Figured there’s one for ATL, why not SLC.

Best areas for schools, drive to work, outdoor access, less Mormon areas (not that there’s anything wrong with Mormons)…

 

lol. They're all Mormon areas. Closer to downtown and park city are "less" Mormon.

 

Fair enough…maybe “non-mormon friendly” is better…but in my experience all Mormons are pretty friendly.

 

Sugarhouse area. Don’t live in park city unless you want below freezing nights for 9 months out of the year

 

True. With one massive exception: Utah Mormons. You ain’t part of the club! I transplanted there in 7th grade. Went to high school and college there. Grew up in Holiday. I left at 23 when I joined the military. My entire family left soon thereafter. I would never…ever, ever, ever, ever subject my kids to that sh*t. Sorry, just telling it like it is.

 

The air quality seems very poor in the city though. Is there an advantage to living north vs east of the city?

 

My wife and I considered moving to SLC area when our kids were very young. A few pilots told me when it came to raising kids in SLC, if you’re not LDS, your kids will never fit in, anywhere!! That sucked and discouraged us from moving there. I’m sure that’s not entirely correct and there are plenty of areas we could have found a great life, but it was a risk we weren’t willing to take.

 

tell me you don’t live in SLC, without telling me you don’t live in Slc.

been here for 7 years, currently live in Sugarhouse. If you want some actual info and not APC junk posts feel free to PM me. Not a Mormon, live by many bars and notice literally no difference to my 18 years in California except a cleaner safer city. Lots of surrounding cities as well that are not Mormon and a great place to raise a family, although it’s gotten expensive as well.

the Mormon stigma for Utah is very outdated. Unless you plan to move past the tip down in Provo.

 

Not accurate. Park city weather is great more than it is freezing. Unless your terms of freezing are different. But park city real estate is pretty unaffordable, even at our salary. Unless you can splurge 3 million on a home through other measures. It’s simply not the same or not worth it to live up there. You will just be house poor (again, unless you have other measures of income/wealth)

 

The Church of Modern Day Saints is rapidly succumbing to the pressures of modernity and the blessings of all types of diversity (thoughts, fresh ideas, internet tropes, etc) They’ll be indistinguishable from garden variety Unitarians in another generation or two.

The farther away you are from the city center, the more conservative it gets, but in general, I’d say the metropolis of SLC and the surrounding suburbs aren’t anywhere near as non-LDS child friendly as they used to be.

Quite a few pilots in Sugarhouse. Nice walking neighborhood with pretty old homes. Expensive though. It’s as lefty blue and non/ex LDS as LAX or SFO if you care about that kind of thing. High school isn’t great.

Been there less than a decade, but my general sense is that the center of gravity of SLC is rapidly shifting south to places like Draper, Alpine, and Provo as the main city is starting to be plagued by the usual US city urban challenges (crime, drug use, outdoor living, etc). The “silicon slopes” are the flight away from it.

The “inversion” is a thing. Nasty smog in the city during the winter. Air quality sucks and probably takes years off your life.

Avoid West Valley.

Park City is expensive and fake, but nice enough if you can afford it. Same for Midway.

Many pilots live in Mountain Green.

The cache valley up in the Logan area is great…long drive to the airport though.


SLC is a great base though, and Utah a magnificent state for outdoor types. Highly recommend. (If you’re junior to me, of course).