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I would say that it is Salt Lake City, everybody automatically assumes that it is 100% mormon, where if you want to drink a beer everyone ostracizes you. When in fact the city itself is only 30% LDS, and from my house I can walk to a very liberal university in the University of Utah in 10 minutes.
I have 3 bar's within 2 blocks of my house, and I can take TRAX for free to downtown. Yet in a metro area of 2 MILLION(including ogden and provo), I can drive 15 minutes and be in 12,000 ft. mountains with the best skiing and hiking in the country. You say that SLC is not liberal?
Compared to other western cities it might be pretty conservative, but I would say it's pretty liberal. The gay pride parade is the second biggest parade in Utah with 25,000 attendee's last year. Combine all this with the fact that the Salt Lake Metro is one of the safest metro's in the country and it proves it's a great place to live.
Another thing people say is that Utah is not diverse, well my high school I went to was 60% hispanic, so there is diversity here just like anywhere else. Sorry about the rant, but it bugs me how people make assumptions about a place that most of them have never been to. I am a non LDS gay that grew up here, and I love Utah.
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I agree with Salt Lake....and it depends whether we are talking about positive or negative assumptions.
Minneapolis is presumed to always be cold, never warm or even hot (which it is in the summer at times). It gets 100" of snow a year and everyone is white and talks funny. These assumptions don't exactly hold the city in a positive light.
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