10 Things YOU Should Know Before Moving to Wyoming

Job market is great! Low cost of living. Cmon down! Unless you're from California.

As a Wyoming native, it’s been an amazing 35+ years! It’s not for the weak but like the university of Wyoming’s tag line. The world needs more cowboys! Tells us that only the strong survive and let’s be real. The world needs a hell of a lot more people with a back bone!! Alisha Collins KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!!!!!!!!! Yes we might be the least populated state and always will be due to how soft the country has become, rest assured Wyoming is the place to come as the toughest only survive!!! So if you are put off by growing this amazing hand picked by god state please cowboy up! I’m proud to be born and raised here and I welcome anyone ready to cowboy up!!!!

If you love high winds and freezing cold temps, then Wyoming is for you!

As a Wyoming native who lives in Weld County, Colorado (the county wanting to annex and become a part of Wyoming! 😍🥰) I always find it humorous when others refer to my home state as the wild west! "Wyoming" truly is like no place on earth!

I worked in Wyoming for a number of years, and kept a fishing license for exactly that purpose, to catch my dinner. Catching and smoking trout was my favorite pastime in Wyoming. Sand burrs popped my bicycle tires in Casper, and that's when I learned of a product called "Slime," a green gloop that is put inside tubes and tires to seal holes. I currently live in Mexico, and am based in Texas. But I've been considering bringing my motorcycle and my Tahoe and setting up a little cabin in the woods as a base, to drive roads and see the parks. Once, many years ago, I visited Devil's Tower, which has it's own post office. I took hundreds of photographs of the sunrise from the roadside about a half mile before the actual landmark, between the sun and the tower. As the horizon shadow started at the top of the tower, and as the sun came up behind me, the line of light traveled down the tower until the tower was the only thing lit, no ground before me seeing direct sunlight yet. Then... Like magic... The sun's light finally reached me where I stationed myself, and a big beautiful mule deer was standing in the road, close to me, between me and the tower. I got lots of pictures of that. I then drove to the post office at the base of the tower... And met the lady postmaster. Her vehicle was 4 wheel drive, and she let me use her vehicle to drive to the top up the road that twisted around to the left to go up to the backside. I had given the lady my keys to help her feel more comfortable about her offer to me to let me drive her vehicle up to the tip. I passed the park ranger on my way up, and he knew whose vehicle that was... He was almost panicking. I thought "Oh crap. He's going to turn around and pull me out at gunpoint." But he was nowhere to be seen after I returned from taking my photos up there. The postmaster must have explained the deal, showed him my keys, and probably left without a worry. Maybe he searched my vehicle to see if I was ok. I mean... They had my keys. I don't know, don't care. Because, I did get to go up to the top of the road, which, doesn't actually go to the top of the tower. You can't climb to the top of the tower, unless you are a well outfitted rock climber. That tower comes straight out of the ground all the way around. After 15 minutes up at the back, I got my photos and came back down, and traded keys back with the postmaster. I kept gushing about how beautiful it was up there. She was smiling as if to say, "Yeah... I know..." Something else that happened, probably that same year... I went up a mountain highway, parked and got out to look out on the plains from my perch. A lady stopped to check on me to see if I was alright. "Yes, I'm ok! I'm just taking pictures." We got into a conversation about the elk hunting, and she invited me to come hunting at her big property. She and her husband owned an enormous spread, where they helped manage a herd of wild free range elk that preferred to stay on their property. She gave me her phone number and I hate that I never did take her up on that. I had my brother and his two sons all hankering for an elk hunt on her land... It just never materialized. In Laramie, I met a couple who owned a tack store. They were interested in the book I was writing at that time. They allowed me to take photos of their store for my book. I believe if I moved there, to SOMEWHERE in Wyoming, the creative juices would begin to flow again, and I'd be extremely happy and productive there. Mexico is sucking the life out of me. The outdoor life in Wyoming... That's what I'm interested in. And the people are so real, so nice. And protective of one another. And the food. Oh my God. Some of the best food in the country. Maybe even, the BEST food in the country. I've spent $400 at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse in Beverly Hills, CA,, when I took 3 friends out to dinner... But those steaks pale in comparison to the $35 steaks in even the most modest family owned steakhouses in Wyoming. 🦌 🐃 🐟 Oh, forget it. Wyoming, here I come.

I would love to live in that great state. I currently live in California and I hate it. Things people need to know is that every one from California is not a Nut like many think of us. I love fishing hunting love God. Served my country. Im country all the way I ware cowboys boots and hat. It would be nice nor to be judged by were I live but by my love of country and my character.

First thing is you are going to need a winter home somewhere warm

Not a resident of Wyoming but I have worked in Worland and Buffalo WY. Spent a few months there. If you love the outdoors and wide open spaces friendly people hunting this is the place to be. Don’t try to change things the residents of Wyoming like it just the way it is.

Ive been thinking of moving to Wyoming from Dallas Texas when I finish my contract in the Army. Apart from wanting to live off the grid the mountains and forests looks so beautiful compared to living from the DFW area.

Awesome vid. Well worth a subscription. Heading to Wyoming tomorrow to search for a place. Super excited

I’m from fl but I recently spent a few months working in Yellowstone I fell in love with the area I’m looking into moving out there I’m so excited

you'very convincing!!! Alisha for president!!! I'll help stuff the ballot box for you.

Great video, thank you. I've only been through Wyoming a few times but have always been drawn to it, as I'm more of a nature/rural lover rather than a city person and don't care for too many people. Just want some land for my animals. Would be a stark contrash from Arizona!

Remote software job out of state + living in Wyoming = 😍😍😍

My left ear really enjoyed this video.

I visit Wyoming all the time and do like it. The one huge problem........ Its crazy windy most of the time, especially in the winter which makes it bitter cold. It's also getting very expensive in alot of the more popular areas.

Hey Alisha, there is an old Indian proverb that tells the story of a small bird that fly's south for the winter too late and gets caught in a snow storm, he falls to the earth and begins to freeze and die when a buffalo walks by and craps on top of him, soon he begins to warm and sing, a coyote hears this, unburies and eats him. There are several lessons to be learned here, 1. Not everyone that craps on you is your enemy. 2. Not everyone who gets you out of crap is your friend and 3. If you find your self in a warm, safe place in life.......Keep your damn mouth shut. I know your just trying to make money but the last thing we need in Wyoming is a bunch assholes moving here and ruining the place.

This woman can sell anything. Damn she makes me Wana leave the perfect weather here in the Caribbean to move to Wyoming 😂

10 things you should really know, it's cold, chilly, freezing, icy, wind chill, frosty, cool, snowy, frigid, never warm or hot

I have family out in Casper and yes, Wyoming is spectacularly gorgeous. It's truly an outdoorsman's paradise. There's nothing you can't do there, from ice and fly fishing to hunting....but man, I gotta tell you, for 9 months out of the year, that place is cold, cold, COLD....and windy too. I think I'll stay right where I am down here in Texas.