Why WYOMING Is "Empty" And COLORADO Is Not 

I always saw them as mountain states.

I’m under the impression that most of the land that is not arable is BLM or National Forest, and if you can drill for water, it’s probably privately owned. Is this the case?

Sounds great!

As someone from Texas if I had to move out west I’d probably move there

Yes, this is exactly what Geoff says at 6:50

Isn’t Wyoming a state? Why you calling it a small town????

Pueblo: am I a joke to you?? yes, actually.

For sure. Cheyenne isn't even a true city, and it's the largest in Wyoming. That's wild to me.

The only occupation of Colorado is the eastern Sierra front range for water.

​@@kepler656 lol..I was thinking the same thing..

@@kathleenmccrory9883 I live in Pueblo I actually like it here 😋 not as crowded, still mountain adjacent, can actually get a decent house for under 225k

Wait wait wait…I thought Earth was flat 😂😂😂

Why not return to the rightful owner, Native American people?! As a small payback for taking over their whole Continent?

A sphere? Prove it without using Disney cartoons. Go.

​@@ohlordy9680both irrelevant and confused

'Slavery, Colonialism & Colonization' are evil things done by evildoers. - You can't discover a place if people are already there for 20,000 long years. - Native Americans came from Asia 20,000 years ago when Europeans came from the Middle-East some 40,000 years ago. - This land is their one and only ASSET. The beloved motherland their ancestors forebears had lived through thick and thin, endured through hardships of all sorts for so long. With their main ASSET being taken away from them, their IDENTITY, their DIGNITY, their POPULATION and most of all, their FUTURE are all but gone.That's a sad truth indeed. - All they, indigenous Native people need is their beloved motherlands back, the lands that their ancestors' forebears had lived through thick and thin, endured through hardships and all for tens of thousands of years. - May I ask why not let Native Americans have Europe, since Europeans have had both North/South America Continents already? A fair deal? Remember the saying, "You can't have your cake and eat it too" and "A man's gotta do, what a man's gotta do".

Called no water, no cities.

It a beautiful landscape

@@denver0102 I am a geologist and lover deserts. Forests to study geology are just a pain.

I remember crossing Wyoming on a cross country trip with my parents year's ago and I remember the tree less rolling hills with a interstate freeway going right through it

Thanks Jeff!

Denver grew bigger and faster because the Colorado gold rush drew more people and money than the Wyoming coal rush, and reasonable proximity from the gold and silver wasn’t 100 miles on horseback or wagon. Also, Cheyenne has not even a stream of water flowing through it either. Denver has the Platte River right down the middle of it.

As someone who lived in Cheyenne for over a decade, Cheyenne could never have become what Denver is now. Mostly the wind. That horrible, horrible wind. The lack of water is true to a point, but it's mostly the wind. It's also not as pretty. You don't have the mountains towering over the city like in the Front Range. Maybe, on a clear day, in certain locations, you can see the Rockies in the distance. Definitely not the same.

I lived in Laramie 36 years. I worked as the project engineer on a water pipeline through Warren Air Force base for BOPU back in 2012 that lasted 5 months. I learned… winds in Cheyenne are absolutely worse than winds anywhere I’ve experienced any where else in Wyoming, and I’ve lived in Cody, Sheridan, Rawlins (BARF!), Gillette and Lusk. Cheyenne, by far, has the least hospitable weather outside of Mars, although I don’t know what Mars’ weather is like…. I do know what weather is like in a lot of places and they are all better than Cheyenne, Wyoming.

@@enigmawyoming5201 ❤️

The story goes, the reason the wind always blows in Wyoming is because Nebraska sucks! 😳 It's a joke people!!!!

The pro gamer move would be to invade Wyoming and annex it into literally any other state.

The wind is that bad?

@@thecastle09 yes i live in wyoming

Maybe it is the distortion of the maps as you move closer to the poles? Kind of how Greenland looks similar in size to S. America.

I know, right ? rectangles !

We always called them that going up! “Ehh the square states aye?” Jk .

Anyone ever float down them to the sea?

@@bdwon You can see the separate creeks on Google Earth if you have it on your computer. & having a topographic map layer in it would help, too. I have seen a few pics on both the internet & Google Earth that show 2 separate creeks flowing downstream at the point where Two Ocean Creek splits to form both Atlantic Creek & Pacific Creek. Isa Lake in Yellowstone is on top of the continental divide & there is a road that runs next to it, along with a parking lot for tourists who want to see it for themselves. The strange thing about the creeks that run out of Isa Lake is that the creek that runs west out of Isa Lake flows to the Atlantic Ocean/Gulf of Mexico while the creek that flows from its eastern side flows to the Pacific!

Gulf of Mexico is not the Atlantic Ocean.

@@davidmurray6176 It is linked to the Atlantic Ocean just like the Mediterranean Sea is so it is therefore within the basin that rivers flow into.

@cg62262 linked is the key word. All the oceans are linked in one way or another.

Because the blue states are terrible cesspools now. Even though Democrats think that moving to red states and bringing their politics with them make sense. The reason the states are better, is because they're not run by Democrats I don't think they will ever understand that.

It's windy but it's primarily windy in the very south part of the state. When you get up north the only time it's really windy is in the winter. I lived there for 25 years and I loved it, and my kids still live there. But the winters are a little too rough for me anymore. But you're right you don't want to tent camp in the Rockies score in the bighorns because there are a lot of bears. Anytime I camp up around Yellowstone it's always in a camper just because of the Bears. Also the wind is bad in the winter for sure, but during the summer the northern part of Wyoming is it not windy. In fact it's fantastic because it never gets very hot and there's absolutely no humidity

Wyoming residents because of its elevation and is high and dry have smaller brains and intellectually stunted.

@@Wyomingchief I wanna go to the Yellowstone area and see. I’ve been camping near the Colorado border Laramie, glendo , Wheatland. Laramie would always be windy.

Winds no joke but the grizzly’s pose a bigger threat out there

Black people try to not make everything about race challenge (Impossible!)

It’s not.

@@Dangic23 It is.

It is.

@@robgrey6183 I lived there.

​@robgrey6183 I lived there, it was pretty bad

Because U.S. Customs and Border Protection operates a Port of Entry there. International private flights can arrive there. Cheyenne has no such facility.

Why would Delaware need an International Airport?

Casper flights go to Denver. 1 flight per day. Same with Cheyenne. They used to have a daily flight to Denver. Then it changed to 1 daily flight to Dallas. Not sure what they have now, I left that unlivable State (weather) in 2020.

More likely it was Denver developing a strong urban nucleus by the 1960s, coupled with intensive government investment in Colorado Springs as a military city. With those core factors, people started moving there in droves in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a cheaper alternative to California and the East Coast and as a place where one could experience mountain beauty while still having urban amenities. From the 1990s onward, the boom kept a feedback loop with Denver and the rest of the Front Range growing richer and more attractive to migrants from other states.

@@jonathanbowers8964 lol, i was joking!...kinda. you make a lot of strong points, but my intrinsic argument, crystalized as "mork and mindy", remains. imo, a lot of colorado's growth was driven by: 1) the rise of cable tv in the 70s and 80s, inexorably tied to denver, and its further diversification into ISPs in the 90s and early 2000s, all emblematic of colorado's impressive economic diversification after a resource-extraction-driven early economy (something wyoming never could accomplish); 2) the cultural fantasy/reality of colorado as an "outdoorsy" healthy attractive place to live, filled with "outdoorsy" healthy attractive people.

Sparse, dry, hot (until winter then freezing cold), windy, boring as hell. It ends up a pipe dream for most people. Doesn't work out the way you think it will. Move there to make your money, when it's hot, it's hot, then move to somewhere where antelope aren't the main attraction. Also, much like Alaska, there are few women. Sausage fest from hell most places.

I lived there 6 years. You don’t want to do that to yourself. You don’t live in WY, you survive in WY. If it wasn’t for CO being so close, I would’ve been dead.

@@markw999 Went out with a woman from Rock Springs that was a teacher and she was beautiful. Every bar we went to some guy wanted to beat me up because I was with her thinking they’d leave with her. Horrible place in my opinion.

@@markw999 who gives a f is there are no companions to men?

No he is not. This is borderline plagiarism. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EHrq16I3vII.html&ab_channel=RealLifeLore

Amen. Same as the UP of Michigan....Everyone below the Thumb stays away. We like it like that. My nephew moved to WYOMING five years ago with his family for a good job. He said he will NEVER leave now he is in love with Wyoming. They have five kids now. everyone is happy. Beautiful State.

Exactly 😂

Literally came to say this.. I swore I had watched a video on this topic before.. sucks this guy has to steal video ideas I really enjoyed his channel

Unless ive totally lost my mind and forgot which state Telluride is in. Which is very probable.

Dont hate me man. U see? I have these brain farts…

To Nebraska 😂

Maybe you never heard because you lived there? :) In nearby Idaho, we did call you the "square states."

Cheyenne is higher than Denver. WY wind is brutal which is why the interstates close all the time.

CO does get some pretty extreme wind, but not quite like or quite as extreme as what WY more typically deals with, also from someone who currently lives and was raised in Northern CO. You are right however, though the average elevation is very similar, CO does sit a bit higher on average. And, I haven't heard "Square states" all too often, but I've heard the term tossed around. I mean it is a pretty comm running joke I've heard my whole life growing up here about our state (and our sibling to the north) just being a square.

Back east, we mock The SQUARE States - mercilessly... but quietly. 🤫

I live in Denver and I have heard Colorado referred to as the "Box State"

I ended up in Laramie for 10 days on a business related trip. Had a great time. Cool college town. Wasn't hard to find something to do.

I ended up in Laramie because the wind and the snow shut the highway for 3 days. So I was trapped there.

Yeah he did.

Yes. When I lived in WY I had to go to CO for everything other than milk/bread/eggs.

lol, living less than 50 miles from wyoming, and having spent considerable time there, i can confidently predict that wyoming will be one of the last places in the united states to fill-up. 🤣 it's quite nice, if you appreciate starkly beautiful natural settings with a significant smattering of resource-extraction money generators, and often brutal weather, but there just aren't many folks who have such toleration, much less appreciation.

Probably not. Even Colorado has vast wide open areas. Eastern Colorado, especially the southeast, is really quite empty. And the mountainous areas have very low populations - lots of national parks and it's just too hard to build there. Wyoming is just completely empty. For miles and miles and miles. I drove up to Yellowstone this last summer. Was on Highway 287 from I-80 up to Riverton. There were numerous times where you could see the highway stretching out in front and behind as far as the eye could see (which was far, given the lack of trees and gentle hills) and not a single car or building to be seen - just highway. One enormous valley after another that are just completely empty. Even I-25 though Wyoming has surprisingly long distances between exits with any services at all. And If you ever end up on Highway 26 from Casper to Shoshoni, that road is just so boring - mile after mile of flat plains with nothing. Wyoming could have a population like Colorado and still not feel crowded. Even Colorado could massively grow it's population and, outside the major cities, still feel quite empty.

Do u smoke

@@jackb8598 When ignited yes.

@@dub604 when ignited? How long have you been smoking for and how much do you per day?

@@jackb8598 🤡

In Idaho Falls (near where I grew up), we had the Grand Teton Mall, the Grand Teton Village, etc. lots of reminders of our nearby geographic feature. When I learned that it basically means "the great nipple", I thought it was hilarious. Later I moved to France and, apparently, the French didn't find it funny. I guess when you live in a country where it is OK to let your nipples hang out at the beach, there was nothing scandalous or out-of-the-ordinary about something with a nipple shape.

A first, DC a true welfare state.

Yes. WY has 6 times more Congressional power than CA. It’s a joke.

A District does not get a Senate Seat X2 by rule of law and the Constitution. You see give the Marxist government we have today an inch, the will give all US territories a Senate Seat too!

There are not even real "cities" in Wyoming. More like big towns.

@@jeremiahallyn4603 Casper, Wyoming is roughly the same size as Green Bay, Wisconsin circa 1980...

When compared to even Cheyenne

Only comment I've seen mentioning this. How odd. ALSO, the Chat GPT recognized this script as AI generated... cmon geoff, I subscribed for a reason