Tell me something I don't know about Salt Lake City, please.?

Question

Going there next week and want some insight.

Answer 1

http://saltlakecity.about.com/cs/vggettingaround/a/utahliquorlaws.htm

http://saltlakecity.about.com/library/weekly/98art/aa032398.htm

And just to be prepared:
How to swear in Utah:

> Utah's "F"-words: Fetch, Flip, and if you're really mad, Golly Fetch
> Gol': an abbreviation of "Golly", is used to display a desire for emphasis without invoking the name of Diety
> Dang it
> Seaterend: Utah's "A"-word as in "Don't be a pain in the seaterend"
> Scrud

Have fun!!

Answer 2

Because the basin of Great Salt Lake has no outlet, water leaves only through evaporation. The temperature and the surface area of a closed-basin lake primarily control the amount of water evaporated from the lake. When precipitation is high, more water is added to the lake by direct precipitation on the lake and from rivers and streams flowing into the lake than is evaporated from the lake; the result is that the lake rises and expands across a larger area of the basin. The surface area of the lake continues to increase until the amount of water evaporated equals the total amount of water entering the lake. During the last 10,000 years the level of Great Salt Lake has gone through many cycles but the lake has not risen more than about twenty feet higher than its average historic elevation of 4,202 feet above sea level. When the climate of the region becomes dramatically cooler and wetter, such as during ice ages, the lake in the Great Salt Lake basin rises to much higher levels. One such rise occurred about 140,000 years ago when the lake in the basin rose to an elevation about 700 feet above the current level of Great Salt Lake, and again about 65,000 years ago when the lake rose about half that high. The highest and most recent lake high lake cycle began about 25,000 years and produced Lake Bonneville, a huge lake over 1,000 feet deep that extended over most of northwestern Utah and into Nevada and Idaho.

Answer 3

It has a crime rate equal to the most crime-ridden cities elsewhere in the world. It can be a beastly place to live if you choose not to associate with the Mormon church, and worse if you choose not to associate with any church. It can be an expensive place to live and a great many jobs are part-time, low-paying service-sector grinds.
Traffic stinks. Housing is in short supply and overpriced. Politically, it's one of the reddest of the red states. On the other hand, the view of the surrounding mountains is great! That's the only positive I can think of every time I visit my brother who lives there. Now, you wanna ask me about New Mexico or Arizona, and I'll answer "God's Country!"

Answer 4

It is the greatest consumer of Jello in America.
If you can take a ride out to Bonneville Salt Flats . Yeah it's a 280 mile round trip But it goes fast Bonneville is an amazing place to see, wall to wall whiter than snow salt.

Answer 5

Despite the fact that Utans are very conservative, Salt Lake City has 235% the national average of gays and lesbians!

Answer 6

It has a good German restaurant near the temple. Serves beer, too.