Neighborhood pool/fitness center, and encouragement? (Salt Lake City, Bountiful: homes, estate, golf course)

[SouthernBelleInUtah]

I moved from SLC to DFW close to 5 yrs ago. I traveled for business, spending time in Houston and San Antonio. I drove around a lot, looking for shopping & restaurants. SLC is infinitely superior to ANYTHING in Texas in terms of scenery and climate. Hills just don't compare to mountains ! In SLC when folks start complaining about high humidity, it's usually around 40%! Texas would consider that heavenly. I would move back in a heartbeat if it weren't for my grandkids.

[kayanne]

Originally Posted by SouthernBelleInUtah

I moved from SLC to DFW close to 5 yrs ago. I traveled for business, spending time in Houston and San Antonio. I drove around a lot, looking for shopping & restaurants. SLC is infinitely superior to ANYTHING in Texas in terms of scenery and climate. Hills just don't compare to mountains ! In SLC when folks start complaining about high humidity, it's usually around 40%! Texas would consider that heavenly. I would move back in a heartbeat if it weren't for my grandkids.

Hi SBiU! I appreciate the thoughts of someone who is familiar with both places. Your description of SLC being "infinitely superior" made me smile. I hope I feel the same!

I actually love the weather in San Antonio. It's less humid than other places I've lived, and I have been giddy every winter here because I don't have to shovel snow!!!! I'm sure I will adore the moderate summer temps in SLC.

[kayanne]

Originally Posted by Katzpur

Well, Pepperwood (which you mentioned in your first post) is part of Sandy. Willowcreek (also in Sandy) would be another option. Both of these are Sandy "neighborhoods" and there may be other Sandy neighborhoods that just aren't coming to mind right now. The area above Wasatch Boulevard is lovely, too. (Here in Salt Lake, you pay for a great view, and the general rule of thumb is that the higher on the hillside the property is, the more expensive.) I'd say that Draper would be too far for you to want to consider.

You are right that most neighborhoods here do not have a community pool and fitness center, but the Cottonwood Heights Recreation Center is really close to Sandy, and is seriously a great facility.

Are you both going to get to come out to Salt Lake and look for a home before moving?

Hub will likely get a short-term apartment, I'll live in TX until our house sells, and I'll make trips out to SLC to visit him and to house hunt with him.

I did look at the CH Rec Center website. Very nice looking facility​ for sure.

Is ice and snow a problem for people who live higher on the hillside? Do the towns do a good job of keeping the roads plowed and clean in general?

[Katzpur]

Originally Posted by kayanne

Is ice and snow a problem for people who live higher on the hillside? Do the towns do a good job of keeping the roads plowed and clean in general?

Snow removal services here in the Salt Lake City area are, as a rule, excellent.

[irman]

Originally Posted by Katzpur

Snow removal services here in the Salt Lake City area are, as a rule, excellent.

Yes !!! But *you* have to do *your* part, by getting good winter tires and adapt to winter driving !

There is always *some* snow left on any street, until it has melted away.
Even then often we get a condition here called *black ice* !

My drive way slopes down towards the house and is quite wide (about 3 1/2 cars wide) and people often use it to make a U turn, using our drive way (I do not mind at all).
The fun starts in winter when they do that and then can not get out, because they refuse to mount winter tires ...
I have a loudspeaker (part of our video security system) mounted at the end of our driveway (the road is 70 feet in front of our house) and I tell them to come all the way in, turn around and make a fast run out of the drive way!
Oh well !

[SouthernBelleInUtah]

The public indoor pool at Fairmont Park is beautiful. They have a kids pool with various cascading buckets, a very tall water slide, and a current walk. I loved to sit in the pool andook at it snowing.

[Montygirl]

There are rec centres all over the valley so not sure why people think there are not. Dimple Dell is in Sandy and is a nice centre and Draper is close to this too and has other leisure facilities. Draper also has a fabulous outdoor pool in the summer which we spent most of our time at and there are lots of splash pads nearby. Kearns also has a great pool which has lots of slides etc. In sugarhouse there is fairmont and again cottonwood heights has an outdoor pool and many splash pads and parks are located all over the valley. The one thing you will notice is the cold winters coming from Texas but even when skiing it can get quite warm up there in the mountains.

[elcee499]

Hi Kayanne - I haven't checked in to this site for a few days, and I would second the suggestion of looking north at the communities in Davis County. Agree that NSL is not very attractive, but there are many nice areas in Bountiful, Centerville, and points north that would allow your husband to avoid a crosstown commute. I would avoid Sandy, Draper and Cottonwood Heights for that very reason.

[SWFL_Native]

Lol at the NSL comments coming from some people who seemingly have only driven by the gas plants.

I live in bountiful and everything west of I15 is a no go zone for me (except our inexpensive storage locker). I call that area mordor.

Yes in name foxboro and the other like communities are in the same city and zip as the "nice" areas but they have nothing else in common. I suggest you drive up by eaglewood golf course and bountiful ridge golf course and look at the surrounding neighborhoods.

Now for me personally I don't want a McMansion but $ per $ you will get more there than the other areas mentioned. Some of the neighborhoods are built into the backside of the mountain so you almost feel removed from the valley. For $600k you can have an amazing house on a private lot backing up to "protected" woodlands (BLM). I prefer as you go north into bountiful but the whole ridge up there is great.

Example:

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Just stay away from the landslide area (0.5 miles south of eaglewood), which was a former quarry and is likely unstable.

Summerwood, Glade Hollow, highland oaks, and mueller park canyon are a few developments up there. You will be living in the mountains as opposed to in a valley looking up at the mountains. One you're surrounded by neighbors and the other you are mostly isolated so just depends on what you want.

You should also drive through the avenues and Harvard/Yale to see if those neighborhoods interest you. For quality houses there you'll be looking at $200/sqft + where the other areas are closer to $100 per. You should also tour up emigration canyon as well as there are some cool midcentury modern and mountain west style homes built up there.

[Katzpur]

Originally Posted by SWFL_Native

Lol at the NSL comments coming from some people who seemingly have only driven by the gas plants.

I live in bountiful and everything west of I15 is a no go zone for me (except our inexpensive storage locker). I call that area mordor.

Bountiful and North Salt Lake, while near each other, are completely different. I already recommended Bountiful as a good option for someone who will be working north of Salt Lake City.