Can anyone tell me if Rawlins is a nice place or not? (Baggs: real estate, crime) - Wyoming (WY) - Page 2 - City-Data Forum

ElkHunter · 06-03-2007, 10:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Earniefan

Okay let's explain Sinclair a little further. It's a refinery with houses built next to it. I'm no doctor but I'm guessing that's not the healthiest air to be breathing, not to mention the "stuff" that ends up on everything around them. I could never understand what people that live near the refinery in Cheyenne were thinking. Just my opinion.

You have no worries. Sinclair is a refinery. But the wind blows every thing away. You have nothing to worry about. Winds in the 30-40 mph range every day makes it so you are lucky. You are fine. Live in Sinclair and die later.

Sorry, that's not a fair statement. Live in Sinclair, enjoy the terrible wind, the terrible snow, and then die.

villagefish · 06-05-2007, 03:42 PM

Although i've never lived there, I don't think Rawlins would be a nice place to live. It's very arid and windy and looks very run-down.

Earniefan · 06-06-2007, 12:40 PM

Jgussler,

The wind blows in Cheyenne too, when it blows the "wrong way" you get to smell the refinery all over town. You can't seriously think the wind takes all of the bad stuff away. I've talked to people who worked at a school near the one in Cheyenne and they talked about the film that would be on their cars everyday, from the refinery. That's not good for anyone, if it's on objects then it's in the air and they're breathing it in.

MRVphotog · 06-06-2007, 11:09 PM

One time I had to drive from Laramie to Rock Springs for a meeting. I stopped near Sinclair to get some gas and as I was filling up a big SUV pulled up from California and asked the station attendent, "is the rest of Wyoming as ugly as it is along I80". The attendent replied with a straight face " it's worse, you should go to Colorado". I was laughing for at least the next 100 desolate miles...lol

Earniefan · 06-07-2007, 03:25 PM

Thanx MRV I needed that, LOL!!!

mitchald · 06-14-2007, 04:48 PM

Rawlins seemed like a nice place when we visited last month. The organization of the town reminded me of the small towns in the South where I grew up (without the snow. of course). It is nice enough that my wife and I are buying a house and moving there the end of July.

It will certainly be change from Louisiana and Florida.

Thanks to everyone for all the messges they took the time to write to this big forum. Even the grumpy ones were useful.

See y'all,
Mitch

ElkHunter · 06-14-2007, 08:34 PM

I live in Wyoming. Rawlins would not be a place that I would pic. But I'm lucky and live against the Big Horns. Rawlins is not that bad to partake in. But it's just not where I would go. Now, if the job took me there and I had really no choice. Rawlins would be home. It's not that bad of town if you know what Wyoming can do to you in the winter. hahaha But it's a nice little town. It has enough people to warrant good food chains. Local restaurants, good stuff. But you won't have a local Wally World that has everything that others want. If you want jeans, you can get them. If you want a lawn mower, they're there. But it's not a metropolis. And the wind blows. Barby? Hell yes you can do that. But most days, the wind is going to blow.

RockyMtnr · 06-15-2007, 06:45 PM

If you are from another state - and you are used to crime, violence, dirt, overcrowded and underhoused conditions - Rawlins might be for you.
More seriously, come to Wyoming. That whole stretch along I-80 is not for folks who love the land - it is more for folks who like harsh conditions and isolation.
You will find Wyoming starts about 80 miles or so north of the interstate.

ElkHunter · 06-15-2007, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by RockyMtnr

If you are from another state - and you are used to crime, violence, dirt, overcrowded and underhoused conditions - Rawlins might be for you.
More seriously, come to Wyoming. That whole stretch along I-80 is not for folks who love the land - it is more for folks who like harsh conditions and isolation.
You will find Wyoming starts about 80 miles or so north of the interstate.

You got it. High desert, no sand, but nothing growing worth a crap. Get your butt about 80 miles north and you'll live.

RockyMtnr · 06-15-2007, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by jgussler

You got it. High desert, no sand, but nothing growing worth a crap. Get your butt about 80 miles north and you'll live.

Yeah - you're right. You'll live. Might be in a block of ice - but alive.

Now, being as I said something like I did - and you agree with - I should add that there are plenty of folks who would live nowhere else BUT southern Wyoming. Why, I don't know - because I lived in southern for about 15 years and lived around the north in different spots for a few years. I still have a friend in Evanston (SW corner) who is originally from New Hampshire - and he is absolutely in love with the place. Not with the Uinta Mountains 25 miles south in Utah. Not with the Salt River Range 100 miles north - but with Evanston - and the surrounding 100 miles. I suppose (although I don't know of anyone and haven't read of anyone) that there are people who love Rawlins as well - I mean, I've known people who like Rock Springs - but I prefer either the Alpine conditions of western and northern ... or the full-moon sensitive hills of the NE near the Montana line, say, Sheridan for example.