Crime and cost of living in your area.

Sadly, here in Utah the house pricing situation is not much better than your location unfortunately. And yeah SLC is starting to get really bad with the homeless population and it was already kind of bad to begin with.
I live further up north near Hill AFB and sadly some of the transient zombies are starting to creep up north, especially in parts around Clearfield and Ogden.
People in my neighborhood being somewhat rural were so used to keeping their car doors unlocked overnight, one guy in our community had an incident with some random tweaker going into his garage. (Likely from Ogden)
He used the wireless garage door opener in his unlocked car.
Problem was he messed with the wrong house, the homeowner being a retired service member like myself made a statement by racking his AR15. "That's the only and last warning you get!" he told the guy.
Good thing he was a smart tweaker, he bolted out of the garage and got on his bicycle.
And he's not the only one in the community with an AR :).
However, lately our average house prices have dropped about an average of 20% in the past 2 months, and Idaho does have a little cheaper property from what I looked at. (believe me I've been looking).