Salt Lake City vs Boise (Meridian: home, construction, living in)

[Lmejh]

Hi, I've been living in Salt Lake almost all my life and am curious as to what differences there are between Utah's capitol and Idaho's capitol. I already know that Salt Lake has lots more people and is more congested, but if anyone could go any deeper than that, it would be very appreciated

[Torrie]

http://www.city-data.com/forum/boise...lake-city.html

[jakor21]

well by population Boise is larger.. (Boise: 200,000) (Salt Lake City: 179,000) although SLC has a larger metro area.. Boise is not that far behind, Boise is a new up and coming radid growth area Bosie has beautiful city parks with a scenic river running right through the city.. while SLC doesnt have any rivers, rather small creeks.. boise also has a front range as well as SLC but the Wasatch is better i must say quite impressive.. both cities have almost identical weather.. all in all both are nice cities with a few similarities

[kristinl5]

I lived in slc for over 27 years, grew up there, moved in '95 just before the olympic construction really kicked into full gear (yes I missed all of the interstate onramps closed off for construction thank goodness!) I go back to slc ever once in a while to visit, but I just wouldn't move back there. Meridian, ID, is my home...when I first moved here a cashier at the local albertsons remembered me and asked how I was..that never happened in slc when I was there! slc just gets more congested and alienating the more I visit (no offense to people who love slc) but it just doesn't have that same home vibe like it does here.