Salt Lake City Is Falling Apart: What Really Happened to Utah’s Golden Child?

Why This Once-Great United States Utah City Is Falling Apart (The Numbers Got Worse) You can go to my sponsor https://aura.com/briggs to try 14 days for free. That’s enough time for Aura to start scrubbing your personal info off these data broker sites, without you lifting a finger. Welcome to the World According to Briggs, where today we’re deep diving into Salt Lake City—the place that used to be the golden child of Western metros. You know the type: clean, calm, polite, and so family-friendly your aunt went once in 2009 and still brings it up at every Thanksgiving. For decades, Salt Lake City was the metro equivalent of a well-behaved Eagle Scout. But over the last decade, something shifted. And not in a cute “we got a couple hipster cafes and an urban mural” way. No, it shifted in a “this city aged 40 years in one election cycle and nobody checked on it” kind of way. 00:03 Intro 00:57 CHAPTER 1 — THE RISE (2010–2018) 02:31 CHAPTER 2 — THE AFFORDABILITY COLLAPSE 04:00 CHAPTER 3 — HOMELESSNESS SURGES (2018–Now) 07:37 CHAPTER 4 — CRIME: “WE DIDN’T EXPECT THIS” 08:57 CHAPTER 5 — THE TRAFFIC NIGHTMARE 09:55 CHAPTER 6 — THE AIR (Yes, It Can Hurt You) 10:46 CHAPTER 7 — THE SALT LAKE DRAINING (Literally) 11:36 CHAPTER 8 — THE CULTURE SHIFT (Old Utah vs. New Utah) 12:15 CHAPTER 9 — WHY PEOPLE ARE LEAVING NOW Email: [email protected] Do you want to move to that perfect place?