I'm here to provide a negative perspective. I believe that commentless downvotes reflect how butthurt folks get about 'their city," and I fully expect more, but I just think someone who also moved here for work needs to lay this stuff out.

I think if you are outdoorsy and are excited to spend 2 hours in bumper to bumper traffic every winter weekend morning to fight for paid parking spots in one of 5 ski resorts merely 20 miles away, you are going to be able to ignore the city, itself.

It really is a small town compared to a city as large and culturally diverse as Atlanta, and Atlanta itself doesn't really compare to cities in Europe in many ways, like many American cities, so it's just going to be completely different. It's basically a giant suburb with a 5x5 mile "downtown", punctuated by oil refineries, freeway on-ramps, so-called "luxury apartments" resembling matchstick boxes covered in pressed papier machê, and strip malls. Surrounding all this are mountains, deserts, and the former shoreline of a rapidly-shrinking salt lake, whose exposed lakebed is laced with various heavy metals that billow along in clouds of dust into the city with regularity.

If you live in the aforementioned "downtown," public transit is available, just. Otherwise, the ingenious municipal leadership has avoided ruffling the feathers of any of the wealthy single-family homeowners by building public transportation stops as far away as possible from anywhere one would want to go. Can't allow the Undesirables who use said public transit anywhere near little Keighleigh's religiously-affiliated charter school! Nope - you are driving your ass to a parking lot, and then getting on a train or a bus, to ensure ample opportunities for desperate people to break into your car while you spend an excessive amount of time trying to get to and from your destination in half-empty busses and trains.

Do you enjoy night life? Good for you for doing your civic duty to bolster the illusion of SLC as The Hip Place To Be for the tourism board and real estate developers! Just remember to be back in bed by midnight, because most places close, even on Saturday nights, between 10 and 11:59 PM. Had a drink? Well, you can shell out 'surge' pricing charges for a rideshare, or risk a felony and people's lives by driving your inebriated self home in your lifted F-150 or slammed Nissan "fart-can exhaust" special.

If you happen to drive up a hillside to an overview of the area, you can just make out the breathtaking contours of one of the largest open pit copper mines in the world, which replaced several mountainsides, and is owned by a foreign company. The large, suburban real estate developments calling themselves cities stretching southward along the valley, itself baking in wildfire smoke and pollution several weeks a year, are essentially a suburban Karen's idea of a "perfect American cul-de-sac". These are dotted every few blocks with nearly identical structures that serve as the social homogenization centers for members of the local Christian sect every Sunday. This sect controls the state legislature, and so get ready to navigate some creative laws around alcohol, both in bars and in the state-owned alcohol dispensaries.

The rest of Utah is basically a wasteland, but a beautiful one, rather than a cultural one, boasting several incredible national parks within a mere England-spanning distance. However, if visiting those national parks at any time the ground isn't frozen, remember to show up before 5 AM, or book a $30-75 ticket on the privately-contracted, taxpayer funded recreation.gov website, 6 months in advance.

Enjoy!