California Utah
The good: clean air The good: four seasons
the beach UT ghetto = nothing compared to CA ghetto
Disneyland not expected to work on Sundays
mild weather traffic = bliss
excellent Mexican food and produce cost of living
fantastic entertainment DMV
great shopping wide open spaces (Dixie Chicks anyone?)
The bad: people aren't very friendly really friendly people
so many people The bad: long way from Disneyland and the beach
takes forever to get anywhere hot summers
The ugly: the DMV The ugly: post-Christmas winter
the cost of living inversion
traffic
If I were to make this more personal, I would add awesome friends and extended family to the CA good side and immediate family and "home" to the UT good side. Truthfully, I couldn't say that we like living in Utah more that we liked it in California, or vice versa. Each state was right for us during that time of our lives. And right now, what we need is to be close to our family, and be somewhere with a low cost of living. Utah is my home and it always will be, regardless of where we live. But we absolutely LOVED our time in CA and I wouldn't trade it for anything. Being able to ride my bike or run to the beach anytime I wanted was something amazing. And we made friends and grew close to family that will always be close to my heart. So which state wins? Neither. Or both. However you want to look at it.
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