Everyone want to be close the mountains.

So east of I-15 downtown to point of the mountain you are normally good.
Few pockets that are nice sugar house, avenues, holiday, cottonwood heights, Millcreek, 9th &9th.

Tell me you don’t have school age children without telling me etc etc :D. Slightly TIC and I’ll freely admit no firsthand knowledge but when the wife and I made the call to live in base it was a 3 horse race between SEA, LAX, and SLC. One very good friend and one acquaintance related experiences very similar to forgotmyhat.

They said it was all fine and dandy and you wouldn’t notice a difference….until your kids went to school. They were straight up ostracized. Really bad stuff. To paraphrase “It’s a Mormon club and you ain’t in it.”

We lived in Lehi just south of the point of the mountain. Cool area with easy access to airport and the mountains. Not LDS so we stuck out like a sore thumb in our neighborhood.

Town we loved the most was Midway. 4 awesome golf courses with a cheap annual pass. Buy a side by side and go explore the mountains. Boating on Deer Creek Reservoir. Fishing in the Provo River. 20 mins to park city skiing. Less than an hour to the airport.

The whole salt lake county and even larger parts of Utah county over past years are seeing more non-Mormon movers than Mormon. If you have teen kids then yeah, it’s too early to see any difference. The con to this is the real estate is very expensive (which most of the states west coast not California are dealing with).

I’m sorry captain literal, I should have specified that it’s below freezing 7 months out of the year with may average low of 37 and sep being 42. My bad. As ollie would say…..”it’s cold up there!”. But thanks for keeping it real mr randomly aggressive defender of SLC. I lived there for 8 years. It’s not a bad place except for the inversion.

Do you have small children?

This^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Utah is wonderful is you like outdoor stuff. The skiing is second to none, and the golf is vastly underrated. Hiking, camping, fishing... all that is great. But they will try to indoctrinate your kids into the 'church'. It is not subtle either. Wanna join boy scouts? sorry, that meets at the stake house and you ain't allowed in unless you are a member. Pull up a map of SLC. There is a Mormon stake house literally 1 mile in every direction. I would highly advise that if you are thinking about it, go rent for awhile and see if it works for you

I live in SLC near the U. Trying to inject some levity into what I figured would be a touchy subject. I love Utah.

My kids are grown, so I don't have any issues not being in the "club". It can be challenging for some families depending on where you live, because so many activities and time surround the church you get "left out"

Keep in mind there are some things to get used to regarding alcohol rules and if you want to go shopping on Sundays a lot of / most locally owned businesses are closed. Most all National chain restaurants and stores are open.

Hope this wasn't a APC junk post. Keep in mind your experience in Sugarhouse isn't the same further south in Utah Valley. There are large towns with one bar or none at all. It gets more conservative and "Mormon" the further south you go. Just saying......

Heber / Midway are great. It's getting expensive too......

Right the night life is obviously not the same out of the city. I lived in South Jordan and Daybreak for a few years. My point was some of this stigma that the Mormons dominate anything outside 15 downtown blocks is really not as accurate anymore and even some of the communities south of 15, like Cottonwoods/Murray/Millcreek are not as Mormon as people make them out to be. You will also pay 700k minimum for any family size home up to 1 million though. So I guess it’s a trade off.