Just visited Utah

[zaffiroborant]

Right. But the subject is Utah. SLC was recently named one of the best places to retire by Forbes, with the con of SLC having a high crime rate. Problems with substance abuse overall and a high suicide rate for teens and young adults. All kinds of studies are going on in an effort to figure out what is going on with the poor mental health in Utah.

Pros, are the access to outdoor recreation, pro-family, as in, large families are pretty normal.

I’ve lived here my whole life. At one time it was a don’t lock your doors kind of community but those times were decades ago. Like all cities there are areas I would not travel alone at night and some I would not travel in at all.

Right now the inversion in SLC and other northern valleys is awful. Health warnings for people to stay indoors and don’t exercise outside. State Government doesn’t seem to give a rip about clean air so if you like breathing polluted air, SLC is the place for you.

Every state has access to outdoor recreation. What area of Utah is affected by these inversions?

 

[CourtingTex]

My statements should viewed as from my perspective only.

My heart and thoughts are any who have difficulty living anywhere when religion is a major part of other lives.

Of course, one can choose to be angry or other emotions relative to their neighbors
religious loyalties.

As a child into early 20s, I wanted nothing to do with God and was committed to keeping the lifestyle I valued.

 

[RebeccaJ]

Every state has access to outdoor recreation. What area of Utah is affected by these inversions?

I work with several Utah transplants who moved here for skiing/boarding in the winter and rock climbing/biking in the summer. They vacationed here and then want to live where they vacation. The newest is from D.C.

Northern Utah valleys are inverted. Salt Lake, Utah, Cache valleys, etc. Winter atmospheric phenomena where relatively warmer upper air puts a lid on lower colder air. Trapping all pollutants in the valleys where they are produced. The smog blocks the sun so the lower colder air does not warm up and so the air in these valleys doesn’t move until a storm moves in and blows it out. Storm moving in today, clears out the pollution, laying down more snow that keeps the valleys cold, and the smog sets in again. And so it goes until mid February.