Utah is CLOSED! What's happening in Utah?

6:20 I do long distance trucking and get home to slc and Utah county every other week. Can confirm that Utah traffic is rather good, the frustrations are the selfish drivers who keep left. There’s a lot of “me me me” driving and not much of “slowing down and moving over a little for the sake of keeping traffic flowing”

It's hard to get excited about small, quaint areas becoming too expensive and over crowded. Not to mention everyone that wants to drive 80 wherever they go and only 5 feet from your bumper. Things were just fine 20 years ago and Id love it back! An open border is definitely adding to the growth. A country can't sustain anyone and everyone flooding in.

For affordable housing STOP AIRBNB VRBO and temp things like that. This will be a great help for locals. We need more high density housing -but if you are a guy that makes 5k a month you BARELY MAKE IT each day. If you want nice restaurants to go out to-we need to allow for people to be waiters and cooks and others to live at a decent life style. Not everyone is built to run a business.

Utah is too beautiful to leave alone , am gonna have a road trip from the east coast purposely to visit utah

If someone thinks that Utah is expensive, check Massachusetts

I can vouch for the points on housing prices. My brother inherited our family home. The house went up 3 to 4 times in value from when my parents built it in ‘94. So he decided to sell because it would seriously be silly not to. At 23 years old he was able to use the difference to buy land, and build a beautiful house even bigger than the family home. I am older than him, trying to sustain in renting a small apartment and I am barely making it because the cost of renting goes up yearly. It is crazy out here.

High quality info y'all.

I just retired as a 48 state/Canada truck driver and chose SLC UT. to live my golden years. Of everywhere I've been this place is the all-around best it checks all the boxes. I recommend this place however the air is bad but I'm willing to overlook this as the air quality is slowly getting better. I'm a foody and yum. I build rock crawlers to go wheeling as a hobby and this is the best place for me in this respect. SALT LAKE CITY is the best staging area to head outdoors. Housing shortage is disappearing, and cost is going down some. Apartments overbuilt so good inexpensive rentals is available. Of all my travels I say crime is very low and city is clean.

Californian here who went to BYU and visited recently for an academic conference. A couple things from my perspective. It's true that Utah, like many places, needs more housing, but when I visited, I got the impression that they were working hard to build it, much more so than CA. And many different types of housing rather than SFH in different places in Utah county my aunt (lives in Highland) talked about/showed me while I was there. I also have always loved using the Frontrunner to get to Provo while I was there, and its connection to Trax is also good. There's good density in AF at least near the station, and I saw a lot of people using Frontrunner to get to SLC, despite there still being a lot of space in parking lots near the stations. So Utah might still have issues, but it does seem like they're really trying to implement the good solutions (density, good transit) more so than many other areas I've seen. Hopefully, as other places do better with building density, it can take some pressure off of Utah. It will still grow, however, which will eventually require locals to make adjustments like using transit over cars to avoid traffic. Building more roads can only do so much in heavily populated areas, especially as it generally runs counter to building housing and having good air quality.

Traffic and crime. I don't recognize some parts of my city anymore in Utah County.

The homes are being built on farmland. The problem is that the residential use is higher that the agricultural use and the people that profit from the real-estate industry get greedy about the water so they can make more money.

I love this place, but how it would be possible to keep the same quality when the population has doubled so fast? I would say it is necessary to control who is moving, basically I am referring basically to Venezuelan people, they do not have a very good “record”.

Day Break is Pricey!

UM NO you have to sit inside your office of an extra hour from 6 pm on to avoid traffic. So if you live in Lehi and work in Salt Lake get off at 4-remember if you do that you are not picking your kids up from school- you are going to burn two a day in traffic easy.

Larger class sizes means terrible education.

It would be nice if Utah could put Utahns first somehow.

Come to Utah!!!❤ Utah County needs a bit more diversity. 😂

Utah build SRPAWL not really planned. LARGE PLOTS OF of housing without shops or communities-mall planning that makes congestion worse.

Inflation, Interest rates are based and controlled on a federal level. Choose your next President wisley.

What about these cry babies move somewhere else where there is plenty of undeveloped land.