Wyoming: Most Billionaires Per Capita

If Wyoming’s three richest families decided to boost the economy by giving all their money to fellow Cowboy State residents, each resident of Wyoming would walk away with $44,493. That gives Wyoming the biggest chunk of billionaire dollars per capita in the country, according to Forbes magazine’s latest list of 400 wealthiest people in America . It helps that Wyoming’s sparse population makes the state better known for wide-open spaces than urban squalor. It also helps that Wyoming is home to the richest family in the West/ David Frey , New West. More here .

• Forbes’ 400 richest Americans
• Idaho’s only billionaire: Robert Earl Holding, Sun Valley’s oil and ski magnate, ranked 93rd, with 3.3 billion.

Question: If you had a billion bucks, would you live in Wyoming? If not, where would you live?