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The home-ownership dream ain’t looking pretty in Utah’s overpriced housing market.

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Welcome, prospective homeowner, to the Beehive State, where the mountains are majestic, the air quality allows an occasional glimpse of them, the echoes of itchy, neck-to-ankle hair-shirt undergarments and prairie bonnets have all but died and the housing market operates under the fundamental principle of "You want a two-car garage?

That'll be your firstborn, a kidney and an interest rate that feels personally insulting." For many years, the traditional expectation that a person would grow up, get educated, get married, have kids and find that charming white-picket-fenced dream home—preferably…

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