I'm up here for work, and have thoroughly enjoyed your city.
I've been in Vegas for 15 years and have had about enough of the new Californians and general crappiness. I have been looking at property in ID, but it's all just a bit too remote. I need to be near an airport, and enjoy the trappings of a medium sized city.
Where should a fella look for good areas to live? Requirements are:
45 min or less to SLC airport
rural
.5 acre or better
Decent schools
~$600,000 range
The locals here warn me about the air quality, but having spent the last decade in Vegas I'm really not too concerned. Crime? Ha, also not concerned.
If the drag show downtown is the worst of the liberal disorder, I'll be just fine with that too. I know lots of LDS folks and we get on fine as well.
A local said Tooele might fit the bill, but a very cursory look says the schools aren't great. If they aren't full of roving gangs like the Vegas schools though, how bad could it be? I hear there's an FFA program too which is appealing. Is the bad politics of SLC pervasive all over the state, or more of a one bad city sort of thing?
Thanks for any input!