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First time home buyers have no chance getting a house in Utah. This guy talks about how great it is, but unless you’re making well over $100k you’re not going to get a house. Oh not to mention good luck finding a job that pays over $100k. Employers still pay like it’s 2000.
We both work and our combined income is well over 100k and it's definitely not enough to buy a house that our family can fit in. My plumber husband will likely take his skills elsewhere in the next few years. A different state that's not so expensive.
I think you left off your list Cedar City, Utah. It is one of the fastest growing towns in Utah. It is a family friendly town. Also a college town with Southern Utah University, it is the cheapest university to attend, compared to the other colleges in Utah. It is home the Tony Award Shakespeare Festival. It also has a ton of outdoor activities to do. Two national parks are near by plus Cedar Breaks. You need to add Cedar to your list.
Thanks for sharing Jill! Cedar City is the 20th fastest growing city in the state and has so much to offer as you mentioned. With so many things close by, it's an amazing place to live for the outdoors lifestyle with Jeep and rock crawling trails, Duck Creek and Bryce Canyon National Park as well as Zion National Park so close as well as being able to hop on down to St. George so quickly.
I just built a house out in West Haven and can confirm you will get more for your money out here. Being in west Weber county the commute is about 35-40 minutes and is actually really nice with the new Davis highway
Tooele and Stansbury Park are great options too. Not a terrible commute into the city, and a little more affordable than other areas along the greater Wasatch front.
So true! I'll have videos coming about this area as well. I've sold a handful of Homes in Tooele County on the last year and it's going to be growing like crazy for the next 20 years
I live in Ogden. The traffic going to salt Lake just before 6am takes about 40 minutes. Leaving salt Lake after 4pm takes about 50 minutes. With the occasional hour and a half for a bad accident.
I’ve lived in Logan my whole life and I turn 30 next week…and can 100% concur it gets COLLLLLD here. My main reason I am wanting to leave…I don’t think I can do one more cold cache valley winter. 🥶 The reason I’ve stayed so long is, as you said, the cost of living 🤷🏼♀️
A couple negatives about cache valley is that it's pretty sleepy for a college town. Not a lot of fun entertainment options, and the traffic along main street is horrible.
I wish I would have waited to leave S Jordan.. My home is now valued nearly 3 times what I sold it for as it is now 1.1 million dollars! That said, I am happy to be away from the masses and still close to the outdoors and water activities. Vernal.
Great video! I agree with your list and am glad you included Ogden. I live in northern Davis county and go into Ogden frequently. It's closer, cheaper, and has more parking than Salt Lake. Not that I don't enjoy going to SLC, but it's just more of a hassle from here.
I have lived in St.George for the past 10 years. It is getting pretty insane. They keep building like crazy in the barren desert. RE "luxury" speculators and vacation playground fortune seekers under every rock. There are not enough services. Not enough food stores. Wheels dependent everywhere you go. The roads are getting very crowded. Basically, St. Geo has doubled in size since 2014, but other essential infrastructure is about the same. I am looking for a better place.
You left out Cottonwood Heights, which made the top 100 cities nationally after it was incorporated. Cottonwood Heights is known as the “city between the canyons” and is even closer when accessing the Cottonwood Canyons than Sandy. Biggest con is probably home prices but both mountain and city views from many of those homes is phenomenal.
I love it Louise! Thanks for sharing! I went to high school @ Cottonwood High and my office, where I work every single day, is in Cottonwood Heights at the Old Mill corporate center and I LOVE IT! I have been accused of being too biased when I include Cottonwood Heights and South Jordan where I now live so I'm trying too use other data points as well
You should make a video about Tooele and it's surrounding areas such as Stansbury Park, and Grantsville. Interested on your thoughts on it. With the way it's growing, I can see it becoming it's own Metropolitan area at some point. Especially with Eagle Mountain growing and most likely sprawling towards west.
@@scottdsteelelet me know when that video comes out! We are moving there in October/November. Would like more information on that area. From what I see, it’s newer builds, with a more affordable cost. Only 30mins or so to the airport?
Make sure you check what the rental rates are before you buy. If you can rent for a thousand bucks less than you can buy (& make sure to include ALL housing costs in with your mortgage payment to compare to rent), then you might as well wait. Stop paying these ridiculous prices and strapping yourself with a huge housing cost, even if you can afford it. You're chasing natives out of Utah and we have made this state what it is. Many of us actually help build the state with our professions. I bet right now you can most likely rent for a lot cheaper than you can buy.
Thanks for sharing! Yes, most of the time (right now), you'll spend a little more to buy than rent and that changes based on market conditions and interest rates.
Snowbasin and powder mountain ski resorts are up there price wise with Park City mountain resort. I do the mountain resort only because I get a generous pass as a military veteran.
I wish I could afford to move down to the Salt Lake Valley from Logan, whether as a buyer or a renter. It's so isolated up here in Cache Valley that even planning a weekend trip down to SLC is a major production. We desperately need Frontrunner coverage.
You are right Mary. It's a bad investment to move to utah. The great salt lake is dying up. Google what will happen to the area when that happens. This entire area will be uninhabitable due to toxic air
I grew up in Utah. I left after college, and would never go back. No one mentions the negative influence of the Mormon church. Also, you don’t mention the Weather. It is too cold in the winter and too hot in the summer. Spring and fall are beautiful. Those days.
It sounds like Utah isn't the right place for you and yes I do talk about the negatives including the weather in so many videos. One thing I've learned in 46 years is that only focusing on just the negative only breeds more negativity and I'm too positive to do that. What you focus on expands, so focusing on the positives will bring more positivity. Thanks for sharing
I live in Alpine, and haven't been in Salt Lake City in 6 years....I do watch videos on UA-cam about SLC is not good because of drugs and the homeless issue. What do you think about this? Is it dangerous in your opinion? I also hear businesses downtown are taking off.
One of the big reasons you left out that the commute from ogden to slc is so rough. Is alot of people commuting to HAFB. I commute from roy to essentially the airport 5 days a week. Dealing with base traffic on top of regular utah traffic is a nightmare. What would normally take me 20-30 min can take almost 2 hours. The traffic from weber into davis is terrible and expanding the highway isnt helping
I get it, the highway has absolutely helped as well and that commute is far from a 2 hour commute unless there's a serious shut down from a severe accident or weather event but that is rare
Instead of doing cities with the same metro area i.e. draper and sandy and salt lake or Lehi and Provo, there are lots of great places outside of that....or don't do 10
Thanks for sharing Robert! What areas would you put in the list? I've used data from many sites and articles and unfortunately, the only areas that'll pop up on the lists are larger or growing areas. What would you put on this list?
What is St George's plan for water with all that growth? They don't have a sustainable plan and that area is the middle of the desert! They were talking about a pipeline from lake powell which would be the death blow for that lake, but i hear that plan has been shelved. St George is in trouble long term
Very good question. 1 of 3 things must happen: 1) The growth stops (this absolutely won't happen) 2) They bring more water in through a pipeline from the Colorado River (terrible idea given the situation with respect to Lake Powell and Lake Mead witch are the nation's 2 largest reservoirs) or through deeper wells. 3) People use less! St. George residents use 285 gallons per day. To put that into perspective, Las Vegas residents use 123 gallons per day. I believe it'll have to be a combination of using less and pulling more water from the ground. There are immense amounts of water underneath is, although I'm not familiar with that regions underground water supply
Welp, you can scratch Heber City and Heber valley in general off your list. The population has doubled in a couple years. There is a new mcmansion going up on every square foot of land and you can barely drive in gridlocked traffic all summer. Fugidaboutit!
M y fiance and I have been looking for small starter home 2-3 bedrooms. Its been very stressful because of how expensive houses is, and the places that seem somewhat affordable are so far from where we work.
@@scottdsteele we have an agent and financial guy who have been very helpful. But you're video helped me understand about those areas like Ogden and provo
Please don’t encourage people to move to UTAH!!! We are OVERWHELMED HERE, we DON’T HAVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE TO HANDLE MILLIONS MORE PEOPLE.👎👎We left LA 40 yrs ago because it was crowded AND traffic was awful .. NOW I CALL SLC AREA LITTLE LA. TRAFFIC IS A NIGHTMARE. 👎👎
I do serve people who are moving here and to think that I would have any influence to get someone to uproot their lives and move to a new state is simply not true.
Please stop telling people to move to utah. They are driving up home costs and driving like idiots on the freeway. Dont move here! Its 1 mill for a crappy house!
Stop moving to Utah, especially Salt Lake Valley. Far too many people have moved in and it’s crowded as hell. East/West traffic now sucks worse than I-15. Constant road construction. Sky high housing prices. And let’s not forget the TERRIBlE air quality. Influx of transplants have only made all those issues even worse.
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First time home buyers have no chance getting a house in Utah. This guy talks about how great it is, but unless you’re making well over $100k you’re not going to get a house. Oh not to mention good luck finding a job that pays over $100k. Employers still pay like it’s 2000.
I agree, housing affordability Is a crisis and job wages aren't keeping up at all. By the way, my name is Scott, nice to meet you!
We both work and our combined income is well over 100k and it's definitely not enough to buy a house that our family can fit in. My plumber husband will likely take his skills elsewhere in the next few years. A different state that's not so expensive.
This is exactly why this is such a problem. We have to tackle this housing affordability problem because we need plumbers just like your husband here
Summer sales bros will take over all starter home areas. Everywhere becomes infested with Provo All-Stars. This must be stopped
This is kind of funny
I think you left off your list Cedar City, Utah. It is one of the fastest growing towns in Utah. It is a family friendly town. Also a college town with Southern Utah University, it is the cheapest university to attend, compared to the other colleges in Utah. It is home the Tony Award Shakespeare Festival. It also has a ton of outdoor activities to do. Two national parks are near by plus Cedar Breaks. You need to add Cedar to your list.
Thanks for sharing Jill! Cedar City is the 20th fastest growing city in the state and has so much to offer as you mentioned. With so many things close by, it's an amazing place to live for the outdoors lifestyle with Jeep and rock crawling trails, Duck Creek and Bryce Canyon National Park as well as Zion National Park so close as well as being able to hop on down to St. George so quickly.
I just built a house out in West Haven and can confirm you will get more for your money out here. Being in west Weber county the commute is about 35-40 minutes and is actually really nice with the new Davis highway
Thanks for sharing!!!
Tooele and Stansbury Park are great options too. Not a terrible commute into the city, and a little more affordable than other areas along the greater Wasatch front.
So true! I'll have videos coming about this area as well. I've sold a handful of Homes in Tooele County on the last year and it's going to be growing like crazy for the next 20 years
I live in Ogden. The traffic going to salt Lake just before 6am takes about 40 minutes. Leaving salt Lake after 4pm takes about 50 minutes. With the occasional hour and a half for a bad accident.
Thanks for sharing Logan!
What is the nicest part of Ogden to buy a home?
Thanks 🙂
It depends on your interpretation of "nice" but for me, I love the areas just north of Ogden
@@scottdsteele Looking for a family town with good Christian private schools (not Mormon) schools. A place for families.
@darcandelaria the east side of Harrison Blvd. Anywhere from 23rd to 50th street. There's st Joseph's catholic private school. That goes k-12.
I’ve lived in Logan my whole life and I turn 30 next week…and can 100% concur it gets COLLLLLD here. My main reason I am wanting to leave…I don’t think I can do one more cold cache valley winter. 🥶 The reason I’ve stayed so long is, as you said, the cost of living 🤷🏼♀️
You're right! It is colder up there in Cache Valley / Logan!
It’s not that cold
Especially if you have spent time in the upper Midwest
Very Informative and warm video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thank you so much!!
Also cedar city is super super cool- a less crowded and cooler alternative to St. George !
Agreed, it is growing there too!
A couple negatives about cache valley is that it's pretty sleepy for a college town. Not a lot of fun entertainment options, and the traffic along main street is horrible.
I know, it's getting SO busy up there now
I wish I would have waited to leave S Jordan.. My home is now valued nearly 3 times what I sold it for as it is now 1.1 million dollars! That said, I am happy to be away from the masses and still close to the outdoors and water activities. Vernal.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing and I love living in South Jordan although you're now closer to Flaming Gorge
Great video! I agree with your list and am glad you included Ogden. I live in northern Davis county and go into Ogden frequently. It's closer, cheaper, and has more parking than Salt Lake. Not that I don't enjoy going to SLC, but it's just more of a hassle from here.
Thane for sharing Annelise! It's fantastic up there
I have lived in St.George for the past 10 years. It is getting pretty insane. They keep building like crazy in the barren desert. RE "luxury" speculators and vacation playground fortune seekers under every rock. There are not enough services. Not enough food stores. Wheels dependent everywhere you go. The roads are getting very crowded. Basically, St. Geo has doubled in size since 2014, but other essential infrastructure is about the same. I am looking for a better place.
You're spot on. I can't believe how much it's grown
Always making quality videos!
Thanks Christian!
Glad you didn’t mention Davis County cities. We are already overwhelmed. 😅
I drive through there nearly every single day, I totally understand!
You left out Cottonwood Heights, which made the top 100 cities nationally after it was incorporated. Cottonwood Heights is known as the “city between the canyons” and is even closer when accessing the Cottonwood Canyons than Sandy. Biggest con is probably home prices but both mountain and city views from many of those homes is phenomenal.
I love it Louise! Thanks for sharing! I went to high school @ Cottonwood High and my office, where I work every single day, is in Cottonwood Heights at the Old Mill corporate center and I LOVE IT! I have been accused of being too biased when I include Cottonwood Heights and South Jordan where I now live so I'm trying too use other data points as well
You should make a video about Tooele and it's surrounding areas such as Stansbury Park, and Grantsville. Interested on your thoughts on it. With the way it's growing, I can see it becoming it's own Metropolitan area at some point. Especially with Eagle Mountain growing and most likely sprawling towards west.
I will create this video for sure. Population forecasts show that valley filling up over the next 25 years
@@scottdsteelelet me know when that video comes out! We are moving there in October/November. Would like more information on that area. From what I see, it’s newer builds, with a more affordable cost. Only 30mins or so to the airport?
Ok, great!! Yes, 30-40 minutes but many within 30 min.
Make sure you check what the rental rates are before you buy. If you can rent for a thousand bucks less than you can buy (& make sure to include ALL housing costs in with your mortgage payment to compare to rent), then you might as well wait. Stop paying these ridiculous prices and strapping yourself with a huge housing cost, even if you can afford it. You're chasing natives out of Utah and we have made this state what it is. Many of us actually help build the state with our professions. I bet right now you can most likely rent for a lot cheaper than you can buy.
Thanks for sharing! Yes, most of the time (right now), you'll spend a little more to buy than rent and that changes based on market conditions and interest rates.
Thank you Scott, we really appreciate your help
You bet! Absolutely!
I really like Brigham City. A city with a small town feel still. Kinda refreshing.
It is refreshing for sure
Snowbasin and powder mountain ski resorts are up there price wise with Park City mountain resort. I do the mountain resort only because I get a generous pass as a military veteran.
Thanks for sharing Thomas!
I wish I could afford to move down to the Salt Lake Valley from Logan, whether as a buyer or a renter. It's so isolated up here in Cache Valley that even planning a weekend trip down to SLC is a major production. We desperately need Frontrunner coverage.
That would be cool to see
Don't say my city don't say my city don't say my city
Lol, I get it
I love living in the Ogden area.
It is amazing!!! I'll be doing a long video about the Ogden area soon too
I like your channel - it’s thorough and informative. .. keep up the good work but utah alone as a market I’m not sure about.
Thanks! What do you mean about Utah as a market?
You are right Mary. It's a bad investment to move to utah. The great salt lake is dying up. Google what will happen to the area when that happens. This entire area will be uninhabitable due to toxic air
I understand and I believe that we will not allow this to happen, as close to guaranteed as one could guess
I grew up in Utah. I left after college, and would never go back. No one mentions the negative influence of the Mormon church. Also, you don’t mention the Weather. It is too cold in the winter and too hot in the summer. Spring and fall are beautiful. Those days.
It sounds like Utah isn't the right place for you and yes I do talk about the negatives including the weather in so many videos. One thing I've learned in 46 years is that only focusing on just the negative only breeds more negativity and I'm too positive to do that. What you focus on expands, so focusing on the positives will bring more positivity. Thanks for sharing
I live in Alpine, and haven't been in Salt Lake City in 6 years....I do watch videos on UA-cam about SLC is not good because of drugs and the homeless issue. What do you think about this? Is it dangerous in your opinion? I also hear businesses downtown are taking off.
Downtown is booming and if all we read is headlines, we will never see the truth. I love going downtown and no I do not live there
I just want to know what's the best places outside of all these cities. Like in the mountain but still 45 mins from civilization 😊
I prefer the Wasatch Back in towns north or south of Park City
Dont forget Glendale,Rose Park,Poplar groove baby
Thanks Kevin
One of the big reasons you left out that the commute from ogden to slc is so rough. Is alot of people commuting to HAFB. I commute from roy to essentially the airport 5 days a week. Dealing with base traffic on top of regular utah traffic is a nightmare. What would normally take me 20-30 min can take almost 2 hours. The traffic from weber into davis is terrible and expanding the highway isnt helping
I get it, the highway has absolutely helped as well and that commute is far from a 2 hour commute unless there's a serious shut down from a severe accident or weather event but that is rare
Instead of doing cities with the same metro area i.e. draper and sandy and salt lake or Lehi and Provo, there are lots of great places outside of that....or don't do 10
Thanks for sharing Robert! What areas would you put in the list? I've used data from many sites and articles and unfortunately, the only areas that'll pop up on the lists are larger or growing areas. What would you put on this list?
What is St George's plan for water with all that growth? They don't have a sustainable plan and that area is the middle of the desert! They were talking about a pipeline from lake powell which would be the death blow for that lake, but i hear that plan has been shelved. St George is in trouble long term
Very good question. 1 of 3 things must happen:
1) The growth stops (this absolutely won't happen)
2) They bring more water in through a pipeline from the Colorado River (terrible idea given the situation with respect to Lake Powell and Lake Mead witch are the nation's 2 largest reservoirs) or through deeper wells.
3) People use less! St. George residents use 285 gallons per day. To put that into perspective, Las Vegas residents use 123 gallons per day.
I believe it'll have to be a combination of using less and pulling more water from the ground. There are immense amounts of water underneath is, although I'm not familiar with that regions underground water supply
The traffic in St. George is terrible.
You're exactly right
I am so glad Saratoga Springs didn't make the list. There is no more room here...please don't come here.
Saratoga Springs is growing so incredibly fast and it's not finished.
@@scottdsteele The problem is the infrastructure isn't able to support the growth. Ask anyone who lives here what the traffic is like.
Oh I know! It's terrible driving out there from 4-7 pm or in morning rush hour
😂
Hopefully the infrastructure is built out soon
What about Wendover? I kid I kid but I will say it’s by favorite place in Utah.
Love it! It's a quick trip to hit some casinos💥
@@scottdsteele the casinos are nice yes, but for me, it’s the salt flats and the Air Force Base out there that really draw my attention
Agreed!
Welp, you can scratch Heber City and Heber valley in general off your list. The population has doubled in a couple years. There is a new mcmansion going up on every square foot of land and you can barely drive in gridlocked traffic all summer. Fugidaboutit!
It's growing so fast, you're right and it's gotten so busy
Almost zero night life south of the point.
Very true
I’m coming from Cali moving there and buying a couple of houses.
Awesome! Get in touch with me Steve!
Good job man. You’ve really made it! I love you folks from California.
….you’re different.l
Huh?
M y fiance and I have been looking for small starter home 2-3 bedrooms. Its been very stressful because of how expensive houses is, and the places that seem somewhat affordable are so far from where we work.
Let's hop on a call and see what I can do to help you guys. Reach out
@@scottdsteele we have an agent and financial guy who have been very helpful. But you're video helped me understand about those areas like Ogden and provo
Good! As long as you have good people helping you! Best wishes 🙏
Logan, with NO good pictures…weird.
I need to get up there and get some goof video of Cache County
@@scottdsteele yup. Wonderful home and community. Wide ranging and FREE transit system.
I need to get up there
Timestamps are needed
I understand and used to do them but they kill watch time and engagement and result in less impact
We are full……Try Colorado
I get it
Utah is full please go somewhere else
I get it
No
No?
So is your mom. But we ain’t complaining
Don’t even consider it, you can’t afford it
Many can, many cannot
Please don’t encourage people to move to UTAH!!! We are OVERWHELMED HERE, we DON’T HAVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE TO HANDLE MILLIONS MORE PEOPLE.👎👎We left LA 40 yrs ago because it was crowded AND traffic was awful .. NOW I CALL SLC AREA LITTLE LA. TRAFFIC IS A NIGHTMARE. 👎👎
I do serve people who are moving here and to think that I would have any influence to get someone to uproot their lives and move to a new state is simply not true.
How about don't move here 😊❤
Why is that?
Please stop telling people to move to utah. They are driving up home costs and driving like idiots on the freeway. Dont move here! Its 1 mill for a crappy house!
I get it
Stop moving to Utah, especially Salt Lake Valley. Far too many people have moved in and it’s crowded as hell. East/West traffic now sucks worse than I-15. Constant road construction. Sky high housing prices. And let’s not forget the TERRIBlE air quality. Influx of transplants have only made all those issues even worse.
Thanks for sharing!