Well, St. George, it's been lovely. We didn't get to partake in too many of your bountiful offerings due to our limited time available, but what we were able to see was lovely. From the giant, creepy spider statue and flinging-babies statue adjacent to it in the Historic District, dipping our feet in the water in the park, greeting the velociraptor and enduring parking challenges nearby in the shopping district, to hiking among the beautiful red stones and posing on a giant boulder overlooking the city, it was fun. It's not too hard to see why people are moving there in droves. It's easily accessible to other, larger, cities like Salt Lake City or Las Vegas, but it absolutely feels like a small town. Families gather in the public spaces and let their kids splash around together in the water, ice cream men roll up on mountainside parks with sweet treats to cool off the family, it seems pretty sublime. We did see someone getting battered about the face while sitting next to the road when we were driving through their downtown area, so obviously, it's not all picture perfect sitcom-worthy bliss, but it's nice. I'm sure if we spent more time and dove more in-depth into the area and the recent population growth explosion it's been experiencing, we'd hear some fascinating stories. Any city that experiences the kind of rapid growth that St. George has will undoubtedly undergo some degree of growing pains in the process. Each municipality and governing body deal with it differently, which can lead to a city's thriving or declining. For the time St. George seems to be on the up and up, and I imagine that as populations continue to become more mobile it will likely continue to experience a surge in traffic.
Not only is it a hot spot for young families looking to settle down somewhere quaint, but Dixie State University brings droves of youth from nearby towns looking to glean and education with a side of independence. Many of the graduates I talked to from Mesquite mentioned that they were planning to go to DSU for their post-high school education, which makes sense. It's not far down the road so they can easily make a trip home to visit their families, but it's far enough for them to feel their first bit of freedom. It's not hard to imagine that some of these starry-eyed young dreamers will meet some other lovely youth and fall in love, and potentially end up settling down in the area. Storybook romance, right? The cycle continues. The force has balance.
Yadda yadda. Anyway, we weren't looking to put down roots here, not this time. We packed it into the van again and started rolling out, with our end destination being home with a few side quests along the way. Join our adventure!
Thanks for riding along with us!
Cheers!
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XOXO,
NAU
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