Wyoming has beautiful mountains and some lovely places to visit.
It is empty for a lot of reasons:
– there are no big cities (neither Cheyenne or Laramie count as a real city. Both are cow towns)
- there is no big white collar industry that draws people in. There is a lot mining and a lot of oil industry work that gets done to the west and the north of the state, but there’s nothing like Silicon Valley to draw the younger post-college youth.
- Most importantly, it isn’t near anything. The closest big city is Denver. There are railroads and there are highways, but getting anywhere takes hours and hours. There aren’t any significant airports either.
Parts of it are beautiful – I have visited WYoming several times and love it. But not to live.