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Originally Posted by farida
I'm a new comer, here. probably will reach Sheridan on April. I'll work here. does anyone can give me information about Sheridan or Gillette? is that a big town, how is the live there and everything about it. thanks
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Both Sheridan and Gillette are not huge cities that is for sure. Sheridan has around 25,000 in population. Gillette is maybe a bit smaller if not the same in population (at least the last that I knew anyways)
I can best tell you more about Sheridan than I can about Gillette. Sheridan is to me is quite a beautiful place to live. We have mountains near by, rolling hills, and prarrie land. The people are friendly, in fact it's not uncommon to have strangers wave at you as you pass. The schools here are fantastic, so if you have kids or will have kids growing up here, they will get a great education. We also have a local Community College that offers a wide range of classes. There is still a wide range of jobs available here and thanks to our current boom in the methane, the wages aren't to bad.
It lacks in the finer things, like a broad range of ethnic resturaunts, high end clothing stores, malls, and big fancy museums. But we do have a good amount of basic things, like Wal-mart, K-mart, several grocery stores, a movie theater, a drama theater, (with plays and musical productions) and a couple of really nice historical museums.
If you are over 21 years old there are plenty of places to go and drink, dance and hang out with friends. We also have quite a few churches from traditional to contemporary but all are mostly Christian based churches.
Sheridan has a realtively low crime rate. Mostly DUI's and minor break ins and vandalism. Our most recent violent crime where someone was killed has been several years ago. (it was quite a shame too, the gal that was killed was just fresh out of school or about to get out of school and she was hoping to go to college to be a psychatrist so she could help folks like the one who shot her. Her parents were also cops and it was her mother that was first on the scene. The guy was got a short time later.) Well enough about that, like I was saying the crime rate is low.
One thing though, the housing market right now is crazy high and rentals are pretty scarce and rent fees are high if you can find a place to rent.
The winters here are not to terribly cold. We do have times when we get below zero degrees ferenheit, but generally we usually sit right around freezing. We have fairly low humidity and that helps not make the cold not feel as cold. If you are from a warmer climate it will take a little getting used to, but once you get used to it, you don't really feel cold. The summers are not bad either. We do get times when we break triple digits ferenheit but generally we sit around 80 - 90 degrees ferenheit.
If you have any more questions, I or someone else will try and answer them the best we can.
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