Sandy/Holladay Vs. Layton/Kaysville (West Jordan, Bountiful: houses, neighborhoods, construction)

[ATCShane]

I am one month from moving to the SLC area from out of state.
Can someone please tell me why I might choose to live in Sandy/Holladay as opposed to Layton/Kaysville?

My background: 35 y.o., married, 2 kids age 7 & 5, white, non-LDS, Christian. My commute for work would be to the SLC airport. Want to ski, but never have.

What I have heard from using the Internet:
1. The lower valley has worse air quality?
2. Sandy/Holladay would have an older population?
3. Housing costs a little more in Sandy/Holladay area, so you get a larger/newer home for your money in Layton/Kaysville.

I have been unable to determine anything else! Please fill in the blanks for me. Give me your opinions, good bad or ugly!

Thanks.

[coolcats]

Sandy/Holladay -- higher housing costs, better commute (though not perfect). I-15 can get backed up, but you have alternatives like I-215. Holladay is probably older, but I know Sandy has lots of kids.

Layton/Kaysville -- Housing quite a bit cheaper. can have really bad traffic, especially during snow or after accidents. There are no alternatives (yet) to I-15. Probably lots of young families. Probably more diverse because it is near Hill AFB and lots of poeple coming and going from out of state.

If you are not set on those two areas, consider Bountiful, Tooele, or far western parts of SL county. South Jordan and West Jordan would probably have a similar commute to Sandy, but houses are cheaper. I live in a new neighborhood in West Valley. It's nice and would have a very short commute. I'm about 10 minutes (6 miles from airport).

Regarding air quality -- I think the situations would be same in either location. Most of the time it's not bad, but every winter there are stretches when inversions make the air pretty smoggy. The only way to avoid inversions is to get really high up like in Park City, Morgan, or Heber City, but then you would have major problems commuting down to the valley in winter snowstorms.

Let me know if you have other questions

[Utah Cricket]

I would agree with CoolCats. Consider living on the SW side of SL County. I live in Herriman. We are just above the inversion in the wintertime. The airport is about 20-30 minutes away on Bangerter Highway. You can get decent housing in Herriman, Bluffdale, Riverton, or South Jordan. There is a new development in South Jordan called Daybreak you might want to consider as well. Plenty of children in the area for your kids to hang out with. The area is quite diverse as well.

[Clint Carter]

I am a local realtor in SLC. Holladay and Sandy do have an older demographic, and are comfortable and popular places to live. They are close to Big and Little Cottonwood Canyon, which has the best skiing in Utah in my opinion. The homes will be a bit more expensive than Davis County (Layton, Bountiful), and will be older in construction. Holladay and Sandy are safe places to live with good schools, but may not measure up to the reports previously stated, I have not compared SL County schools to Davis County schools.

There are a lot of newer homes being built in Davis County, and you get more home for your money.The new Legacy highway has been approved, which will make your commute even faster from Davis County to the airport. It will definitaley be a better commute from Davis County than from Holladay or Sandy unless you are far enough east to be close to I-215 or Wasatch BLVD.

I have a friend that lives in Herriman and works at the airport, and he says the commute is great. Herriman is enjoying great appreciation, better than Davis County. Herriman is very popular right now and close to the west mountains, out of the inversion, that brown fog that hangs over the lower city in the winter. The communities are well planned and very nice. I would prefer to live there instead of Davis County if I worked at the airport.

[Wooly]

If your commute is to the airport, you will actually get there faster from Davis Co. than Sandy I think. You can hit the I-215 from Davis Co. and get off right at airport. You have to get through street traffic to get through Sandy to a highway. Sandy is right in the east-middle of SLC Valley, while the airport is on the extreme NW edge.

Also, Layton, Kaysville, Farmington, Centerville, Bountiful, etc (Davis Co) are very nice towns and a BIT cheaper than Sandy.

[Riyko]

Layton is a very beautiful place to live i've lived in layton for 18 years and it is nice. Davis county itself is very beautiful place to live, but we have all of this construction going on it davis county and it takes a while to get from location a to location b.

My dad works at the airport and because of the construction it can take him 45 minutes - 1 hour to get to work when it used to only take him 15-30 minutes.

[onlnmom123]

Hi I have been browsing the forum boards and am trying to find out which is a better location West Layton, East Layton by the golf course or Kaysville. My husband will be opening a subdivision in the Salt Lake area not sure exactly where to open it but when we were there a couple of weeks ago we drove through Kaysville and W. Layton and really liked the homes. We have found some online but not sure how the schools are and the neighborhoods. We live in Seattle WA and if we do the move my girls will be in 7th and 9th grade. So we would want to really get in a neighborhood with a good high school.

I apreciate any help anyone can give.

Thank you
Rachel

[onlnmom123]

Originally Posted by Riyko

Layton is a very beautiful place to live i've lived in layton for 18 years and it is nice. Davis county itself is very beautiful place to live, but we have all of this construction going on it davis county and it takes a while to get from location a to location b.

My dad works at the airport and because of the construction it can take him 45 minutes - 1 hour to get to work when it used to only take him 15-30 minutes.

Where did you go to High School living in Layton. We are considering moving over there and would like your input on High Schools?

thanks

[EricM]

Originally Posted by onlnmom123

Hi I have been browsing the forum boards and am trying to find out which is a better location West Layton, East Layton by the golf course or Kaysville. My husband will be opening a subdivision in the Salt Lake area not sure exactly where to open it but when we were there a couple of weeks ago we drove through Kaysville and W. Layton and really liked the homes. We have found some online but not sure how the schools are and the neighborhoods. We live in Seattle WA and if we do the move my girls will be in 7th and 9th grade. So we would want to really get in a neighborhood with a good high school.

I apreciate any help anyone can give.

Thank you
Rachel

East Layton is very nice, as are many places in Kaysville. School-wise, you'd be best off moving within Davis High boundaries (Kaysville area). It's an excellent school (brand new and huge), though it is very crowded. Still, a very good school. Also, if the golf course you mentioned is the one I'm thinking of, your girls would likely go to Farmington Junior High, which is also a very good school (one of the best, if not the best, in the district). I went there myself. It was very challenging, but I felt very well prepared for High School by the end of it (9th graders go to Junior High (or Middle School) here, fyi).

[EricM]

Originally Posted by EricM

East Layton is very nice, as are many places in Kaysville. School-wise, you'd be best off moving within Davis High boundaries (Kaysville area). It's an excellent school (brand new and huge), though it is very crowded. Still, a very good school. Also, if the golf course you mentioned is the one I'm thinking of, your girls would likely go to Farmington Junior High, which is also a very good school (one of the best, if not the best, in the district). I went there myself. It was very challenging, but I felt very well prepared for High School by the end of it (9th graders go to Junior High (or Middle School) here, fyi).

Disregard my comments about the Farmington Junior High stuff; that's not the golf course you were talking about.