I moved to SLC from Oregon in the 8th grade. I graduated from Highland High and did my undergrad at the U. Been gone since 2001, now living in Boise area, but the city definitely played a big role as to who I am. Thanks for presenting it! Well done.👍🏻
Kinda crazy to see something like this. To me salt lake has always been one of the lesser known us capitals, and I love to see complete strangers on the internet talk about things I know very well, like highland, or the U.
My home! Best city in America, no joke. And I’m not saying that as a Mormon. It’s just amazing on its own. Skiing, trees, mountains, and the cleanest city I’ve been to.
One comment is that for Salt Lake really the CSA is much, much better for population metrics than the Metro (MSA) alone. There are cities ten minutes away that are not part of the Metro but very much part of the overall population like Bountiful. So the CSA really gives the scope and explains how we can support multiple sports teams, etc.
Cool fact about the conference center. The acoustic design is such that the dampening effect each seat is the same whether filled or empty. Reverb would be a massive issue otherwise
They've been talking about hosting the Winter Olympics again in 2030 or 2034, along with much-needed updates to the city's infrastructure and public transportation
Just spent 5 days in SLC, what a wonderful and joyful place! Also took in Park City, another great place. I highly recommend a visit, and I surely will try to return.
My son is traveling to SLC very soon & I was wanting to see what it looks like there. Very Beautiful! Us being Alaskan, we love our mountains so I know he's going to enjoy his trip. If this trip goes well this could potentially become a move for an amazing opportunity so fingers crossed! 🙏
Nice update and more nice details added. I really like that the state Capitol is on such a prominent hill. I didn’t realize how large the metro area is in population. A 209k city is really a 1.3 million city. The Mormon Tabernacle is really impressive as well. Great job!
@@CityGeek if it had been centered out on the river, or further down into the valley, it wouldnt have gotten trapped up against the mountians when all the other areas started incorporating it. Imagine if Denver or Phoenix had been founded literally at the foot of their local mountain areas.. They wouldnt have been able to grow outward like a metastasizing tumor.
As a long time subscriber, I always thought you had covered SLC before! Nonetheless, good coverage as always. I'm yet to visit this beautiful city but I most definitely will, in the future.
Yeah I had a couple years ago but I didn’t think I had done a good enough job with my first SLC video. This one is quite a bit more thorough. Thanks for the comment!
I wish you would have mentioned the practical reasons the area was settled. Being in a mountain valley, there are many rivers and creeks supplying the area with water from snow melt. This is compounded by the existence of a large fresh water lake to the south of the city with a large river flowing from that lake, through salt lake valley, and into the great salt lake. The area is arid, but it really is an oasis in the desert.
I'll be immigrating to the US in a couple of months, starting my own business and as a huge ice hockey fan I obviously put Salt Lake City on my potential list. I love the airport connections. For a city of 200k people you can get to any part of the country and even into Western Europe where I come from so that's a huge plus. I'm a little concerned about the air quality and the lack of recreational lakes, I'm a huge boating/fishing fan so that might be a con. I'm not sure if you can fish in Salt Lake lol :D Seems like a dumpy place. I'm also a little afraid about Utah turning blue with all the people coming to the state. I wouldnt want to end up in Colorado 2.0.
Hello there friend, I have lived in the Salt lake valley my whole life and let me tell you we have a TON of small mountain reservoirs and lakes you can boat and or fish on within 1-2 hour drive. If you are willing to drive a few extra hours you also have Flaming Gorge, Sand Hallow and Lake Powell to the south. We do lack nice beach areas but water sports can be had.
It’s not. With the religion, the city is ok at best to visit once. More than that you see the true reality of the religion and how the city really is and its people.
Cool video. MSAs can be strange. Something like 1/3 of SLC's area is uninhabitable mountain and lake. SLC is definitely "bigger" than both Memphis and Birmingham.
It's bad when you've grown up here your whole life and possibly have to move away cause you can't afford it. Not my situation but I've seen it happen a few times.
@@sleekillathat’s me growing up in NYC, as an adult I can’t afford it so I’ve stayed in Utah since I was in college and now I hope this place doesn’t spit me out too 😭
@@calgary2800 Yes I would say worse than Seattle and the reason is because Seattle has the infrastructure, freeways, and water for a lot more people. Salt Lakes City doesn't, we only have one major freeway and we are the second driest nation in the entire country and yet they just keep packing people in here like sardines and raising the costs to live daily. I pay 3400$ a month for a 1600 SQ ft apartment in a ghetto area where homeless people are outside my front door sleeping almost daily. Salt Lake City has been destroyed by Californians, and it just keeps getting more expensive. I know people from California who want to go back because it was actually cheaper there.
Hello everyone!) I'm planning to fly to this city to study. Can you tell me how is the crime rate there? There is absolutely contradictory information on the Internet. So I would like to hear the real opinion of people who live there.
@@minilla3842 Got it, thanks for the reply! It turned out to be a very difficult task to find a city in the US to study in, with low crime and not too hot climate (I'm a fan of winter). I hope I can visit your city in the future.
Davis County is safe i live here bcz its safer place raise kids. If your not into the crime its not gonna follow you. Maybe a car break in or car theft at the most but like a stick up or violence hapoen to you its likely never gonna happen. All the normal metro city drugs are around but you wont notice unless look for it.
telepathic version of salt lake from another area always thaough it would be more spanish like being neigbors to neveda, I like book geographics instead.
I was born in Utah but shortly after I was born, my parents moved to the south where I spent the rest of my life up until Covid hit, and then I decided to move back because by that point every member of my family was living out here. I really wish I didn’t. I always thought Utah was a chill place where people were cool and understanding ……. I have never lived in a city with people that were more rude, more self-centered, more inconsiderate than this place. Not to mention the pollution is the worst I have ever seen, and I have traveled the country for my job for the last 20 years as a traveling land surveyor. The Jordan River is the most disgusting body of water I have ever seen in my family lived on the Mississippi river for six years. also living along the river, not hundreds, but thousands of Crystal methodic who the police on a monthly occasion have to hurt like cattle, depending on what events are going on. But the days that it’s not completely covered in smog when you can actually see the valley. It does look pretty from a far.
Honestly, SLC is often hazy and ugly. The lake is disgusting. They probably have the worst food of any decent sized city in the country. I would only go there to use the airport to get to the best skiing in the country or other outdoor activities like hiking/climbing.
@@SchneeflockeMonsoonyeah but it’s defended. Not so much in the city but 20 to 30 minutes north it’s a different culture. Salt lake county, Davis county and Weber county are all different types and all real close together.
@@Madhosters you dont want none this! we got dirty soda spots everywhere and cookies with cake batter that makes them special! and largest karen population per capita . you wont be able handle it. the drugs are good though..lol
The Mormons had been considering and planning to relocate to the GSL Valley for years before they actually did- the legend makes it sound like they just wandered west and ended up there by accident. Also it would be accurate to say they fled due to conflict, but saying it was “religious persecution” is inaccurate and kinda propaganda. It wasn’t their personal religious beliefs that stirred up their neighbors everywhere they went.
@@pre-q8s what’s wild is thinking that just practicing a different religion is so offensive that hordes of people are driven to rage, and not just some people- this happened everywhere they went. And they were far from the weirdest religion out there, so why didn’t any of the other similar new religions experience similar? The reality is that they originally fled New York to escape prosecution from fraudulent activity. Then from there they would move en masse to small towns, declare it their promised land, declare that the town (which again was already settled) would now be run according to mormon rules with Joseph Smith as the king, they would vote as a bloc to put themselves in power, would run “apostate” business owners out of business, pooling their money to outbid locals on land, then there was the sexual shenanigans with Joseph Smith (including teenage girls) which later turned into “polygamy,” and more. This turned into violence and riots, and it happened in multiple places. Were they persecuted at this time? You could make that argument. But the rage didn’t come from their religion or beliefs.
Living in Utah under Moroni Law has made Utah a terrible state to live in and SLC a very Unfriendly city to visit! The Mormons are the friendliest Unfriendly people you will ever meet! The Mormons make SLC a terrible city to visit when nothing happens on Sundays and they dictate when mass transit run. The Mormons have ruined Utah.
@@fjfjfurjrnfncnnxxn It’s crazy how almost everything you said was wrong there. The “Mormon Extermination Order” among several other illegal and violent actions forced the early members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints from their homes several times. They were forced to settle in the Mexican territory of the Salt Lake Valley because the United States would not tolerate their beliefs and exiled them, but would still conscript them for the Spanish-American War. It was absolutely religious persecution, and it’s still heavily practiced against modern day members today.
The changing demographics and how good SLC proper it is to the lgbtq community is cool. Hopefully one day Utah becomes a blue state and SLC can truly shine.
yeah no. Blue states are failing and people are moving in droves to red states. You just stay in your libtarded state. Utah is great precisely cause its not a blue state.
I hope not, sire your LGBT whatever you think blue is doing is cool. But most LGBT people here in utah don't like slc. We don't like the gas stations having glass everywhere. Or the homeless in the streets everywhere. Blue don't solve issues they make them and tell you to vote to fix them. Please stop voting blue no matter who and vote blue when it makes sense and vote red when it makes sense. Cox is a blue pretending to be red but you can't see that because it's just a game to you
Home sweet home.
Ha me too
Really?! Me too!
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Same
It looks very nice.
My favourite city in the US. Beautifully laid out and some stunning architecture. Great vibe, and so much to do in the mountains.
As someone who lived In SLC for most of my life, I would argue that the layout is far too car centric, but everything else you said is pretty true
I moved to SLC from Oregon in the 8th grade. I graduated from Highland High and did my undergrad at the U. Been gone since 2001, now living in Boise area, but the city definitely played a big role as to who I am. Thanks for presenting it! Well done.👍🏻
Thank you!!
Kinda crazy to see something like this. To me salt lake has always been one of the lesser known us capitals, and I love to see complete strangers on the internet talk about things I know very well, like highland, or the U.
My home! Best city in America, no joke. And I’m not saying that as a Mormon. It’s just amazing on its own. Skiing, trees, mountains, and the cleanest city I’ve been to.
One comment is that for Salt Lake really the CSA is much, much better for population metrics than the Metro (MSA) alone. There are cities ten minutes away that are not part of the Metro but very much part of the overall population like Bountiful. So the CSA really gives the scope and explains how we can support multiple sports teams, etc.
Yes, and I’m that case the population is more around 2.4 million, putting it in the top 25 for the country.
Great video! Beautiful city! Like 277 Thank you very much for sharing!
Thanks so much!
Cool fact about the conference center. The acoustic design is such that the dampening effect each seat is the same whether filled or empty. Reverb would be a massive issue otherwise
Thanks for mentioning that!
Regardless of how you feel about the LDS church, you cannot deny the beauty that is the Salt Lake Temple
They've been talking about hosting the Winter Olympics again in 2030 or 2034, along with much-needed updates to the city's infrastructure and public transportation
Just spent 5 days in SLC, what a wonderful and joyful place! Also took in Park City, another great place. I highly recommend a visit, and I surely will try to return.
Really beautiful city and best touring center.
The city I now call home! Love my city so much!
We don't want newcomers, go back
how is the weather? are summers too hot?
@@aniharutyunyanextremely hot 🥵 in the summer, and extremely freezing 🥶 in the winter. lol pick your poison.
@@darwin8025lol, I live in Utah and it’s sooooo true😂 other than early fall and late spring
Salt lake seems like such an interesting city! This video was definitely an upgrade from your last slc vid!
Thank you!! Yeah it was time for an updated video 😊
What an interesting comment! Sorry, I'm sorry
How did I not know they had a massive mine close by? That's wild how deep it is. Sick vid bro!
Yeah it’s super interesting! Thank you!!
My son is traveling to SLC very soon & I was wanting to see what it looks like there. Very Beautiful! Us being Alaskan, we love our mountains so I know he's going to enjoy his trip. If this trip goes well this could potentially become a move for an amazing opportunity so fingers crossed! 🙏
Nice update and more nice details added. I really like that the state Capitol is on such a prominent hill. I didn’t realize how large the metro area is in population. A 209k city is really a 1.3 million city. The Mormon Tabernacle is really impressive as well. Great job!
Thanks David!! Yeah it’s a surprisingly large city. Thanks for the comment, as always!
@@CityGeek if it had been centered out on the river, or further down into the valley, it wouldnt have gotten trapped up against the mountians when all the other areas started incorporating it. Imagine if Denver or Phoenix had been founded literally at the foot of their local mountain areas.. They wouldnt have been able to grow outward like a metastasizing tumor.
As a long time subscriber, I always thought you had covered SLC before! Nonetheless, good coverage as always. I'm yet to visit this beautiful city but I most definitely will, in the future.
Yeah I had a couple years ago but I didn’t think I had done a good enough job with my first SLC video. This one is quite a bit more thorough. Thanks for the comment!
Good video but no mention of SLC's transit system! It punches way above its weight for an American city.
Thanks! And yeah I don’t typically hit on metro system in these videos but it would have been a good idea to hit on that with SLC
@@CityGeek dont worry.. there are multiple other YT channels that have been singing the praises of the transit system
Thanks for that. Been reading about Brigham Young. 🇦🇺
I wish you would have mentioned the practical reasons the area was settled. Being in a mountain valley, there are many rivers and creeks supplying the area with water from snow melt. This is compounded by the existence of a large fresh water lake to the south of the city with a large river flowing from that lake, through salt lake valley, and into the great salt lake. The area is arid, but it really is an oasis in the desert.
I'll be immigrating to the US in a couple of months, starting my own business and as a huge ice hockey fan I obviously put Salt Lake City on my potential list. I love the airport connections. For a city of 200k people you can get to any part of the country and even into Western Europe where I come from so that's a huge plus. I'm a little concerned about the air quality and the lack of recreational lakes, I'm a huge boating/fishing fan so that might be a con. I'm not sure if you can fish in Salt Lake lol :D Seems like a dumpy place. I'm also a little afraid about Utah turning blue with all the people coming to the state. I wouldnt want to end up in Colorado 2.0.
Hello there friend, I have lived in the Salt lake valley my whole life and let me tell you we have a TON of small mountain reservoirs and lakes you can boat and or fish on within 1-2 hour drive. If you are willing to drive a few extra hours you also have Flaming Gorge, Sand Hallow and Lake Powell to the south. We do lack nice beach areas but water sports can be had.
I always imagined SLC was underrated and overlooked.
It’s not. With the religion, the city is ok at best to visit once. More than that you see the true reality of the religion and how the city really is and its people.
not anymore. way too many people are moving here and the tiny little infrastructure cant handle. everything is flooded with traffic now.
@@frwystr well, when it comes to infrastructure, Utah SUCKS!
@Ex_christian I don't live there. But I'm not far away, the government there is far worse. May I add it's completely blue.
@@TheChcam the State Government is worse.
If you’re gonna mention Lehi (silicon slopes) you might as well include Salt Lakes CSA population, which is 2.8 million
Cool video. MSAs can be strange. Something like 1/3 of SLC's area is uninhabitable mountain and lake. SLC is definitely "bigger" than both Memphis and Birmingham.
How is the weather? are summers too hot?
Stay out we're full.
It's bad when you've grown up here your whole life and possibly have to move away cause you can't afford it. Not my situation but I've seen it happen a few times.
@@sleekillathat’s me growing up in NYC, as an adult I can’t afford it so I’ve stayed in Utah since I was in college and now I hope this place doesn’t spit me out too 😭
@@ultraviolettas I'm in Seattle, we have SLC beat for crowds.
I was lucky enough to be born to 2 parents who bought a house before the prices skyrocketed. I’m very grateful that money isn’t a problem for us.
I'm coming 😉
Brought to you be the SLC chamber of commerce!
But being serious, I’m headed there this fall and it gave me sons ideas of things to see
This video is great, its a shame you arent more popular
Thank you!
Please do videos on Minnesota and Des Moines Iowa
can you do Hartford, Connecticut
Yes!
I love my city of slc
Good video
Thank you!
Just remember, Utah is its own animal and 20 min north is a different type of people.
I went to the Capitol building for prom last school year. Salt Lake is a good city
City of LDS
Yes, 24 p looks very bad!
where's Nashville?
That copper mine is scary.
I think it is best city in the world. Because of the its Mormons. I love them so much:):)
Just wait until we get the Rio Grande Plan done
I've thought of moving there. Yet I have a feeling the cost of living is getting too high out that way.
Oh ya, SLC is very expensive and not a comfortable place to be.
It's way too high and way overcrowded now. I wouldn't move here
@@neo7759 As in Seattle overcrowded. I live South Seattle weekdays and often weekends. Live South Stay South to keep sane from the traffic.
It's high, but the people make it not worth living here if it was cheap.
@@calgary2800 Yes I would say worse than Seattle and the reason is because Seattle has the infrastructure, freeways, and water for a lot more people. Salt Lakes City doesn't, we only have one major freeway and we are the second driest nation in the entire country and yet they just keep packing people in here like sardines and raising the costs to live daily. I pay 3400$ a month for a 1600 SQ ft apartment in a ghetto area where homeless people are outside my front door sleeping almost daily. Salt Lake City has been destroyed by Californians, and it just keeps getting more expensive. I know people from California who want to go back because it was actually cheaper there.
24p is not good
Hello everyone!)
I'm planning to fly to this city to study. Can you tell me how is the crime rate there? There is absolutely contradictory information on the Internet. So I would like to hear the real opinion of people who live there.
I live just outside the city and it really depends where you are. Downtown SLC is fine, but west valley is much more iffy. Just depends where you are.
@@minilla3842 Got it, thanks for the reply! It turned out to be a very difficult task to find a city in the US to study in, with low crime and not too hot climate (I'm a fan of winter). I hope I can visit your city in the future.
Davis County is safe i live here bcz its safer place raise kids. If your not into the crime its not gonna follow you. Maybe a car break in or car theft at the most but like a stick up or violence hapoen to you its likely never gonna happen. All the normal metro city drugs are around but you wont notice unless look for it.
telepathic version of salt lake from another area always thaough it would be more spanish like being neigbors to neveda, I like book geographics instead.
I was born in Utah but shortly after I was born, my parents moved to the south where I spent the rest of my life up until Covid hit, and then I decided to move back because by that point every member of my family was living out here. I really wish I didn’t.
I always thought Utah was a chill place where people were cool and understanding ……. I have never lived in a city with people that were more rude, more self-centered, more inconsiderate than this place. Not to mention the pollution is the worst I have ever seen, and I have traveled the country for my job for the last 20 years as a traveling land surveyor.
The Jordan River is the most disgusting body of water I have ever seen in my family lived on the Mississippi river for six years. also living along the river, not hundreds, but thousands of Crystal methodic who the police on a monthly occasion have to hurt like cattle, depending on what events are going on. But the days that it’s not completely covered in smog when you can actually see the valley. It does look pretty from a far.
Ah yes this is where steak lives
I'm originally from Idaho. I now live in SLC. SLC is beautiful, but the people are snobs. I'm serious.
nyc pls
They are all brothers and sisters
Hey next City Orlando 🫶
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Honestly, SLC is often hazy and ugly. The lake is disgusting. They probably have the worst food of any decent sized city in the country. I would only go there to use the airport to get to the best skiing in the country or other outdoor activities like hiking/climbing.
Its starting to get California's problems... not good
Stay away, it’s overcrowded now…
"REFORMED EGYPTIAN" 😂😂🤣
Not really relevant.
Latino For Trump 💪 no mas guerra
People from Utah are mean, don’t come here
I’m coming there
There are mean people everywhere.
@@SchneeflockeMonsoonyeah but it’s defended. Not so much in the city but 20 to 30 minutes north it’s a different culture. Salt lake county, Davis county and Weber county are all different types and all real close together.
@@Madhosters you dont want none this! we got dirty soda spots everywhere and cookies with cake batter that makes them special! and largest karen population per capita . you wont be able handle it. the drugs are good though..lol
The Mormons had been considering and planning to relocate to the GSL Valley for years before they actually did- the legend makes it sound like they just wandered west and ended up there by accident.
Also it would be accurate to say they fled due to conflict, but saying it was “religious persecution” is inaccurate and kinda propaganda. It wasn’t their personal religious beliefs that stirred up their neighbors everywhere they went.
The second half of this comment is wild. Reducing what Mormons went through to a “conflict” rather than blatant religious persecution is dishonest
@@pre-q8s what’s wild is thinking that just practicing a different religion is so offensive that hordes of people are driven to rage, and not just some people- this happened everywhere they went. And they were far from the weirdest religion out there, so why didn’t any of the other similar new religions experience similar?
The reality is that they originally fled New York to escape prosecution from fraudulent activity. Then from there they would move en masse to small towns, declare it their promised land, declare that the town (which again was already settled) would now be run according to mormon rules with Joseph Smith as the king, they would vote as a bloc to put themselves in power, would run “apostate” business owners out of business, pooling their money to outbid locals on land, then there was the sexual shenanigans with Joseph Smith (including teenage girls) which later turned into “polygamy,” and more. This turned into violence and riots, and it happened in multiple places.
Were they persecuted at this time? You could make that argument. But the rage didn’t come from their religion or beliefs.
Living in Utah under Moroni Law has made Utah a terrible state to live in and SLC a very Unfriendly city to visit! The Mormons are the friendliest Unfriendly people you will ever meet! The Mormons make SLC a terrible city to visit when nothing happens on Sundays and they dictate when mass transit run. The Mormons have ruined Utah.
@@pre-q8swell, when their cult likes to groom and brainwash….. what do you expect?
@@fjfjfurjrnfncnnxxn
It’s crazy how almost everything you said was wrong there.
The “Mormon Extermination Order” among several other illegal and violent actions forced the early members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints from their homes several times. They were forced to settle in the Mexican territory of the Salt Lake Valley because the United States would not tolerate their beliefs and exiled them, but would still conscript them for the Spanish-American War.
It was absolutely religious persecution, and it’s still heavily practiced against modern day members today.
The changing demographics and how good SLC proper it is to the lgbtq community is cool. Hopefully one day Utah becomes a blue state and SLC can truly shine.
yeah no. Blue states are failing and people are moving in droves to red states. You just stay in your libtarded state. Utah is great precisely cause its not a blue state.
I hope not, sire your LGBT whatever you think blue is doing is cool. But most LGBT people here in utah don't like slc. We don't like the gas stations having glass everywhere. Or the homeless in the streets everywhere. Blue don't solve issues they make them and tell you to vote to fix them. Please stop voting blue no matter who and vote blue when it makes sense and vote red when it makes sense. Cox is a blue pretending to be red but you can't see that because it's just a game to you
What does blue have to do with it?
@@andrewricci8710 why not green right????
No thanks. The last thing we need is blue politics. Move next door to Colorado if you want that.
NFL should just have a newest football expansion team in Salt Lake City!☃☃☃☃☃☃🏟🏟🏟🏟🏟🏟🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈
Or MLB team.
But there’d NEVER be games on Sunday! All because of the Moron cult that rules Utah and SLC!