I am biased since I am a local, but Utah Valley is on the cusp of recognition as a tech hotbed. Just in our office park in the corner of Provo, we have

  1. http://www.ancestry.com/
  2. http://www.qualtrics.com/
  3. us, http://i.tv
  4. http://www.moneydesktop.com/
  5. http://www.vivint.com/en/, recently bought for $2 billion[0]

There are also a bunch of other smaller tech companies.

http://www.domo.com/ and the Adobe campus are also about 10 minutes away, and there are various tech companies scattered all the way up through Salt Lake.

http://www.ng-conf.org/ is coming to SLC next year, and the local tech meetups are active and widely attended. Combine the good tech scene with the extremely low cost of living and it is a great place to be.

  0: http://seekingalpha.com/article/878211-blackstone-buys-vivint-what-you-need-to-know