Salt Lake City Ranks Near The Top
Over the last decade Utah and its various cities have ranked highly in numerous awards. Sandy was recently named the 23rd best place to live. Last year Utah was ranked as the nation's most dynamic economy. The list of recent awards is has to make working in the Governor's Office of Economic Development (GOED) a pretty easy job.
Well Salt Lake City has recently received a slew of awards from Forbes Magazine - a few of which we might not want. In a special report called "America's Most Sinful Cities" Salt Lake City ranks high. Based on the seven deadly sins, Salt Lake gets:
1st Place - Vanity (based on the number of plastic surgeons per capita)
5th Place - Lust (based on over-the-counter contraceptive usage)
7th Place - Jealousy (based on property crime)
We could take the mature approach and simply blame all of this on the California transplants that have invaded our state, or on the culmination of Rocky Anderson's reign. On the bright side - at least we are better looking than everyone else.
Well Salt Lake City has recently received a slew of awards from Forbes Magazine - a few of which we might not want. In a special report called "America's Most Sinful Cities" Salt Lake City ranks high. Based on the seven deadly sins, Salt Lake gets:
1st Place - Vanity (based on the number of plastic surgeons per capita)
5th Place - Lust (based on over-the-counter contraceptive usage)
7th Place - Jealousy (based on property crime)
We could take the mature approach and simply blame all of this on the California transplants that have invaded our state, or on the culmination of Rocky Anderson's reign. On the bright side - at least we are better looking than everyone else.
I never buy into these rankings. Really - how do they know?
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They have just picked some objective indicators which arguably correlate to the "deadly sin" that they are measuring. If you ran the numbers, I bet you would find that Utah ranks near the top for just about every type of physician. Cultural phenomenon - Mormons get allot of education and they like living in Utah. The same goes for attorneys and several other professions. We could make 2 or 3 times as much in San Francisco - but then we would have to live there.
As for lust - Utahans are getting lucky. If we rank that high in contraceptive sales and still have more kids than the national average - the Utahans are getting really lucky. Not a bad thing in a "committed monogamous relationship" - i.e. marriage.
With respect to property crime - that is about all we have were I live in Sandy. Leave valuables in your car during church and some loser will brake the window and be off. I really wonder if property crime is not much higher in some cities - but so low on the totem pole that noone even reports it. If the police are busy cleaning up dead bodies, who has time to be concerned that your cell phone got swiped when you left it on the table when you went back for refills on your soda?
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