There are plenty of nice Utards, but there are a lot of people that will be nice to your face, and judge you behind your back.
As someone else said, I think you'll find that everywhere. To your point though, it is BS and I can't stand that type of crap -- even though I'm very guilty of doing it. All the time.
Sadly, it's because of how you look, dress and your tats. Damn stereotypes. Although, I must say, you are a nice guy in person.
I don't think he has tats, yo. He does look like a gay homeless guy who robbed a children's store for his outfit, but that's nothing to be judgmental about.
This.
Mormons might be judgemental and might not want to associate with someone who drinks and swears and has tattoos etc etc..... but i would rather have mormons living all around me due to the fact that i would worry less about getting robbed or my fence spraypainted with graffitti etc etc.
I've lived in Utah for 33 years and I've yet to come across anyone who treated me differently or worse because I had long hair, cursed, drank, smoked, whatever. If anything, it seemed to me that once people realized that I did that stuff, they started to be nicer and more accepting -- you know, to bring me back into the fold. I'm sure that drives some people crazy, but I didn't mind, because I knew they'd never get me back. Haha, right. Of course, I never had anyone be a real pushy prick like some of the stories I've heard, so who knows.
I would say Utahns are no more, nor less, friendly than anywhere else really. Except driving. Utah drivers are easily the worst I have ever encountered, including the deep south and California. You can merge in front of that sweet looking soccer mom only when you pry the pavement from her cold dead hands, you ****ing *******.
I don't think it's a matter of being unfriendly, but more that Utah drivers -- and especially women -- are just completely ignorant of the "rules of the road". Not the crap they teach you in Drivers Ed, but the unwritten rules. Most people are cool as cream pie, but dumber than a sack of hair.
Overall, I'd say that Utah is extremely friendly. I've only lived here, but I've traveled quite a bit. The Old Man worked for the airlines growing up so we flew for free and took advantage of it several times a year pretty much my entire life. I've visited and stayed in pretty much every major city in the US and several countries around the world and I can say pretty definitively that Utah has the overall nicest population of people. Ya, I'm biased, etc. but that's just like, you know, my opinion, man.
