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Old 11-20-2013, 09:02 PM
 
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Does anyone live here? We are visiting Salt Lake City 2 days after Christmas to check it out as well as Park City. We are looking at other areas as well and I came across West Jordan.
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Old 11-20-2013, 09:09 PM
 
Location: Salt Lake City
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Does anyone live here? We are visiting Salt Lake City 2 days after Christmas to check it out as well as Park City. We are looking at other areas as well and I came across West Jordan.
BuckeyezRule does. She loves it out there. You might want to send her a DM, though. Otherwise, she might not see your thread. While you're at it, you might want to consider asking the moderator to move your thread to the Salt Lake City forum. West Jordan is actually almost a Salt Lake City suburb and some people who might otherwise respond to your thread might not even see it on the Utah forum.
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Old 11-21-2013, 10:40 AM
 
Location: A Place With REAL People
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Wow talk about polar opposite demographic places to live. The housing prices alone set them WAY apart. A home found easily in the $200k range would be twice that in Park City. Park City schools are excellent from all reports, where as the Jordan school district has not gotten good marks (especially with their financial issues they've had over the last year). It's a completely different lifestyle IMHO. It's Walmart vs. the Spa Frankly completely different cultures in many ways. More blue collar vs. white collar. It is after all a famous ski/winter sports and outdoor recreation destination in Park City where as West Jordan is just outer city living. I work in West Jordan and it's just fine. You have everything you can imagine pretty close by not to mention not having to deal with going through the canyon during the winter months if you want to go downtown and stuff. Park City has fast become it's own place to be if that's your thing. If you said you loved outdoor recreation and needed good schools and can afford it, it's a NO Brainer that Park City wins. otherwise not so much.
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Old 11-21-2013, 12:40 PM
 
Location: Salt Lake City
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Wow talk about polar opposite demographic places to live.
Yeah, I kind of thought that, too. But being able to help people figure that out is what this forum's for, isn't it?
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Old 11-21-2013, 02:43 PM
 
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I knew they were completely different. I have a friend that lives in Park City so I have been talking with her and her sister is a Real Estate Agent so we will meet with her while there. I was mainly wanting info on West Jordan but I really appreciate the comparisons as that helps a lot. I will message her as well.
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Old 11-21-2013, 03:42 PM
 
Location: A Place With REAL People
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Hard to imagine, that after taking the tour around Park City and it's real estate you would even consider West Jordan. I'm sure it's mainly my own tastes's influence, but there is surely NO comparison on so many levels. Only if one wanted to stay highly connected to Salt Lake would I think otherwise. If I lived in Park City it would be a rare occasion that I would go to Salt Lake. Just me of course talkin......
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Old 11-21-2013, 04:50 PM
 
Location: God's Gift to Mankind for flying anything
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Comparing Park City with West Jordan is like comparing Apples to Roast Beef !
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Old 11-21-2013, 08:25 PM
 
Location: east millcreek
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Well, I will be the Devil's advocate then!
I lived in Park City for quite a few years and am up there 3-4 times a month. Don't miss it one teeny tiny bit.
I have been to West Jordan 2 times so not to much for me to offer there.
I love East Millcreek though....

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Old 11-21-2013, 10:22 PM
 
Location: A Place With REAL People
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Ahhh yes, well East Millcreek (at LEAST 20th East and further East) will always hold a special place in my heart. It is where I first lived (about 1900 E. and 33rd S.) when I came out here for the 1st time in 1978. It was quite another place back then (and frankly I miss what it was compared to now) but I digress. Much has changed up that way no doubt, but it just seems to be more wooded/green and quiet...at least a bunch of years ago. When my wife and I left here at the end of 1980 and then returned in 1993 we came back to the Holladay/E. Millcreek area and were there until 2004 when we built a home in Herriman and moved. It was just beginning to lose it's pristine nature I remembered as there were more home burgleries and seedy people moving in around where we were. So it was time to go. But as is always the case we can keep our memories. I'm thinking perhaps you'd need to move all the way up to Olympus Cove to avoid the riff raff who knows.
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Old 11-21-2013, 10:31 PM
 
Location: The other side of the mountain
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Riff raff has no boundaries.
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