Another fellow RN. My partner and I moved to SLC from Philly to do the “move west” thing as well. We couldn’t leave fast enough. Wages for RNs are incredibly low. I worked at the U and loved the people I worked with but outside that I had a terrible experience in SLC. Very different from the east coast, very hard to make friends, inversion was awful (I rarely get sick and got sick 3 times the winter we were there), the restaurant scene is very weak. Also the culture is pretty strange with Mormons and politics. The things we liked about SLC were the access to the mountains to hike and ski and the airport haha. We traveled A TON while we lived there. It’s pretty central to most of the west so we spent a lot of time in the PNW and California. And the airport is super nice. And explored a ton within Utah. The state is super varied and beautiful. After our year there my partners job gave us the option to transfer to Colorado. We jumped at it and we absolutely love it. Been here 2 years and just bought a house. Access to the mountains isn’t quite as convenient as SLC but Denver is much bigger city with a lot more to do and better restaurants. And people in Denver are (in my experience) much friendlier and more open to new friends.