Salt Lake City

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The pulsating city of Utah is Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City, embedded in a basin known as the Wasatch Front, can be described as a comfortable city. Featuring all the major facilities, high-class food and night life, public transport, cultural creativity, city nervousness and locals' activities that await you in a flourishing subway area, with the comfort and affordable of a place that has not been explored by the pack.

It is 1,320 metres above sealevel, which gives it a hilltop location without the congestion of tranquility. If you look eastwards, the spurs of Utah University immediately give way to the breezy summits of the Wasatch Mountains, where the world-famous skiing areas of Alta, Snowbird, Brighton and Solitude are located, just 30 min from the city centre.

Its closeness to stunning outside relaxation is an important incentive for any Salt Lake holiday and was also emphasized during the 2002 Winter Olympics. It' s hard to find a place on the ground that combines the comfort, cultural life and attraction of a big city with the paths, tranquillity and relaxation of the mountains.

The Salt Lake City is a great gate for travellers on a tour of Utah's skiing areas or south into Utah's famous redshank.

The Salt Lake City is almost as hip as it can be and ranks third in the game.

MoveHub.com took five datapoints into consideration, thus enhancing last year's index to evaluate cities: The numbers are counted per 100,000 and from this notch, Salt Lake City sorts right behind Portland, Oregon, which is just past -- a one thousandth of a point -- Brighton and Hove in the United Kingdom.

Astonishingly, Salt Lake is much nearer the top two places than number four from Seattle to Utah's bluff. For the natives it may be weird to know that their city is cozier than Lisbon, for Lauderdale, Miami or Helsinki, but that's what the top 10 lists below say.

"Utah's capitol stands out in every class and is probably the second most fun in hipsters after Portland," Movehub.com said. Results are no surpise for the Boston Globe, which named SLC "America's Super Sky, Superb-CoolHipster haven". The tattoo was part of so many US towns on the agenda.

Salt Lake has the fifth highest number of tattoos in the hemisphere in the world, with 24 per 100,000 population. We' re also organizing an annual meeting of the German Tattoos.