Today I was calling my brothers and sisters to try to convince them to move to utah.  Though I don’t think I’ve convinced any of them it got me thinking why Heidi and I are content with living in utah.  Here’s a few reasons…

  • relatively low cost of housing (though house values have increased significantly over the last couple of years)
  • low crime rate
  • scenery (wasatch front) — I’ve come to love the view of the nearby mountains
  • “greatest snow on earth” for you snowboarders and skiers
  • good people — like everywhere else, you may run into a bad apple or two but most everyone seems friendly here
  • cutting-edge technology — the local government does a good job of promoting/encouraging new technology such as fiber optic cable infrastructure (internet, cable, phone, etc) and both utah and the salt lake counties are full of hi-tech business.
  • four seasons — to be honest, I’d rather have sunny weather all year long but since I like to snowboard and I don’t like to drive a long ways to a resort, something has to give.

Well, that’s all I can come up with now… for those of you that live in utah, what to you like/dislike about it?