Currently, I live in Orem, UT. Orem is about an hour south of Salt Lake City, and is the town just north of Provo. It's pretty much a college town, since it is close to Brigham Young University (my alma mater) and Utah Valley University (where Stephan goes to school). I have been asked if there is a rivalry between Provo and Orem; as far as I can tell, there really isn't. However, Orem supposedly has a reputation for being the "immoral" town whereas Provo is the epitome of "Happy Valley." Maybe that's why I like living in Orem--it's more "real" to me. Ha ha.
The general stereotype of Utah is that everyone is white--no minorities. That's not entirely true. We actually live in a very heavily hispanic neighborhood. There are enough hispanics that the elementary school in our neighborhood hires translators for those kids whose parents do not speak English. Now black people are hard to find out here--there is one black guy in our entire ward. That's weird to me because a third of the student body at my high school was black.
Now, for where we live. I won't give specifics because there are too many creeps out there ;) We live in the north-central part of Orem (more or less). We live next door to our church, which makes things very convenient. Our ward is great--when we move, I want to take our ward with us. I love the ward because we're all pretty much in the same position--young marrieds, trying to make ends meet somehow. No competitiveness that I've seen. Our apartment is about 600 sq. feet, with a good-sized living room, too small kitchen, adequate bedroom, and a small bathroom. Oh, and we have a laundry room. And not a lot of storage space.
And that's it for "where I live."
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