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>IMO, this is one of the main strengths of the US: you have 50 different options to live according to your values and beliefs, and relatively little friction if you decide to move to a state that better reflects them.

Also a weakness. Utah, one of the most stunningly beautiful states in the union, is completely under the grip of a regressive theocracy that has controlled nearly every aspect of life there for over a century. Really sucks.

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I've visited various parts of Utah in the last year. It doesn't particularly reflect my life choices and I doubt I would ever move there. But their cultural values seem to have resulted in a prosperous state compared to most other Mountain West states (or even most Midwestern states).

I think it's also doing well re: reproductive rate. I expect it to continue be a thriving place for years to come.

Isn’t that the choice of the people who live there? Personally I am for cultures deciding their own local laws and customs, whether it’s Utah, India, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, or England, no matter how repugnant I may find their choices.

regressive tho it may be, I'd rather live in Utah than most of the South.

I'd take SLC over all of Mississippi, for example.

The VPN thing skews that a little more -- and is hilarious given how it's like the state that is largest consumer of internet porn -- but the city is far more livable than people give it credit.

>regressive tho it may be, I'd rather live in Utah than most of the South.

Yeah fair you got me there

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