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AZ and Utah have amazing roads, but let's be fair, they are used a lot less, and are a lot easier to maintain.

For example, large and infrequent international wire transfers to say Bermuda may look suspicious if your 'KYC' information tells you the account is owned by a teenager in Utah with no ties to Bermuda.

Someone at the University of Utah produces and maintains a great piece of image processing software which unfortunately has a pretty complicated CLI UI.

Use an abandoned airforce base or the Utah salt flats.

Several cities in northern Utah did it as well [0].

Don't we already have a exabyte-scale supercomputer in Utah run by the NSA?

My renters are from Utah and collegiate Nordic Skiers.

Gradually refill across nevada, utah and western colorado.

This is usually a fair point to make, but you're pointing at neither the flaws in the underlying case study nor the weakness in generalizing Utah to a wider area.

> Harvesting the vast amounts of water on the Moon – the equivalent of the Great Salt Lake in Utah – could make the project commercially viable.

Oakland or something may be a different situation (not sure if doing the South Bay thing would even save you any money - Palo Alto ain't cheap), but anecdotally people in Utah get told the same thing again and again.

If it is then you'll have to concede that Wyoming, Kansas, and Utah, aka: decidedly not blue states, are in the same boat as "we blue states".

A vast infrastructure is being built to monitor what people say on the network (like the NSA's Utah Data Center) which makes the Stasi look like Inspector Clouseau, in a country quite different than the one whose Secretary of State said in the 1920's "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail".

You can stay in Utah, and costs will be way lower, but you'll probably pay for it.

Utah has shown, through data, that it is cheaper to provide housing directly to the homeless.

For ski jumping you'll have to trek to Bozeman/Big Sky or down to Utah.