Let’s Move to Wyoming

It all started with the crazy idea that we would take a two week road trip checking out different states to retire to. We drove through Oregon, California, Nevada, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and Idaho. Prior to our trip we researched housing, job availability, taxes, and outdoor activities like hiking, fishing, motorcycle riding, and water sports. By the time we were ready to leave we already were leaning towards Idaho or Wyoming. The taxes, or the lack of certain taxes, was a big plus for Wyoming!

We had a great time on our trip and fell in love with Wyoming. It’s stunning beauty, nice people, low taxes, low crime rates, and housing costs all fit the bill for our retirement needs. We were ready to move!

Jim fully retired that November and I was getting ready to leave employment by February. We had a plan! Needless to say, the plan did not go as smoothly as hoped. The job Jim had applied for had an extremely long hiring process which made it difficult to plan an exit date. So we finished up the remodeling on the current house and planned to put it up for sale that May regardless of not knowing about the job. We knew Wyoming is where we belonged.

Our house sold quickly and we found ourselves needing to move in July. Here we were homeless and unemployed headed to Wyoming. We made our base in a little apartment in Rock Springs, Wyoming. House hunting was the top priority. Little did we know that we had a lot to learn about the Wyoming housing market.

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