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My mom used to winter in Park City and ski every day. I have several New England ski friends who relocated to Salt Lake and really like it. If you bought me a house up on the bench with Snowbird 20 minutes away, that would work fine. Salt Lake isn’t as weird LDS as 30 or 40 years ago.
My mom used to winter in Park City and ski every day. I have several New England ski friends who relocated to Salt Lake and really like it. If you bought me a house up on the bench with Snowbird 20 minutes away, that would work fine. Salt Lake isn’t as weird LDS as 30 or 40 years ago.
The LDS thing isn’t a big deal at all, the city is only around 25-30% LDS now and is very liberal. The economy is booming with the lowest unemployment of any large metro area. Plus the surrounding outdoor beauty and recreation is nearly unbeatable.
I think cities can also be judged by access to adjacent areas - isolated cities may sometimes have more activity in their core than places where metros butt up against each other - but - there is no brick wall that keeps people in Hartford or Buffalo from easily driving to a Providence, Boston, Rochester, or Toronto - while a similar drive from SLC doesn't even get you out of the CSA.
This is also considering that out of all of the metros on the list, Hartford and Buffalo are #2 and #3 in terms of the smallest metro areas in terms of land area that have at least 1 million people. Milwaukee is #1 in this regard and Providence is #4. None have over 1600 square miles in land area and Milwaukee is under 1500 square miles of land(1454.75).
To be fair to the Salt Lake City metro area, Salt Lake County has over 1.15 million people in just 742 square miles. I'm actually surprised that they just don't pull a Jacksonville, as it is 5 square miles smaller than that city/Duval County. If they did that, it would be the 10th biggest city in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Lake_County,_Utah
I will say that if the SLC metro were the same land area as those metros, its population would still be on par with them, as the other counties are pretty sparsely populated the further out one goes.
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The LDS thing isn’t a big deal at all, the city is only around 25-30% LDS now and is very liberal. The economy is booming with the lowest unemployment of any large metro area. Plus the surrounding outdoor beauty and recreation is nearly unbeatable.
I remember flying into SLC pre-911 when you couldn’t get from your gate to baggage claim from the thousands of people giving send offs to people going on their mission. It wasn’t that long ago where LDS was the dominant culture. There are still tons of LDS neighborhoods with the big houses and 30 kids at every school bus stop.
I remember flying into SLC pre-911 when you couldn’t get from your gate to baggage claim from the thousands of people giving send offs to people going on their mission. It wasn’t that long ago where LDS was the dominant culture. There are still tons of LDS neighborhoods with the big houses and 30 kids at every school bus stop.
Outside of SLC it still is the dominant culture for sure, I’m pretty sure Utah is still over 50% LDS. I could never live in any city in Utah outside of SLC or Park City. SLC is where you move if you’re ex-Mormon, gay, liberal or anything else that doesn’t fit in with Mormon culture. This creates somewhat of a counterculture vibe. Which is partly why we currently have an openly gay mayor and this most recent election for mayor was between two progressive democrats and the more qualified LDS candidate lost by 16%.
Here's how they faired at both a city and a metro level.
Looks like Richmond did quite well , city and metro.
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