Your story sounds like those of Californians who moved to Utah a decade ago. Before you know it, people in Little Rock coffee shops will be complaining about the influx of Utahns selling their modest West Jordan homes to buy mansions in Arkansas.

Utah has remained a hidden gem for years, but external market pressures are driving up prices, and supply is surprisingly constrained by the local geography (mountains and bodies of water constricting available land in the SLC metro.) Utah doesn't enjoy the same wide open space of many inland states, at least in the developed areas where people want to live.