say, we get a small sample of Wyomings weather, which is enough to keep us from going farther north. There are some amazingly beautiful parts of Wyoming, and the residents who can withstand the weather/wind are stronger than I am.
VERY interesting video with lots of information. El Paso, however, is not the closest large population center to Denver at 560 miles away (actually 557 “as the crow flies”). Albuquerque, NM, is just 334 miles from Denver and boasts an urban area population over 900,0000, which is about 50,000 more people than El Paso, according to Wikipedia. Also, Salt Lake City is closer to Denver than El Paso at just 370 miles as the crow flies, and has a metro population of 1.3 million, nearly 400,000 people more than El Paso. Finally, at the same exact 557 miles from Denver is Kansas City, MO, with a metro population of 2.4 million! So, yes, Denver is isolated by distance from other population centers, but not to the degree that this video suggests.
You forgot Omaha at 1 million and I believe around 450 miles
@@joelbittner8791 Indeed I did. Thank you!
justice for kansas city
Was thinking the same thing watching this. SLC is the obvious choice for that example, as someone who lives in Denver. I’ve never thought about El Paso as being close or similar.
Agreed; I think RealLifeLore was just looking at city populations instead of metro populations. That's why the Salt Lake City area was completely forgotten about since it consists of many suburbs.
As a proud Wyomingite, I could never imagine living anywhere else. Open spaces and uninterrupted outdoor opportunities are a requirement for me.
I feel the same about Chicago :)
@@jps0117what?
United States is an alliance with a face of a country.
@@anjanakundu2782 I guess I meant that as a kind of joke.
Wyomingite?
I thought they are called Wyomingian.
My favourite fact about Wyoming, when trying to explain just how unpopulated we are, is our escalators.
There's only 2 in the entire state, both in Casper. Both in banks.
Casper also has the largest mall in the entire state, that being the Eastridge Mall.
We don't have a lot but its sure fun shocking people with those fun facts
That's funny. Here we like it when two escalators are working to access the platform level in one BART station!!
Thats amazing, since americans are so fat they need escalators!
Used to get so excited to drive 2 hours to casper to go to the mall. Dont forget the tallest building in Wyoming is the Dorm at UW.
Well, don't build any more escalators, they just attract more people.
when i moved to casper from rock springs i was so excited to see the famous escalator
and it was all i hoped it to be and more
Few people like privacy and those that likes that chose to stay in Wyoming
When we went on a vacation in the west we were in Wyoming for a bit, and it was absolutely beautiful. Jackson Hole still had snow, even in August, and white water rafting on the snake river was one of the top 3 experiences of my life. The raft guide told us that “in Wyoming we have 9 months of good skiing, and 3 months of bad skiing” 😂
I live here. The 2 months of summer are beautiful
You saw only the most beautiful parts of Wyoming.
Jackson is really not representative of Wyoming. It's like Boulder CO - 8 sq m of coastal elite mentality surrounded by reality. There are so many better places and people in WY.
We are looking to move up there from Colorado. I was told they have 3 seasons. July, August and winter. My southern Cali man is trying to act like a tough guy but I tried to tell him. I lived in upstate NY near the Canadian border, so I can't wait to see him freeze his knickers off.
@@lizardhierophant8293 please stay in Colorado, we're all full up here. It's awful here you won't like it.
I remember when I was a kid watching the Garfield and Friends cartoon. Garfield stated "There is no such place as Wyoming". Others were rightfully skeptical about this until he stated "Think about it, have you ever met anyone from Wyoming?" It later went to a story of a mapmaker in Italy piecing together the United States, when completed, there was a space left, they put in the word Wyoming, which they explained was an old Italian word for "No state here".
I remember watching that cartoon, in the living room of my childhood home in Wyoming.
Fortunately, I was old enough to laugh about it rather than spiral into an existential crisis.
This was the first thing I thought of about Wyoming. Oddly enough, my college roommate was from there.
As an Italian I can contribute to the debunking of this theory: "Wyoming" doesn't remotely mean anything in both Italian and any of the other languages we speak.
I also watched that episode and found it so funny. It was so long ago...
This is the ONLY thing I think about when someone mentions Wyoming. That one little cartoon scene has had way too much of an impact on my life
As someone who used to live in Wyoming. I'm so glad I moved away. I don't ever want to go back and don't plan to. The only time I'll go back is to visit friends their.
As a Wyoming native, I can sincerely and happily tell you that although our weather sucks ass and some places in our state may be ugly, in the summer it’s great and most of our state is the most beautiful of all. It is the best state in the entire US. I love my country and I love my state and the people in it ❤🇺🇸🦬🦬
It's a little weird that El Paso is selected as the nearest city of comparable size when it looks like, in terms of (distance, population), you have Denver (0, 2.9M) and El Paso (600mi, 868k), but then there's Albuquerque (400mi, 915k), Phoenix (700mi, 4.9M), Kansas City (600mi, 2.4M), and Salt Lake City (500mi, 1.2M). Really just seems like a lack of research, given that I identified these other metropolitan areas inside of 30 minutes.
I think he only looked at city proper populations, because I thought the same. I grew up in Salt Lake and it's definitely an area where if you just looked at that, you'd see Salt Lake as actually very small (only about 200,000 people) because most people in the area live in the suburban towns and cities around Salt Lake.
Additionally the 1.2 million is just the population of people within the valley, but there are suburban communities of the city in the smaller valleys to the north of Salt Lake, which with those counted in, the Wasatch Front population is closer to 2.7 million people.
@@anthonydelfino6171 I would agree, except that he said 'metropolitan area'. So I think you should check how many folks live in Denver proper. Metropolitan areas are a way to inflate city sizes, and that's what I used in my comment, because that's what RLL used.
@@QuietlyExplained I immediately looked for this comment, because I thought it was a bizarre and incorrect choice as well. I would also say the Metro Area population, or maybe even Urban Agglomeration population, is a better way to compare cities than the size of the city proper. However, that makes his choice of El Paso even more bizarre.
@@anthonydelfino6171 Even by city proper definition, ABQ has over 560,000 people and is only 330 miles away from Denver (roughly the distance from London to Edinburgh, which also has a population of about 560,000 coincidentally).
Edit: And Colorado Springs has nearly half a million people and is only 60 miles away from Denver.
At first I thought he was saying compared to cities on the east end of the rocky mountains in which case El Paso makes sense. But I agree, big oversight to forget about other close mountain cities like SLC, Albuquerque & Phoenix
As a Wyoming resident, I'm disappointed you didn't mention that there are exactly TWO escaladers in this state.
Or that the tallest building is 11 stories 😂. I love Wyoming and my town of 214.
Two Canadians? Read the reply and try again you Hosier
@D S what can I say. One of 5 in the state 😂 I’m unique!
@D S yessir! A town of less than 250 people. Closest neighbor is 5 miles away 😂
I use to do a fair amount of backpacking in the Wind River range and would like to go back to some of those lakes I use to fish. But alas I would need an escalader to get to them at this point in my life!
My mom was born and raised in Wyoming, and we still have family there. I will never pass up an opportunity to visit the state. The vast empty spaces are a welcome break from the bustle of normal life.
Lived in Cheyenne for 4 years. Only place you can go to lunch and sit next to the governor. Wind is overwhelming, I bought a huge kite and learned to love it. It is easy to be a big fish in a small pond. Cheyenne Frontier Days is a community event wher most of the population are involved in some way.
The VAST majority of Colorado's population lives in a small area. Most of Colorado is actually VERY sparsely populated. Outside of a narrow front range corridor from Colorado Springs to Fort Collins, Colorado is basically Wyoming population wise. Take away that front range population and the population of Colorado is about 500,000 - and this is over 90% of the state.
Isn’t that every state? The people live in cities and the tin foil hat people, cows, and coyotes live in the tiny towns or hillbilly homes on a mountain somewhere.
@@shadowskill111 I think you got that backwards city folks are the loony ones,country folk are intelligent people self reliant and don’t want or need others to survive.
@@shadowskill111 Tin foil hat people? That's a little disrespectful to people who just want to live in a more secluded place don't you think?
BREAKING NEWS lmao
@@shadowskill111 not smaller states like Maryland. Suburbs are almost everywhere.
I was born and raised in Wyoming. And you said the thoughts of us Wyomingites perfectly! And an interesting fact, Laramie (the city that has the only 4 year university in the state) almost doubles in population every time school is in session. The actual population is about 20,000. But it is around 30,000 when all of the college students come.
Bro that’s a couple blocks in nyc ..
@@Del_116 And I thank god I am not living there haha. Wyoming is perfect
@@Del_116 thats fine by us, there isnt 30k people in a 200 mile radius where im at
how many gay men did you all beat to death?
@@kaisailor1 Why didn't you wear wranglers and a cowboy hat, and line dance? Do you hate us?
Setting that aside, I think the locals are just disappointed that they pay for a public college that imports ten thousand people a year to the state to teach them to hate the other 580,000 people there, over politics.
All the secondary signals that you mentioned are things that, at a glance, help you figure out if somebody is part of the problem or not.
what an excellent video - as a kid, i used to love reading about this sort of thing in encyclopedias and still do - it's just the right level of information to hold your interest and provide an overview of a topic without losing you in too many of the finer details. great job!
4:37 I'm serving a mission in that area, the exact boundaries are interesting because it's Fort Collins, Cheyenne, then shoots up to caster and includes most of empty Wyoming.
As a born-and-raised Coloradan, I can safely say Chief Niwot was right on the money: “People seeing the beauty of this valley will want to stay, and their staying will be the undoing of the beauty.”
John Denver knew this would happen. He spent so much time and money trying to protect Colorado from development. Once he died I swear it developed twice as fast and went downhill. I’m glad he died in a plane accident and didn’t live to see what this state has become. Millionaire own every inch and build giant ugly mansions on every mountain. Then fence off and kill the land and wildlife. Goodbye Colorado…
As a central Wyoming resident let me tell you about the blizzards of 2023. Yes blizzards. Casper set an all time low temperature of -42 right before Christmas. We broke the record of seasonal snowfall and took 2nd place for snowfall in a single storm. And that storm happened in the first week of April. I had 3 consecutive snow days and a half day for my highschool in the FIRST WEEK OF APRIL and as of writing this it is gonna snow again before April ends. I love the snow :)
You guys got shit on this year with the snow along with rawlins. In green river we got a lot of snow and a -37° day but nothing like what you guys got.
we got 40 something inches of snow in Cheyenne a couple years ago
This year was not as bad as the 80's, but much worse than the last twenty years.
Laramie resident here, I remember getting -55 a couple years ago but thankfully there wasn’t even a breeze and it wasn’t snowing that night
Wyoming seems so interesting. I am not even from US but have been intrigued by Tornado Valley and few regions which are underrated.
Born and raised in CO--you summed it all up nicely. Growing up in CO we usually forgot about Wyoming simply because there's not a whole lot you can do up there that you can't already do in CO. However, I am a little jealous at how WY is growing at a slower rate because of how quickly things tend to change in the Denver area and how that leads to some pretty strong growing pains
meh, we used to drive up north to buy illegal fireworks. Other than Yellowstone and the Tetons, can't think if another reason we ever went.
@@thegirlabides6851 Lol definitely the fireworks
Fire works, Guernsey, Glendo, Yellowstone, Cheyenne Frontier Days, to get to Washington from Denver.
You can go camping in Wyoming and never see another camper. You ski some of the best snow in the world without waiting in a lift lol me for an hour or drive on an interstate for hours 5at 30mph to get the the ski lift. You can’t escape the people in Colorado
@@dandockham3793, you can if you know where to go, but I'm not telling, lol ;P
The city of Pittsburgh has a population of 302,898 and is 58 square miles.
Wyoming has a population of 581,381 and is 97,063 square miles.
Crazy.
Years ago, I would travel to Gillette for work for 2 weeks at a time and I did that 3 or 4 times over a couple of years. When one of the older engineers heard I was going he said "You're going to love it Alex! There's a beautiful woman behind every tree in Wyoming!" When I got there, I quickly noticed that there were very few trees... :D As the saying going, nice place to visit. After about 3 days, the awe of the truly "Big Sky" wears off and you quickly realize there's not much to do there. I went to that 1 theater in Gillette several times. And the weather was wild. 40's in the morning, 72 by lunch, a crazy, end of the world hail store moved in around 4 and temps dropped 40 degrees. Crazy. But Wyoming is definitely where the deer and the antelope play.
I can't wait to visit that hail store that just moved in town.
Look out…we got the word police here.
@@pooyanmanoochehry2629 Really? This is what you do on the internet? That's a pretty cool hobby you got there.
ima look at how much a house there is
You ever stop by that shitty dive bar on the way to Gillette? Hanks I think is what it's called
I grew up in Cheyenne. As a couple other commenters have said Wyoming's weather is much worse than Colorado's. It's a bit strange but you go up I-25 and stop at the border and the wind will be significantly stronger than in Fort Collins. A calm day in Cheyenne was 25 miles an hour or less.
Since when has WIND been "bad weather" 🙄😂😂
For Collins is at 5003 feet. Cheyenne is at 6,086. That extra thousand feet make a big difference.
@djjazzyjeff123 well they often have to close the highway down because the wind will blow over us semis if we try to drive in it.
@@djjazzyjeff1232 You can't go outside and relax while fighting to stand-up straight. It's brutal.
@@djjazzyjeff1232 Ask anyone who has ever experienced a tornado if wind is bad weather.
I have lived in Colorado my whole life. The amount of building going on here is insane. When I was born my home town had less then 5,000 people. Almost 30 years later it has close to 100,000 people
What town. I’m in Northern Colorado also?
Fountain?
@@finnleyripberger699 I lived in Briargate for a year. You are correct. Up in Greeley it was 45k when I was a kid. Now 120k crazy
Refugees from California most likely.
Man that's how I feel about my little shitty town Milliken
I'm a native Texan and I love my state but I also love hiking and camping and the rocky mountain states are my dream hiking scenery!
Living in the great state of Wyoming, for nearly 50 years, I can tell you it was a joy to watch this video. I too, had noticed a huge disparity in population between Wyoming and Colorado and it’s actually only gotten bigger as the decades go by.
That's because Colorado has an economy. Wyoming is largely for resource extraction and cattle, which is critical for the nation so I'm not dissing it.
I'm 44 and I've lived my entire life in Grand Jct, Colorado. When I was a kid, I can remember the population of the whole town was around 70k. Today it's about 150k. And it sucks here now.
@@davidfetherston2083 Why in the world would you spend your whole life in Grand Junction? Weed isn't even legal there!
I was stationed in Colorado while in the military and went back to school there. I'm still in Denver but leaving for the PNW soon and can't wait!
Nobody has ever called Wyoming a great state lol
@@dddripz well we do
I love Wyoming. As a college student from Texas I didn’t understand why more people didn’t live here! Now that I live here I completely understand…Wyoming doesn’t exist, keep moving :)
Yes please don’t live in Wyo, weather is extremely harsh
That’s how I felt about South Dakota. What a crappy state ;) don’t ever go there. ;)
I see what you did ;)
I've lived all over the country and the last 20 years in three different locations in Wyoming (Laramie, Sheridan and now in Cheyenne). There is a distinct difference in weather between the two. While Denver is 5280 feet, the entire southern half of WY (I-80 corridor) is between 6000-7400 feet. That makes a huge difference in temperatures and wind. Well water is extremely difficult to get to here in WY. I would add to this video that Jackson airport is usually busier than Casper, albeit mostly because of the rich private jets owned by some of the residence, but commercially as well. Wyoming is a cold, bitter, windy, desolate landscape and it takes a special type of person to live here.... people would be much happier in Colorado. So move there and not here!!
I stayed overnight in Sheridan while driving through WY. Real nice town. What I don't get is how a nice town like that was developed and survives in the north central section of WY. It seems out of place.
No! Stay out of CO we've had too many idiots move here especially from Commiefornia since Ammendment 64 passed
You drive up (and up, and up) from Ft Collins on Highway 287, and just at the CO/WY border, the trees go away. It's like someone laid a ruler across the tree/no tree line and said, "Everything north of here is Wyoming." Pretty much true along the whole border. It has a lot to do with altitude, rain shadows, soil types, and winds. But most of all, the summer monsoon rains that come up thru AZ cover much of Colorado but peter out before reaching Wyoming, and we get more of the arctic winter lows coming down from Canada, with cold dry air and dessicating winds. When I run down to Ft Collins from my home outside Laramie, it is typically 10°F warmer and much less windy than WY. Denver is even warmer. My house is 7500' above sea level, 2500' higher than FoCo or Denver. That makes a huge difference! There is not a naturally-occurring tree for ten miles in any direction. We get maybe 6-7" of precipitation a year.
It's not for everyone.😀
Im coming soon, thanks
That’s interesting, I did not know all that. Thanks for sharing
I was born in Wyoming the 5th largest in the state at 24000 rock springs. I love it cause I love nature, but it is too cold I'm glad my parents moved to Colorado springs but I will always visit
I drove I-80 through Wyoming. The wind was so crazy when I got to the hotel it nearly pushed me over. I didn't find out until the next day that a tornado had touched down outside the town and that's why the wind was so strong. I missed the tornado on that stretch of road by maybe half an hour, and all I noticed was some really dense looking storm clouds.
Mighta just been our standard wind, we get tornadoes and all but more frequently it's just gusty as hell down by I 80. Not uncommon to see gusts 60-80, tore my roof rack off once on a cold ass night. That road is hell.
@@crimmrichalds3616 I got a call from my girlfriend the next morning to check if I was okay because she heard there was a small tornado that touched down near me. When she was liking at the news/weather where I was.
So you've been to Casper I see😂
Don't worry. The leftists who are currently destroying Colorado will turn their attention to fixing Wyoming next.
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Back in the '70s, my grandparents moved to Wyoming and won't move. My sister and I were born there, but we moved when we were young. I have a love/hate relationship with Wyoming.
It's a nice place to visit
I used to feel that way about my hometown in rural Appalachia in NC. I planned to leave as soon as I graduated high school, years in advance. I've come full circle having lived away from my hometown as long as I lived there. I now long for the peace and solitude I once wanted to escape.
@@justsomeguy5470 Yeah, assuming nothing goes wrong and your car doesn't break down or you don't forget to fill up on gas. Waiting hours for a tow truck outside Yellowstone is not my idea of a good visit.
There's no immediate help out in the middle of nowhere. I have no idea why people who aren't evil predators would prefer being so far away from civilization.
@@briangreen430 Appalachia is not rural compared to the emptiness of Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, the Dakotas, or New Mexico. You're still within 20-30 minutes of civilization and meat that doesn't need to be skinned and cooked over a campfire. Trust me. I've been to western NC multiple times and Wyoming once. Once was enough Wyoming for me.
Like I said, love/hate relationship with Wyoming. In the first part of my childhood, I lived in Nebraska, and since I was 11, I've lived in Kentucky. I don't remember living in Wyoming, but we have always visited them. I could just never see myself living there. I'm a Nebraskan by heart.
Thank you for doing a video about these states! I live in Colorado and it's so nice to see a video of our state for a change. We hear about other states and countries all the time, which is fine, but it's great to watch something closer to home. And to learn some interesting facts about our state and our lovely neighbor is the cherry on top!!
Not true, we are mentioned often… for our mass shootings. And all the tech bros and homeless who have flooded in here and destroyed the soul and rugged beauty we once had. Colorado is now just another California. And it’s sad…. I’ll be moving out as soon as possible. I was born here, but I won’t die here. Unless I get caught in a mass shooting which is highly likely.
I grew up in Casper WY. I loved it. I would move back in a heartbeat if I could! ❤
I spent my childhood in Wyoming. Beautiful country, and generally nice people, but the towns have nothing to do. When I was a kid we used to drive 100 miles to Billings Montana just to go to a K-Mart. All teens could do was just cruise main street and drink. You have to date people in distant towns just to avoid relatives. And small towns do have a different psychology, and Wyoming has nothing but small towns. Counter-intuitively, there's actually LESS privacy and independence in small towns because everybody knows everybody else's business, and gossip is a sport. It's kind of like high school never ends, whereas in cities you can be easily anonymous and avoid running into specific people if you want to, because the whole town doesn't just use one store, gas station, and post office.
This is true I'm from nyc and I never lived in Wyoming but I did live a small town in Wisconsin & I know what u mean about nothing to do, driving distances for stuff & oh the gossip it never ended 😂
You gave a succinct description of small towns and why I left mine as quickly as I could
Ah, small town life.... I absolutely hated it and left as soon as I could.
High school that never ends? That sure does explain a lot of how and why rural folk respond to politics on the national level the way they do.
Yeah I live in Colorado and I’ve been up there a handful of times. I really don’t mind ruralness, but a lot of the towns in Wyoming just feel gross and have major meth head vibes, even worse than Kansas. Casper and Cheyenne are nice places though!
I am from Wyoming. It is April and currently snowing. The weather here is a beast. Hurricane force winds are just a fact of life.
Snowing from the north or the west?
I grew up in Colorado and we would drive to Cheyenne every Friday after school to get two taco pizzas from Godfathers - before they expanded to Colorado - my home is Colorado, but Wyoming will always hold a special place in my heart too.
Godfathers Pizza for life, grew up on the stuff in Nebraska, love still being able to get it in Denver 💪🏻
You have a Norwegian surname
@@neverlookback1244 maybe his parents were immigrants? you cant really know
As someone who has visited all U.S states, Wyoming is definitely the most underrated.
E qual o mais superestimado? Qual não gostou realmente?
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Yep Wyoming is an introverts paradise. Quiet, peaceful, alone, and I think the weather is great.
TOO quiet......so quiet that the whole state could hear a pin drop
And has really high suicide rates compared to the rest if they country 😬
As a person from Wyoming i find it absolutley hilarious that there was no mention of Jackson Hole...which is fairly close to Yellowstone National Park and has celebrity houses...
Why is this hilarious? It has little to do with the video. The video compares the two states. If the video mentioned Jackson for any reason it would certainly have to mention comparable wealthy resort towns in Colorado like Aspen, Vail, Breck, etc, that are probably home to ten times as many wealthy people and celebrities as Jackson is (which is largely consistent with the theme of the video).
@@ben_revity Jackson Hole is so well known that its funny they dont mention it but they show a picture of the antler arches there. Doesnt matter if they would have to compare a similair type of city from Colorada. Almost everything ive seen that talks about my home state always mentions Jackson...so yes i find it hilarious that it was omitted from this one. I cant stand Jackson
Some rendering issues ~ 8 minutes into the video.
Maybe a morse code?
My son graduated from USAFA last year and still lives and works in Colorado Springs. We are from Louisville Ky. It’s absolutely beautiful there but super expensive and crowded!
Grew up in Wyoming. I really like how open and spacious and wild it is.
Wyoming is one of those places I aspire to live at some point in life. There’s something nice about the idea of living in a place not littered with civilization and commercialism.
If you ever move to Wy move to the northern part out of the wind
Much of Wyoming is above the tree line. Nothing but rock & dirt. Not a lot of "nature" beyond that.
You could probably find places like that an hour or two from wherever you live now.
And if everyone that thinks that, does it, these places won't be like that anymore, and some of those people will end up being worse off for it too. Some people are cut out for it, but just giving it a try doesn't work out well for some other people, it's not a semester abroad or something. A few people loose their whole lively hood thinking they can just try Wyoming out, our low cost of living comes with low wages as well. Some people end up trapped here because moving away becomes cost prohibitive. Just saying lots of people wax poetic about it, the reality for many is very different.
@@dougkester8952 you're talking about the plains and high desert, not the same as above treeline. Actual Wyoming treeline is like 10500ft, the peaks of the mountains. Even the middle of nowhere places can be wild and beautiful in there own way, it's your choice not to appreciate it. I prefer that people not look into it, keep thinking it's empty.
I’m from Norway. After high school I decided I wanted to Study at the University of Wyoming. After one semester, my 18 year old self had had enough of this deserted and windy place. However, had I been able to do it over again now (that I’m in my 30s) I definitely would!
They have a university?
Why would you leave Norway? Visited Oslo and I loved it! You must an introvert
@@KJ-um1gq Definitely an introvert! And I love travelling 🙂
Another point of note, Denver is on a North/South East/West grid system… except downtown. Which is situated diagonally. This is due to its mining town heritage and miners setting up base camps along the Platte River which runs diagonally through Denver.
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It’s worth noting that, for all our economic differences, the local cultures and values of Colorado and Wyoming had largely remained very similar between 1900-1995, but then began to diverge significantly, both socially and politically. The metropolitan multicultural influence of the new airport to this end cannot be overstated, in my opinion.
Being the first state with legal weed is actually what changed Colorado. Denver was a crap hole prior, then the tax dollars earned have allowed them to gentrify the city.
Brought jobs, lowered crime rates etc.
@@TheTyronecus lol maybe for like 3 years now it’s reversed and fyi I’m pro weed being legal but Denver is a shithole currently
One sells and promotes weaponized marijuana where one doesn’t! One has a cancer where as one doesn’t that being Denver!
@@michaelfoxx6881 I would rather live in Wyoming but the shift was definitely due to weed lol
@dickbuttkiss Definitely didn't lower crime rates. Mostly brought Californians and Democrats.
Glad for the positive remarks towards Wyoming at the end.It's one of the few places left in the US where you can live and not constantly be butt crack to butt crack with other people or stuck in traffic on the way to do anything... even if theres much less to do. It's a great state for introverts, summer brings the great outdoors with plenty of solitude, winter brings cozying up with books and hot coffee!
It's rarer these days to find people who can function without the constant distraction of city life. But if you are a soul that is at peace with itself and can handle a little isolation, Wyoming is great!
You are right about the traffic. Spent a year in Denver, throw in neverending roadwork and driving was a huge pain. In Wy. for 10+ years now. You can travel 30-40 minutes on a state highway, and not see another vehicle.
Yup our traffic jams are cows. Front range area is nuts traffic now from fort Collins all the way down to Colorado springs
You're preaching to me!
Being from Colorado, which just grows and grows and grows, it's a nice relief to be buffered by areas and states that are largely empty. (Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, New Mexico, Kansas)
One thing he didn't mention is that much of Colorado is also blissfully empty. Most of our population lives in a narrow strip along the Eastern edge of the Rockies.
Yeah I'm in southwest Colorado. Pretty rural here.
I think Wyoming could see more population growth in the future. Now that a lot of people can work remotely full time, I would not be surprised if people start moving to Wyoming who previously would not have been willing to. Remote work seems to be the great equalizer these days and a lot of people are relocating because of it. This has been happening to a huge extent in Montana and Idaho. I think the same will happen in Wyoming on a smaller scale. A lot of people love the idea of living somewhere with a low population and tons of natural beauty, but most of these sorts of places have sucky job markets. Remote work removes this barrier.
Wyoming doesn't want these tech employees moving in
100% -- tech gentrification as well as billionaires buying out second / third homes and ranches and increasing cost of living in small cities and towns in the state.
@@TheGrimoireMovementWhose gonna stop em? Free country bro.
@@WokeandProud eat more soy
@@TheGrimoireMovement So nobody then gotcha keep crying chud.
The biggest reason we didn’t move to Wyoming is due to the lack of medical. In talking to locals and a lot of people who were originally from there, a lot of people have to travel to Colorado and Montana for their medical needs.
I was conceived and raised here, but not born because my mother needed a specialist who was too busy to travel here, so she traveled to Fort Collins. I’ve never lived a day there, however, not counting a few hotel stays.
Medical has greatly improved since, however.
@The Naygars Depends upon if your wife can do without A MALL. I've lived in Wyoming 44 years working in medicine and I know we lost a number of physicians because it was ONE HUNDRED MILES to the closest mall (in Billings MT). It's also that far to the nearest interstate highway. Cody Regional Healthcare is very progressive and open to providing newer services when possible.
Well, there's plenty of shitlib helth kare in Colorado. Stay there
@@WyomingWindy
Frontier Mall is the best in the state, but the damn lockdowns hurt it badly.
@@eldermillennial8330 I wasn't born with a "shopping" gene or a "mall" gene. I don't even know where Frontier Mall is. If it's in Casper, it's 200 miles & there isn't much of ANYTHING I would drive half that far to get. Well, except an incredible deal on a pre2000s F250...
The appeal of Wyoming, for me, is precisely the fact that it's so sparsely populated. If you want to have a lot of space and some spectacular views, with a shitload of wildlife, Wyoming is fantastic. But I like remote wilderness. I like hiking a trail and seeing nobody that day. Just me, my dog, and uninterrupted nature as far as I can see.
It's either that or I like being IN the heart of a dense metro (from Seattle, fuckin love it).
The purgatory is the suburban strip mall hell in between. I don't like the middle of that spectrum. Colorado has too many people. Same shit is happening to Washington. Good food tho, great city life. Just kinda fucks up the nature parts too much and property prices are insane, lol.
THIS IS THE FUCKING TAKE HOMIE. Been waiting for this comment. The city has an allure. Glitz, glamour, diverse food, culture, queer people being queer etc. The rural areas have nature, wildlife, fishing, music being played until late at night by friends at a fireplace, but SUBURBIA IS FUCKING HELL.
THANK YOU for your comment sincerely. You encapsulated my thoughts so succinctly. The strip mall bullshit with a five guys and a bowling alley in an atomized racist HOA neighborhood is THEE absolute fucking worst thing about American culture in a nutshell. Pure conformity for conformity's sake. A lack of diversity culturally AND naturalistically.
It is literally the American version of hell.
Great comment. I like cities and rural areas, but the suburban in-between is just horrible
You can't buy any land here if you're wanting seclusion. Most is gov owned, the rest is rancher land they won't sell. Housing is like 85% more expensive here than anywhere else I've ever seen. There is absolutely nothing to do unless you enjoy endlessly shoveling snow for 9 out of 12 months a year. Everything is brown except for a month or two of the year. Wind.. so much wind. Always
I’ve lived in Wyoming for 16 years. In the towns and cities we have the lowest cost of living.
Minneapolis has nature right in the city
As a Coloradoan, you can’t really compare WY and CO weather. I’ve met people from WY at the grocery store bc they wanted to get out of the wind. My masseuse got divorced bc of the WY wind (he wanted to stay and she wanted to leave). The wind drove her crazy.
Colorado just reduced AZ and NV’s water rights. Water is a hot commodity in the west. I took a water law class. It was very interesting.
I really think there should be a law requiring California to desalinate more. It would make things so much easier for everyone else.
When I lived in Wyoming, I was told a story by my neighbor. He said that the wind once stopped blowing for a brief moment, and everyone outside suddenly fell down.
If I recall correctly NV thought Colorado was going to do all these projects when actually they were just proposals which started a fight between the two states over water rights. So sadly I'm not shocked to hear Colorado pulled that in the end
Hopefully CO will soon cut off 100% of California's water "rights". Let that monstrosity shrivel up and die already.
Yikes, never heard of a wind-induced divorce before. When I was 5 we had a little Chevy Vega - very light car - and my mom and me got blown off the road. After that we got a huge Plymouth station wagon with a big heavy engine for ballast. You gotta take that kind of stuff into consideration in Wyoming.
The city I live in has 2,000 people and I love it!