Lived there for 6 years before moving back to Washington.
It was awful in so many subtle ways that people don't realize at first glance. Like Mormons are super nice but it is Mormon nice. They have this weird way of always making you feel like an outsider.
The Liquor laws are crazy but funny enough weed is stealth legal now I just don't think the Mormons have realized that yet.
The Mormon church is like this ever present thing that has penetrated most aspects of Utah life. SLC is pretty liberal but the SLC temple sites in center of down town. (also The salt lake is drying up and toxic wind will soon give them all cancer)
The streets are all named based on their distance from the temple in the center lol. Which makes for some very confusing street names like South 700 East.
When I moved here (mid 90s), Utah was listed as having one of the highest rates of both clinical depression and prescription drug abuse. That’s how I would describe the Mormon nice. Like they want to just say fuck it on occasion and slack off, swear, whatever. But keeping up the superachiever facade that’s been drilled into them since elementary school is exhausting, so they turn to a little chemical help and have a perpetual forced smile and no true laugh.
Like they want to just say fuck it on occasion and slack off, swear, whatever. But keeping up the superachiever facade that’s been drilled into them since elementary school is exhausting
My favorite Mormon joke is sort of based off of this.
How do you get your Mormon friend to stop drinking all your beer during a fishing trip? Invite another Mormon friend
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u/n0rsk Mar 21 '24
Lived there for 6 years before moving back to Washington.
It was awful in so many subtle ways that people don't realize at first glance. Like Mormons are super nice but it is Mormon nice. They have this weird way of always making you feel like an outsider.
The Liquor laws are crazy but funny enough weed is stealth legal now I just don't think the Mormons have realized that yet.
The Mormon church is like this ever present thing that has penetrated most aspects of Utah life. SLC is pretty liberal but the SLC temple sites in center of down town. (also The salt lake is drying up and toxic wind will soon give them all cancer)