Provo sucks.
I could not do what you are doing.
The roads are paved with Mormon sheep s***, it gets on everything and the odor is overwhelming.
Possibly going back to Utah
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_Sethbag
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Runtu, just say no!
Seriously, once you realize how made up the church is, driving through Utah County is almost like driving through la-la land. You pass the billboards for the missionary stores and the bridal stores and all that stuff and it almost makes you sick to your stomach.
Not sure how you could deal with living in a place completely filled with folks who are living in a self-created virtual reality, and you're not part of it.
Seriously, once you realize how made up the church is, driving through Utah County is almost like driving through la-la land. You pass the billboards for the missionary stores and the bridal stores and all that stuff and it almost makes you sick to your stomach.
Not sure how you could deal with living in a place completely filled with folks who are living in a self-created virtual reality, and you're not part of it.
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Mormonism ceased being a compelling topic for me when I finally came to terms with its transformation from a personality cult into a combination of a real estate company, a SuperPac, and Westboro Baptist Church. - Kishkumen
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_Bryan Inks
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Re: Possibly going back to Utah
Runtu wrote:I have a possible job opportunity (and it looks like a good one), and it would involve moving to Utah (the job is in Provo). I haven't been back to Utah in 5 years or so, but it would be much closer to our families (hers in Idaho, mine in So. California).
But, wow, Utah County. My wife had said to me a couple of weeks ago that I should be glad I'm in Texas because it would be difficult to be in my exmo/less-active position if we were in Utah.
I'm going to pursue the opportunity, but I wonder if it's normal to have such mixed feelings about the place.
It wouldn't be difficult at all.
Shades and I and Sono Hito all live in Utah County.
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_Bond...James Bond
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If it's between Utah (a.k.a. Mormon Theocracy/Beehiveland) and your current commute (a.k.a. The Pain in the Podex).....(I can't believe I'm saying this).....go for it brotha man!
"Whatever appears to be against the Book of Mormon is going to be overturned at some time in the future. So we can be pretty open minded."-charity 3/7/07
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_Runtu
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Bond...James Bond wrote:If it's between Utah (a.k.a. Mormon Theocracy/Beehiveland) and your current commute (a.k.a. The Pain in the Podex).....(I can't believe I'm saying this).....go for it brotha man!
Either way, we're not officially moving for a while. My daughter will probably attend her senior year in College Station, whether I'm working in Houston or somewhere out. Plus my wife just got a job yesterday. So the commute from hell is not going to end anytime soon (unless I move to Utah).
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_Rollo Tomasi
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Re: Possibly going back to Utah
Runtu wrote:I have a possible job opportunity (and it looks like a good one), and it would involve moving to Utah (the job is in Provo).
It's always hard to turn down a good job, but Utah County would be a huge drawback ... at least for me. The place is just not 'real life,' and the LDS influence is stifling. Good luck whatever you decide to do.
"Moving beyond apologist persuasion, LDS polemicists furiously (and often fraudulently) attack any non-traditional view of Mormonism. They don't mince words -- they mince the truth."
-- Mike Quinn, writing of the FARMSboys, in "Early Mormonism and the Magic World View," p. x (Rev. ed. 1998)
-- Mike Quinn, writing of the FARMSboys, in "Early Mormonism and the Magic World View," p. x (Rev. ed. 1998)
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_harmony
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Re: Possibly going back to Utah
Runtu wrote:I have a possible job opportunity (and it looks like a good one), and it would involve moving to Utah (the job is in Provo). I haven't been back to Utah in 5 years or so, but it would be much closer to our families (hers in Idaho, mine in So. California).
But, wow, Utah County. My wife had said to me a couple of weeks ago that I should be glad I'm in Texas because it would be difficult to be in my exmo/less-active position if we were in Utah.
I'm going to pursue the opportunity, but I wonder if it's normal to have such mixed feelings about the place.
I have a daughter who refuses to live in Utah, period, which kinda limits her supply of attractive eligible LDS men.
I say... don't spend your life looking for holy places to stand. Make every place you stand a holy place. So In other words, make where you are what you want it to be, no matter where you are, and that includes Provo. Personally, I found Provo to be a very pretty town with delusions of grandeur, not unlike many small towns whose economy is driven by the large college within their boundaries.
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_Gazelam
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Runtu
Start going to church with your wife and doing the things you know your supposed to be doing. Then moving to Utah will be much more enjoyable.
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato
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_Jason Bourne
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Re: Possibly going back to Utah
Runtu wrote:I have a possible job opportunity (and it looks like a good one), and it would involve moving to Utah (the job is in Provo). I haven't been back to Utah in 5 years or so, but it would be much closer to our families (hers in Idaho, mine in So. California).
But, wow, Utah County. My wife had said to me a couple of weeks ago that I should be glad I'm in Texas because it would be difficult to be in my exmo/less-active position if we were in Utah.
I'm going to pursue the opportunity, but I wonder if it's normal to have such mixed feelings about the place.
Good luck whatever you decide. But I am active and even when I did not have questions I would not want to have moved back to Utah.