I've interviewed in SLC before and the biggest problem with their startup scene is the complete lack of diversity. Otherwise it would be amazing to live near those mountains. I'm just not interested in working at a company with so literal cultural and racial diversity.
As a person of color and someone who is interested in moving to SLC for more affordable cost of living I am interested. Can you elaborate more? What is it that you found negative? I worked at firms with lack of racial diversity where I was literally the only non white person but didn’t have much problem other than of course not being able to relate in some off the work conversations and socializing aspects of it.
I thought SLC is now a lot more diverse than it was 10yrs ago partly cause the housing pressure in other big cities.
SLC is a great deal more diverse than it was 10 years ago. As an anecdote I moved here four years ago and I've overheard conversations in more and more different languages as I walk around the downtown area. My circle of friends is probably more diverse than it was when I lived in LA since it's largely people who moved here for the University of Utah or SLC-based tech jobs. Also, I believe SLC is at least 30% Hispanic, but it's pretty segregated both geographically and culturally.
The rest of Utah is lily white though, and the tech scene (its centroid is somewhere between SLC and Provo) still feels heavily white and Mormon. I didn't used to mind as much because we would travel to CA once a month, but with the COVID travel moratorium I'm really missing diversity of all kinds.
Definitely more diverse than it used to be, but not like other large cities; Hispanic and Pacific Islanders are the two fastest-growing non-white groups, iirc.
