What 1.1 million USD buys for a single-family home Casper, WY

[edyvw]

I stand corrected, I guess there's been a huge shift in population to Cheyenne so they can be close to Denver.

It is really not a huge shift. Few thousand people. WY , for the reasons you stated, is really not an attractive location, excluding Jackson Hole, but then, that is ridiculous money.
Cheyenne is not a bad proposition as a cheap alternative and still being relatively close to a major city.

 

[andrewg]

I've always wanted to live in Wyoming. Its low population and extreme beauty really attracts me. I've driven through it several times and am always in awe. It's a real pity that these ridiculous real estate prices are now part of the picture. Not so long ago you could buy a modest home for $200k or less.

 

[billt460]

Isn't Wyoming considered to be the windiest state in the country?

 

[Sumboodie]

Have been through Arkansas. It's beautiful. Have seen areas like you describe. It's a different type of living than those of us in bigger cities.

AK is Alaska

 

[02SE]

Have been through Arkansas. It's beautiful. Have seen areas like you describe. It's a different type of living than those of us in bigger cities.

Arkansas isn't Alaska...

 

[02SE]

That is a great catch. Even with a lot of days of sunshine per year, the inside of this 1.1 million USD home, the interior of the home is likely dark all day long.

Maybe the thinking is if you live there, the last thing you want to do is to look outside and be reminded of it...

 

[Wylie6G72]

Isn't Wyoming considered to be the windiest state in the country?

I-25 between Wheatland and Cheyenne isn't the danger zone for empty trucks. I've been through there at times where the median was littered with turned over trucks. I've seen plenty who have just thrown in the towel and hung a right turn into a field just to head into the wind until it passes.

 

[andrewg]

Isn't Wyoming considered to be the windiest state in the country?

Pretty windy at times but it depends where you are.

 

[andrewg]

https://a-z-animals.com/blog/discover-the-10-windiest-states-in-the-us/

 

[Malo83]

Flood Zone.

 

[GON]

Isn't Wyoming considered to be the windiest state in the country?

https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/t...he-usa-fall-winter-spring-i80-wyoming.347691/

 

[CKN]

https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/t...he-usa-fall-winter-spring-i80-wyoming.347691/

Nobody has any business on that piece of Interstate in bad weather unless you absolutely have to be somewhere. I have pulled a trailer (at least three times) on that piece of Interstate in the summertime-it's no big deal. But winter is a whole different story.

 

[puellarum]

Wyoming 's. Laws regarding estate planning and taxation are very very favorable for wealthy people. That's why Jackson hole is one of the most expensive zip codes in the nation. Lots of wealthy people retire there or make it their residence for the tax laws and estate planning. Now. Whether that carries over to Casper, I don't know. But state laws are state laws. I suppose if you're wealthy you would not want to live in Casper, but would go ahead and pony up to live in the fancy zip code of Jackson Hole.

 

[sloinker]

Wyoming isn't for the faint of heart. Weather, kamikaze wildlife, end of the infrastructure food chain. Hours away from being hours away to anything.
I live in Casper, it used to be an extremely rough little city. Like Tacoma, Washington and other places, gentrification has occurred. The older parts of town are still pretty scruffy. Downtown is being resurrected and is pretty cool. The Eastside and towards the mountain are pretty upscale in places. Plenty of million dollar homes around. Anything decently priced up to $700k doesn't hang around on the market long. Oil patch, pipelines, natural gas, refining, power generation are the biggest employers. If you want, and have good skills, work ethic along with clean urine, sky is the limit for pay. I know many that approach $200k a year. Of course they are always at work. The wife and I would like to move to the Long Beach peninsula in Sw Washington but our daughter doesn't want to leave. That freezes the old lady in place.....so we will see what happens.

 

[CKN]

Wyoming isn't for the faint of heart. Weather, kamikaze wildlife, end of the infrastructure food chain. Hours away from being hours away to anything.
I live in Casper, it used to be an extremely rough little city. Like Tacoma, Washington and other places, gentrification has occurred. The older parts of town are still pretty scruffy. Downtown is being resurrected and is pretty cool. The Eastside and towards the mountain are pretty upscale in places. Plenty of million dollar homes around. Anything decently priced up to $700k doesn't hang around on the market long. Oil patch, pipelines, natural gas, refining, power generation are the biggest employers. If you want, and have good skills, work ethic along with clean urine, sky is the limit for pay. I know many that approach $200k a year. Of course they are always at work. The wife and I would like to move to the Long Beach peninsula in Sw Washington but our daughter doesn't want to leave. That freezes the old lady in place.....so we will see what happens.

Gee....a post about someone who lives there....who confirms 1 million dollar homes.

 

[GON]

Here is a home on Slidell, LA for $760k USD, about $340k USD less than the Casper, WY home. Both homes offer "local" jobs for highly paid workers in the energy sector. Like Casper, Slidell does offer ample outdoorsman activities. Slidell offers things Casper doesn't, robust amount of great local dining, under one hour to a mid sized international airport, and ample diverse shopping.

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/4080-Marina-Villa-E_Slidell_LA_70461_M84851-58112?

 

[LDB]

$249/ft for that Slidell offering. Or for $146/ft there's this one. https://www.realtor.com/realestatea...l_LA_70458_M87031-30463?from=similar_homes_bm

 

[sloinker]

Here is a home on Slidell, LA for $760k USD, about $340k USD less than the Casper, WY home. Both homes offer "local" jobs for highly paid workers in the energy sector. Like Casper, Slidell does offer ample outdoorsman activities. Slidell offers things Casper doesn't, robust amount of great local dining, under one hour to a mid sized international airport, and ample diverse shopping.

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/4080-Marina-Villa-E_Slidell_LA_70461_M84851-58112?

Isn't Louisiana the poorest and stupidest state? Or is it Mississippi? Talking strictly statistics and hold no personal animosity. I don't want to be anywhere near Louisiana in the summer. Heat I can tolerate. 90% humidity and 90F, no thanks. I've been through the deep South and there are some beautiful homes/areas. There are also shacks that make dog houses look like palatial mansions in other parts of the country. Sad to see. My dad taught for a couple years in Norman, OK when I was a kid. I always thought that tarpaper shacks was something from history. Not so! Actual inhabited tarpaper shacks were relatively common in the Oklahoma outback in the 1970's. Hopefully these folks have prospered and moved up in accommodations.
Casper does offer abundant hunting and fishing. Winter sports, snowmobiling etc. Summer 4 wheeling. I am 4 hours to Denver so it is an easy enough commute for special functions/airport or you can fly locally to SLC or Denver for connections. Not a real issue. One of the main reasons for moving here was for schools. My daughter started kindergarten in 2006, she loved all aspects of school life. If you get a good enough GPA there are in state scholarships for almost everyone to go to college for near free. The class sizes were smaller than what we would have found in the Puget Sound where we moved from. No traffic, no crowds, little crime, friendly neighbors. Good place to live except for the wind. I grew up in California and spent many years in Washington. I consider Washington my home now as most of my relatives are there. My wife's are in Cali. I love both of those states for differing reasons just as Wyoming has gained my respect in many ways. Like I said, not for everyone, but a pretty decent place to live for many.

 

[CKN]

Isn't Louisiana the poorest and stupidest state? Or is it Mississippi? Talking strictly statistics and hold no personal animosity. I don't want to be anywhere near Louisiana in the summer. Heat I can tolerate. 90% humidity and 90F, no thanks. I've been through the deep South and there are some beautiful homes/areas. There are also shacks that make dog houses look like palatial mansions in other parts of the country. Sad to see. My dad taught for a couple years in Norman, OK when I was a kid. I always thought that tarpaper shacks was something from history. Not so! Actual inhabited tarpaper shacks were relatively common in the Oklahoma outback in the 1970's. Hopefully these folks have prospered and moved up in accommodations.
Casper does offer abundant hunting and fishing. Winter sports, snowmobiling etc. Summer 4 wheeling. I am 4 hours to Denver so it is an easy enough commute for special functions/airport or you can fly locally to SLC or Denver for connections. Not a real issue. One of the main reasons for moving here was for schools. My daughter started kindergarten in 2006, she loved all aspects of school life. If you get a good enough GPA there are in state scholarships for almost everyone to go to college for near free. The class sizes were smaller than what we would have found in the Puget Sound where we moved from. No traffic, no crowds, little crime, friendly neighbors. Good place to live except for the wind. I grew up in California and spent many years in Washington. I consider Washington my home now as most of my relatives are there. My wife's are in Cali. I love both of those states for differing reasons just as Wyoming has gained my respect in many ways. Like I said, not for everyone, but a pretty decent place to live for many.

The OP is searching all over the U.S. for a "deal". The issue being is that even though there appears to be a "softening" of the Real Estate market to a degree-the desirable areas (no matter where they are at) are still very strong. And again-IMHO despite what others have posted-in most parts of the West $600,000 (IMHO) is the price of admission to those areas.

If anybody disagrees (that you don't need to spend $600,000 in the West) -don't bother posting-it's been beaten to death.

 

[GON]

Isn't Louisiana the poorest and stupidest state? Or is it Mississippi? Talking strictly statistics and hold no personal animosity. I don't want to be anywhere near Louisiana in the summer. Heat I can tolerate. 90% humidity and 90F, no thanks. I've been through the deep South and there are some beautiful homes/areas. There are also shacks that make dog houses look like palatial mansions in other parts of the country. Sad to see. My dad taught for a couple years in Norman, OK when I was a kid. I always thought that tarpaper shacks was something from history. Not so! Actual inhabited tarpaper shacks were relatively common in the Oklahoma outback in the 1970's. Hopefully these folks have prospered and moved up in accommodations.
Casper does offer abundant hunting and fishing. Winter sports, snowmobiling etc. Summer 4 wheeling. I am 4 hours to Denver so it is an easy enough commute for special functions/airport or you can fly locally to SLC or Denver for connections. Not a real issue. One of the main reasons for moving here was for schools. My daughter started kindergarten in 2006, she loved all aspects of school life. If you get a good enough GPA there are in state scholarships for almost everyone to go to college for near free. The class sizes were smaller than what we would have found in the Puget Sound where we moved from. No traffic, no crowds, little crime, friendly neighbors. Good place to live except for the wind. I grew up in California and spent many years in Washington. I consider Washington my home now as most of my relatives are there. My wife's are in Cali. I love both of those states for differing reasons just as Wyoming has gained my respect in many ways. Like I said, not for everyone, but a pretty decent place to live for many.

A google search on the difference between Wyoming and Louisiana returned the below:

Wyoming gets colder that Louisiana in the winter, and Louisiana residents are a little better educated than the people of Wyoming.

So, per the google search the state of Wyoming and Louisiana are similar in most ways.... with the exception that Wyoming gets colder in the winter than Louisiana, and the people of Louisiana are a bit better educated than the people of Wyoming...