I lived there for 5 and a half years in the 90's. To be quite frank, I HATED it. You mention that you're in Texas... I am a Texan - grew up in Houston and Dallas. Moved there with my now ex-husband for his job (college professor - you know it is a fairly small college town, I assume.) Living there destroyed our marriage. I fled back to Texas immediately upon the divorce.
We were originally very excited about moving there, for some of the reasons you list. I'm going to be really frank here, because if you haven't considered some of the difficulties surrounding living in Logan, you really need to think about them. I wish I had before I moved there.
Are you Mormon? Are you race other than Caucasian? Logan is EXTREMELY white and EXTREMELY Mormon. Most of the non-Mormons are part of the university community, as we were, and there are many great, intelligent people there, so you wouldn't be in a complete wasteland if you're not. But be aware that most of the Valley (Logan is part of Cache Valley, which includes several other towns) is Mormon. Some of them are very nice - we had some lovely neighbors and friends who were Mormon and truly great people. Some of them weren't so nice after we lived there for two years and still didn't convert. Several of our neighbors actually shunned us - would walk past us on the street and refuse to speak to us or make eye contact. Really scary.
If you're not white, you will hate it. One of my good friends in Utah was married to a man of Japanese descent, and they were not treated well by their neighbors at all. I won't go into details here, but I will say that they left Logan at the first opportunity.
As far as climate goes, how much experience have you had with ice and snow? Seriously, living in Texas doesn't prepare you for four months of hard winter. The first winter we were there, it barely got above freezing the whole winter... it snowed early, and the snow never had a chance to melt in our subdivision. The roads ended up covered in ice pretty much the whole time, because during the day it would get slightly above freezing and melt a little, and at night it would freeze again on the roads. The other winters I was there weren't quite as bad, but even so, my ex had to drive to work in almost blizzards that would have kept people in Texas at home for days.
If you're heat sensitive, be aware that many places don't have AC. You really only need it one month a year, but that one month does get hot. I was spoiled in some ways, living in Houston, since everywhere here has to be air-conditioned during our summers. One summer in Logan was so hot we actually would drive around sometimes in the car with the air-conditioning going to try to cool off.
On the plus side, it is really, truly beautiful there. Absolutely gorgeous. The view out our living room window looked like a postcard with a mountain rising in the background (ok, in a postcard you wouldn't have had the rooftops of the other houses in the neighborhood.) The cost of living is very low, although at the time I left housing prices were really coming up. Also, if you're a fan of winter sports, it is a great place for them.
That said, there is not a job in this world that could pay me or my current husband enough to get me back there. Seriously.
