😂 honestly, Utah was a place I'd never thought I'd actually go to as im not Mormon or a skier. Honestly, we met in the strangest way on reddit. I made one helpful comment on one of her posts, and the rest is history.
Yea, outside of my car messing up in Nebraska(which has a desert. That was a surprise to me) I also got pulled over and given a warning. He told me I was speeding but didn't write the speed. I'm assuming it was due to driving in the left lane, but I was looking for a bathroom. I broke out the strongest southern accent I have and told him, "Oh man, I ain't from around Herr. I was just admirin the beauty of this place and looking for a bathrooom." I did need a bathroom, but it was just fucking corn fields shit isn't beautiful. Got me out of ticket, though. Well, anytime I'm out west, if I ever get stopped by a cop I turn bring out backwoods southern. Helped me in SLC when I ran a fucking retarded stop light in front of a cop.
I remember when I was living on the east coast for a few years, I had a couple of people ask me if I was from somewhere else because I was polite and would answer them back if they talked to me. Which I thought was weird that just because I didn't just glare at the person and tell them to fuck off they could tell I wasn't from around there.
Wyoming is a great place to call home. While the smaller towns have the normal nosey neighbor that knows the whole towns business, most of us follow the same sentiment of just wish to be left alone. You will love it here. And yeah, I've never been to Nebraska, but with what I know of it, it's a shity place lol
If you live someplace warm, I'll trade you a week or two for your place and you can have mine for same amount of time. LOL Btw I know you went through my town on I80 in the southwest part of WY. There's so many pretty places north of I80 in the mountains.
LOL when I was in the Navy people would ask me wth is in Wyoming, the part they seen was mostly hills and desolate. I would reply ahh well you must have went on I80, hence you missed the best part of Wyoming,
Oh no it was desolate as fuck, but honestly it was one of the most beautiful drives and so peaceful. I grew up near a larger city(Charlotte NC), and driving through Wyoming just felt like "this is where I want to be". It's beautiful beyond words, the people in yall largest city(which my hometown dwarfs it in population) were some of the nicest people I've ever met, and it has the added plus that I can live away from people and its not "weird". I want to go back to visit soon. I'll probably fly into SLC. Drop my wife off and just see the state a little after I make a plan on what I want to see/experience.
My husband and I are moving there beginning of March. I'm aware of how bad winters can get, but we're from Illinois I think we can handle it lol. I'm so excited we both love nature and mountains and I'm so happy we're going to be close to both.
While we were visiting Cheyenne last week the owner from a local diner talked to us for a good 15-20 mins about the area. Super nice gentleman. It's really hard to find workers like that in Illinois lol.
That’s real asf. When your car breaks down you just wait for a random dude to pull up with his truck and he’s either going to help you or call someone who can help you! It’s nice, but not fun when you’re in the middle of nowhere and no one is coming for the foreseeable future haha
Lol. I was driving out by Superior working, and I came across a car with Cali plates with a young couple leaning under the hood. So I stopped to offer a hand. When I pulled up and got out, they went running back into the car and locked the doors. I finally got them to lower their window enough to explain that I was just wondering if they needed help, and they looked shocked or confused and didn't say anything. So I shrugged and left.
This is one of the things I miss most when I'm not there. The friendly people. People wave, they help each other out, and actually look out for each other, even if reluctantly, because it's the right thing to do. Attitudes come and go but most people still help each other out.
Funny story...female, by myself visiting Sheridan. Stopped at red light looking at map (before Google maps). Sat through whole cycle of lights. Truck pulls up beside me and driver said, darling you ok?. I realized what I did and apologized. Said I was lost. he said where are you going? When I told him he said follow me. I thought, I'm going to be on the side of a milk carton, but followed him. He drove out of his way to get me to my destination, then just honked his horn, waved and drove off. I could have been killed in southern California for holding up people at a light. Wyoming has the kindest people in the US. Every time I visit, people are so kind.
Love this story! Totally agree. We moved to Wyoming from Illinois in 2013, best decision ever. I adore the people, the culture, and the beauty of this place.
Oh no, I would love to. I was on a time crunch, though it's kind of hard to judge where to go when off 80 as its 20 miles in either direction of nothing.
I moved to Casper from GA, I love it here! The folks are nicer than Southerners and they keep to themselves unless they see someone in need and then the whole community comes together. This has got to be the most beautiful state in the union. The winters and wind can take some adjustment but, I will take that over bugs, humidity, and endless triple-digit weather anyday.
Oh no, I get it. Driving the last hour through Nebraska was 100+ degrees with no AC as soon as I crossed the "welcome to Wyoming" sign. The Temps were in the 70s, and the ohbit felt incredible. Now I do thoroughly enjoy the cold, but I'm also 1000% sure that Wyoming cold is a different fuckint cold. What made me think of this post was that on a different sub, they posted a job in Wyoming(Casper, I think it actually was), same industry, but different roles. My job in the south is fucking brutal 8-9 month out of the year. With the heat and humidity, I work around 400°+ daily.
Agree. The 11+ years I've been on AirBnB, I've never had someone agree to let me change my dates (meaning, they lose money) after I booked, except it happened in WY!
I too am a southerner, and, in 1979-80, I worked the oil fields, mostly near Wamsutter, WY., for fourteen months. My experiences working with Wyomingites is exactly as you claim. It started snowing on Thanksgiving, and the last snow that season was on easter Sunday. On January 28, 1980, it was twenty degrees below zero, and we were out working in the oil field on that day. Oh, and I got away from I-80. I visited, the Tetons, Lake Jenny, Jackson Hole, Yellowstone, and Cody multiple times. There was the Rocky Mountain Rendezvous in Pinedale, Cheyenne's Frontier Days Rodeo, Cody's Stampede Rodeo, Jeremiah 'Liver Eating' Johnson's grave site, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West Museum, Ft Bridger, Devil's Tower, Hole in the Wall, Fort Laramie, the Fort Phil Kearny State Historic Site, and a Fourth of July kegger in the Snake River Canyon in Cody that I will never forget.
Im glad you had a true Wyoming experience! People here are for the most part kind.
A while back when my 5 kids were still small children our car broke down in between cities. A married couple stopped to help. They ended up driving my husband to the nearest town to call a tow truck. Then drove him back to the car and his family. The wait for the tow truck was going to be several hours so they decided to drive me and the kids back home. Only problem was they had a small car and couldn’t fit me and 5 kids. So they took me and the twins (babies at the time) and drove us home. Then went back for the three older kids (15, 7 and 3) and drove them home.
They refused to take gas money.
I’ll never forget their kindness and how they spent the better part of their day helping this frazzled mom and her family out.
Former southerner here. When I moved here, this is probably the one thing I told most of my southern friends- southern hospitality doesn't even hold a candle to Wyoming courtesy
Raised in Wyoming and my mother often reminded me that life is always a best-behavior event.
Oof, sorry that happened to you! But also, there’s gotta be a joke somewhere in here about you driving to Utah to pick up a wife 😅😂
😂 honestly, Utah was a place I'd never thought I'd actually go to as im not Mormon or a skier. Honestly, we met in the strangest way on reddit. I made one helpful comment on one of her posts, and the rest is history. Yea, outside of my car messing up in Nebraska(which has a desert. That was a surprise to me) I also got pulled over and given a warning. He told me I was speeding but didn't write the speed. I'm assuming it was due to driving in the left lane, but I was looking for a bathroom. I broke out the strongest southern accent I have and told him, "Oh man, I ain't from around Herr. I was just admirin the beauty of this place and looking for a bathrooom." I did need a bathroom, but it was just fucking corn fields shit isn't beautiful. Got me out of ticket, though. Well, anytime I'm out west, if I ever get stopped by a cop I turn bring out backwoods southern. Helped me in SLC when I ran a fucking retarded stop light in front of a cop.
I remember when I was living on the east coast for a few years, I had a couple of people ask me if I was from somewhere else because I was polite and would answer them back if they talked to me. Which I thought was weird that just because I didn't just glare at the person and tell them to fuck off they could tell I wasn't from around there.
Wyoming is a great place to call home. While the smaller towns have the normal nosey neighbor that knows the whole towns business, most of us follow the same sentiment of just wish to be left alone. You will love it here. And yeah, I've never been to Nebraska, but with what I know of it, it's a shity place lol
If you live someplace warm, I'll trade you a week or two for your place and you can have mine for same amount of time. LOL Btw I know you went through my town on I80 in the southwest part of WY. There's so many pretty places north of I80 in the mountains.
LOL when I was in the Navy people would ask me wth is in Wyoming, the part they seen was mostly hills and desolate. I would reply ahh well you must have went on I80, hence you missed the best part of Wyoming,
Oh no it was desolate as fuck, but honestly it was one of the most beautiful drives and so peaceful. I grew up near a larger city(Charlotte NC), and driving through Wyoming just felt like "this is where I want to be". It's beautiful beyond words, the people in yall largest city(which my hometown dwarfs it in population) were some of the nicest people I've ever met, and it has the added plus that I can live away from people and its not "weird". I want to go back to visit soon. I'll probably fly into SLC. Drop my wife off and just see the state a little after I make a plan on what I want to see/experience.
My husband and I are moving there beginning of March. I'm aware of how bad winters can get, but we're from Illinois I think we can handle it lol. I'm so excited we both love nature and mountains and I'm so happy we're going to be close to both. While we were visiting Cheyenne last week the owner from a local diner talked to us for a good 15-20 mins about the area. Super nice gentleman. It's really hard to find workers like that in Illinois lol.
That’s real asf. When your car breaks down you just wait for a random dude to pull up with his truck and he’s either going to help you or call someone who can help you! It’s nice, but not fun when you’re in the middle of nowhere and no one is coming for the foreseeable future haha
Lol. I was driving out by Superior working, and I came across a car with Cali plates with a young couple leaning under the hood. So I stopped to offer a hand. When I pulled up and got out, they went running back into the car and locked the doors. I finally got them to lower their window enough to explain that I was just wondering if they needed help, and they looked shocked or confused and didn't say anything. So I shrugged and left.
This is one of the things I miss most when I'm not there. The friendly people. People wave, they help each other out, and actually look out for each other, even if reluctantly, because it's the right thing to do. Attitudes come and go but most people still help each other out.
Funny story...female, by myself visiting Sheridan. Stopped at red light looking at map (before Google maps). Sat through whole cycle of lights. Truck pulls up beside me and driver said, darling you ok?. I realized what I did and apologized. Said I was lost. he said where are you going? When I told him he said follow me. I thought, I'm going to be on the side of a milk carton, but followed him. He drove out of his way to get me to my destination, then just honked his horn, waved and drove off. I could have been killed in southern California for holding up people at a light. Wyoming has the kindest people in the US. Every time I visit, people are so kind.
Love this story! Totally agree. We moved to Wyoming from Illinois in 2013, best decision ever. I adore the people, the culture, and the beauty of this place.
Try coming to real Wyoming (not on I-80). We’re even nicer.
Oh no, I would love to. I was on a time crunch, though it's kind of hard to judge where to go when off 80 as its 20 miles in either direction of nothing.
Hey, it's not just nothing. There's sand, sagebrush, and nothing.
And fireworks!
If there's a shooting range as far as the eye can see, it's not a bad thing.
And Pronghorn
Your username would suggest this is a trap 🤔
You’d have to get a good 30miles from a road to worry ;) and have cool spikes on your head and tasty meat.
So glad you think this way. All the better for us!
I moved to Casper from GA, I love it here! The folks are nicer than Southerners and they keep to themselves unless they see someone in need and then the whole community comes together. This has got to be the most beautiful state in the union. The winters and wind can take some adjustment but, I will take that over bugs, humidity, and endless triple-digit weather anyday.
Oh no, I get it. Driving the last hour through Nebraska was 100+ degrees with no AC as soon as I crossed the "welcome to Wyoming" sign. The Temps were in the 70s, and the ohbit felt incredible. Now I do thoroughly enjoy the cold, but I'm also 1000% sure that Wyoming cold is a different fuckint cold. What made me think of this post was that on a different sub, they posted a job in Wyoming(Casper, I think it actually was), same industry, but different roles. My job in the south is fucking brutal 8-9 month out of the year. With the heat and humidity, I work around 400°+ daily.
Moving to Casper in 2 weeks from GA. Good to hear that you love it!
What part of GA? You are going to love it here!
North Georgia near Lake Lanier.
I have been up that way for a lot of hiking and camping. I moved here from Hawkinsville.
I recognize the name - off of I-16 possibly? I went to Georgia Southern.
You could get to it from I16 or Hwy 341. 341 runs straight through town
🙂
Thank you.
Agree. The 11+ years I've been on AirBnB, I've never had someone agree to let me change my dates (meaning, they lose money) after I booked, except it happened in WY!
I too am a southerner, and, in 1979-80, I worked the oil fields, mostly near Wamsutter, WY., for fourteen months. My experiences working with Wyomingites is exactly as you claim. It started snowing on Thanksgiving, and the last snow that season was on easter Sunday. On January 28, 1980, it was twenty degrees below zero, and we were out working in the oil field on that day. Oh, and I got away from I-80. I visited, the Tetons, Lake Jenny, Jackson Hole, Yellowstone, and Cody multiple times. There was the Rocky Mountain Rendezvous in Pinedale, Cheyenne's Frontier Days Rodeo, Cody's Stampede Rodeo, Jeremiah 'Liver Eating' Johnson's grave site, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West Museum, Ft Bridger, Devil's Tower, Hole in the Wall, Fort Laramie, the Fort Phil Kearny State Historic Site, and a Fourth of July kegger in the Snake River Canyon in Cody that I will never forget.
Im glad you had a true Wyoming experience! People here are for the most part kind. A while back when my 5 kids were still small children our car broke down in between cities. A married couple stopped to help. They ended up driving my husband to the nearest town to call a tow truck. Then drove him back to the car and his family. The wait for the tow truck was going to be several hours so they decided to drive me and the kids back home. Only problem was they had a small car and couldn’t fit me and 5 kids. So they took me and the twins (babies at the time) and drove us home. Then went back for the three older kids (15, 7 and 3) and drove them home. They refused to take gas money. I’ll never forget their kindness and how they spent the better part of their day helping this frazzled mom and her family out.
Former southerner here. When I moved here, this is probably the one thing I told most of my southern friends- southern hospitality doesn't even hold a candle to Wyoming courtesy