OremUnited States

Orem is functionally part of the Provo metropolitan area and shares its very high LDS saturation. Utah Valley University sits in Orem and has a student body that is more religiously mixed than BYU but still heavily LDS in the surrounding community. The leaving-the-Church experience in Orem is closer to Provo than to Salt Lake City — the family infrastructure, the ward structure, and the implicit assumption of LDS membership in social life are all very strong.

The pillar page on the LDS Church and the page on family shunning are the most relevant. The neighboring Salt Lake City scene is close enough to commute to for the post-Mormon and ex-Mormon community when you are ready.

Elder X has been through the religious exit himself — the family rupture, the guilt that would not stop, the psych wards, the isolation of being the person nobody in your family understands anymore. If you are in Orem and that description lands, reach out. Not therapy. Personal advice from someone who made it to the other side.