Unreal Estate Game: Wyoming
 

Assume that you idly buy a state lottery ticket while getting a doughnut at 7/11, and voila! You're a winner! You win your choice of one the five houses that will be shown.

I'll give you five houses in a state, and you vote on the house you would take.

Background rules:

Assume that your job situation won't need to change - you can find an identical job or work from home or whatever, so jobs don't matter.

Consider the house itself and the location and anything else that's important to you (schools, restaurants, lot size, etc.). Feel free to do a google map search to check out the neighborhood and the area.

You cannot sell the home. You can live in it as long as you like, but when you move out, it reverts back to the state as a prize for a future winner.

All houses will generally be in the $900,000 to $1 million price range.

All maintenance and utilities and taxes are cost-neutral compared to your current home.

If you wouldn't move into any of these homes, you can instead accept a cash prize of $50,000 (tax free).

Today's state is Wyoming. Here are your five houses:

Cheyenne - http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...9_M81713-02298

Cody - http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...2-82338#photo0

Dubois - http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...7-07369#photo0

Jackson Hole - http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...8-15072#photo0

Pinedale - http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...8-24827#photo0

love these threads!

i must research b4 i weigh in

Dubois. That house in Cheyenne would be great for location (my parents live in Cheyenne) but the house ****ing sucks. I'll take the land and the house in Dubois.

I'd go with Jackson Hole - Only because I've been there several times and it's a beautiful place - but Wyoming, in general is beautiful - and it's not close to Denver....

Cheyenne for me, with Dubois a very close runner up. I'm not a fan of log homes/western type houses, but the land in Dubois would make it totally worth it.

I personally couldn't go wrong with either.

Does this mean RM won the lottery?

My rankings below. #2 through #4 are almost interchangeable to me for wildly different reasons. I'm dangerously close to just taking the $50,000 in Wyoming. It's a beautiful state, but I don't think I'd want to live so far from stores and restaurants.

#1 - Dubois - Love the house and the views. I'm not really into the log home architecture, but the walls of windows are great. The challenge with this house is that it's in the middle of nowhere. I might get really bored.

#2 - Nice house, nice views, and the Cody location is nice. I'm not really into the log home architecture.

#3 - The 80 acres is really nice, but the house is pretty meh, and it's kind of in the middle of nowhere. Pinedale has a few restaurants, but then you're driving an hour to the store.

#4 - Great views and a good location relative to town, but I'm not paying a million bucks for 1,200 square feet.

#5 - Cheyenne. I like the city access to Cheyenne, but at the end of the day it's just a big house in a subdivision.

Not yet. But I'm working on it.

That one's tempting, but 1,200 square feet kills the deal for me. I'd rather have a bigger home somewhere else.

Me too. Halvsies?

I'll consider it. I need to know your number picking strategy first.

#3. The river would be the driving factor. Fly fishing in the back yard. Elk hunting in the fall. Fresh water. I could damn near live off grid.

Pinedale, 80 acres, fishing and hunting. I'm set for life.

I always let the computer pick. I figure if God wants me to have it, it will come sometime. That, and I ain't wasting 15 minutes picking numbers in some kum and go.

Cody and Dubois are the only two in the running for me.

Ultimately I like the Dubois house and shop a little more, but the acreage in Cody wins out carries the day.

DuBois

I dunno why but these seem very overpriced to me considering they are in wyoming..I figured you could get more for a million bucks in wyoming...but ive only looked at the 1st two so far

5 acres in dubois or the 80 acres in pinedale....

yes pinedale is dated but you could fix er up


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hmmm which one though

edit: went with Pinedale and I would fix it up......

not a bad way to spend the rest of my life

Pinedale, and its not even close.
Blue Ribbon Trout stream access.
Fishing access in Wyoming is tough.

Pinedale Followed by Cody as very distant second choice.

Jackson

Actually, I'm a bit surprised myself at the same thing.

Yeah i was thinking that myself. Maybe they aren't priced right. One seems to have been on the market for close to 3 years.

Of course i value distance from people rather than neighbors. My scopes are dialed in.

I live on a quarter mile section with 1 neighbor presently.

I have heard the Taxes in Jackson are outrageous. Someone told me that Native Jackson Hole citizens can hardly afford to live there anymore.
I should look it up.

Which one is the furthest away from the Yellowstone super volcano that's going to kill everybody in the world?

I'll take that house.

Pailin's. It's close to Russia.

^^ This.

This.

Pinedale.

If I'm moving to WY I need private hunting and fishing property. The house in Dubois is gorgeous though.

I've had to alter the rules to play along, otherwise I'd be taking the 50 Gs every time. I'm picking the house that I would live in if I was forced to live somewhere in the state.
You'd have to do a lot better than the 1 M dollar range to get me to budge from where I am now.

this is what i assumed everyone was doing

I'm basically pretending I have nothing where I am, or am renting a place....otherwise I agree.

I would take the 50g thus far because its not worth it for me to move/retire/sell my house

I looked up the average price of a house in KC and Google told me $132,300. That can't be right... Is it 1982 in KC?

heh

I am not familiar with the KC market at all. I do have a cousin who builds homes in the area...and about 5 years ago I went to some of the nicer ones...I was amazed at what you could get out there for the money. Huge basements/man caves....land....nice quality construction....

Awful tempting if youre a renter elsewhere to move to a place like that and put down roots, IMO. If I was younger and still renting I would go somewhere like that where places were affordable....

I love Jackson Hole, best airport I've ever flied in and out of.

That said, if I'm going to have a place in Wyoming I want it to be my own little Oasis, so I'll go with Dubois. It's perfect. Large, great for entertaining, and not far from Jackson and Yellow Stone.

Easy choice if you ask me. That pool table room, just money!

I've been to all and I really like the area around Pinedale the best. Beautiful country. It's close to the Wind River Range. One of the best trips I've ever taken.

With a address "Clubhouse Dr" I knew Dubois had to be on a Golf course.... a quick check on Google maps confirmed it.....I believe I would be very happy there....:D

Do you know how long the golfing season is in Wyoming?

It that things blows, you would be screwed in all of those places.

Pinedale then Cody. Im looking for land to build a smaller version of that now anyways.

I actually have a friend from high school who lives in Pinedale.

I can get the hookup for anyone who is serious about moving.

And all other places as well.

I voted for Dubois too, but does it bother anyone else to be so far from a grocery store or restaurant or movie theater?

Would UPS deliver there? Could you do Amazon Prime so that you could get a package of cookies without driving 50 miles?

No, Maybe, Dunno

I romanticize living in the middle of nowhere and Dubois is beautiful, but I have to admit that I really like the anonymity of living in a big city and the ease of getting services. If I could get a UPS box of good food three times a week, that would ease a lot of my discomfort. But I don't think I'd enjoy going to the same three restaurants and nodding to the same people any time I wanted to go out. As much as I like the idea of country living, I'd probably prefer to live in the city at this point.

But man, that Dubois house is gorgeous.

I went to a really nice sports card shop in Dubois.

I wonder if it's still in business?

I don't want the work that comes with a a big place. The isolation and cold weather are also negatives. I would need to discuss with the Mrs, but I'm thinking of pocketing the $50K.

If you lived in Dubois you would know. And you would also know about the owner's sister's kidney stones and the fact that the owner's daughter made honor roll in her first semester at Montana State.

I grew up in a smaller town than Dubois.

I know this quite well. :D

PS-Montana State is the shitty school, FYI.

I love it, but i am only about 15 minutes out of town.

:cuss: Don't make me beat your ass, son.:D

Only team in Big Sky football without a conference win. ROFL

I knew their season was done as soon as Prokop went to Oregon. Doesn't mean the school sucks though. Someday they may just catch up to U of M in rape convictions...err...I mean conference championships.:D

Hush you VW van driving, wolf hugging, not sure which bathroom to use hippy. :D

Stay. Too cold to live in Wyoming forever.

Million dollars for a house in Wyoming? With not even that much land? Insane

Dubois


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Median home price for listings in Jackson is 1.2 mil - unbelievable.

The view in Cody is amazing - the house in Dubois is amazing too

Dubois, I suppose. Cheyenne is comparable in size but does not look spacious in the least. Where's all that square footage?

Not excited about spending my days in Wyoming, though!

Trick poll.

You still end up in Wyoming.

And Wyoming is the biggest shit hole on the entire planet.

Besides, where's the primo real estate listed in Rock Springs?

The wind blows at 80 mph every day, all year. It's 3476 degrees below zero starting in July and other than the western 1/8th of the state, it looks like the ****ing surface of Mars.

Chemical plants, fracking fields, and they took the restaurant out of the Little America west of Rock Springs and raised the ice cream cones to $0.75 per cone. Total bullshit! (Although the breakfast at Little America in Chyenne is pretty damn good and very posh. Highly recommended.

Unless I get to see a house listed in Rawlins or Rock Springs, this poll sucks dog balls!