Oh my gosh, you will definitely be "my kind of person" and you will laugh because here in California hay is CHEAP at that price....lol!!!
I was checking out rentals and cmparing them with acreage for all of our critters...you know the drill...and found that for $500 less per month I could have a huge house in Laramie with 15 acres and a barn!! My gosh, we rent a small cottage with NO room for critters and NO barn and NO acreage for almost two thousand.....I am so ready to move.
If I decide to come visit, may I message you? I really would like to end up in Laramie or Cheyenne......but God only knows right now.