How do wyomingites differ from ppl in the upper Midwest?

[SkyLark2019]

Originally Posted by juneaubound

If you don't have a very strong distrust of the government, then you haven't been paying attention over the past few years.

If you don't "hoard" adequate supplies to survive through whatever emergencies may present themselves in this harsh and isolated state (which may include wood, water, food, ammunition, other depending on your personal circumstances) then you will likely (at some point) find yourself in trouble.

Wyoming is not kooky. But it is different from most states in ways both easy and difficult to understand.

Wyoming is for the ballsy.

The state history is very wild and most people have blue collar jobs.

Rents are actually super high due to this.

Wyoming is one of the few places in the United States where felons are employable because laborers are in high demand.

On the same token, most women there either carry knives or guns for protection because many of the laborers are either transient or super aggressive. I only went out to drink at restaurants- I didn't want to be a lone female walking out of a bar late at night.

Also- people have nasty things to say about the Reservation there but I found it to be pleasant.

[juneaubound]

Originally Posted by SkyLark2019

Wyoming is for the ballsy.

OK.............


The state history is very wild and most people have blue collar jobs.

Transportation, Natural Resource, Administration, Food Service, Sales related jobs are the top five categories of employment in WY


Rents are actually super high due to this.

Rent has increased exponentially since the pandemic, and since a flood of lockdown / high tax / high crime refugees from primarily blue states ran to Wyoming. It's also increased due to these same refugees purchasing homes here, and investors buying up so many homes and turning them into Airbnb's (effectively taking huge numbers private properties out of the market)


Wyoming is one of the few places in the United States where felons are employable because laborers are in high demand.

Every kind of worker is in high demand. Here. Everywhere. Legally there are only specific jobs that felons (who have paid their debt to society) are not able to work.


On the same token, most women there either carry knives or guns for protection because many of the laborers are either transient or super aggressive. I only went out to drink at restaurants- I didn't want to be a lone female walking out of a bar late at night.

A larger-than-national-average number of women carry a knife or firearm here for personal protection because (although we have a relatively low crime rate in WY) we have had a large number of people moving here, a good number of short-term seasonal employees who blow in and then out of the state, and because although we're a safe state we don't live on an island and have no idea who is passing through.


I am a woman who would not think of being out in public without being armed. As the saying goes "when seconds count police are only minutes away" and I say that as the wife of a retired LEO. I also would never go out into the mountains or out onto BLM land without adequate protection.


Also- people have nasty things to say about the Reservation there but I found it to be pleasant.

Generally reservations are high crime, high substance abuse, high domestic violence, high government benefit receiving, high unemployment, low school graduation rate environments.

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[nowhereman427]

Originally Posted by juneaubound

If you don't have a very strong distrust of the government, then you haven't been paying attention over the past few years.

If you don't "hoard" adequate supplies to survive through whatever emergencies may present themselves in this harsh and isolated state (which may include wood, water, food, ammunition, other depending on your personal circumstances) then you will likely (at some point) find yourself in trouble.

Wyoming is not kooky. But it is different from most states in ways both easy and difficult to understand.

Sounds great to me.