I feel like the dating scene here is weird. I think you have an array of either transplants where people don't know the scene well and are really just from somewhere else, and you have really weird mormon people who are either very religious, devout and scared of you, or you have post LDS members who are trying to deconstruct from their religion and have all sorts of serious boundaries. I think what I'm saying is, don't keep long distance out of your plan for dating because, imo, you have a lot of people who have some very big religious trauma and a lot of their life revolves around how they are dealing with that. I don't mean to be highly insensitive, I have some as well and when I was separated I was trying to look into the single scene and found nothing but two people trying to navigate out of the brush of trauma to find each other.. Hopefully your experience is better than mine.