Scary town

[WyoMama]

There's nothing wrong with Kemmerer. My first time thru there I was sort of freaked out (a woman alone traveling from Cody to Lyman to pick up a gun safe) because was hunting season and I HONESTLY never saw one child or woman in town after taking 2 passes thru Kemmerer & Diamondville. But then my son moved there a few years ago & lived there for 2-3 yr & other than the man he worked for (does semi recovery & diesel mechanic) the ppl are really great. He made some really good friends. But my son (he is now 27) is deep Wyo & born about 100 years too late. He has the values & morals of 100 years ago & his interests are all in outside recreation. He has a huge heart & always makes friends. After going to visit him a few times I decided Kemmerer wasn't so bad at all. I sort of liked it finally & then he moved here so haven't been back there yet. The best thing is that it isn't going to grow & there are some GREAT places to go to explore. And the Oyster Ridge Bluegrass Festival ROCKS!!! It is a real community with decent schools. Good for you Jibendima for standing up for your hometown!!!! Kemmerer folks beat the "upscale" wannebees in Cody we deal with on a daily basis.....and now a gated community going in about 1/3 of the way up to Yellowstone with about 50 or more new mansions going in - or more, I forget how many they approved after the years of fighting it....). Just what we need here. More Calif & Colo ppl coming here to bring their probs with them. Best part is that so many of them come here, built mega-houses because they sold their houses for mega-bucks wherever they moved from & then they can't afford to maintain them so they go on the market & move away. Sorry, but I am not big on showiness. Wyo has always been simple living with a lot of hard work. Building ski lodges as "summer cabins" is nothing short of pretentious. And then there are all our foreign HUGE land owners....I'd take the townfolk of Kemmerer ANY day but not moving...house is paid for. LOL!!

[WyoMama]

Originally Posted by caribbeanppl

Hi!

I know that your question wasn't addressed to me and I haven't lived in Kemmerer, my husband is currenty working over there though and I wanted to add he has poor or no cellphone signal down in Kemmerer or Opal, as for that fact, it is a "hole".

LOL!!!! about 80% of Wyo is probably considered a "hole" as far as cell phone service goes. Isn't a great priority out here.

[alpine]

We have stayed at several motels, in WY and other states, owned by Indian people and never had anything but good experiences w/them. Guess any people can take on attitudes of towns especially if they received similar treatment when they arrived.

[Digital_Static]

Kemmerer isn't bad. I worked there for a summer and everyone was nice, despite the fact that i'm from New York and drove an import with NY plates. The people were friendly and the place certainly wasn't "scary", but then again i'm coming from the urbanized east coast, so my perspective might be different than yours. The lodging prices were extremely high, but that's to be expected due to the gas boom. Lots of fun stuff to do around there if you're interested in the outdoors.

[fischerman94]

Hello everyone, I live in Indiana and was thinking of moving to Mountain View Wy, can anyone give some tips on jobs or housing. Indiana and the Chicago area are about dead. Thanks

[ComputerUser000]

Originally Posted by fischerman94

Hello everyone, I live in Indiana and was thinking of moving to Mountain View Wy, can anyone give some tips on jobs or housing. Indiana and the Chicago area are about dead. Thanks

You would be MUCH better of asking this by starting a NEW thread.

[ImAHobbit]

Originally Posted by Jibindiba

Just to let you know you people don't know this town. you are judging from one person who you probably took the wrong way. We are all very nice people here. i don't know where you get off saying that it is a scary town. it wasn't scary until a bunch of people from texas, louisiana, and such places moved here. since then the crime rate has gone way up. Sorry that we don't need air conditioners here in this town, because it is winter here more than it is any other season. Also just because we don't get great service doesn't mean anything; we don't get service because not a lot of people live here so cell phone companies don't feel the need to put to many towers around here. Also i get good reception here unless i am on my way to or from evanston. We also do not have any hotels that are owned by men from India so i don't know where you are getting that. don't just judge people by what they look like what does it matter what nationality they are anyway. drop it, who cares. i have lived in this town all my life and absolutely love, and wish people would quit bashing on the people that live here and our town. how would you like if i bashed on the your home town and the people that live there. it wouldn't make you very happy would it. If you have anything else to say about kemmerer just let me know i would be glad to argue with you about it.

I used to live inthe Bridger Valley and delivered freight in the Valley, Evanston and Kemmerer. I never met nicer people than those in Kemmerer and I got to meet a lot of them. Things may have changed since then, but I'm guessing that someone was having a bad day and passed it on to another.

Don't judge a town by it's motels-they're not owned by locals. Don't believe me? Spend a few mornings at the busiest coffee shop/diner (the one with all the old pickup trucks) and you'll know what the town's made of.