I live in Rocky Mount, North Carolina(for anyone who wants to know) & due to the bad job market here, I’m gonna move out west to either Oklahoma or Wyoming(better job market & I have relatives that live in those states). What would be the best way for me to get to either of those places from where I am now?
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I’m not sure about Oklahoma, but if you want to go to Wyoming you can take the express like south to the DVP and then take the toll bridge down to California and then buy yourself a nice meal.
Then when your full, you can get some gas because it’s very cheap in California, after wards you should get a GPS to help.
Hope that solves your puzzle.
Having lived in, visited or worked in 41 states, I admire your adventuresome, “get off my duff and do something” attitude. Salud!!
It appears you have checked out the rankings of the states by percentage of unemployment already.
6 NEW MEXICO 4.3
4 NEBRASKA 3.7
4 UTAH 3.7
3 SOUTH DAKOTA 3.4
2 NORTH DAKOTA 3.3
1 WYOMING 3.2
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics – As of Aug 2008
But having been to many of these places, I’d advise you to THINK HARD.
Some places are seem ok statistically because they never had a lot of jobs in the past and still don’t. No change.
They have low unemployment in North Dakota because the 200 people there already have the 200 jobs available and nothing has happened. I’m being overly dramatic to make a point. There’s nothing in North Dakota. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt to prove it. ND is the birthplace of Louis L’Amour…. okay? I saw it and then I was like what are we going to go see next?
S. Dakota is about the same. (although the Black Hills region is beautiful to people not accustomed to mountains – Mt. Rushmore and all)
I was not impressed. Ok.. I was impressed as a place to come back to when one ALREADY HAS MONEY!
Nebraska has the largets railroad yard in north america if not the world in North Platte. Good luck finding a job there.
Wyoming has a lot of mining and drilling for natural gas – and a very, very smalll population. so you might actually find work there in one of the prettiest states I’ve ever seen. The motto is “Like No Place On Earth”. No joke. The scenery is STUNNINGLY beautiful.
I’ve been to NM – VERY high crime rate in Albuquerque and Santa Fe is very artsy-fartsy/bohemian type place. The whole state is 80% Hispanic or possibly more. It is really the “new” Mexico. I’m ok with that …. but I need to see plain old blacks and whites on a daily basis.
OK would not be my choice since I live in TX and drive back and forth thru OK all the time. The whole state is a speed trap.
I’ll skip to the point – skipping past OK and NM – UTAH is very technologically progressive and has a booming economy. Maybe it’s because Mormons are industrious. That’s where I’d go.
My first choice would be UT and then next WY; but that’s me.
And I’d bus it. Ain’t no big airports in any of the places you named except Salt Lake City and Oklahoma City… thus no discount routes.
Oh… before I forget… SLC is an exceptionally beautiful big city with all the accomodations you’d expect in a big city. and you can probaby find a job in Ogden or one of the many other suburbs.
Better check the job markets there first before making expensive moves. It isn’t great anywhere you go. You may be better off where you are at. Also, look at the cost of living in each of those areas.
I-40 West. It goes right through Oklahoma.
To continue onto Wyoming, just turn right at New Mexico (I-25 North).