The year just ended and it feels like it’s time to make some changes. You want to start fresh once the new year hits, and part of you thinks that might require moving to a new locale.
Have you ever thought about Salt Lake City? With its stunning views, low unemployment rate and an average commute time of only 21 minutes, could you really ask for anything more? Let’s take a look at just how much Salt Lake City has to offer and why it would be a great city to call your new home!
Outdoor Winter Sports
Utah boast 14 ski resorts, and that’s not all! Your winter sports fun isn’t relegated to just skiing and snowboarding. Adventurers can snowshoe, go snowmobiling, go bobsledding, scale a frozen waterfall at Bridal Veil Falls or take a long hot soak on a geothermal cave at Homestead Crater.
The Sundance Film Festival
If you’re a movie buff and can’t get enough of the glitz and glamor of Hollywood or the spirit and grit of independent films, Salt Lake City is the city to be. Founded by the actor Robert Redford in 1978, The Sundance Film Festival is an annual festival hosted in Park City that celebrates and showcases the year’s extraordinary work in feature, independent and documentary films.
Open to the public, the Sundance Film Festival brings creatives, business types and amateurs all together to sit back and enjoy this year’s on-screen magic.
Jobs, Jobs and More Jobs
Unemployment in Salt Lake City is at a low of 2.9 percent, compare that with 4.6 unemployment rate of the country as whole. When the unemployment rate of a city is less than the national average, you know it’s doing something right.
Salt Lake City is one of Forbes Magazine’s Best Cities for tech jobs and has been listed as one of the best places for businesses and careers. According to the Economic Policy Institute, (a think tank with a primary focus on the economic conditions of low and middle-income single Americans and families) the cost of living for the average nuclear American family (two parents, two children) is $62,003 a year. For the same family living in San Francisco, it costs $91,785. That’s a difference of nearly $30,000!
With the price of housing, groceries and even Utah auto insurance found to be lower than in other states, who wouldn’t want to move to an area where they would be better able to provide for their family?
One of the Friendliest Places in the States
If your neighbors are a pain in the neck, you might not be able to enjoy living in your neighborhood all that much. If it seems that everyone you run into at the grocery store or the local arts and crafts shop are just too much and over the top, making a move to Salt Lake City could be just what you need to remind yourself there are still good people in the world.
Salt Lake City ranks number 2 as one of the Friendliest Cities in America, coming in just behind Nashville for the top spot. Strangers will greet you and give a nod or hello and Salt Lake City residents everywhere will stop and lend a hand should you need one. How many people can you say that about living in New York or New Jersey?
Living the Night Light Life
It’s commonly assumed that because Salt Lake City is the Mormon capital of world that night life entertainment is lacking. That’s not the case. Every summer at Pioneer Park the Twilight Concert Series plays a number of shows that are all for free.
Plus, with good food downtown and a happy hour that serves delicious and experimental cocktails, you won’t be missing out on anything.
So what are you waiting for? Go out and explore; find your happy place!
