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As someone who lives in this "Intermountain West", I've never heard of the "Intermountain West" term before your post. It seems like a term that someone came up
by falcolas 6y ago
As someone who lives in this "Intermountain West", I've never heard of the "Intermountain West" term before your post. It seems like a term that someone came up with, but it's never caught on.
I've typically heard of us referred to as the Western US (as opposed to the West Coast).
- 2trill2spill 6y agoI hadn't heard of the term either until moving to Utah, I noticed quite a few orgs/business with the term intermountain in it, like intermountain healthcare. But when I was living in the midwest we just referred to the mountain region as "out west".
- jakeva 6y agoI'm from Utah, my parents ran a business with the word 'intermountain' in it but I remember thinking it was a strange word. And (aside from intermountain healthcare, which I doubt I would have remembered without your comment) I don't think it's a word I've heard or seen used otherwise.
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- rjsw 6y agoThe term is used for regional sporting organizations.
- reaperducer 6y agoAs someone who lives in this "Intermountain West", I've never heard of the "Intermountain West" term before your post I'm not from the area, but once I started visiting and doing business in Utah, I found it was pretty common. Once I became familiar with it, I noticed it more and more.
- phobosanomaly 6y agoI could see it as East of the Sierras in California continuing across the midwest. The economic and cultural differences crossing from the western coastal strip in California to east of the Sierras are mind-boggling.
- meristem 6y agoI am most familiar with this term in the context of detailed weather forecast discussions.
- 2trill2spill 6y agoMaybe that's why I've heard the term so much recently as I just started getting into weather, and weather forecasting, particularly snow.