About fifteen years ago,Wyoming went through a big influx of Big Money/CA types who bought out ranches and turned 'em into hobby ranches (one trust fund type set up a Polo field/whatever complete with a couple million dollars worth of horses weren't good for anything but chasing a ball around). Well, the big War on Coal the rats conducted took away a bunch of the state's annual budget money which Counties replaced by raising property taxes (particularly on those hobby "ranches"), so a bunch of those rich folks along with the coal miners have been the bulk of ones leaving.
All things considered, Wyoming is a real nice place to live. Lots of room, pretty views and good folks.
Bad things? Well, they've got a State Sales Tax (Montanans consider them fightin' words), the weather can get challenging particularly in the Winter and the worst thing is the Damn Wind.
Forty MPH steady West wind is almost considered a flat calm. Early settlers were known to be driven insane by the combination of isolation and those winds. My personal gripe is that no matter what direction I drive in Wyoming, I've got a quartering headwind.
But if you can hack Wyoming, you can drive North a few hours and try Montana for some serious Winter. (It's windy up here at times as well, but -40 and four feet of snow makes the wind a distraction.)
Good, sounds like you know all about Idaho / Wyoming/Montana.
I drove through parts of them and my impression was that there are miles and miles and miles there’s no civilization, no homes. And then when you get near a city there’s tons of people, fairly population dense, and expensive acreage.
The problem we have here is the whole area’s population dense. You can’t drive anywhere anywhere without finding the house or mobile or something, people are everywhere. Even when it’s 2 hours to the next city.
I would like some kind of balance between those. And inexpensive acreage. Any ideas?