AZScanner may become WYScanner...

[AZScanner]

Just got word from my employer that they may relocate me to Cheyenne. I'm not sure yet if I want to go for it yet...figured I'd ask the locals what they think of the place.

What's it like up there? I hear the winters are bitterly cold (and since I've lived in the desert for 90% of my life that's gonna be hard to take). Good scanning up there? Stuff to do? Close to anything of interest? Expensive to live there or cheaper? etc.

I'll be relocating from Phoenix if I go for it. Lots of factors to consider, but the salary they'll be offering is likely going to be 2x what I'm currently getting.

Let me know the pro's and cons - I need to have an answer for them by Tuesday.

Thanks,
-AZ, er WY umm ??Scanner :?

 

[mr_hankey]

wow!

i wish i was you - the mountains, the acutal COLD winters!

and then there's Canada nearby - beautiful country...

of course ,you will probably become an alcoholic cowboy and join the PRCA, but hey...

 

[Halfpint]

This is probably too late, but...

You'll actually find that while there *are* extremes in the weather they aren't any worse, and can actually be said to be in some ways better, than what you may be used to down in AZ. Even with the current drought conditions and such the summer time `extremes' are less and, while not actually drought connected, the winter time extremes, while lower, aren't as `bad' as *some* might want you to think.

On top of the `tempering' of the weather swings living in Cheyenne will provide one with the ability to be able to enjoy a *very wide* range of recreational activities without having to spend an `arm, leg, and another certain `personal' part of one's anatomy' doing so. If you are `into' skiing or other `winter sports' you will be right in the middle of the best skiing you can find. *Both* Wyoming and Colorado have *fantastic* skiing available. The rest of the year also fairs quite well with fishing, hunting, hiking, biking, running, climbing, and a whole host of activities being only a short `hop, skip, or jump' away. Then there are the Rodeos... {VBSE GRIN!} Not only does Cheyenne have `The Grandaddy of them' with Frontier Days but there is the Wyoming State Fair and Rodeo, the Central Wyoming Fair and Rodeo, the Denver Stock Show and Rodeo, the Greeley Stampede, and many many others. (BTW, there are *very few* `drunken cowboy' PRCA riders out there! To be sure cowboys *do* like to `knock back a few' and can sometimes tend to seem to be getting `carried away' from time to time. But, despite all the `stories' one may hear, they really aren't any worse than any other `group'.)

Now you *may* be asking what someone who is currently living in Colorado knows about Wyoming. Simple... *I* actually grew up in Wyoming and the only reasons I am living here for now is that when I first came down here it was to finish my schooling and afterwards I found work here. Eventually I also found and married the wondeful woman I call my wife and partner and we ended up inheriting the family farm she grew up on. (The old saying goes that farmers are `attached' to their land... at the wrist and ankles!) Now that so-called `civilization?' is `taking over' all around us we are seriously thinking about moving, in my case `back', to Wyoming. Not only will this be a `return to my roots' but this will also mean that our `cost of living' will be reduced without any real `loss of benefits'.