Utah One of Most Livable States. Utah was recently named one of the country's top five most livable states, according to a list released last week by Morgan Quitno, a publishing and research firm. Forty-three factors were taken into consideration to determine the most livable states, including crime rate, personal income, per capita state and local tax revenue, and infant mortality rate. The magazine considered 75 cities, and Salt Lake City placed behind Austin, Texas and Orlando, Florida.
Foreigners plan to invest billions in the Salt Lake City-Provo area for the next two decades.
Foreign real estate developers have dubbed Utah's Wasatch Front as the nation's top entrepreneurial prospect area for the next two decades. The group has 138 members representing the Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Singapore, and Taiwan. The Beehive State is also a veritable job machine that, for the most part, sidestepped the protracted recession. In fact, for the year ended November 1992, Utah outpaced the rest of the country in job creation, turning in a 3.2 percent employment growth rate versus a paltry 0.4 percent for the nation as a whole. After Silicon Valley and North Carolina's Research Triangle.