I tried to join next door, but my neighborhood has carved my house out of their boundaries. It kinds of sucks being a non-mormon in Utah sometimes.
There were little inconveniences like no coffee provided at a lot of workplaces and liquor restrictions, but if you love outdoor stuff that alone can make it a pretty nice place to live.
My complaint wasn't prompted by an uninformed view of fellow Utah residents.
And your view is uninformed, because it’s anecdotal, one data point, based on your microcosm of experience, just like mine.
There’s not enough information here to generalize, but I still have real friends from having lived there, and I think it’s appropriate to offer a counterpoint, lest anyone interpret a one off comment as a truism.
The real problem is when a religion becomes oppressive, dangerous, or...well I’m sure you know the pitfalls we’ve learned of over 5000 years.
A fair number of people here are almost militantly against religion in all forms. I happen to take the opinion that it’s not inherently evil, that some good comes from it, and we should judge every situation on its own ethics rather than alienate such a large class of people.
I see lot of troll potential here :)