Let me know what state we should do next. Please leave a like.

Another major reason behind the air is that we're in a bowl surrounded by mountains and the pollution gets trapped with no good way for air to push it out.

Much love to everyone and their families from Cedar City Utah USA 🙈🍄🤠

It’s Ryan hall yall , I watch him for the weather as well and he’s great! Just commenting this so anyone who’s looking for him

Great video. My wife and I moved to Salt Lake City in October 2020. We left in January 2021. Just wasn’t for us. Absolutely loved Bryce Canyon National Park and Zion.

I live in Utah and I think this was a very fair assessment of our problems.

Briggs shouting out Ryan Hall is the crossover of my two faves that I didn’t know I needed ❤️

I live in Harriman Utah, southwest part of the Salt Lake City Valley. Your video is spot on! But like everywhere in the world, places have their good and bad items. If you don't like where you live, move to someplace else. Keep up the good videos.....

I live in Happy Valley, Oregon, and I am going to retire in Saint George, Utah, in 2 years. Just love the place

Just perfect timing for my lunch break . Love seeing a fresh Mr Briggs videos . Hope everyone found a happy moment in their day .

On the diversity front, Salt Lake City is a huge exception. There are 87 different languages spoken in Slat Lake County and large ethic populations from around the world.

Great job! As a Utahn for 60 years, please discourage people from moving here. Most of us live in a concentrated megalopolis (Wasatch Front) and it's getting way too crowded!

Spot on Briggs! I moved from Ohio 12 years ago and currently live in Ivins/St. George. Everything you stated in the video I see here. You should do a video on St. George sometime.

I really don’t think you can underestimate the LDS influence in Utah, especially if you have school age children. I knew someone who had two children and moved to Utah. My friend’s kids went to the local public school and her kids were ostracized by the other kids for not being Mormon. They had to seek out a Catholic school for their children, even though they weren’t Catholic, just so their kids weren’t picked on for not being Mormon.

No mention of Trax and Frontrunner. Great public transportation options for main areas (and free to college students), and UTA On-Demand is a much cheaper alternative to Uber. Sure, it's no NYC, but I don't think you give the SLC public transportation enough credit.

It's definitely getting expensive. My son lives there. I was contemplating moving there last year, houses were selling on the day they were listed. It is beautiful, and pleasant, but as you say, rough winter and bad air in SLC.😊

Thanks for the shout-out to my home town!!! Cedar City! Higher elevation than Denver and salt lake and colder too!

Nice and informative, Briggs. Oh, and I like your dry sense of humor. Be a blessing.

Like this video and looking forward to coming reviews of other states. How about NE, KS and the Dakotas for suggestions.

A majority of the very few mom and pop Mexican restaurants in Oregon, have terrible quality food compared to those in southern California.

I do watch ryan hall too.., good explanation of inversion.., I’ll be in the slc area for Christmas.., I guess I will run on a treadmill while there.

As I sit in Salt Lake City looking at property! Thanks Briggs

Love these videos 😁

thanks for the vid sir - folks might check out the Sugarhouse District in SLC, not perfect but lots of good things going on there

My son moved from NJ to Utah...he came back to Jersey for about 3 months but he's going back. He likes it out there. South Jordan to be exact.

I'm glad you made this because too many people are moving to Utah and it's getting too crowded which also makes it harder to get jobs.

Ex-Mormon who moved to Utah and left the church some time later; have lived in very rural Utah (my mountain cabin dream home) for decades now, and I love it. If you are insecure enough to have to completely blend and mesh with the culture surrounding you to be happy, don't come. If you can live and let live--have confidence in your own self while respecting others for their own values, you will be fine. Hoping that y'all talk yourselves out of coming and stay away, so that we can continue the secret paradise we have going here (not the city mind you--they can keep it; different universe in the countryside).

Water is the biggest issue I'd have with any of the states in that area, at least if I was young and had to think of my children living there. Everything I've read paints the Colorado River as pretty much drying up, and all of the southwest as having no water 20 years from now. I'm not sure if I'd have problems with the Mormons. For 30 years I interacted professionally with a brilliant physician who had more integrity and human kindness than just about anybody else I've ever met. I learned from others late in my career that he was a member of the LDS. Things might have been different if I'd known the guy socially, but I don't know. I'm not sure what you can say with a sample size of 1, but the guy was pure class.

Can you do this with Minnesota and North Carolina. I appreciate all the information you share.

I’m a native Utahn. I love Utah! I hate the aggressive drivers who seem to think they own the road. The summers and Fall are spectacular!

Briggs, my memories of Utah were all about snow skiing. "Dry" bars got around the laws by charging patrons for a "membership" so they were ostensibly on private property and could therefore buy and be served alcohol. btw, Ryan Hall (Y'all) is a fave of mine.

Enjoyed the video! It also appears that in certain parts of Utah they like to drive in reverse (8:04 in video). 😉

6:50 that remark is true of any culture, if you hear the kitchen staff and owners speaking another language...chances are the food will be fantastic

Too funny! Great call out to Brian Hall Y’all. I watch him regularly here in Florida during hurricane season and he is waaaaaaaaay better than any of the local yocals! 😎🤙🏽🏖️

As a 2-time transplant to Utah/SLC, this list is pretty spot on. It's not enough for me to not enjoy living here, as I absolutely love it and have no desire to return to FL, but these are real issues and could be a deal breaker for some. Like the air quality - I have family members who can't visit because their lungs simply can't handle the elevation. It does take a few weeks to get used to. The houses are expensive, and although my house here cost more than my comparable one in orlando, the insurance is so much cheaper, my mortgage is basically the same lol - insurance is becoming insane in FL. Oh and maybe a #11 for this list if you come from a state that doesn't have it (like I did) - state income tax. That took some getting used to!

Virtually everything you mentioned is why I opted not to live in Utah. I think it's a lovely state for visiting but not for me. Big fan of Ryan Hall Y'All as well Briggs😁

Good video, Briggs! I absolutely love Utah but you were spot with the problems we have here.

As an Utah resident, I can attest that you are spot on with this list! Excellent summary!

I am late to this party! I lived in SLC for about 30 years, but left about 2 years ago. Your assessment is accurate. But SLC and a few connected cities have excellent public transportation. The Wasatch Front has changed drastically in the last 15 years, with a cost of living that competes with Denver and Portand, but with a higher cost of living to wage disparity.

Good Job, Briggs!

As a utahn, I can't thank you enough for this video. ❤

I've lived in Utah for 18 years and all ten of your reasons not to move to Utah are spot on. The LDS influence can be good and bad. All of my neighbors are LDS but I'm not. I get along great with them and love living in my neighborhood because I am respectful of their culture and I'm a good neighbor. On the other hand, almost all of the political leaders in this state are LDS and they run things the way the church wants them run. That can be bad. IMO if you're not going to take advantage of the beautiful outdoors (we have great mountains and desert), there is really no reason to move here.

I watch Ryan hall YALL! Too!!! Amazing meteorologist and i love your countdown videos! ❤

I remember Cedar City is nice but relatively small town, but it was growing. Still not sure I'd want to live there or St. George. Testing in the late 40's and 50's had the radioactive clouds drifting right over those areas.

St. George has good air quality and beautiful scenery. I moved here a year ago and love it.

Having lived in Utah many years I can add four items. 1) The drivers are personally vindictive and will seek to "get back" at you if you pulled in front of them, didn't go fast enough, etc.... I have driven in all 50 states, lived in a few other states, and never seen this behavior anywhere but Utah and eastern Idaho. 2) Don't be fooled by Briggs' statement that Utah "conservative". Yes, socially conservative, but the people are Utah support big government big-time. 3) Water rights are not tied to a property but must be obtained separately when one is in a rural area. A friend bought a house in a small mountain town and the "water board" immediately disconnected his water delivery because the owner had not sold him the "water rights", something few people from elsewhere would even think to ask about. He ended up having to haul water from the nearest big town in a big tank on a trailer. 4) Some years ago the Ogden Examiner (IIRC) had an article about how the FBI had to open a special field office in Salt Lake City because the Ogden-to-Provo corridor was the Number 1 originator of financial fraud schemes in the United States. Be very cautious!

There's three nice casinos a half hour from St. George.

Utah’s winters in SLC are actually milder then winter in the South as far as temperature goes because it’s such a dry cold. You get a ton of snow but I often see people running with shorts in January because it just really isn’t that bad. It’s not the bone chilling cold that the South and Midwest have.

Love the outdoors in southern Utah. World class scenic. But a number of things you mention would prevent me from moving there.

I spent 52 years living in dreadful NY, and since my first visit to Utah 27-28 years ago, it was a dream to someday make it home. I tried to convince the wife, and actually had her kinda convinced, but she did the old switcharoo. We relocated to the Lake Norman area (Charlotte) in NC, which is nice enough i guess, but a piece of my heart is still in Utah….i absolutely love the southwest region of UT.

If you want to live in Utah but are concerned about cold check out the St. George area. The winter is short and very little if any snow. Elevation is relatively low too under 3,000 feet. Of course the summers are hot.😂

ive been watching your vids for years and just now noticed i wasnt subscribed, im now subscribed ‼️

Useful 👍🏻

I have lived in Tennessee my whole life so 31 years I would like to move west to Nevada or Utah a desert state or Wyoming. Just me and on a budget love outdoors.

GREETINGS FROM THE PPRC GREAT VIDEO TODAY. DON’T THINK IT WILL BE UTAH.🇺🇸🍺🍺

My daughter from San Diego is currently attending BYU. So far she has no complaints. Also, my sister's father has retired to Utah.

I have only experienced a smog rich temperature inversion once : in Strasbourg. It was indescribable ... there was zero visibility, and you needed a gasmask to survive .. not joking! It took us about 1 minute to go from the car to our hotel ... nightmare .. like a horror film. The aircon in the hotel saved our lungs!

Most of the negatives are a positive for me. I think I could be very comfortable there

I am with you on the Mexican food. It's hard when you grew up in Socal and move to the Midwest later in life:)

I’ve never even considered moving to Utah. Nice video though. Thanks for the great content.

I was seriously dating a Mormon way the hell back in the early 80s, and went to Provo to meet his family. Mormons in Utah are completely different from Mormons outside of Utah: outside, they are the sweetest, kindest, most generous people you'll ever meet. In Utah, they are the majority and can express/flaunt all their narrow-mindedness, self-righteousness, and stereotyping of different ethnic and religious groups. It was a glimpse of what my life would be like - well, that and the aggressive "encouragement" for women to have as many children as biologically possible - and I got outta there (and outta the relationship) at warp speed.

I lived in Salt Lake City from 2005 to 2020... I left because of the increasing cost of living... It's a pretty accurate description of what's like in Utah... I'll add it's a police state with a higher number of police officers per one thousand residents and they are very aggressive and oppressive... I was once stopped for having tinted windows on my car and the officer literally had a device to measure the transparency of the front windows to be in line with the regulations of Utah... I got a ticket for having too dark tinted windows... and that's just a example out of many...

When Briggs does a vid like this, makes me think he is hiding secret gems… using the old Greenland Iceland tactic 😂

Utah's population has expanded quite a lot in recent years. Most people come from California, a state which people escape to attain sanity.

I’d live around Moab or desert areas way off the beaten path in Utah but nowhere near SLC or basically the I-15 corridor 👍

Living in Salt Lake City back then made me feel like living so far away from U.S. largest metro areas due to the city and the state location since Salt lake City was a mid-size city back then.

Ryan Hall yo happens to be one of my favorites :-)

So, I moved to Utah from NYC 40+ years ago. Not LDS . With my career, I could have moved to any state in the Union and found excellent employment (as could my spouse). I have chosen to live/stay in Utah and will likely die here, I love living here that much. That said, this video is right on the mark. A few of things I would add is that there are a plethora of really, really, bad drivers in this state. Utah is consistently rated as one of the top states in the nation for bad drivers. Second, as mentioned, housing has become frighteningly expensive. Third, it astonishes me how may slow thinkers there are in this state. I am not suggesting that these people lack intelligence, they just seem to process information slowly and react in equally as slow a manner.

I lived there most of my life. I am not Mormon, but I loved it!! Great skiing, hiking, etc. And Mormon people are mostly friendly.

I learned something tonight! I never would have guessed that Utah would have air quality issues.

Imo, Utah is the greatest state in the union. While I'm not a mormon myself, I would be inclined to say that the Church of LDS plays a significant role in making Utah so extravagant. God Bless Utah!

I was in the Salt Lake City area last summer. No complaints but when I ran out of weed it was time to see Nevada

I’m from Salt Lake City Utah. This made me laugh lol 😂 thank you 🙏

Its Marcias and its Jans. Brilliant analogy!😆😆

LDS here, Oklahoma is where I call home I’ll stay until I die

AS a Utah resident even homes in bad areas are CRAZY expensive!!!!! VERY close to California

I also watch Ryan Hall Y'all. Good stuff.

I love Utah!

Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy you finally got the "get it, got it, good" right!

When I saw the image you chose to use (a car crash) for the opening of this video, I was actually surprised to see that car crashes did not come up anywhere on your list. There have been a surprising number of car crashes in the news here this past year, many of which have involved fatalities or injuries to pedestrians and bicyclists. I attribute this to the overall younger age of the population here, since younger drivers tend to drive faster and more recklessly than older drivers. Utah also came up as the number one state for road rage related incidents this past year. Since so many people drive large pickup trucks here (a number that equals or surpasses the number of pickup trucks in Texas), I think these drivers feel invincible and indestructible out on the road, and are more likely to use their trucks as weapons against any driver that they feel is driving too slowly or does something else that they don't like. Drivers here are also more likely to pull a gun on another driver if they get involved in a road rage incident, since so many people here have guns. I do take issue with your assessment of public transportation, though. As a former resident of Raleigh, NC, I can say that public transportation is much better here than in Raleigh. Not only are there many bus routes here, but we also have commuter rail (FrontRunner) and light rail (TRAX), both of which are not available in Raleigh or many other cities of this size.

Calling Taco Bell Mexican food is like calling Fife-Biden a president.

❤❤❤😮😮😮😊😊😊😊 Great job Briggs 👏 👍 👌

Just my two cents on #6. I was born and raised (and still am) LDS, but I was born in California. When I moved to Utah in the early 90's to attend college, it was the most miserable experience I ever had, mainly because even I was made to feel like an outsider, because I didn't grow up in the church in Utah (in the 90s, there wasn't the negative stigmas of coming from California, like there is today). I know non members who have no interest in the church sometimes have it even worse. I ended up moving back after the first semester because it was such an unfriendly place to live (at least for me). I know this outsider behavior is very common within the LDS church (unless you're a convert or interested in becoming a convert) but that behavior was not at all how I was taught by my Bishop, my Sunday School teachers, our main church leaders and of course, Christ himself. They tell us to genuinely love our neighbors and show kindness and be welcoming. In my opinion, it's not the church principles that teach us to be that way, but exactly the opposite, so I'm not sure why it happens so frequently.

I went to a graduation at the Maverick center… almost 1/2 of the class was latino.

A positive is that just one county in Utah has more fun public lands than all of the boring Midwest combined.

I'm from Utah, and my only real contention with your list is #3 public transit. Now it's certainly not New York or Chicago, but the light rail TRAX, has pretty decent coverage for a medium size metro. And Frontrunner commuter rail is also expanding. I've traveled all over the country and for comparable size cities and even some that are larger, I think Salt Lake stacks up quite well. But great list overall.

Thanks.

Love Ryan Hall, too.

Getting a cup of coffee…fuggettaboutit! Kills it for me. Who would even want more than one boss in the house? Nuts!

I have to say about the public transportation in Utah - speaking as someone who doesn't have a car and lives there, it's not nearly as bad as most people seem to think. It's certainly far from perfect and could use a lot of improvements. But for the most part, I for one at least havn't had many problems getting around to where I need to go.

The highest states above sea level are colorado Wyoming new Mexico and Utah maybe not in that exact order but colorado and Wyoming are the 2 highest states above sea level and Wyoming and colorado are also colder than Utah on average I think. There are higher elevations in Alaska but those are all mountains. Utah is a beautiful state as far as scenery.

The dry air in Utah (SLC) kills my sinuses every winter.

There's a mom and pop Mexican restaurant in Beaver Utah called "Beaver Taco" incredible home cooked Mexican food by a Mexican family. Awesome.

I dream of living in Moab but the housing is stupid high.. St. George area is my second choice.. just have to hit that lotto first.. lol

How about you do Arizona, Florida, and North Carolina?

I use to work for Vivint in Pennsylvania but there headquarters is in Provo UT. As a new employee they sent you out to Provo for a week of training. Provo is VERY VERY conservative and VERY VERY Mormon. They are extremely against smoking of any kind and alcohol. A guy in my training class and got fired for smoking a cigarette in front the designated smoking section in front of the headquarters building. It probably didn't help that earlier in a week another trainee got a DUI and a rental vehicle the company was paying for. On a positive note Provo was voted one of the safest communities in all of America.

I lived in Utah in my early 20's and go back due to family. Yes, The LDS church is in every aspect of life in the state. Also, The high costs. Where my mother grew up on a ranch outside of Torrey, housing costs are as high as SLC, due to the beauty and all the Californian's moving into the area. The town is a "Mini Moab"...and that's too bad.

Yeah the inversions are the literal worst thing here

SLC has a Mexican joint on every block 🤣 the food here is insanely diverse. Literally anything you’d want

I like how you go about your videos. For the most part of my life I registered as independent leaned more left. My dad was one of those stereotypical blowhard Republicans so maybe I was being rebelious. About 5 years ago I noticed things changing, with me and the world. And my children growing into adulthood. Now at 43 I am registered Republican and lean right of center. I've been watching your channels a couple years now and I have stayed all this time not just content but because even when you do speak on political issues you don't degrade one side or the other. I've stopped listening to podcasts and watching certain channels because they bring politics in a lot or they mock and put down people who don't agree with them. I miss the days where we could go to entertainment and not have to worry about that stuff. Thank you for being you.