Considering a move to Utah (SLC area)

Well, we've pinned down the better part of a week (5days) when we're going to pay SLC and the surrounding area a visit a little later this summer. I fully intend to ask some locals that we stumble upon (wait-staff, hotel manager(s), friendly folks on the street, etc.) some very pointed questions about being non-LDS in that area... I hope to find some folks who are not LDS and get their true, real time perspective on it. I can tell a lot by their face and body language simply when i ask the question...

I'm intending to focus more on the northern side of the city, up to Ogden, to get a feel for the suburbs unless someone tells me otherwise.

Are there any "Must Do's/See's" while we're out there, even just from a tourist's perspective?

Well, we spent Thursday-Sunday in Salt Lake City seeing what the city and suburbs have to offer. We see many similarities with Denver but both agree we like where we are now better.... So the search will continue.

My favorite spot was the Browning museum in Ogden. It was incredible!

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Originally Posted by Sawin

Well, we spent Thursday-Sunday in Salt Lake City seeing what the city and suburbs have to offer. We see many similarities with Denver but both agree we like where we are now better.... So the search will continue.

My favorite spot was the Browning museum in Ogden. It was incredible!

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I understand for employment you need a larger urban area. However have you considered outer areas to live and commute? The down side for you is work. For us it's the retirement years.

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Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo

I understand for employment you need a larger urban area. However have you considered outer areas to live and commute? The down side for you is work. For us it's the retirement years.

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Yes, absolutely. In fact, we will not even consider living in the actual city (any city. We'd prefer suburbia, edging closer to rural than urban)... The place we saw that was possibly the closest to working for us was Draper, south of the city ~15-20 miles. It was not unlike Broomfield, where we are now.

I definitely saw a lot of what earlier posters in this thread were talking about with regards to being LDS (or not) and making it harder on oneself and their children. I know we'd get along just fine with their culture and religious choices (we're conservative and Christian, too) but knowingly alienating ourselves and kids from the preponderance of the good and influential people in that city seems like a mistake.

Fortunately, we're in no hurry to relocate aside from not knowing how the local real estate market story is going to end. It feels to me like this summer or next, at the latest, would be the ideal time to sell.