Small towns outside of Cody

[StealthRabbit]

Originally Posted by hokler

If you can stand the rain look at the Portland area.Many great suburbs always green. ....

But if you are wind averse, avoid the Columbia Gorge. We get a lot of 80 MPH wind, but... it often comes with 20F temps and rain... When the fences get 6" thick with ice, you can imagine how the power lines feel...


And yes it's green, even the 4" of moss growing on my neighbors roof, and the shady side of my dumptruck.

Real estate market is strong and will remain so, with nearly 300 California transplants arriving MONTHLY into Portland and Vancouver WA areas.

Fishing is decent, and nothing like a 25# steelhead to BBQ.

It does rain 281 days / yr, but is nice in the summer, tho stuff dries up in about 5 days w/o rain. Fire danger is EXTREME, tho few realize it. As my website posts, the most extreme wildfire in PNW history came through in 1902 burning at a rate of 110 acres / minute (236,000 acres in 36 hrs). Now with thousands of homes in that urban interface... things could be ugly. (I do defensible space work in my free time, but few customers, yet...)

[ScarletRose]

Originally Posted by thefireman

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I could say the same thing about Cody. The problem here is that there area too many people moving in from out of state and they are driving up the price of land and of housing. Thats why its so expensive to live here.

Be careful of all the small towns that were mentioned by jkb826 in another post here. Some of them don't even have a grocery store.

I have lived in Cody for 34 years and I can't remember a -40 winter in the last eight years that jkb826 has lived here. Maybe a -40 windchill.

The smaller towns do have charm though.. I wouldn't dare consider living in Cody.. nor Jackson.. I enjoy having extra money in my pocket rather than waste it.. and unless you have a secure source of income don't count on always having the money to make the mortgage..

I grew up in Littleton Colorado and moved up to Greybull in 1997, I have also resided in Worland and Powell and enjoyed both of those towns over Greybull.. but, then I am middle aged and have children so the larger towns were better suited for my family.. I moved back into the Basin area 2 1/2 years ago and would love to get back up to Powell..

I also do remember -40 below temps at least for a week.. and thought every winter it would get that cold.. I was living along the Basin and down through Worland.. the year it got the worst was in 2000.. I remember since that was the winter before I relocated back up to Greybull ..