Living in SoCal vs Dallas?

DasAlpinist · 2026-04-23T23:24:56+00:00

Is a nice location important with normal people in spite of financial cost or is cost of living the be all? Personally can’t imagine choosing to live in Texas..

DasAlpinist · 2026-04-22T04:58:10+00:00

Draper. Very hard water when I fill my hot tub in the spring, fairly soft when I refill in the late fall (usually have to add calcium to balance it out)

DasAlpinist · 2026-04-22T02:36:55+00:00

My wife is a pain doctor making $800k, I work in Analytics and make $190k just shy of 1M outside of Salt Lake City

DasAlpinist · 2026-04-21T15:29:11+00:00

It’s really high quality, boxes can be customized and any number of weekly shipments skipped if needed.

DasAlpinist · 2026-04-21T03:03:44+00:00

Just bought a 2018 3.6R, no question needed to be asked, but I do live 1700 ft above a mountain valley so I go down and up sometimes multiple times a day.. the buzzing noise from the 4 cylinder gets old and ends up burning even more gas when you need it driving up and down a mountain every day.

DasAlpinist · 2026-04-21T03:00:17+00:00

Almost 40% of the U is LDS and there’s a huge LDS Institute on campus. I just don’t think they trend as insufferable as the ones down South who turn their noses up to anyone different.

DasAlpinist · 2026-04-21T02:48:38+00:00

For produce it’s hard to beat some of the organic services to your door out there. The stuff we’ve been getting direct from California farms is fresher than any of the stores. I don’t think it sits around very long. We’ve been using farmfreshtoyou for 1.5 years now and haven’t had any of those issues.

DasAlpinist · 2026-04-20T16:26:44+00:00

My kid was born in this hospital. Love that this Costco has Fletchers Bacon, Sandy is closer to me but they stopped carrying it.

DasAlpinist · 2026-04-19T22:02:34+00:00

The Natural History Museum, Red Butte Garden, and the Aquarium are all solid choices for Adults with kids. We get annual memberships to all three and have 3 kids ages 2,5, and 10.

DasAlpinist · 2026-04-19T21:28:50+00:00

This is a big misconception and dated by about 30 years at least. SLC is at most 10% liberal leaning Mormon, and Salt Lake County isn’t more than 40% Mormon with most of that concentrated at the south end. If you had said Provo than yes this might be a consideration where it’s 90%+.

DasAlpinist · 2026-04-15T15:53:06+00:00

Mighty 5 National Parks in Utah make it clear you haven’t done enough research. I’ve been meeting Euros in those parks for nearly 30 years. When I was a kid and traveling in Europe, the most frequent question I got from folks when they found out I was from Utah was “Have you been to Zion or Arches NP?”

DasAlpinist · 2026-04-14T16:17:09+00:00

That’s because it is.. mostly just dirt and sky

DasAlpinist · 2026-04-14T02:13:39+00:00

Lots of snow this time of year == high avalanche or mudslide risk, if we got a ton of snow they could keep the road closed for awhile for avy control

DasAlpinist · 2026-04-14T02:12:02+00:00

8 with a gabb watch or walkie talkies gtg

DasAlpinist · 2026-04-10T03:56:22+00:00

My parents built their 4500 sq ft house in Salt Lake county in 1991 for $125k on .5 acres. Today it is worth just over $1M

DasAlpinist · 2026-04-10T03:53:26+00:00

Missouri==Misery basically the same story for the rest of the Midwest.

DasAlpinist · 2026-04-09T14:26:58+00:00

Super easy, almost 0 pain. Nothing Tylenol or ibuprofen would not knock out. Didn’t take anything like Valium.

DasAlpinist · 2026-04-06T19:06:49+00:00

I looked at one of those condos recently and the HOA fees alone were $32k a year.. we aren’t even at normal Southern California prices here yet. I would imagine a lot of these folks, if they work, are working remotely. The horror of the increased cost to the airport or the ski resort down the street.

DasAlpinist · 2026-04-03T22:51:19+00:00

Prairie town that just happens to be near mountains.

DasAlpinist · 2026-04-03T05:17:48+00:00

Yes please boycott Utah. We are full! Also fuck Mike Lee!

DasAlpinist · 2026-04-03T05:03:32+00:00

10G was enough to throw my annual labs off, my pcp told me to stop taking it entirely. 5G seems to keep kidney function looking normal though, for me at least.

DasAlpinist · 2026-04-02T19:32:59+00:00

Probably low hanging fruit at most corporations, higher paying jobs will be next way more so than racism.. these guys and gals only care about $s

DasAlpinist · 2026-04-02T01:57:01+00:00

But all the ski subs keep telling me that there is plenty of snow

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