3 bed, 3 bath on a couple acres for $445k: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4802-Oasis-St-Cheyenne-WY-82009/15021980_zpid/ Same place in the Denver burbs would be $650-700k. Laramie is more than two thousand feet higher than Fort Collins, so not surprising they average about 10 degrees colder in the winter. What's more surprising is they only average about the same annual snowfall. Lots of small snowfalls that stick around there, as opposed to the big Front Range dumps that Fort Collins sometimes gets.

Yazoo City is off the list considering its past tornado history. Plus, I've been there and it SUUUUUUUUCKS

we should play a cool game to pass the time, called "If I had to live in X state, where would I live?" what if you had to live in MS, where would you live?

It’s rough on everyone, animals, and crops. when it’s extended. We can manage a few days, but when that High just parks itself, it’s taxing. Everything suffers. I’ve been concerned for people that work outdoors and animals/livestock…just brutal. 104* today, worse on the highways, all that concrete and steel. Other sites say 106*. (Like that matters)

Cheyenne is one of the windiest cities in the U.S., and the top city for hail...serious lack of trees there, too. If I had to live in WY, I'd probably choose Cody or Laramie. Cody because it's so close to the cool stuff in WY (Yellowstone, Tetons, etc) but much larger cities of Billings and Bozeman aren't ridiculously far away. Laramie is still small but quite a bit larger than Cody (31,000), nice college town in the hills near the Rockies, and only about 2 hours from Denver and 1 hour to Fort Collins.