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I have lived in Wyoming my entire life. I lived in Rawlins for one year. It isnt that bad. When someone asks me "What is so good about Wyoming?" I tell them that it is what we don't have that Wyoming great!
I drive truck and go thru Wyoming allot I'm actually broke down now lol but Wyoming is a beautiful state but weather is insane. Hats off too all of you who can live full time there 👍 you guys are tuff
I was born and raised in Rawlins. I graduated high' school and left. Now 35 years later I live in a major West coast city. I'd like to move back to Wyoming. The winters are rough and the people are tough. It's a great place to live.
We’re looking at move to that area. Wife likes Rawlins and I’m looking at Casper area. Thinking a home in the city and some land in the country. So you recommend a family escaping communist Illinois for Rawlins?
I spent 3 weeks in Rawlins working at the refinery a couple years ago. It was November. It was very cold. The wind never quit blowing. It is quite plain looking. But, the people were so friendly. There was a few very good places to eat. And, I left there feeling like it was a darn good place.
@@Steveleanr Your culinary wishes are challenged. If you like Sushi, we have Ichiban. If you like Thai, we have that too. Shogunz for Pizza, plus two national chains and of course....Bucks. There are also food trucks down by the Tractor Supply. If you're a dainty little flower, it's not the place for you, for sure. Winters are rough.
I used to work the Sinclair switcher out of Rawlins. I'm STILL cold, and that was 25 years ago. I miss Su Casa and Rose's Lariat, and always stop to eat on my way through.
the worst part about those shithole blue-no-matter-who cities is the homeless. they shit and piss everywhere like dogs. And they make it so you can't meet or talk to anybody since you assume they're dangerous, animalistic drug addicts looking to take you for whatever they can. They should take these "people" off shore 100 miles and dump em. those that can swim back get free rehab and housing for a year, lol.
@@marky947Australia lost its desire once they started covid camps. I saw all the videos of police arresting people for not wearing masks outside. I was going to vacation in Australia, but I lost all interest when I saw they were arresting their own citizens. Why would anyone that’s a free thinker want to go their?
It’s pure heaven. The government pays a Bangladeshi man $700./month to do all my shopping, take me to appointments. I read stacks of books, watch tv, do jigsaw 🧩 puzzles online, take naps.
It can even be welcoming when you get older. If it's safe and quiet and peaceful, that is not boring to us old folks, especially if you have lived most of your life in some big city.
Hey @NickJohnson I grew up in the 70's as a kid living in places such as Denver, Alaska, Michigan and even Georgia and Wyoming reminds me so much of what the United States "used" to be and that of the many places that I used to live. Compared to trashy Los Angeles, Wyoming seems pretty damn cool and reminds me of my safe childhood, the places where you didn't have to lock your doors, worry about gangs, graffiti, the products of homelessness and the likes. Looking at Wyoming simply makes me realize how much I miss that of the Americas of the 70's. Thanks for sharing this.
Still don't lock our doors in Wyoming at night nor do we lock our vehicles we leave the keys in the car I mean it's pretty casual around here most of the people are pretty decent and the reason that there so many gun ranges and family Rec Center shooting range whatever it was in that video is because people in Wyoming start teaching their children gun safety at an early age which I think is amazing, but it's also due to the fact that people in Wyoming still hunt to put food on the table. Wildgame he's kind of a staple in most homes
@@michelefoust3369 I love that! Your "all" my type of people! Now I want to visit sometime soon and drive up there in my Land Cruiser and experience it. Always wondered what Wyoming was like as a kid. lol
I'm a Wyomingite living on the other side of the world now. This video was much better than I expected, although it would have been nice to see the Red Desert. When I was a teen ager I worked on a ranch next to the Ferris Mountains. The ranch was about 50 miles from Rawlins, and every so often I would be sent to Rawlins with a stock truck to pick up stuff. I remember the highlight of my trips was to go to the A&W and get a rootbeer float. That was back in the 60's. Rawlins is a little bigger now, but doesn't look too much different. That's good.
Having grown up in NJ, the 'bad towns' were places like Camden and Paterson. I live in Wyoming now, and have been through Rawlins dozens of times. It's a little bleak, but there is nothing wrong with it. I'd take this over Camden any day. When I told my friend who visited from NJ this spring that Rawlins was Wyoming's Camden when we passed through, we both almost died laughing.
I stopped in Rawlins a few years ago. Snowing and blowing like crazy. I spent the night before moving on. I went to a fabulous Mexican restaurant and had the best food in my life. A family run place that really cared about their customers. I gave them the biggest tip that I ever gave. Very impressive people….
Was it Roses Lariat? That place is amazing. My mom used to love eating there when she lived in Rawlins. I stopped by there with my daughter two years ago while going up to Cody.
@@stevesyverson8625 It's part of why I moved up here. I've never been so happy, even if I don't have everything I "Want" at my fingertips. I also find I want less here.
@@The2ndFirst I don't know how far you live from Gillette, but a friend of mine moved there. He is so happy. I remember him sharing his beard on a video. It was like an icicle. He said the winters are tough. Ha.
@@JessJoanne I'm a good ways from Gillette but I've been in WY for three years now and it's the happiest I've been in a good long time. The winters are rough, but they keep the riff raff out.
I lived in Rawlins from 1970 to 1975, my dad owned the English fish and chip shop on the corner of 5th street and cedar, I was 10 years old and went to school there. We always found things to do and there are far worse places to grow up in
@@MrThompsonusa ok. Just curious because about the time he closed the shop there a phenomenal English fish and chips place opened in Santa Fe called Wally’s.
My mom lived in Rawlins and Rock Springs WY back in the 1930s to 1951. She married and moved to CA. She's 92 now and said she would never want to live in WY again because the storms in winter were brutal.
@@alanbourne2332 Yes, sometimes. She goes out at least twice a week for appointments, etc. She hated the winters in Wyoming. She still lives alone and does fine.
It’s the globalist cabal who are trying to ruin us by eliminating oil and coal, of which there is plenty. They want to control everything we do, want us in their 15-minute cities, control what we eat, where we travel, what we buy.
Check a dozen or two large Electric Power companies and learn/verify what fuels power those huge TURBINES that send the invisible ,,"juice" to your lights, furnaces, fridges, and multiple appliances.
The people trying to force us off oil and coal are failing, because there really are no viable substitutes (unless we're talking about replacing coal with nuclear, which just ain't gonna happen).
I lived in Wyoming..1974 -1980. Went on so many adventures from cave exploring Hunting .fishing mineral exploration found awesome stone artifacts ( tomahawk. Palm stone hammer arrowheads) more. Old mines stage coach station ruins. Metal detecting. Photography. On and on.❤
So I’ve traveled across this region of Wyoming in late January years ago…. It was -10 with 40 mph winds, the reason WYO hasn’t exploded in population is because of the nasty winters
Nick, thank you for the tour of Wyoming. I didn't see anybody walking around, and I love the deer roaming around. It's great that people look out for each other, and will help you if they see that you broke down. One time, I was on I-70 in Kansas and my car broke down and it wasn't long before somebody came to help me. It seems like these rural areas have some nice people compared to big cities around the country.
That's a lot of America. I flew out of Kalispell and couldn't walk down the highway into town (six miles) w/o someone stopping and asking if I needed a lift!!!
I'm an Orlando, FL native and I stayed in Rawlins for like 3 months in 2016 and I will say there ain't very much to do but it is beautiful out there and I was very surprised to see people leave their garages opened all day unnatended or kids would literally just leave there bikes out in the front yard and nothing would happen to it. That astounded me because you just can't do that in orlando lol. Yes there is a divide in Rawlins. You either on the poor side or the nice side. But overall I really loved it. Not a long term place I'd want to be but it was a nice break from the hustle and bustle of a big city like Orlando! I also walked basically everywhere around the whole town with my 2 yr old in tow...very safe! Not sure why it gets such a bad rep
It's absolutely that way. I leave a smoker worth about 1500 bucks outside and nobody has ever messed with it. It's very safe compared to where I've lived before.
@@Dangic23 I doubt that they were locked down. I live in a free state and we weren't locked down. Could do whatever we wanted to do. Only the socialist States locked down.
I'm from the uk and I have already visited some of your small american towns. I would love to visit rawlins just to see the place. When I do visit places like this in america, people seem to be shocked that a brit has come to visit and come chat to me.
I am English and lived in rawlins from 1970 to 1975, it was a great town to grow up in, we then moved to California and then onto Arizona and Pennsylvania, we now live in Shropshire back in England
@@Kaspertube513 we now live in Admaston near Telford our house overlooks the Wrekin hill, we are about 3 miles north of the A5, also lived in Windsor Ontario from 1967 until we moved to Rawlins, back then Detroit was a busy major city
There are a lot of other small American towns that I'd place higher up on your list of places to visit than Rawlins. I've been there and, while it's far from the worst place in the country, it's also far from the best. If you're looking for other towns in Wyoming, Cody (which has a good western museum), Laramie, Cheyenne (RR history), and Jackson are candidates.
A majority of the worst states in America are republican led/gun friendly with the exception of New Mexico and Maryland. I myself am libertarian and pro-2A. But it’s wrong to assume that everyone packing guns will lead to less crime. A lot of different factors are in play here
Those don't correlate in any way. Cities that have the most guns tend to always have the most violence. It's a simple.numbers game. Small amount of violence makes sense in BFE, Wyoming tho. Small population
@@jongallardo8006 What a false statement. 1st of all not true. 2nd of all it's the democrat run big city in the red state where the vast majority of the crime occurs.
The worst parts of Mexico are like a lot of bad places. The problem is within the population and out of view. He might find some poor neighborhoods but that's not even close to the problem in Mexico.
47 years ago I worked for oil exploration group 190 miles west of Rawlins in Kemmerer ! Short term rented a closet above a bar with extension cord for alarm clock and shared communal bathroom! At least not haunted like Ely Nevada were I worked for months! Lived there in mostly abandoned like units similar to Rawlins motel!
@@Ali.Bruni143 had a nice conversation with a lady my age (retired) and a good visit overnight while returning up to Idaho and Canada from LA. But the winters in Pioche?? Aren't they a match to Wyoming minus maybe the wind??
@@HeronPoint2021 Awesome :) yep.. snowy winters ⛄️ and VERY windy up in the mountains. Pioche is at 6.1K+ elevation, so the wind gets kinda crazy (I’m talking 20-30mph gusts are normal every few weeks) But, the people are great and Pioche is about as quiet and peaceful as a place can be. The only thing that really ever concerns me are the mountain lions.
As a Wyomingite I can say that Rawlins honestly isn’t that bad of a place, just another nice small town in the middle of nowhere. The bad places are the run down parts of Casper and Cheyenne
Dude I love this channel. I've been to a lot of places Nick covers and its always spot-on. I got my car stuck in a snowdrift ON THE FREEWAY while trying to get out to public camping land about 10 miles south of Rawlins a few months back. Instead of camping, I stayed in the grossest hotel room I've ever seen in that town later that night...
I grew up in trailer parks all over N. America (oil patch stuff) and it was great. Some of these are now modulars, very energy efficient, and a lower Hydro bill than an old house. surprise.
I lived in Wyoming for about 40 years. The reason Rawlins is considered "bad" is because to the prison. Folks think everyone who moves there or visits their loved ones in prison are not exactly desirable people. Also, the Frontier prison didn't close until the early 1980s and didn't get hot water for inmates until 1978.
The inmates in Wyoming prisons are some of the best looked after inmates in the USA. Lots of inmates that have a high probability of being ended are sent to Wyoming.
I would like to see something done with the old hotels in town. The problem is there's no money in it. The population pretty much remains the same here. People move in and they move out. I think if someone just dozed the hotels and put up apartments they'd make money on the deal.
@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist4 Nobody asked you do be here. Please leave. There's about a metric shit ton of churches here. We've got it Paul the Baptist.
Larry Wilcox grew up in Rawlins, Wyoming, with three siblings and raised by a single parent - his mother. He graduated and then went to the University of Wyoming and studied pre-med and then transferred to Cal State University Northridge in Southern California. His sister was tragically murdered by her husband in front of her mother and their three children and Larry returned home to assist the family. imdb
Great story, but what does "CHiPs" or Larry Wilcox, aka Ponch's partner, have anything to do with anything? BTW Gillian's Island cast member Dawn Wells used to own the Spud Drive In, located in Driggs Idaho just a few miles from Wyoming, even though she was actually the ho and not Ginger. Touche'
I live in Rawlings my dad use to go to a bar that was owned by the Wilcox family and was friends with them I met Larry as a kid I didn't know who he was wasn't much for C.H.I.P.S. the cop show remember that. That was a long time ago. Went to school with a couple of the Wilcox family fighters all of them. Peace
I grew up in the Casper area. I love Wyoming and even though I don't live there now I still think of it as home. I admit I hope it never changes, continue to move to Colorado, Utah and Idaho just forget about Wyoming. Oh and just an FYI, coal, and oil will always be in demand, on the other hand the people in power now will not always be in demand.
As the country moved from rural and agriculture to crowded cities and obese people sitting in cubicles all day, the connections between people and land and animals and nature have caused the mess we are suffering through.
My mom lived in Rawlins WY back in the 1940s. My grandparents lived in Rock Springs and great grandparents lived in Thermopolis from the late 1800s until the 1980s. My grandfather worked in the coal mines. He died in 1942 at the age of 38.
Monday you I do drive a big old F250 1969 campervehicle. And live in a 1930s weatherboard school next to a national park. Kangaroos and echidnas not deer...only 30 people live nearby. Most people drive toyota 4x4 here. Like 95 percent.
I would bet that the biggest reason people say Rawlins is the worst place goes all the way back when it became the "new" end of the line for the railroad from Cheyenne. Cheyenne business members got together and decided to clean up Cheyenne and sent the undesirables on a one way trip west to the end of the line. It literally boomed because it was filled with ladies of the evening and road agents.
One of my college house-mates had a summer job in Rawlins in the 1980s with the Bureau of Land Management. One of the problems Wyoming has is that the government owns large amounts of the land, and a larger-than-normal segment of the population are seasonal workers. The B.L.M. was doing wildlife research, and we used to joke that he had a job mapping prairie dog holes (which was essentially what he was doing). I drove across Wyoming twice along two separate routes when I went round trip from St. Louis to Seattle in June, and I would say that all of the towns have improved greatly over the last couple decades. Sheridan and Buffalo, especially. I got into a bad hailstorm at Devil's Tower (NE corner of the state).
@@TMK687 The main drag used to be full of seedy cowboy bars where you would figure that a fight would break out every night---but I don't see much of that now (just drove through though.)
driving from Ft. Collins to Laramie on 287, I always would get a chuckle because almost like clockwork once you cross the border into WY, the wind would start to pick up and there's a sign that says "Windy next 5 miles" - people know that they left out two 0's
I'm from Northern Colorado but know my way around Cheyenne better than Denver. I agree with the dude you were talking to, a feeling of peace washes over you as soon as you see the welcome to Wyoming sign.
I would honestly say Rock Springs is worse than Rawlins. But these places are still good compared to the stuff I see in Denver or other places on the Front Range
I live just outside of Denver, and the crime, homelessness, fentanyl use and deaths, and dense housing are creeping heavily into the suburbs. A small town, without the big, liberal city horrible policies sounds great.
Great Margaritas at this outdoor Mexican Restaurant on the main drag. Oops! I think it's German now. Have fun! You will love Buffalo Bill Museum on the West side. Two of the most scenic roads to the north (Chief Joseph and Beartooth Hwy).@@NickJohnson I posted a little video on here of the scenic view at Chief Joseph's.
Nick, about people moving to Wyoming, maybe you could do a story about this. Cheyenne's population was 50,000 for a long time, and suddenly in the last few years, we've grown to 65,000, or maybe it's even more by now. I still do not have a clear explanation why we've grown so much. I heard something about Microsoft, and something about the Air Force base in town. I just have no idea why we've grown so much, so quickly.
Too late, but good news is most of the power they generate gets sold to CO, so our power in WY is still the cheapest in the nation. Ha. Ruins the view, but it is what it is.
I stayed the night in Rawlins in 2020, the first weekend of June. I liked it-the cool, dry air and Flintstones scenery. There's a nice walkable downtown and and some beautiful victorian houses.
Don't forget Durango's big brother Jackson Hole Wyoming, or Evanston. Which is Utah with real beer and more firework stands than you will ever see again. My favorite town is Pinedale.
That house for 70K that is funny cuz 2 years ago I bought my house in southern Alabama for the same price. But mine is a brink house ranch style 4 bedrooms and 2 full bathrooms on 5 acres nice two car carport. Big difference I guess. I did live in Cheyenne for over a year back in 1995. I liked it there for the most part.
Wyoming is far from bad. It reminds me of small towns in Idaho. You should do a video on an Easter Idaho town. You'd probably literally make the news their lol. It would be interesting to see. Great video again!
I recall, some travel vloggers being mind blow that they can live their electronics in a table and come back several minutes later or few hours and the stuff is still there. You can do the same in Wyoming, Idaho, maine, or New Hampshire. Left a expensive cell phone in a restaurant (forgot it) one hour later a employee gave it back telling me a person brought it to the counter. At the time, I was from CA so this 1st world country encounter shock me.
Being able to work remotely my Son moved his family to Wyoming a year and a half ago. It’s beautiful and they love their new home and the Wyoming culture.
I live in Wyoming. It was funny to see your response to the horse shoes painted on the sidewalks. This is a common thing in Wyoming. It is usually done in support of the high school. High school sports are a huge deal in our small towns with little else to do.
They dont have looting vagrants or drug addicts all over the streets. My grand mother was born in Cheyenne, and i lived in Gillette for about 8 months. The people are nice and the cities are clean. If you want to live in peace its a nice state but it snows and its windy and cold during the winter.
The prices of those houses are still too high. They are made of plywood, with shingles on the roof, in the middle of nowhere. Then 70k to 200k is an insanely high amount!
"So-called human faults are false labels, not laws, so we don’t have to accept them as belonging to us and consequently act them out. To believe that we can’t help ourselves because we were created with these failings or sins would dishonor God. Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health: “Man is incapable of sin, sickness, and death. The real man cannot depart from holiness, nor can God, by whom man is evolved, engender the capacity or freedom to sin. . . . In divine Science, God and the real man are inseparable as divine Principle and idea” (pp. 475, 476). As the perfect reflection of God, man expresses divinely derived qualities such as discernment, patience, obedience, humility, love, and the desire to be useful and serve God in a way that blesses all." A Christian Science Journal exert
Wow, gotta see this one. I lived, went to school here for many in the early eighties. Dad worked at the Union Pacific RR just like when I lived in Cheyenne a few years later. Yeah southern Wyoming is something especially Rawlins.
The Water Stinks! I stayed in a motel one night. The bedding and the towels stunk. When I got home that smell had permeated everything in my suite case, my blanket and pillow. Even my cat stunk!
Fantastic a place like Rawlins is given 39 minutes in one of these vids. It's a thorough video that gives lots of info on the town, and gives you an angle on what towns are like in Wyoming. I lived in Gillette for 6 months back in 2013, and similar to Rawlins was a "boom and bust" town. Still to this day it had the cheapest cost of living of any place I lived in the U.S, and tons of work available. That's more than what you can say for many places.
Longmire TV show depicted Wyoming pretty well. Even though it was primarily filmed in New Mexico. Lots of similarities, but without the wind and snow in winter.
Love Wyoming! As a Vermonter it has real appeal especially up in the northern parts of the state. Visited WY 3 times since 2018, and no I never been to Jackson Hole. Love the Sundance area. In 2022 I was traveling east on I80 when we stopped in Rock Springs. I asked about Rawlings at a gas station in Rock Springs. The girl told me Rawlings was super sketchy. Well come to find out Rock Springs was every bit if not more sketchy then Rawlings. I think Rock Springs is the ugliest town in other wise one of the most beutiful state in this country.
As a Coloradan 13:12 , Pueblo is the punching bag of the state . But there’s a few janky neighborhoods in Denver Aurora and C-springs that can give it a run for its money. I’ve been down to P-town a few times and never had a real problem. Good food down to earth folks and there’s a cool state park outside of town. Windy as all hell though
wow, finally a town that I've actually been to!! this is so fun to watch. I visited my dad @ the penitentiary 13 years ago (to pick him up when he was released) and I don't remember being all that enthusiastic about it LOL. very cool to see it again now that he has passed away because I can remember many of the places I went with him that you're showing. :) thank you for the awesome videos. also, I just recognized the paddocks at 17:47! there were all kinds of animals there when I visited (some emaciated) but I used to visit the horses every morning. small world!
x 0:37 Very cool prison! x 18:08 That's a really great shot with the train rolling through! x 19:33 Mappy's gone gun crazy hahaha! Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em! x 20:11 Now that's a bar experience! x 36:02 A HUGE selling point on Wyoming that is 100% consistent with my experience! o I lived in Wyoming for three months for a travel nurse assignment and travelled all over the state. Whenever I pulled off the road and parked (often I would just pull over and read my map), someone asked if I needed assistance 100% of the time! Sometimes more than one person would ask (if they didn't see that someone already stopped). So they probably stopped by at least 40 times (40 out of 40). Another great interview!
Keep up the good work telling everyone how horrible Wyoming is. Hopefully lots of people see this so they won't move here. We love it just the way it is.
@@terryparker1694 so glad you think that. The more of you that think that the fewer of you will move here. We don't want you. Thanks for your negativity!
I grew up in Cheyenne and I remember taking school field trips to the state penitentiaries (I think there's one in Laramie too). To this day I find them fascinating, though heavy for young kids lol
Only issue I've ever had with Rawlins, is some of the auto repair shops are crooks. Penny's Diner is a small-ish chain that usually sits in front of a motel, of which I forget the name: both mainly cater to railroad crews, but are open to everybody. The one in Cheyenne is really good. Oh, the refinery you showed at the beginning, is actually in the town of Sinclair. Yup, the company has their own town. The largest of the coal fields there, are up in Gillette.
We spent a few hours in Rawlings back in July, on our drive from WA to WI. Cool place, with people trying hard to keep the town alive and, somewhat, well. I respect that a lot!
Extreme desolation for over 150 miles in either direction on interstate 80 from Rawlins. No tiny speck of rundown town is more of a relief to see when traveling through Wyoming than Rawlins. Even if the McDonald's is shuttered like it was last summer. Yup it was.
When was this? I never have seen the Mikey Ds shuttered. But what you say is true. Any chance you get to stop in Wyoming, do it. Especially in winter. I 80 is bad news.
I live in northern CO and many people drive up to Wyoming to buy fireworks that are illegal here. Then everyone around puts on a HUGE show here on the 4th. Pretty awesome to see from some elevation actually. Edit: it always surprises me so many people do this despite the fire risk most years, I don’t exactly agree its a great idea. But it’s what happens, and it is pretty spectacular.
City Market is owned by Kroger. They have a lot of different supermarkets under different names. Kroger, Ralphs, Dillons, Smith's, King Soopers, Fry's, QFC, City Market, Owen's, Jay C, Pay Less, Baker's, Gerbes, Harris Teeter, Pick 'n Save, Metro Market, Mariano's Fred Meyer. Supposed to merge with Alberstons.
The motel with the abandoned cars was open when I moved here 14 years ago. We reserved a room there when we left to move here. When we got there, it was invested with cockroaches, so we asked for our money back from the front desk guy sporting boxers and a wife beater. I believe the cockroaches now own it.
I stayed at the Western Hill Campground in June. The place was packed. No trees…packed in sites. But it’s an easy on and off to 80. I was meeting 1500 Airstream trailers and 3k owners in Rock Springs for our Annual rally. Surrounding towns like Rawlins near Rock Springs benefit when the Airstreamers come into town. I didn’t think Rawlins was that bad.
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Nick just to say your Videos are Absolutely Brilliant Very Professionally. done So much information about. everything and Not to. forget Mapi that brings extra special humour which is Absolutely Brilliant. So BIG THANKS FOR THIS AND ALL YOUR VIDEOS I HAVE SEEN. THEM ALL AND ALWAYS LOOK FORWARD FOR THE NEW ONES 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😀
You really cowboy with that hat on we should call you Roy Rogers
@NickJohnson Thank you! 🙏
@@kimberlyquick6979 That's great Nick travels around America and shows all these towns
But that's a RED sate, sarcasm !!!
I have lived in Wyoming my entire life. I lived in Rawlins for one year. It isnt that bad. When someone asks me "What is so good about Wyoming?" I tell them that it is what we don't have that Wyoming great!
You don't have black thug culture there yet it's coming
So I say to those who criticize Rawlins, where would you rather live, Rawlins or New York City? I know what the answer is for me.
Compared to Skid Row in L.A. or Kensington, this is heaven. I mean, DEER just strolling in your backyard? Yeah, this is horrible (sarc/)
I'm trying florida refuses to release me.
I drive truck and go thru Wyoming allot I'm actually broke down now lol but Wyoming is a beautiful state but weather is insane. Hats off too all of you who can live full time there 👍 you guys are tuff
As a truck driver I can tell you that I love Rawlins! It saved my bacon many time as I ran across I-80 in the winter time!
Elk Mountain changes the weather
The worst place is Wyoming is 1,000,000x better than the worst place in other states.
What makes you say that?
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Yes because nobody lives there.
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Nah
I was born and raised in Rawlins. I graduated high' school and left. Now 35 years later I live in a major West coast city. I'd like to move back to Wyoming. The winters are rough and the people are tough. It's a great place to live.
I attended my freshman highschool year there. Learned how to water-ski at Seminole!
Talks cheap. It sucks.
We’re looking at move to that area. Wife likes Rawlins and I’m looking at Casper area.
Thinking a home in the city and some land in the country.
So you recommend a family escaping communist Illinois for Rawlins?
@@aaroneckardt5514 You come here on vacation and leave on probation..
When did you live there?
I grew up in Rawlins from 77-82
I spent 3 weeks in Rawlins working at the refinery a couple years ago. It was November. It was very cold. The wind never quit blowing. It is quite plain looking. But, the people were so friendly. There was a few very good places to eat. And, I left there feeling like it was a darn good place.
So it's windy and no good places to eat, yet you thought it was a good place?? smh
I think you have miss interpreted that. @@Steveleanr
@@Steveleanr Your culinary wishes are challenged. If you like Sushi, we have Ichiban. If you like Thai, we have that too. Shogunz for Pizza, plus two national chains and of course....Bucks. There are also food trucks down by the Tractor Supply. If you're a dainty little flower, it's not the place for you, for sure. Winters are rough.
I used to work the Sinclair switcher out of Rawlins. I'm STILL cold, and that was 25 years ago. I miss Su Casa and Rose's Lariat, and always stop to eat on my way through.
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I’d rather live in Rawlings than Chicago, Milwaukee, Baltimore, Detroit, Philadelphia, NYC, Washington D.C. or St. Louis.
Enjoy. Looks boring Hell.
Liberals ruin everything 😂
@@loriannrichardson7644 depressing.
the worst part about those shithole blue-no-matter-who cities is the homeless. they shit and piss everywhere like dogs. And they make it so you can't meet or talk to anybody since you assume they're dangerous, animalistic drug addicts looking to take you for whatever they can. They should take these "people" off shore 100 miles and dump em. those that can swim back get free rehab and housing for a year, lol.
Looks fresh and lovely...it seems to have done quite well...would love to see your country towns...
You can’t convince me that Wyoming isn’t the best state in the union.. more livestock reside there than humans. 😅
That's why Australia is #1
agreed, I loved visiting Wyoming twice
@@marky947Australia lost its desire once they started covid camps. I saw all the videos of police arresting people for not wearing masks outside. I was going to vacation in Australia, but I lost all interest when I saw they were arresting their own citizens. Why would anyone that’s a free thinker want to go their?
@@jesse_- COVID-deniers still slithering around, I see.
@@ian38018a You do realize there is a middle ground between being a Covid denier and arresting people for living life, right?
boring can be fun when you get older
It’s pure heaven. The government pays a Bangladeshi man $700./month to do all my shopping, take me to appointments. I read stacks of books, watch tv, do jigsaw 🧩 puzzles online, take naps.
It can even be welcoming when you get older. If it's safe and quiet and peaceful, that is not boring to us old folks, especially if you have lived most of your life in some big city.
I am starting to think that at age 56
@@MattTaylor-xx7gsme too at 57
@@rubyparchment5523it’s “Bengali” not Bangladeshi, woman.
I moved to Wyoming in 2008 from Wisconsin! My Twins were 13 they love it here as well as me and hubby! We are all successful. 😊❤
Hey @NickJohnson
I grew up in the 70's as a kid living in places such as Denver, Alaska, Michigan and even Georgia and Wyoming reminds me so much of what the United States "used" to be and that of the many places that I used to live.
Compared to trashy Los Angeles, Wyoming seems pretty damn cool and reminds me of my safe childhood, the places where you didn't have to lock your doors, worry about gangs, graffiti, the products of homelessness and the likes.
Looking at Wyoming simply makes me realize how much I miss that of the Americas of the 70's.
Thanks for sharing this.
Still don't lock our doors in Wyoming at night nor do we lock our vehicles we leave the keys in the car I mean it's pretty casual around here most of the people are pretty decent and the reason that there so many gun ranges and family Rec Center shooting range whatever it was in that video is because people in Wyoming start teaching their children gun safety at an early age which I think is amazing, but it's also due to the fact that people in Wyoming still hunt to put food on the table. Wildgame he's kind of a staple in most homes
@@michelefoust3369 I love that!
Your "all" my type of people!
Now I want to visit sometime soon and drive up there in my Land Cruiser and experience it.
Always wondered what Wyoming was like as a kid. lol
Sounds like paradise honestly. Colorado is getting pretty californicated at least in all of the front range urban corridor
I'm a Wyomingite living on the other side of the world now. This video was much better than I expected, although it would have been nice to see the Red Desert. When I was a teen ager I worked on a ranch next to the Ferris Mountains. The ranch was about 50 miles from Rawlins, and every so often I would be sent to Rawlins with a stock truck to pick up stuff. I remember the highlight of my trips was to go to the A&W and get a rootbeer float. That was back in the 60's. Rawlins is a little bigger now, but doesn't look too much different. That's good.
Having grown up in NJ, the 'bad towns' were places like Camden and Paterson. I live in Wyoming now, and have been through Rawlins dozens of times. It's a little bleak, but there is nothing wrong with it. I'd take this over Camden any day.
When I told my friend who visited from NJ this spring that Rawlins was Wyoming's Camden when we passed through, we both almost died laughing.
It's certainly not Camden. All the single wides have four wheelers.
give it time and it will look like a mini Detroit
ye looks fine compared to any city in california, crawling with crazy crackheads.
@@Direwoof Meth in Wyoming. And fentanyl.
I lived in Paterson on Broadway & E 25 St...bad city with crimes..Thank Goodness I'm in Grand Rapids MI..
I stopped in Rawlins a few years ago. Snowing and blowing like crazy. I spent the night before moving on. I went to a fabulous Mexican restaurant and had the best food in my life. A family run place that really cared about their customers. I gave them the biggest tip that I ever gave. Very impressive people….
Was it Roses Lariat? That place is amazing. My mom used to love eating there when she lived in Rawlins. I stopped by there with my daughter two years ago while going up to Cody.
@@AdamBuker It closed. This place is ghost towning again. It's a dump.
"Worst" really becomes a sliding scale when you get exposure outside your own bubble. Love the videos, keep them coming.
Yep. Rawlins gets hate from actual crappy places like Rock Springs.
Your reply is so prophetic in times that are ahead.
@@stevesyverson8625 It's part of why I moved up here. I've never been so happy, even if I don't have everything I "Want" at my fingertips. I also find I want less here.
@@The2ndFirst I don't know how far you live from Gillette, but a friend of mine moved there. He is so happy. I remember him sharing his beard on a video. It was like an icicle. He said the winters are tough. Ha.
@@JessJoanne I'm a good ways from Gillette but I've been in WY for three years now and it's the happiest I've been in a good long time. The winters are rough, but they keep the riff raff out.
I lived in Rawlins from 1970 to 1975, my dad owned the English fish and chip shop on the corner of 5th street and cedar, I was 10 years old and went to school there. We always found things to do and there are far worse places to grow up in
What fish and chips place?
@@clane1700 my dad had a restaurant on the corner of 5th street and cedar, he owned the old Millar Hotel
@@user-qi4zh5eu8ya good percentage of Americans are now addicts, the twat in the Whitehouse turns out to be a coke addict
@@MrThompsonusa ok. Just curious because about the time he closed the shop there a phenomenal English fish and chips place opened in Santa Fe called Wally’s.
I would much rather live in quiet little towns like these any day, than in chaotic California or other big cities in the U.S.
Chaotic is a good word for it.
My mom lived in Rawlins and Rock Springs WY back in the 1930s to 1951. She married and moved to CA. She's 92 now and said she would never want to live in WY again because the storms in winter were brutal.
@@gayladenison5925 so at 92 she still spends her time outside
@@alanbourne2332 Yes, sometimes. She goes out at least twice a week for appointments, etc. She hated the winters in Wyoming. She still lives alone and does fine.
@@gayladenison5925 not wanting to shovel snow twice a day is understandable
The people trying to force us off oil and coal are crazy. Thanks for the video.
It’s the globalist cabal who are trying to ruin us by eliminating oil and coal, of which there is plenty. They want to control everything we do, want us in their 15-minute cities, control what we eat, where we travel, what we buy.
Check a dozen or two large Electric Power companies and learn/verify what fuels power
those huge TURBINES that send the invisible
,,"juice" to your lights, furnaces, fridges, and
multiple appliances.
The people trying to force us off oil and coal are failing, because there really are no viable substitutes (unless we're talking about replacing coal with nuclear, which just ain't gonna happen).
Greenies are commies.
I lived in Wyoming..1974 -1980. Went on so many adventures from cave exploring
Hunting .fishing mineral exploration found awesome stone artifacts ( tomahawk. Palm stone hammer arrowheads) more. Old mines stage coach station ruins. Metal detecting. Photography. On and on.❤
I work at the state prison. One of the inmates that work for me said he had an elective course of "Fly Fishing" when he was on the way to his AS.
Nick, if someday you decide to make your channel "international", come to Brazil to look what our worst places look like! Haha
I don't think he'd be coming back to upload the video if he does lol
So I’ve traveled across this region of Wyoming in late January years ago…. It was -10 with 40 mph winds, the reason WYO hasn’t exploded in population is because of the nasty winters
Nick, thank you for the tour of Wyoming. I didn't see anybody walking around, and I love the deer roaming around. It's great that people look out for each other, and will help you if they see that you broke down. One time, I was on I-70 in Kansas and my car broke down and it wasn't long before somebody came to help me. It seems like these rural areas have some nice people compared to big cities around the country.
That's a lot of America. I flew out of Kalispell and couldn't walk down the highway into town (six miles) w/o someone stopping and asking if I needed a lift!!!
@@HeronPoint2021 The mountain west.
Midwest hospitality...it's not a MYTH...there may be hope for our nation, yet...Namaste !!! 😍☮️
I'm an Orlando, FL native and I stayed in Rawlins for like 3 months in 2016 and I will say there ain't very much to do but it is beautiful out there and I was very surprised to see people leave their garages opened all day unnatended or kids would literally just leave there bikes out in the front yard and nothing would happen to it. That astounded me because you just can't do that in orlando lol. Yes there is a divide in Rawlins. You either on the poor side or the nice side. But overall I really loved it. Not a long term place I'd want to be but it was a nice break from the hustle and bustle of a big city like Orlando! I also walked basically everywhere around the whole town with my 2 yr old in tow...very safe! Not sure why it gets such a bad rep
It's absolutely that way. I leave a smoker worth about 1500 bucks outside and nobody has ever messed with it.
It's very safe compared to where I've lived before.
Before Disney you could do all that stuff in Orlando, it was a beautiful city.
It’s just like living in covid lockdown.
Lovely.
@@Dangic23 Not even close to the same thing. That's a very poorly thought comment. Congrats. Probably the stupidest thing I've heard today.
@@Dangic23 I doubt that they were locked down. I live in a free state and we weren't locked down. Could do whatever we wanted to do. Only the socialist States locked down.
Would love to live in a town like this, looks beautiful and peaceful.
It's not the best, but brother, it ain't the worst.
I'm from the uk and I have already visited some of your small american towns. I would love to visit rawlins just to see the place. When I do visit places like this in america, people seem to be shocked that a brit has come to visit and come chat to me.
I am English and lived in rawlins from 1970 to 1975, it was a great town to grow up in, we then moved to California and then onto Arizona and Pennsylvania, we now live in Shropshire back in England
I used to live on woodside Telford in the 90s, I'd say Detroit was better to live then woodside back then ..😂
@@Kaspertube513 we now live in Admaston near Telford our house overlooks the Wrekin hill, we are about 3 miles north of the A5, also lived in Windsor Ontario from 1967 until we moved to Rawlins, back then Detroit was a busy major city
There are a lot of other small American towns that I'd place higher up on your list of places to visit than Rawlins. I've been there and, while it's far from the worst place in the country, it's also far from the best. If you're looking for other towns in Wyoming, Cody (which has a good western museum), Laramie, Cheyenne (RR history), and Jackson are candidates.
They will love and appreciate you, as long as you are not from California!
Little crime because most of the citizens are packing guns 👏👏👏
A majority of the worst states in America are republican led/gun friendly with the exception of New Mexico and Maryland. I myself am libertarian and pro-2A. But it’s wrong to assume that everyone packing guns will lead to less crime. A lot of different factors are in play here
Those don't correlate in any way. Cities that have the most guns tend to always have the most violence. It's a simple.numbers game. Small amount of violence makes sense in BFE, Wyoming tho. Small population
@@jongallardo8006 What a false statement. 1st of all not true. 2nd of all it's the democrat run big city in the red state where the vast majority of the crime occurs.
@@jongallardo8006bullshitt 13% Of the population, commit 54% of the murders. Unfortunately a lot of that thirteen percent live in republican states
Them^
look I'm not even American but your videos are extremely interesting to me and they educate me, too. Keep it up man
Yes, me too. When am I going to visit Wyoming or Appalachia? Probably never.
@@Mystery-q8e haha it's free tourism you could say
I wanna see Nick and Mappy explore the worst parts of Mexico
On the way stop in Tucson. I currently live here and it’s pretty interesting
@@rodsilva80 I dunno, I figure ol' Nick's got a way with the mexicanos. I thought he was born in San Bernardino.
That sounds like a terrible idea. We love Nick, gotta stay safe.
The worst parts of Mexico are like a lot of bad places. The problem is within the population and out of view. He might find some poor neighborhoods but that's not even close to the problem in Mexico.
What do you not like Nick and Mappy?
47 years ago I worked for oil exploration group 190 miles west of Rawlins in Kemmerer ! Short term rented a closet above a bar with extension cord for alarm clock and shared communal bathroom!
At least not haunted like Ely Nevada were I worked for months!
Lived there in mostly abandoned like units similar to Rawlins motel!
Ha! I live in Pioche 🤠
People say it’s haunted too, but I don’t think it is. It’s a gem and truly a relic of the past, that’s for sure.
@@Ali.Bruni143 had a nice conversation with a lady my age (retired) and a good visit overnight while returning up to Idaho and Canada from LA. But the winters in Pioche?? Aren't they a match to Wyoming minus maybe the wind??
@@HeronPoint2021 Awesome :) yep.. snowy winters ⛄️ and VERY windy up in the mountains. Pioche is at 6.1K+ elevation, so the wind gets kinda crazy (I’m talking 20-30mph gusts are normal every few weeks) But, the people are great and Pioche is about as quiet and peaceful as a place can be. The only thing that really ever concerns me are the mountain lions.
Clearly the people who think this is "bad" need to take a trip through Kensington in Philly
I think the worst place to live in Wyoming would be in Moorcroft
As a Wyomingite I can say that Rawlins honestly isn’t that bad of a place, just another nice small town in the middle of nowhere. The bad places are the run down parts of Casper and Cheyenne
I've lived in Rawlins for the last 22 years. It's got some issues. But what town doesn't? I like it here.
Dude I love this channel. I've been to a lot of places Nick covers and its always spot-on. I got my car stuck in a snowdrift ON THE FREEWAY while trying to get out to public camping land about 10 miles south of Rawlins a few months back. Instead of camping, I stayed in the grossest hotel room I've ever seen in that town later that night...
I was in motel in Caspar WY it was so cold I slept in my insulated coveralls
I grew up in trailer parks all over N. America (oil patch stuff) and it was great. Some of these are now modulars, very energy efficient, and a lower Hydro bill than an old house. surprise.
I was told by someone when reaching out that they are experiencing a housing crisis in Wyoming. That was a bummer. It’s really beautiful.
They also have a suicide crisis. Nobody talks about that in these videos.
Not as much as many places. There are still decent places under 100 K
I lived in Wyoming for about 40 years. The reason Rawlins is considered "bad" is because to the prison. Folks think everyone who moves there or visits their loved ones in prison are not exactly desirable people. Also, the Frontier prison didn't close until the early 1980s and didn't get hot water for inmates until 1978.
The inmates in Wyoming prisons are some of the best looked after inmates in the USA. Lots of inmates that have a high probability of being ended are sent to Wyoming.
I grew up in Rawlins from around 76-82
It really hurts to see this abandoned places 😢 I just hope things get better for everyone in this country, praying for America. 🙏🇺🇲♥️
If repairable and habitable, it's housing for homeless. Something is better than nothing but sky and it's 5° outside.
I would like to see something done with the old hotels in town. The problem is there's no money in it. The population pretty much remains the same here. People move in and they move out. I think if someone just dozed the hotels and put up apartments they'd make money on the deal.
@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist4 Nobody asked you do be here. Please leave. There's about a metric shit ton of churches here. We've got it Paul the Baptist.
Larry Wilcox grew up in Rawlins, Wyoming, with three siblings and raised by a single parent - his mother. He graduated and then went to the University of Wyoming and studied pre-med and then transferred to Cal State University Northridge in Southern California. His sister was tragically murdered by her husband in front of her mother and their three children and Larry returned home to assist the family. imdb
Great story, but what does "CHiPs" or Larry Wilcox, aka Ponch's partner, have anything to do with anything? BTW Gillian's Island cast member Dawn Wells used to own the Spud Drive In, located in Driggs Idaho just a few miles from Wyoming, even though she was actually the ho and not Ginger. Touche'
@@evhbombasticHow dare u call Maryanne a Ho...lol
I live in Rawlings my dad use to go to a bar that was owned by the Wilcox family and was friends with them I met Larry as a kid I didn't know who he was wasn't much for C.H.I.P.S. the cop show remember that. That was a long time ago. Went to school with a couple of the Wilcox family fighters all of them. Peace
I grew up in the Casper area. I love Wyoming and even though I don't live there now I still think of it as home. I admit I hope it never changes, continue to move to Colorado, Utah and Idaho just forget about Wyoming. Oh and just an FYI, coal, and oil will always be in demand, on the other hand the people in power now will not always be in demand.
As the country moved from rural and agriculture to crowded cities and obese people sitting in cubicles all day, the connections between people and land and animals and nature have
caused the mess we are suffering through.
@@robertwalker5521
Damn!Well stated!!!
I live in Maricopa County Az, I never saw 1 Biden sign or hat or bumper sticker in 2020.
But remember 81 million votes!
You're not real bright are you?
Because they have to hide from the violent magats
My mom lived in Rawlins WY back in the 1940s. My grandparents lived in Rock Springs and great grandparents lived in Thermopolis from the late 1800s until the 1980s. My grandfather worked in the coal mines. He died in 1942 at the age of 38.
Monday you I do drive a big old F250 1969 campervehicle. And live in a 1930s weatherboard school next to a national park. Kangaroos and echidnas not deer...only 30 people live nearby. Most people drive toyota 4x4 here. Like 95 percent.
I would bet that the biggest reason people say Rawlins is the worst place goes all the way back when it became the "new" end of the line for the railroad from Cheyenne. Cheyenne business members got together and decided to clean up Cheyenne and sent the undesirables on a one way trip west to the end of the line. It literally boomed because it was filled with ladies of the evening and road agents.
One of my college house-mates had a summer job in Rawlins in the 1980s with the Bureau of Land Management. One of the problems Wyoming has is that the government owns large amounts of the land, and a larger-than-normal segment of the population are seasonal workers. The B.L.M. was doing wildlife research, and we used to joke that he had a job mapping prairie dog holes (which was essentially what he was doing). I drove across Wyoming twice along two separate routes when I went round trip from St. Louis to Seattle in June, and I would say that all of the towns have improved greatly over the last couple decades. Sheridan and Buffalo, especially. I got into a bad hailstorm at Devil's Tower (NE corner of the state).
I am camping in Sheridan right now. It’s not horrible, but it still seems a little sketch in some parts.
@@TMK687 The main drag used to be full of seedy cowboy bars where you would figure that a fight would break out every night---but I don't see much of that now (just drove through though.)
No skyscrapers,no traffic,no people, paradise.
Oh yeah, it's always windy in southern Wyoming too.
Cheyenne used to hold the Guinness record for windiest place in the country or world.
Tell me about it, used to live in Casper Wyoming. The wind blew the back window out of my Chevy Silverado
Cheyenne and Casper have always been back and forth between #5 and #6 in the country. State wide Wyoming is the windiest
driving from Ft. Collins to Laramie on 287, I always would get a chuckle because almost like clockwork once you cross the border into WY, the wind would start to pick up and there's a sign that says "Windy next 5 miles" - people know that they left out two 0's
This series is AWESOME. You really take care of your subscribers. Keep up the GREAT work.
Ok Mark!
Worst place and Wyoming just don't mix, lol. Most cities have more people than the whole state. I picture Wyoming being a great place to live.
I'm from Northern Colorado but know my way around Cheyenne better than Denver. I agree with the dude you were talking to, a feeling of peace washes over you as soon as you see the welcome to Wyoming sign.
I think I just fell in love with Wyoming.God Bless.
I would honestly say Rock Springs is worse than Rawlins. But these places are still good compared to the stuff I see in Denver or other places on the Front Range
I lived in Rawlins for 8 years and I agree I'd live in Rawlins before Rock Springs any day.
I saw Rock Springs it's not that bad
I live just outside of Denver, and the crime, homelessness, fentanyl use and deaths, and dense housing are creeping heavily into the suburbs. A small town, without the big, liberal city horrible policies sounds great.
I ❤ Wyoming. Actually stayed there overnight a few weeks ago. Cody rocks, too. Thanks for the videos Nick. Keep them coming sir.
Cody coming up 😉
@NickJohnson you have to go to Sheridan. Voted the best town in the west some on years back
Great Margaritas at this outdoor Mexican Restaurant on the main drag. Oops! I think it's German now. Have fun! You will love Buffalo Bill Museum on the West side. Two of the most scenic roads to the north (Chief Joseph and Beartooth Hwy).@@NickJohnson I posted a little video on here of the scenic view at Chief Joseph's.
Worst place in Wyo., Medicine Bow, Table Rock, Point of Rocks, Wamsutter, Woods Landing. Wind, snow, isolation, it was a nightmare.
I know one thing that istrue about Rawlins is that it is COLD and cahone chilling UP THERE ON ELK MOUNTAIN .
Thank you Nick for showcasing real America we don't see on TV.
Nick, about people moving to Wyoming, maybe you could do a story about this. Cheyenne's population was 50,000 for a long time, and suddenly in the last few years, we've grown to 65,000, or maybe it's even more by now. I still do not have a clear explanation why we've grown so much. I heard something about Microsoft, and something about the Air Force base in town. I just have no idea why we've grown so much, so quickly.
Uh I just did?
Drugs
people with work from home are fleeing covid liberal dumps
No, Wyoming! Don’t let the globalists ruin your state!!! Say no to those horrible wind turbines!
Too late.
Too late, but good news is most of the power they generate gets sold to CO, so our power in WY is still the cheapest in the nation. Ha. Ruins the view, but it is what it is.
Oh that is sooooo smart .Bwaaaaaahaaaaaaaahaaaassss😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂heeit
I visited Wyoming last year for the first time and drove thru most of the state.It's a very beautiful state!
I stayed the night in Rawlins in 2020, the first weekend of June. I liked it-the cool, dry air and Flintstones scenery. There's a nice walkable downtown and and some beautiful victorian houses.
Don't forget Durango's big brother Jackson Hole Wyoming, or Evanston. Which is Utah with real beer and more firework stands than you will ever see again.
My favorite town is Pinedale.
That house for 70K that is funny cuz 2 years ago I bought my house in southern Alabama for the same price. But mine is a brink house ranch style 4 bedrooms and 2 full bathrooms on 5 acres nice two car carport. Big difference I guess. I did live in Cheyenne for over a year back in 1995. I liked it there for the most part.
I live in Rawlins and love it. I grew up in Salt Lake city and moved here 23 years ago. I wish I knew you were in town.
Me too Aaron
@@NickJohnson Also I know CJ very well. I worked with him at the Dept of corrections
Wyoming is far from bad. It reminds me of small towns in Idaho. You should do a video on an Easter Idaho town. You'd probably literally make the news their lol. It would be interesting to see. Great video again!
Idaho is one of the most beautiful places I've ever visited I was amazed!!
I recall, some travel vloggers being mind blow that they can live their electronics in a table and come back several minutes later or few hours and the stuff is still there. You can do the same in Wyoming, Idaho, maine, or New Hampshire. Left a expensive cell phone in a restaurant (forgot it) one hour later a employee gave it back telling me a person brought it to the counter. At the time, I was from CA so this 1st world country encounter shock me.
Being able to work remotely my Son moved his family to Wyoming a year and a half ago. It’s beautiful and they love their new home and the Wyoming culture.
Do those green people in D.C. understand they need coal for batteries? Wow
The refinery isn't in Rawlins. It is in the town of Sinclair
Greatest state in the union. As soon as I retire, I will leave California for Wyoming. Rawlins is a great town and I love it.
I live in Wyoming. It was funny to see your response to the horse shoes painted on the sidewalks. This is a common thing in Wyoming. It is usually done in support of the high school. High school sports are a huge deal in our small towns with little else to do.
I see you met Feathers with her goat "Little Leaf". She purchased a laundrymat in Rawlins.
Wyoming is my favorite state I have ever been to,if I could transfer jobs there, i would in a second.
You got it right Rawlins! Keep up the good work and stand firm against the current administration.
Agree 100%!
They dont have looting vagrants or drug addicts all over the streets. My grand mother was born in Cheyenne, and i lived in Gillette for about 8 months. The people are nice and the cities are clean. If you want to live in peace its a nice state but it snows and its windy and cold during the winter.
The prices of those houses are still too high. They are made of plywood, with shingles on the roof, in the middle of nowhere. Then 70k to 200k is an insanely high amount!
My friend bought a huge old, but in good shape, home in North Dakota for $30,000. You would think that rural Wyoming would be even cheaper.
@@JohnJackson-si5bz North Dakota must be one of the cheapest states!
🥶🥶🥶 I live in Bismarck ND
@@RockyMtnLady11 nice to know. 😄
"So-called human faults are false labels, not laws, so we don’t have to accept them as belonging to us and consequently act them out. To believe that we can’t help ourselves because we were created with these failings or sins would dishonor God. Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health: “Man is incapable of sin, sickness, and death. The real man cannot depart from holiness, nor can God, by whom man is evolved, engender the capacity or freedom to sin. . . . In divine Science, God and the real man are inseparable as divine Principle and idea” (pp. 475, 476).
As the perfect reflection of God, man expresses divinely derived qualities such as discernment, patience, obedience, humility, love, and the desire to be useful and serve God in a way that blesses all." A Christian Science Journal exert
Wow, gotta see this one. I lived, went to school here for many in the early eighties.
Dad worked at the Union Pacific RR just like when I lived in Cheyenne a few years later.
Yeah southern Wyoming is something especially Rawlins.
Best Job .. in Your town , I worked at NEWMAN TRANSIT for Old Man NEWMAN , 1980's
The Water Stinks! I stayed in a motel one night. The bedding and the towels stunk. When I got home that smell had permeated everything in my suite case, my blanket and pillow. Even my cat stunk!
Fantastic a place like Rawlins is given 39 minutes in one of these vids. It's a thorough video that gives lots of info on the town, and gives you an angle on what towns are like in Wyoming. I lived in Gillette for 6 months back in 2013, and similar to Rawlins was a "boom and bust" town. Still to this day it had the cheapest cost of living of any place I lived in the U.S, and tons of work available. That's more than what you can say for many places.
Longmire TV show depicted Wyoming pretty well. Even though it was primarily filmed in New Mexico. Lots of similarities, but without the wind and snow in winter.
You are so authentic
Love all of your videos.
Love Wyoming! As a Vermonter it has real appeal especially up in the northern parts of the state. Visited WY 3 times since 2018, and no I never been to Jackson Hole. Love the Sundance area. In 2022 I was traveling east on I80 when we stopped in Rock Springs. I asked about Rawlings at a gas station in Rock Springs. The girl told me Rawlings was super sketchy. Well come to find out Rock Springs was every bit if not more sketchy then Rawlings. I think Rock Springs is the ugliest town in other wise one of the most beutiful state in this country.
The oil refinery is in Sinclair, not Rawlins, WY.
That prison is creepy!!! love the vid Nick!
We liked that prison but it was so hot that day, huh?
As a Coloradan 13:12 , Pueblo is the punching bag of the state . But there’s a few janky neighborhoods in Denver Aurora and C-springs that can give it a run for its money. I’ve been down to P-town a few times and never had a real problem. Good food down to earth folks and there’s a cool state park outside of town. Windy as all hell though
wow, finally a town that I've actually been to!! this is so fun to watch. I visited my dad @ the penitentiary 13 years ago (to pick him up when he was released) and I don't remember being all that enthusiastic about it LOL. very cool to see it again now that he has passed away because I can remember many of the places I went with him that you're showing. :) thank you for the awesome videos. also, I just recognized the paddocks at 17:47! there were all kinds of animals there when I visited (some emaciated) but I used to visit the horses every morning. small world!
what crime was dad doing time for?
Was your dad a horse thief?
WOW! That opening title sequence deserves much applause.
x 0:37 Very cool prison!
x 18:08 That's a really great shot with the train rolling through!
x 19:33 Mappy's gone gun crazy hahaha! Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em!
x 20:11 Now that's a bar experience!
x 36:02 A HUGE selling point on Wyoming that is 100% consistent with my experience!
o I lived in Wyoming for three months for a travel nurse assignment and travelled all over the state. Whenever I pulled off the road and parked (often I would just pull over and read my map), someone asked if I needed assistance 100% of the time! Sometimes more than one person would ask (if they didn't see that someone already stopped). So they probably stopped by at least 40 times (40 out of 40).
Another great interview!
Keep up the good work telling everyone how horrible Wyoming is. Hopefully lots of people see this so they won't move here. We love it just the way it is.
Doesn't take much to please some people when they have low standards. Wyoming sucks.
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@@terryparker1694 so glad you think that. The more of you that think that the fewer of you will move here. We don't want you. Thanks for your negativity!
I grew up in Cheyenne and I remember taking school field trips to the state penitentiaries (I think there's one in Laramie too). To this day I find them fascinating, though heavy for young kids lol
It`s called visit your parents day !
Sinclair is a town! That's where the refinery is located. It's not located in Rawlins.
Only issue I've ever had with Rawlins, is some of the auto repair shops are crooks.
Penny's Diner is a small-ish chain that usually sits in front of a motel, of which I forget the name: both mainly cater to railroad crews, but are open to everybody. The one in Cheyenne is really good.
Oh, the refinery you showed at the beginning, is actually in the town of Sinclair.
Yup, the company has their own town.
The largest of the coal fields there, are up in Gillette.
We spent a few hours in Rawlings back in July, on our drive from WA to WI. Cool place, with people trying hard to keep the town alive and, somewhat, well. I respect that a lot!
Wyoming reminds me of Colorado 30-40 years ago and that’s not a bad thing. Not at all. One of my favorite places.
Extreme desolation for over 150 miles in either direction on interstate 80 from Rawlins. No tiny speck of rundown town is more of a relief to see when traveling through Wyoming than Rawlins. Even if the McDonald's is shuttered like it was last summer. Yup it was.
When was this? I never have seen the Mikey Ds shuttered.
But what you say is true. Any chance you get to stop in Wyoming, do it.
Especially in winter. I 80 is bad news.
I live in Rawlins and our McDonalds hasn’t been closed except for inside dining during the pandemic. The drive through has always been open.
When I was in Wyoming last summer, it felt like their main industry is fireworks 😅. Beautiful state, loved it.
I live in northern CO and many people drive up to Wyoming to buy fireworks that are illegal here. Then everyone around puts on a HUGE show here on the 4th. Pretty awesome to see from some elevation actually.
Edit: it always surprises me so many people do this despite the fire risk most years, I don’t exactly agree its a great idea. But it’s what happens, and it is pretty spectacular.
A+ video!
Great to see a preview of what is considered the worst part of the state by some!
Nick you are an excellent storyteller. The only person I know who can make Wyoming sound interesting!
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City Market is owned by Kroger. They have a lot of different supermarkets under different names. Kroger, Ralphs, Dillons, Smith's, King Soopers, Fry's, QFC, City Market, Owen's, Jay C, Pay Less, Baker's, Gerbes, Harris Teeter, Pick 'n Save, Metro Market, Mariano's Fred Meyer. Supposed to merge with Alberstons.
Hi Nick, It is great that you can travel around the US and see what US towns look like. Great Video!
I LOVE your channel!!!
That big Victorian house that you said would be a good B&B was/is a B&B. It is the historic Ferris Mansion.
The motel with the abandoned cars was open when I moved here 14 years ago. We reserved a room there when we left to move here. When we got there, it was invested with cockroaches, so we asked for our money back from the front desk guy sporting boxers and a wife beater. I believe the cockroaches now own it.
I stayed at the Western Hill Campground in June. The place was packed. No trees…packed in sites. But it’s an easy on and off to 80.
I was meeting 1500 Airstream trailers and 3k owners in Rock Springs for our Annual rally. Surrounding towns like Rawlins near Rock Springs benefit when the Airstreamers come into town. I didn’t think Rawlins was that bad.