# What is up with Wyoming **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 9, 2005, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-up-with-wyoming/298589 "2005-04-09T20:43:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ems](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@ems](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ems)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-up-with-wyoming/298589/21 "2005-04-18T15:48:20Z")
I have lived in Rock Springs which is in the South West of the state for close to 18 months now. I love it here. I am English and my company transfered me here as part of the current massive gas exploration boom. Yes it is hard here. My first winter here I encountered the coldest temperatures I have ever seen -40 F and then there was the windchill. I have shut down job convoys because the weather was so bad it was to dangerous to drive. In the summer the heat is intense and my first few months here I had nosebleeds constantly due to the altitude and the wind seems to constantly blow and the dust is astonishing. But I love the fact that I am not constantly stuck in traffic jams on the way to work. Yes it tends to be very “small town” and everyone knows your business but I like that there is no state tax and I can take my truck up White Mountain behind my house and watch the wild horses. I can drive couple hours and go sking in winter or camping in the summer in the back country away from the tourist masses or if I just want to go fishing. I have had to stop my car because a herd of antelope wanted to cross the road. I love the Jackson area mainly due to the Teton’s and Yellowstone is impressive because of what is going on underneath. If I want to go shopping desperately I can drive to Casper or Cheyenne or Salt Lake City. The state is booming - the natural resources in the state are enormous. Oil, gas, coal, trona etc etc. It is true that a lot of the educated people leave but there are a lot of opportunities here if you want to make it. All in all I love living and working here. Good people & relatively low cost of living although medical care does sometimes leave a lot to be desired. Besides it was 70 degrees here this weekend what is not to love! ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-up-with-wyoming/298589/22 "2005-04-18T19:49:49Z")
> [@mlerose](#): > > I bet you lived in the same area as my friend’s cabin. My boyfriend and I go up to Wyoming every summer with a group of friends, one of whom is part of a family that owns land that backs up against Medicine Bow National Forest. Close, but not exactly. I lived a few miles out of Centennial, just north of where Highway 130 enters the national forest from the East. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-up-with-wyoming/298589/23 "2005-04-19T08:14:42Z")
_There’s a girl in Wyoming And they’re combing Wyoming To find the man in white Who was out with her that night…_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-up-with-wyoming/298589.md?page=1)