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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Mormon culture is pervasive. SLC feels very weird. [/quote]

I agree we have family out there-nice to visit and nice to leave. [/quote]

Yeah; I mean:  would you really want to live around, you know,  [i]those people[/i] ??!? [/quote]
Oh FFS.

I have no problem with Mormons. In fact, on an individual level, every Mormon I know is lovely and kind and the kind of people you *would* want to live around.

But being a religious minority among a very high demand religion is hard. It just is. I grew up in Mesa, AZ which is very Mormon and it was just a really difficult group to penetrate *especially* when you make it clear that you have no plans of converting. I wouldn't say my Mormon classmates/neighbors/etc. deliberately set out to be exclusionary to non-LDS but when your religion is such a HUGE part of your life and the moral code is what it is, it is just easier to spend time around others who have that in common with you than to invest time and friendship etc. those who do not. Especially when you live in an area where many/most of the people around are also LDS. (As opposed to somewhere like DC where, just due to the numbers, insularity is much less likely.) *shrug* I [/quote]

Chandler HS grad here--all of my friendships with Mormon kids faded in high school because they all went across the street to the Seminary to hang out at lunch. [/quote]

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