Considering a move to Utah (SLC area)

[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!

[Great-Kazoo]

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!

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.

[Sawin]

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.

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.