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Utah adds 10 people per hour

It is not Micron, it is IM Flash Technologies. Do your research.

theres enough housing being built right now to support 1000 people per hour... stop building... pretty soon we'll be in bad as shape as Vegas, Phoenix and CA

Has anyone stopped to consider why so many people want to move to Utah? One of the main reasons why Utah is such an attractive place to raise a family is because of the good influence of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and the many good Mormons who live in the State. May I also add that there are many good people of other faiths, whom I met while serving a mission in Utah, who also have contributed to making the Beehive State a great place to live. But of course, the ignorant Anti-Mormons blinded by their own biased opinions and narrow-minded ways would never see the answer so clearly.

Roughly half of the growth statewide was due to natural increase and half to a net in-migration. Public services are being over taxed and the LEGAL redidents are starting to pay through the nose by being forced to pay for those who are breaking the law. Please diferentiate and seperate LEGAL IMMIGRANTS and ILLEGAL ALIENS when writing rahter that try and lump the two different groups together

And what is the governor, state legislature or the medical school doing to ensure there are enough physicians for the population growth. There is a current shortage and only getting worse. You think waiting weeks is too long, just wait.

I also had to laugh at the comment that IM Flash jobs are "computer jobs." Try manufacturing operators, chemists, engineers, physicists, electrical technicians...

More smog, more congestion, less untracked powder, more who will die in an earthquake or have to be evacuated. Time to learn survivals skills and move off the grid.

GK form the UK: You are so right about Utah. Why do some move to find a better place to live, then want to change it to what they left?

To be fair, the M in IM Flash does stand for Micron, and it is in the old Micron building, as it will forever be known. But yes, they could have been more accurate.

You are quite defensive this morning aren't you. If you read the article you will see that much of the growth is not people being attracted to Utah by the Mormons, but rather construction employment, and high tech employment. The only thing that was attributed to the Mormon church was the high birth rate. And no I am not anti-Mormon.

How arrogant of you! Speak for yourself, I moved to Utah for the recreational opportunities. Unless the LDS church built the mountains and the red rock, then I would say they had NOTHING to do with my decision to move here.
And by the way, self-righteousness is still a sin, last time I checked.

We should regulate the birth rate, like they do in China. They seem to be doing pretty well...

Maybe because you keep assuming people move here because of the LDS population, and that's just ignorant. I know you love to pat yourselves on the back, but I hate to break it to you, but nobody moves here just to live around LDS people (except for single people who need to find their soulmate pronto). Not that the LDS population is a negative, it's just not a reason for people to pack up and move their lives to another place. When I moved to Florida in my twenties, I wasn't thinking "I'd love to move to Florida so I can live with Baptists!" I actually was nervous about that, and I went despite it, not because of it. Maybe it's the same with Utah.

The growth is good for ecomony but has added so much traffic, crime, traffic, and pollution along the Wasatch.

That's quite a price to pay.

When I visit family in Northern Calif. I find less pollution, traffic and crime.

Sorry, GK, but the LDS folk are the reason I spend as little time in Salt Lake City as possible when I have to go there on business.

What kind of whackadoodles believe in magical white underwear in this day and age? The way they are maintaining their numbers is through a forced breeding program, not through conversion.

GK from the UK you really are F(rea)K. I'm not mormon but I do appreciate the positives you mention. You felll off the truck though with the "narrow minded" rant. Wow for sure, take one of your pills and relax.

All major social problems stem from the population explosion.

There is nothing anyone can do about this but welcome more smog, crime, unemployment, poverty, and overall hatred for each other.

Get used to it.

Peopel move to Utah for it's natural beauty and oppurtunities, in spite fo the LDS.

Although the dearth of black people probably helps some of the white flight from elsewhere.

While I agree with GK that Utah is a nice place to raise a family, I really think a survey would find other reasons leading why people move to Utah.

One is a very strong economy, with an unemployment rate so low anyone who wants a job can have one.

Another is quality of life, as repeatedly reported in annual reports. Of course the family values mentioned by GK are part of that quality of life, but other factors include health care, outdoor recreation, etc.

When it comes to illegal immigrants, they like to move to Utah for two reasons. first, job availability. Second, Weak enforcement of immigration laws.

This type of growth actually scares me about the prospect of moving back to Utah. It seems what attracts people to move to Utah will be lost because of all those that move to Utah.

We've lived in about 15 places in the U.S., traveled in 40 others. We and some of our kids went to Utah State, in Logan and Dixie, in St George. Two of our married kids and now live in Utah County. Most of our 30+ grandkids will be raised in various parts of Utah.

It has never ceased to amaze us how out-of-state students would come to Utah, laugh at the Happy
Valley jokes for four years, then refuse to leave. They'd take some unrelated job or start their own business to stay.
And their parents would come to see them graduate and decide they like it and move here, often with no jobs arranaged, no connections, no other family.
And then they want to be the last ones in, close the borders and keep 'outsiders' out!

American has a lot of nice places, but no other place we have ever lived or visited matches this.

One man's trash can be another's treasure.