Why Nobody Lives in Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, or the Dakota's
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- čas přidán 2. 11. 2023
- America is changing, with the United States growing by 17% since the turn of the century. However, while the top end of the U.S. economy has grown tremendously over the past decade- inequality has too and America's population has stagnated.
So while portions of the United States are experiencing a record-breaking rise in population and economic output, other massive portions of America are almost completely empty. That's how places like Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Nebraska all have tiny populations and limited economies... while states like Colorado, Utah, and Idaho are booming like never before.
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Thank you for watching my video on why states like Colorado and Utah have such significant populations, while states like Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, and the Dakota's don't.
I live in Montana. It’s worth mentioning that growth in Montana is not unsubstantial, it’s actually quite large. Montana has been seeing an influx of many people from neighboring states (mainly Idaho and Washington state) and from other states (like Colorado, Utah, and California). Colorado got a head start out of all the states in the Rocky Mountains where gold was found first. Unlike Montana and Wyoming, Colorado is also FAR MORE livable as well. Colorado is much warmer and sunnier. Colorado’s Front Range Corridor is easier to build on than most lands in Wyoming and Montana. Growing seasons are longer in Colorado and Utah. Comparing to Wyoming’s notoriously long, cold, and windy winter, Colorado is almost like a subtropical place. Montana’s winter is pretty much the same as Wyoming, except it’s also darker and cloudier. Having said that, Montana’s economy is still growing quick as more people are moving in. While tourism and railroad still dominate Montana’s economy, other industries including hospitality, tech, and medical are growing fast. But, truth to be told, Wyoming and Montana aren’t too interested in growing quickly it’s because high growth also complicates a lot of things. Colorado’s growth didn’t come effortlessly either. Interstates 25 and 70 aren’t meant to be used by millions of people each day, yet those highways are used by millions everyday. This caused insane traffic congestion. Colorado’s growth creates an affordability problem that led to more homelessness and poverty. Colorado’s crime rate has increased, mirroring California in so many ways right now. It’s alarming when I met so many people from Colorado that live in Montana now because they all think Montana is actually more similar to the Colorado that they remember. Colorado is pretty much just California in the mountains these days, and I think Idaho is next on the list, and then Utah, then Montana.
It's my understanding that Kalispell has grown a lot. I haven't been there since 2008, when it was perfect.
@@jamosgarage9006 Not as much as Bozeman
Wow this explanation was just as good as the video maybe better.
@@zacsdiygunsRepublikkkans hate immigration because it means minorities who aren't misanthropes are moving in
I lived in Idaho, Colorado, and Nebraska. I'm back home in Montana. I've seen the effects of growth for growth's sake and it's not always so rosy or a positive. I was visiting in the Colorado Front Range back in September and recall living there in the mid 90's. The growth is ludicrous. Loveland proper still retains some charm but the growth between it and Fort Collins looks out of control. I lived in Bozeman in the early 90's and it was a challenge then. My youngest daughter graduated from MSU 3 years ago and the growth there is ruining the area. Cost of living is out of reach for most workers, especially in the service industry. Playgrounds for the rich is term I recall and that seems to be holding true. I am glad to be back in central Montana, and I think our city leaders and business leaders saw what happened in Bozeman, Missoula, Kalispell, and even Helena. The development here is being kept from exploding as it has in other urban areas of my home state.
Thanks for shedding light on this topic!
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Very helpful!
These five states seem most appealing to me lmao
I would want to visit too, but no worries, I won’t be moving there.
I live in SD. You mentioned colorado giving incentives for a positive buisness enviroment as a driver of population growth and investment. South Dakota removed all caps on the amount of interest credit card companies and banks could charge in order to lure us bank into selecting SD as it's head quarters in the 80's. It worked and we got 200 jobs...essentially causing the credit card debt crisis nationally. Further more as outlined in,the largest investigation in journalistic history, the "Pandora Papers" SD is essentially the heart of the world's shadow financial system.
Still very little growth. These states are empty because of the mass exodus that took place in the dirty 30's. The majority of which was people abandoning there family farms. It took several decades for them to even get back to their pre 30's population levels. The death of family farms killed small towns, the lack of small towns limited small city growth etc. I can drive for 60 miles and see 2 houses and a gas station.
Why? Because of the relentless winds. It blows everyday across the upper plains. SD,ND, Eastern MT, all of WY, it blows every day. Rarely does the wind not blow.
Same down here in west Texas, Oklahoma, eastern Colorado, eastern New Mexico, and Kansas. Comes down off the mountains and hits like a train. Most poles or towers around here are bent toward the east after a while.
In Nebraska we drive to Walmart for fun. Think about that before coming here.
Recently drove through these states and I can assure you people do live there.
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As a resident of Utah, I couldn't help but notice a significant number of photos that were supposed to be Utah, were in fact not Utah.
Note even the Canadian provinces directly north of these states have more people and bigger cities. (Calgary and Edmonton have over a million each.)
The thing about those states is that they are pretty inhospitable. No large, navigable rivers (At least not as big as the ones farther south) resource, extraction-based economies keep education levels low and less precipitation are all issues. Ranching takes up a ton of land area, but only needs a handful of people. Farming needs more, but these places aren't as productive as say, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri or Ohio. American manufacturing, which could have supported these communities, was shipped overseas (Thanks WTO!) so kids end up leaving if they have any sense. This population exodus hollows out communities *and* makes cities more expensive.
And it's cold. Cold like you've never felt in your life. People think Colorado is cold because it snows, sometimes. CO ain't got nothing on a Dakota winter. At least not until you get to altitude.
I’ll be hunting in western Nebraska in about 10 days, and I can attest to the fact that very few people live in that part of Nebraska.
I’ve lived in Wyoming for 20 years. You got it exactly right about the governments active role in discouraging grow & change. WY’s leaders take pride in its backwardness & the fact that it’s not like CO.
I occasionally hear people say how Wyoming would be a wonderful place to live I ask them if it's such à great place to live why is it the least populous state.
You make it sound like us in the northern plains have primitive lifestyles. I live in South Dakota, and Sioux Falls and Rapid City are some of the fastest growing standalone cities in the United States today. With these people comes economic diversification, and eventually we will get to a stage like Colorado. I've noticed our neighbors to the north have had relative success with becoming like us as well. South Dakota's state income tax in non-existent, and North Dakota's is a little over 2%. Sioux Falls has added more than 75 thousand people in the last 30 years and Rapid City is the number one place that conservatives from the Denver area are moving to. Besides, we like it with less people here :)
More people= more crime. more people=more problems. more people=less freedom. Any questions?
Lmao okay buddy
I think you are a narrow minded creator. The Omaha metro is over a million people.... with wide economic and cultural diversity. It is ranked in the top 20 best cities to live in the US. Great standards of living and home prices in the I-80 corridor from Council Bluffs -Lincoln.
Less people, less problems, less crime, less taxes, more freedom. Oh... and less liberal nutjobs.
Montana is so empty
Yeah Montana and Wyoming are so empty that you would think it's on purpose
Because no one generally wants to live in states with that kind of bad weather. Why the last few years people have been flocking to the Sun belt states. Life is too short to live with miserable cold weather that you’d die if you spent more than 20 minutes outside in a sweater and pants.
I'd rather live where it's cold than hot/humid. If you're cold, at least you're usually clean and dry. If you're hot, you're usually sticky and sweaty. Plus, if you're cold you can always put on more layers, but if you're hot, there's only so much you can take off.
I'd love to know where Cattle Pines is. 4:56
So what makes Idaho so different than those states? Is it because it's much closer to Cascadia?
I would argue it's mostly because Idaho is closer to California - where many of its new residents are coming from. I tried not to talk about Idaho so much in this video, because I'm working on a future video dedicated to just Idaho.
Is this wrestling with Andy?
I like how he hyped up the answer until 6:30
Im from Oklahoma! Been to all these States! Now i live in Wyoming! Just nothing to do and very very slow and boring and cold.Better have indoor hobbies and home projects! I never ever had so much free time in my life ever! Its slow and Indian Time here! But sometimes its kinda nice to take life slow and easy ! No rush! 😮😊
May I know what is your job? 🙏
Bismarck and fargo have both been posting double digit population growth for decades now. They started from behind the curve though. So it's a tough game of catch up. Fargo does have a major Microsoft office though.
That's true, the head start is a significant factor here
At 3:47 you put an image of the wrong state capitol and said it is Utah's
Your correct, that's the Idaho state capital. It was accidentally mixed in with the footage for Utah; thankfully this mistake doesn't detract as I was talking about Utah, Idaho, and Colorado in the same sense here. Thank you got pointing this out, I will come up wit h a better system for separation going forward.
I live in the middle of that unpopulated zone
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well they don't call it the badlands because the land is good
NOBODY? C'mon! If ANYBODY lives there, that rules out NOBODY.
I think you're interpreting the title of the video too literally. He meant why a small number of people live in those 5 states, compared to somewhere like Colorado or Utah.
Mother and Grandparents exported us 3 siblings from Colorado c. 1957. As a teen and now as an adult I resent them ever bringing us to California.
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Migration between California and Colorado typically works the other way, but I would much rather live in Colorado than California too
I resent my parents bringing me to North America, but it was a different time and they were young people just doing what they thought was best. It's easy for me to look back now and judge....That's life....just accept it and make the best of what you have.
Keep it up. I'm moving out of a large West coast city to South Dakota. For my family, space, people, and nature. Yes, extremely cold and lacking diversity, but I see those as positives as it limits the chance of over population which is a real problem all over the US.
Bro can’t pronounce Helena and called a suburb of the state capital a resort town 💀
Take a look at this from the political point of view Colorado surrounded by the north of it by Republican states. Colorado is a democratic state this is why they've got more than the states that you were talkin about here in this video.
Pretty sure Omaha is larger than Colorado Springs
omahas metro is huge but we get cut up by surrounding cities like Bellevue
It's very close. But World Population Review's website has Colorado Springs's population as slightly higher.
I left Omaha once they stopped telling black jokes in church
Omaha's metro area is around 200,000 bigger than Colorado Springs (967,000 to 755,000)
I lived in Omaha for 10 long miserable years. Worst place I ever lived
Poorly written, you spend the majority of your time on Colorado, I thought the video was about Montana, Wyoming, North and South Dakoda, and Nebraska.
I tried to touch on all these states, but my focus was the difference in size. I will do a video breaking down how livable those five states are- eventually though.
Naaaaa no one wants to live in those other states you mentioned. Video wouldn’t be popular. What does North or South Dakota have or Minnesnowda for example in comparison.
We need to expand immigration to from all over the world to help settle the American interior. We need people from California and Florida etc to move inwards and begin the great rebirth of the American continent. Come one come all!
Too fucking windy, cold, and barren
Very helpful!