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

[sloinker]

I did a google on the difference between Wyoming and Louisiana and this is what the search returned:

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...

Everywhere I have looked shows Louisiana near the bottom of the 50 states and Wyoming in the middle. I looked at a dozen different sites and couldn't replicate your findings. Here's just one I found and it is similar to all the rest.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/educational-attainment-by-state

 

[sloinker]

Another for differing criteria:
https://www.al.com/news/2016/06/50_states_ranked_by_intelligen.html

 

[sloinker]

This one has a cool map:
https://abc7ny.com/twitter-smartest-dumbest-states/109986/

 

[GON]

Everywhere I have looked shows Louisiana near the bottom of the 50 states and Wyoming in the middle. I looked at a dozen different sites and couldn't replicate your findings. Here's just one I found and it is similar to all the rest.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/educational-attainment-by-state

If you have 20 minutes to kill, this Utah native real estate agent did a promotional video on Slidell:

On a separate note- I have a job interview in Casper later this month- maybe we will be neighbors and become BFFs. Maybe you will be my supervisor if I get hired????

 

[sloinker]

I suspect some see this new construction home in Casper, WY worth 1.1 million USD. I can't imagine that kind of money for that home, and the lot is very funky at that price point in an area abundant in undeveloped land that is for sale:

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/6122-River-Park-Dr_Casper_WY_82604_M77163-07272?f

The Casper home cited is a relative bargain. Look at this overpriced turd.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/214-Frederick-St-Steilacoom-WA-98388/49208268_zpid/

 

[sloinker]

If you have 20 minutes to kill, this Utah native real estate agent did a promotional video on Slidell:


On a separate note- I have a job interview in Casper later this month- maybe we will be neighbors and become BFFs.

Maybe, watched the video. I suppose if you want what Slidell has to offer as far as New Orleans proximity and water it's a no brainer for a future home.
Since you will be in Casper later this month and there are only 3 people in the state, keep your eyes open for me wandering the beleaguered ghetto of Casper. Introduce yourself. Here is a pic of me so you don't mistake me for a different citizen.
Just noticed how fat I looked in this picture. I have since lost about 50 pounds so I am closer to my fighting weight.

 

[Audiman]

The proximity to the river would put me off. Who wants to live on a flood plain?

 

[andrewg]

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.

Seems odd to me that you'd want to move back to Washington State from Wyoming. Not just the dreary weather in Long Beach....but the other highly intrusive differences.

 

[CKN]

The Casper home cited is a relative bargain. Look at this overpriced turd.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/214-Frederick-St-Steilacoom-WA-98388/49208268_zpid/

So basically about a half-million for the lot......

 

[alarmguy]

The price seems right to me and actually on the low side compared to some areas of New York metropolitan areas of Long Island this house would cost more and even along the coast in the Carolinas.

I mean it’s a 4300 square-foot house brand new.

 

[Number_35]

Another for differing criteria:
https://www.al.com/news/2016/06/50_states_ranked_by_intelligen.html

A few years ago I looked up several rankings of Canadian provinces by intelligence. Manitoba was consistently near the bottom, which might explain some of the dumb mechanical messes I've gotten into over the years.

 

[BMWTurboDzl]

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?

The property insurance market in LA is still broken.

 

[BMWTurboDzl]

The proximity to the river would put me off. Who wants to live on a flood plain?

Do you know it's on a 100 yr flood plain? The homes aren't raised on mounds so I suspect it may not be.

 

[BMWTurboDzl]

So basically about a half-million for the lot......

I saw something similar in Los Angeles. The land was worth $900k of the $1M appraised value.

 

[Reloader59]

5 bedrooms? I find that hard to believe. Are they 6x6?

 

[puellarum]

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.

What's really stupid is referencing an entire state full of many hundreds of thousands of people as "stupid." And by the way, who in the world made Wyoming the world capital of intelligence and sophistication?

 

[cptbarkey]

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?

Slidell does not offer much. I lived there from age 5-15 and saw all I wanted to see even into adult life.

The fleas in particular were nasty and you cannot control them, and pretty much every home is in a flood zone, or even used to be a swamp.

 

[CKN]

What's really stupid is referencing an entire state full of many hundreds of thousands of people as "stupid." And by the way, who in the world made Wyoming the world capital of intelligence and sophistication?

My family is in the South. While a gross generalization is just that-you do run in to a lot of people that are just not as "as wise as the ways of the world" and how to navigate stuff-and I will just leave that right there.....

 

[puellarum]

My family is in the South. While a gross generalization is just that-you do run in to a lot of people that are just not as "as wise as the ways of the world" and how to navigate stuff-and I will just leave that right there.....

There are stupid people in every single town and city and state and country in the world. ... So it's just not a good idea to make a statement like that, and it's particularly not a good idea to use Wyoming as a shining example of sophistication and intelligence when talking about another state.

 

[CKN]

There are stupid people in every single town and city and state and country in the world. ... So it's just not a good idea to make a statement like that, and it's particularly not a good idea to use Wyoming as a shining example of sophistication and intelligence when talking about another state.

I did say gross generalizations are just that.....