I'm from Colorado and have been going to different parts of Wyoming several times a year for nearly a decade.
Outside of Cheyenne and Jackson Hole, what I listed is extremely representative of Wyoming. Cheyenne isn't much better, and the whole point of Jackson Hole is to get away from computers for a while.
Edit: also this was Buffalo, so it was a full on incorporated city of thousands.
Ha! I know that restaurant. Pretty abysmal - but I think it's the only place in town that's quite that bad.
But the town does have two redboxes, so it's got that going for it...
I know a couple of people in that area (a bit up the mountain to the east) that choose to live there. One is a CostCo executive that is the regional manager some vertical (I want to say produce, but that might not be right) for most of the stores of the north half of everything west of the rockies. He's on the road a lot, but seems to want to live there. The other is an IT guy (well, internal developer) for Whole Foods and moved there and works remotely. Now - Montana is a more common place for remote hermit developers to go to, but a shocking number of retired/retiring people move to Buffalo. (Well, shocking to me because I wouldn't, but for a town of 4,500-or-so of that particular average age, having the influx-rate match (or exceed) the death-rate is in itself surprising (to me). It also fluctuates a lot with oil & natural gas prices -- I think the population was down around 3,000 by mid-2015)
> Indeed, Casper then Cheyenne have the most modern economic situation Wyoming has to offer.
Which is still pretty shitty. I live in Casper, and tech jobs are basically non-existent. I know of some places that hire people for PLC stuff. Outside of that there are three places I could work as a developer.
Cheyenne may be different. I've noticed they have tech meetups, a tech bootcamp, etc.
The root post on this is harsh but accurate in my opinion.
I'm saying that Wyoming doesn't have the physical, financial, and educational infrastructure to support a modern computer industry.
EDIT: also, I don't live in San Fran.