A non-LDS co-worker of mine is moving to Utah

[SteelBlue]

He leaves with his new wife and son on Tuesday. Apparently, his mother in law is beside herself. Though she has never set foot in Utah, she's doing everything she can to talk her daughter out of the move. At first she told her that women are oppressed in Utah. That Mormons won't accept her etc... None of that has bothered my friend or his wife. My co-worker was a lifelong resident of Ogden before moving to CA. Today, she called her daughter and said "you wan't proof that women in Utah are oppressed? BYU doesn't accept women into their medical school."

My co-worker asked me this morning if this was true as for some reason this point had affected his wife a bit. He seemed quite relieved when I told him that the only reason women aren't accepted into BYU's medical school is because they don't have a medical school.

[YOhio]

I've also heard they don't let women in their dental school. Neither does the U.

[Mormon Red Death]

Originally Posted by SteelBlue

He leaves with his new wife and son on Tuesday. Apparently, his mother in law is beside herself. Though she has never set foot in Utah, she's doing everything she can to talk her daughter out of the move. At first she told her that women are oppressed in Utah. That Mormons won't accept her etc... None of that has bothered my friend or his wife. My co-worker was a lifelong resident of Ogden before moving to CA. Today, she called her daughter and said "you wan't proof that women in Utah are oppressed? BYU doesn't accept women into their medical school."

My co-worker asked me this morning if this was true as for some reason this point had affected his wife a bit. He seemed quite relieved when I told him that the only reason women aren't accepted into BYU's medical school is because they don't have a medical school.

You should warn them to buy all their hats in california as the ones in utah look goofy on people without horns

[Requiem]

Originally Posted by Mormon Red Death

You should warn them to buy all their hats in california as the ones in utah look goofy on people without horns

Speaking of horns....another reason I feel fortunate to have left UT (from today's SL Tribune):

No more SLC
Public Forum Letter
Article Last Updated: 06/07/2007 06:12:01 PM MDT


Recently I was a tourist visiting in Salt Lake. I won't make that mistake again.
Salt Lake is an extremely rude city! Residents have no respect for the law. People crossed in and out of the HOV lane without regard to the double white line. Motorists excessively flashed their lights behind other motorists. Turn signals were seldom used. Drivers shouted obscenities.
I've driven in Manhattan and Los Angeles and those were pleasure rides compared to Salt Lake. At a mall, I saw two women in 4-inch high heels who had no obvious physical disability park in a handicap-accessible parking spot, yet their vehicle was not properly marked. When a woman whose car was plainly marked gently confronted those two women about their illegal action, those two women berated the woman with a disability, using many four-letter words. A security officer sat in his vehicle and did nothing to intervene.
As a friend and I were discussing these situations, a local resident commented, "Welcome to my world." I feel sorry for your local residents if that is their life. I will never return to Salt Lake for pleasure again since there is absolutely no pleasure in it.

Nanette Holbrook
Flagstaff, Ariz.

[YOhio]

Originally Posted by Requiem

Speaking of horns....another reason I feel fortunate to have left UT (from today's SL Tribune):

Yawn.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by Requiem

Speaking of horns....another reason I feel fortunate to have left UT (from today's SL Tribune):

No more SLC
Public Forum Letter
Article Last Updated: 06/07/2007 06:12:01 PM MDT


Recently I was a tourist visiting in Salt Lake. I won't make that mistake again.
Salt Lake is an extremely rude city! Residents have no respect for the law. People crossed in and out of the HOV lane without regard to the double white line. Motorists excessively flashed their lights behind other motorists. Turn signals were seldom used. Drivers shouted obscenities.
I've driven in Manhattan and Los Angeles and those were pleasure rides compared to Salt Lake. At a mall, I saw two women in 4-inch high heels who had no obvious physical disability park in a handicap-accessible parking spot, yet their vehicle was not properly marked. When a woman whose car was plainly marked gently confronted those two women about their illegal action, those two women berated the woman with a disability, using many four-letter words. A security officer sat in his vehicle and did nothing to intervene.
As a friend and I were discussing these situations, a local resident commented, "Welcome to my world." I feel sorry for your local residents if that is their life. I will never return to Salt Lake for pleasure again since there is absolutely no pleasure in it.

Nanette Holbrook
Flagstaff, Ariz.

Who's been to Flagstaff?

This lady is a hoot. LA better than SLC?

[Requiem]

Originally Posted by Archaea

LA better than SLC?

Don't knock LA drivers until you live there. I grew up in the San Fernando Valley (Chatsworth) and found the drivers there to be aggressive but good. They follow three inches from your rear bumper, but are more courteous in terms of signals, lane changes, etc. To each their own.....

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by Requiem

Speaking of horns....another reason I feel fortunate to have left UT (from today's SL Tribune):

No more SLC
Public Forum Letter
Article Last Updated: 06/07/2007 06:12:01 PM MDT


Recently I was a tourist visiting in Salt Lake. I won't make that mistake again.
Salt Lake is an extremely rude city! Residents have no respect for the law. People crossed in and out of the HOV lane without regard to the double white line. Motorists excessively flashed their lights behind other motorists. Turn signals were seldom used. Drivers shouted obscenities.
I've driven in Manhattan and Los Angeles and those were pleasure rides compared to Salt Lake. At a mall, I saw two women in 4-inch high heels who had no obvious physical disability park in a handicap-accessible parking spot, yet their vehicle was not properly marked. When a woman whose car was plainly marked gently confronted those two women about their illegal action, those two women berated the woman with a disability, using many four-letter words. A security officer sat in his vehicle and did nothing to intervene.
As a friend and I were discussing these situations, a local resident commented, "Welcome to my world." I feel sorry for your local residents if that is their life. I will never return to Salt Lake for pleasure again since there is absolutely no pleasure in it.

Nanette Holbrook
Flagstaff, Ariz.

Good. I don't want Nanette Holbrook or anyone else from out of state here in SLC. I always do my part to keep them outsiders from wanting to ever return.

Just last week, I shoved a guy in front of an oncoming TRAX train who told me he was from out of town and asked if I could tell him how to get to the Olympic venues in Park City. His family was upset and complained, so I told them I'd gladly help them join him in the afterlife. I guess they didn't really miss him that much, because they walked away.

I think the new tourism motto should be: "Stay the hell out of Utah. It's already been ruined by enough of you freaking interlopers."

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by Requiem

Don't knock LA drivers until you live there. I grew up in the San Fernando Valley (Chatsworth) and found the drivers there to be aggressive but good. They follow three inches from your rear bumper, but are more courteous in terms of signals, lane changes, etc. To each their own.....

My wife grew in LA, and when I dated her and married her, we visited often. I was there during the only peaceful time, the 84 Olympics. I have driven in Paris, Nice, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Dallas, DC, Chicago, Miami, Orlando, SLC, Denver, Seattle, Vegas, Phoenix, Alabama, North Carolina, South and Central America, New Zealand, Oceania and many other places. (I will not drive in China as penalties for accidents are too steep).

LA drivers are aggressive and not friendly. As a result, I have almost thirty years of driving in LA, off and on, as my sister still resides there. SLC drivers are simply hicks and morons. LA drivers might be packin and drive faster. Vegas drivers are morons but not as bad as LA drivers. SF drivers drive relatively slow and bunched together.

Italia and Germany are by far the best places to drive, for fun or for sport. France isn't bad, but they use their horns too much. Spaniards are decent drivers.

[livecoug]

lol.. that opinion piece was a joke ... seriously, Utah is no worse than any other place. Everywhere has bad drivers. The last two years in bakersfield showed me that Bakersfield drivers suck and LA drivers suck. If you want some fun, drive on a freeway in LA and wait for someone to pull a "California exit". This is accomplished by starting in the carpool lane and shooshing across 6 lanes of traffic, cutting everyone off in the process, in order to make the next exit within 100 yards. THAT is scary.