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I always know when summer is coming here in Wyo. It starts when the first tourist gets flung by a bison in Yellowstone.

Wyoming born and raised, but the winter and wind were reason enough to leave. But Wyoming will toughen you up in many ways!

"they breakout in a rash every time they see new construction" ... 😂❤😂

Lack of healthcare is a huge issue in WY. Specialists are few and far inbetween. Many people come down to Colorado for surgeries.

We have property on the BLM with gate access, folks there don't want outsiders there, because they don't know how to respect the land etc. I have grown to respect their opinion on the subject.. I have learned very much from them, they are great people.

Native Wyomingite here. Yeah, that about sums it up. As an aside, if you want to know just exactly how tough/rugged you have to be to call Wyoming home please go look up the blizzard of 1949. I think it is on Wyoming PBS’s KZfaq channel.

2/3 of people who move here are gone in a few years. That 1/3 that stay absolutely love it, terrible weather, lack resources, and all. It's a truly brutal yet beautiful place.

Good morning Briggs! Have a great day! 🎚️🇺🇸🪖👮‍♂️

Number 9 is really number 1 in my opinion because it impacts so many of v the other issues. Cheyenne is being destroyed by people moving in. The traffic, roadrage, crime, cost of living, etc. It's all getting worse because people want to move here because they like what they hear about us but then move here with their fast pace, toxic city life mentality and force those views on locals and demand "change" ... the same change that they moved away from.

I did enjoy it Mr. Briggs🙂Thank You👍🏼

A friend moved to Wyoming, and she seems to love being outdoors and hunting, living in Cheyenne.

The wind! It's crazy! Been there once. 45 moh winds, and the locals were only slightly alert to it!

"2 pigeons and some flags." 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Now that's good internet!

I’ve visited Wyoming twice, for Yellowstone and Grand Teton NPs. First in 1978, second last year (2023). What an enormous difference! The scenery is drop-dead gorgeous. But… i am not at all tough. They can keep their snow, cold, lack of water, and high altitude - all of which cause me severe medical problems.

Dude, you do so much interesting work. Thanks bro.

Happy Friday Briggs

Interesting video. Of the ten reasons listed none would deter me from moving to Wyoming. We've been here two years and can only marvel at this state. Being retired, I don't need to work and wouldn't as to not take a job away from someone who needs it. Weather does get cold, but nothing like when I was stationed in Alaska or England. First visited Wyoming in 1986 and was so impressed with the friendliness of the people and the wide open spaces. I would NEVER suggest to bring ideas from other states to change anything here. Why mess with a winning system. At this point in my life I doubt I'll ever leave the state. It has everything I need and want.

Oooh early morning upload time I like it

Pretty good video Briggs, it's true got to be tough to live here but i wouldn't live anywhere else, love it.

Been in Wyoming for 35 years. Have tried for a month to get an eye exam but every time I make an appointment we have another blizzard. Last night we got 5" of snow, very wet Spring snow, shut down the interstate and many other state highways. Winter starts in late September usually and stickes around till April. If you don't mind 6-7 months of winter, it's the place to live. I've finally retired and Nevada is starting to look good. I live in a tiny town of 450 and my property tax jumped 15% due to the multimillion dollar homes being built in my area, and they are developing land, ripping out wilderness areas and creating terrible traffic issues, not to mention the amount of search and rescue operations because people are stupid and take snow machines out in a white out blizzard, or go somewhere they should not be.

Thanks Briggs! Appreciate you

GREETINGS FROM THE PPRC GREAT VIDEO AS USUAL.

Again, another job well-done by the Brigg-ster. I like these shorter reports better than your 30 minutes plus broadcasts.

Happy birthday Briggs! Ya old coot! lol!

I like this series. Hopefully you do a video on every U.S state in this series. It's quite interesting hearing what the locals perceive to be drawbacks of their state.

Thanks for the video. Wyoming is beautiful. Lots of great people there, but it's waaay too cold for me.

We are F'n full, stay way!!!

I spent around 20 summers in WY obviously I enjoyed my time there . My in-laws moved back to Laramie after they retired from teaching at a local college

Been in WY dozens of times from 75 to 97. Stayed in Cheyenne, Laramie, Rock Springs, Evanston, Teton Village, Yellowstone Winter Lodge, Cody, Sheridan, Casper, Douglas... wonderful state...terrible winds. Do like Thermopolis...not windy. Too remote for retirement. Cody is nice as well.

HELLO! I'm a radio talk host heard on stations across Wyoming. I live in Casper. There are flights from Casper to Denver and Salt Lake City, which are hubs to take people anywhere else. I've never driven to Denver to take a flight. There are a few flight hubs in Wyoming that can shorten the trip. But we have to plan trips for when the prices are lower. Other than that, good video and I will pass it on to my audience.

We moved to WY about 1.5 years ago. I cannot imagine living anyone elsewhere now.

My great grandparents homesteaded there, was born and raised and can’t wait to go back.

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The worst allergy offender in sheridan is the huge amount of cottonwood trees in Kendrick park. Once a year, they sync up and make the whole town sneeze

Now do South Dakota! 😃

Wyoming is made up of mostly small towns. People in small towns everywhere are leary of outsiders. The wealthy are moving to Wyoming because no state income tax and less expensive to live there versus what state they are moving from. I moved from Wyoming 1982, don't regret it.

We purchased our WY home two years ago and are moving there permanently in June. One really has to like indoor life when its cold, which is often. Spending money on home improvements to make it a comfortable and efficient sanctuary goes a long way in dealing with Wyoming's weather.

I would love to live in Wyoming but I know I can't handle the winters.

I was fortunate enough to spend some time touring Wyoming last Spring. And loved it. One of my favorite towns was Thermopolis. They have wonderful mineral springs. And aren't bashful about sharing them. 😎💙💯👍

Wyoming...they like their land, space and individualism!

❤❤❤😮😮😮😊😊😊 Briggs this is wild 😜

The only place I know of you hat doesn’t have tourist info booth at the state line

The winter is one of the best parts of Wyoming, you have skiing, winter camping, ice fishing, ice climbing (especially the south fork) and much more.

I took a job in Cheyenne for a year. The only people that talked to me outside of NPC speak were the other transplants. Nobody hated me personally but I definitely felt the resentment. I’d still go back in a heart beat

Wyoming, the colder twin of Texas. 😃

A while back I moved to Wyoming from Oregon. Some comments: Animal damage: I hit a deer on the highway, many near misses. Almost hit a grizzly bear with 2 cubs. I also had a grizzly on my back porch, checking out the bar-b-que. But what's the problem? Wildlife is one of the main reasons to appreciate Wyoming. BTW the fish and wildlife "service" is insufferable. And ranchers should be able to shoot wolves giving them problems. The federal government screws everything up. Cold and snowy: I grew up in Wisconsin so I didn't consider it that cold or snowy. I got by, with some inconvenience, with non-studded tires in a 2WD station wagon. The snow falls in Wyoming, then blows to Kansas. BTW we had a good heavy snowfall in Cody in April or May, one year. Jackson: I remember reading that the average home price in Teton County was $400k or $500k, while the average in the rest of the state was like $120k. Teton County is largely for rich assholes. Hunting: If you kill an elk, a grizzly is fairly likely to take it away from you. A shot is like a dinner bell for them. Don't leave your .44 Magnum revolver at home. BTW Wyoming is seriously gun-crazy. If you don't like guns, you shouldn't come there. Small towns: Wyoming, more than anything, is a small town state. Sometimes Californians move in and build a house on a ridge somewhere, spoiling the view and causing absurd utility bills when the winter rolls around. Smart people look for sheltered places to stay out of the wind. But why live out of town anyway? You should live in one of those small towns. Do try to fit in; you will be a lot happier. Wyoming is full of friendly people, if you respect them and deal straight with them. Do It Yourself: You have to be able to fix things yourself, if you live there, Either that, or pay huge piles of money to get a drunk repairman on site. Internet: I had to go to my neighbor to ask if I could mount a Wimax dish on a hill on his land and run a cable to my home. Of course he agreed. But the performance was not impressive.

The winters sound great, I love the cold

Love the Are we not men album in the background. I was rocking that on the way to the fireworks show tonight in Auburn, CA. Get it, git it, GOOOD!!!

No hurricanes but hurricane force winds constantly. When we say wind we're talking gusts above 90 mph regularly :) F1 tornado wind speed is normal, like just last week normal. :)

I am a Wyoming native and I wish I could move back there I miss my home state. Now to answer some of your questions travel is not that difficult you just have to plan a little bit ahead and it is cold but it also gives very hot in the summer believe me I know I live in one of the warmer places in Wyoming for most of my life. So a two-way street maybe you heard that that you are like a big town with a long Main Street that's basically what it is in wyoming. Back in the seventies when I was a student at the University of Wyoming we used to joke that we should build a dome over the entire State and keep everybody out.😊

I'm not from Wyoming, but grew up next door in Colorado. Wyoming is a great state, but I agree that it's not for everyone as you said in your video. Particularly for people from more densly populated parts of the U.S. I now live in North Carolina and small towns here are gigantic compared to those in the isolated interior parts of the West. There are small towns, homes and farms everywhere in the East. You don't know how isolated things can feel until you go out West (or to Alaska), and the llocal quicky-mart is at least 30 minutes away and the closest grocery store is at least an hour away. Wyoming is like that nearly everywhere.

Visited Wyoming once. In June. It snowed briefly!!! Just a dusting for several minutes. Definitely surprised to see that in June!

That is a great Devo album!!!!!

I know someone from Wyoming but I have no personal experience there myself. She said the winters were tough and the only grass you saw was at a park. It looks like a beautiful state if you know what you’re getting into. Personally, I couldn’t do the ragweed. That’s a no-go for me 🫣

Too cold up there lol

We have very fast internet in Casper. I have Gig internet with the cable company and we also have fiber that can reach 5 gigs

Love Wyoming! Was sitting in my truck at Independence Rock freezing my ass off, wind blowing a hurricane up pulls a pickup with a young family aboard, all dressed in white T shirts. How can one not love it?

It's really cold. 50 miles between towns. Bad water. Snows on the 4th of July.

Any potential for video on people who want to live in a place during summers. Remote worker etc

Never had I the most chapped and dry hands except when I visited Wyoming in March.

Where I live two years ago we got close to 300 inches of snow. Yes, we do get a lot of snow here.

Ragweed pollen is like soy milk compared to the ashe juniper pollen in the Texas Hill Country.

I mean this vid just made me want to move there even more

Thanks for pointing out the allergy situation. Most people wouldn't even think of this...until they got there and couldn't breathe because of allergies. Wyoming would be a good starter state for people who want to move to Alaska. Remote, cold, financially unstable, unfriendly.

"People move from Wyoming to California too derp". Every video you make this dumb analogy,and every time the entire mountain west rolls our eyes. 3 percent of people moving from Wyoming to California does literally nothing to change politics or culture. 3 percent of Californias moving to Wyoming, turns the state from red to blue. We get it Briggs, you're from California and have a bias. But those of us who have watched transplants change things arnt buying what you're selling. If a million cowboys move to California and turn the state red,the folks there would be just as angry. Talk to folks from these states instead of looking at a spreadsheet

There’s been windmills in Wyoming for decades. In fact, they first moved there because like he said, it’s one of the windiest states. Arlington, Wyoming has a bunch of them that you see off of I 80.

I’ll stay in Massachusetts thanks!

Wyoming is beautiful, in the Summer. IN THE SUMMER!

Saw your Dubois bit on best rural towns. I have to agree...I absolutely love Wy but getting my Tx wife to handle the cold at this point in our life would be a stretch.

Can you do a video on best states to live in for people who suffer of allergies

I have lived all over the U.S., and now Wyomng. Illinois was snowing, windier, and felt colder than here. We also disliked the area and the people. Also, compared to the upper peninsula of Michigan, we are not in the dark from October to May, nor are we snowed in for days.

Nah I’ll stay in South Georgia, thank you ‼️

This was Colorado 15 Years ago. We gone through the same thing.

I went to Wyoming only once. While I loved the state I found the people are total snobs and unfriendly. I wasn't trying to change anything but only passing through. Keep your way of life, no problem here but just be nice about it, okay?

No doubt that drought is a huge problem out West and it is getting worse, not better. But this video also showed that it snows a lot in Wyoming. Hopefully, they can figure out a way to capture that melting snow and make better use of it. 🤷‍♂

I got the Bison hair on my license plate and video to prove I've been there. ( I was stopped while the herd crossed the road, yeah they get close up).

I lived in Wyoming for a short amount of time, loved it but way too cold.

How can a state with so much snow and flooding have no water ?

Thanks for the heads up video, the comment about the number of people that leave Wyoming. Although probably true, the difference is I'd be willing to bet that they don't go to their new state/home and try to make it like Wyoming.

@8:56 is that mount shasta?

Fun Fact: In Wyoming, 56.6k dial is their high-speed internet.

Internet there is often point to point wireless, not one of the big providers.

You can fly from Casper to Denver or Salt Lake, then get a connecting flight to Chicago or NY.

Oh no Briggs has 2 min long sponsorship rambles now

Why is the Canadian Rockies in the thumbnail? (Edit he changed the thumbnail from the ten peaks and lake moraine banff national park to grand Teton national park)

6:30 Casper has flights to Denver and Salt Lake City. You can easily get to NYC with one transfer.

Anyone else surprised his name is James? I've been watching for years and had no idea.

I would have thought not wanting outsiders would be number one or two, just for the sake of preserving the Wyoming lifestyle. Yes, shocker, locals don't want outsiders trying to push their views upon them. It doesn't matter how immigrants vote, they are still going to try to bring their ways with them.

Looking buff Briggs. You been lifting weights?

Lol, who’d figure you own a Subaru? Still love your show

I recently spent some time exploring Wyoming and stayed all over the place. .. and yes.. put on some serious mileage for a city boy liie myself. Some of the most beautiful places on earth can be found here, so it's nice that access is limited. Jackson Hole was a joke.. the Wisconsin Dells of the state. ... there's a museum in Casper worth the visit.

Briggs, you lose weight? Looking svelte man. Love your channel.

6:26 I don't know about flying a plane, but to me that looks off

This was a great state to live in during the 1950's & 60's when the population was less than 300,000. Wyoming is becoming overcrowded..

I think the reasons not to move to Wyoming is because, it’s 1. Boring 2. It’s isolated 3. Weather extremes. Cold in winter, hot in the summer, it’s windy, up and down temps. 4. No job opportunities.

Need new technology to recycle those extra snow to usable water😂

Yeah, trying to find a place to fish sucks here. You gotta drive 30min-1hr and if you're lucky, it isnt already overfished.

I paid a visit to Cheyenne last October, and I'm going back in August. Very friendly people.

All of these "problems" can either be eliminated or mitigated by lots of money. It's no wonder the billionaires are interested in living in Wyoming. They are building their own Galt's Gulch where people without the means will either not attempt to move there or not stay very long. Rich folk like to stay among their own.