Don’t Move to Salt Lake City Unless You Are Mormon - Utah, USA

Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah and the seat of Salt Lake County, the most populous county in Utah.

Salt Lake City is probably best known as the headquarters of the religious community known as the Mormons or the Church of the Latter-Day Saints. Thus, the city was founded in 1847 by Brigham Young, who made his way to Salt Lake City from Illinois and decided to set up a community.

Clearly, Salt Lake City exists, and thrives today, because of the settling of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mormon influence began with the city’s founding, on July 24, 1847 (still recognized as a state holiday), is reflected in the physical layout of its streets, and continues in nearly every institution.

Under the church's guidance, Utah has evolved into a conservative state where the good of the church is placed above most other concerns. The Utah legislature is overwhelmingly Mormon, Republican, and conservative. In 2012, nearly 73% of the state voted for presidential candidate Mitt Romney, and national Republican candidates regularly pull 70% of the state’s votes. It is estimated that 70% of Utah’s population belongs to the LDS faith, and the church controls or operates the number-one television and radio stations (KSL), the number-two newspaper (the Deseret News), a major university (Brigham Young), and the largest bank (Zions).

Salt Lake City, however, is closer to 50% Mormon and has had Democratic mayors and city-council majorities for several years. The presence of the University of Utah serves as a counterbalance to conservative BYU. The only other Democratic strongholds in the state are in Park City and Moab. Otherwise, virtually all communities have Republican and LDS leadership, which, among other things, often means closed doors for all sorts of services and stores on Sunday.

Salt Lake City is one of the worst U.S. cities to live in, at least according to 24/7 Wall St. and USA Today.

Using an index with measures in eight categories: crime, economy, education, environment, health, housing, infrastructure, and leisure, 24/7 Wall St. identified the 50 worst cities to live in.

According to their report, Salt Lake City came in at number 49.

“One factor detracting from the quality of life in Salt Lake City is the area’s high violent crime rate. Some 937 violent crimes were reported in 2016 per 100,000 city residents, more than twice the national violent crime rate of 386 incidents per 100,000 Americans and nearly four times the state rate of 243 per 100,000 Utah residents. Housing prices in Salt Lake City also have been rising fast in recent years and have outpaced the area’s income growth, making housing unaffordable for many low-income residents,” USA Today said.

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