Had the same experience. Getting outside the BYU bubble was a little shocking.

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Aug 9, 2018
1:23:09pm

Memmo All-American

Had the same experience. Getting outside the BYU bubble was a little shocking.

I probably didn't live in Utah long enough to qualify according to OP, and I may over-generalize a little. But it's a different type of Mormon world than I was used to and I didn't stay long enough for it to grow on me. Maybe if I had raised kids there I might have changed my tune a bit.

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if you spent 4+ years at BYU and that was your only time living in Utah

Hank Rearden All-American

8/9/18 11:42am

How would you know? You admit to not living in Utah.

Baron

8/9/18 11:45am

Huh?

8/9/18 11:48am

My mistake. I read left provo for left Utah. carry on.

Baron

8/9/18 11:58am

Yeah, I figured that was it. Nope, I moved to Orem, then American Fork....

8/9/18 12:01pm

Reread

Cashmeousside

8/9/18 11:51am

True. College Utah culture and townie Utah culture are way different

Cashmeousside

8/9/18 11:45am

Fortunately.

Memmo

8/9/18 11:52am

I think I initially misunderstood your comment.

Machiavelli

8/9/18 12:11pm

Had the same experience. Getting outside the BYU bubble was a little shocking.

Memmo

8/9/18 1:23pm

I would add that Provo ward culture and those outside Provo

8/9/18 11:53am

Yeah. And then a separate one for super-mormony yet low-education Utah burbs

Cashmeousside

8/9/18 11:55am

The difference is that, even if we "only" lived there for 4 years, many of us

chilango

8/9/18 12:02pm

Its real simple, the OP doesn’t describe you. Yet from a position of knowledge, what you think you know

8/9/18 12:44pm

This doesn't seem unique to BYU. BYU is a unique school, but college bubbles

8/9/18 12:03pm

Lol this is ridiculous. I've been here 7 years. I know enough.

TCuz

8/9/18 12:07pm

That’s cool but that doesn’t make you better than anyone

cougarnerd

8/9/18 12:11pm

Actually it does. TCuz is the best.

Jeremy

8/9/18 12:33pm

True. If you don't like being around Mormons, Utah is not for you.

Plato

8/9/18 12:18pm

And what's your attitude been like for those 7 yrs?

soupie

8/9/18 12:21pm

What if the population was just you and Jesus?

JAGA97

8/9/18 12:28pm

Then something has gone terribly, terribly wrong.

TCuz

8/9/18 12:30pm

Therein lies the disconnect. The gulf between what you know and what you think you know is enormous

8/9/18 12:30pm

I have no idea what you're talking about.

TCuz

8/9/18 12:47pm

Living in Provo or living in the tree streets of SLC are going to give you

cougarnerd

8/9/18 2:09pm

Sure. But living in a place that's >50% Mormon is unique and the same across UT

TCuz

8/9/18 2:15pm

I have 3 sisters who live in SLC. One has been there since 1981. I'm no expert,

Y-Zag

8/9/18 12:17pm

Sure. But SLC is quite different from everywhere else.

Plato

8/9/18 12:17pm

If you spent 4+ years at BYU... you're doing it wrong

ColoSpgs

8/9/18 12:21pm

Most people graduate in 3?

Plato

8/9/18 12:27pm

3+

ColoSpgs

8/9/18 12:31pm

Foreign mission + learn language + BYU = Cheap concurrent semester of A's

Florwood

8/9/18 1:43pm

...Or you studied engineering

Gorum the Old

8/9/18 2:12pm

... Or you were a normal college student

Gorum the Old

8/9/18 2:13pm

Engineers. We're there for the long haul.

8/9/18 3:52pm

I think there is a point in there somewhere... I'll keep looking

hadmonster

8/9/18 12:42pm

I didn’t have to have a long term relationship with a girl before I knew things

Y2k

8/9/18 12:51pm

That's a universal concept... not just Utah centric.

8/9/18 1:16pm

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