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I am from rural Illinois and I almost have a job out in Vernal starting in September. I've been invited to a week long training session, and from there they will decide if they want to hire me. I have been told that most employees commute between 2 and 5 hours one way (it's a weekly commute, not daily), and Salt Lake City seems to be about 3 hours away.
I'm very interested in living in a city, but have never been to Utah, let alone Salt Lake City. Is it a good place to live? Is there a lot to do there? If so, what are some good communities to find an apartment?
Thanks!
Just to echo what others are saying, the housing crisis here is a huge problem, and rather unique when compared to places like Austin. Salt Lake has no room for growth due to the topography, there’s just no room for development in the valley anymore, and if you keep going south it’s not really Salt Lake anymore, it’s Provo. Austin has some ability to sprawl a bit, which, while problematic in its own regard, at least provides a little bit of time before prices get out of hand. There’s nowhere to go but up here in SLC, so the solution as of now is build high rise apartments that are too expensive for average locals to afford, so tech job people from California and Texas take them and eventually the other places that existed before become more “affordable” as time drags on. But this isn’t a short term solution and it isn’t really a long term solution either, because people still have nowhere to stay that they can afford, and wages here aren’t really catching up to cost of living, and it doesn’t look like they’re going to for a really long time. That, on top of a host of environmental issues like water, bad air, fires, and a push to develop rural areas for cheaper real estate make Utah look really unsustainable. I’d give this town ten or fifteen years before people start leaving en masse.