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As someone who has been to both cities, I'd choose Phoenix by a landslide. To be honest, OKC is just a bigger version of Lubbock or Amarillo, TX with more big city amenities. The surrounding landscape of the city is flat, barren, and ugly with some bland buildings in the downtown area. This poll makes me laugh.
As someone who has been to both cities, I'd choose Phoenix by a landslide. To be honest, OKC is just a bigger version of Lubbock or Amarillo, TX with more big city amenities. The surrounding landscape of the city is flat, barren, and ugly with some bland buildings in the downtown area. This poll makes me laugh.
OKC is a cross between Amarillo and Ft Smith, Arkansas but without the extremes of either. It's not as barren or as stark as Amarillo (north and eastern OKC is quite green). It's also not as conservative as Fort Smith, a place that can actually feel like the town in Footloose and that is not hyperbole.
I do agree though, Phoenix is a real city and in hindsight it's stupid to compare a small town like OKC to it. I regret creating this poll, though my intention was not to compare them based on amenities or culture (where Phoenix wins 1000 to 1).
I just wana know who the 9 ppl are that voted for OKC lol.
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Originally Posted by FirebirdCamaro1220
Same here, I've been to Oklahoma City, and as a progressive originally from NY, it was very depressing and alienating for me
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As someone who has been to both cities, I'd choose Phoenix by a landslide. To be honest, OKC is just a bigger version of Lubbock or Amarillo, TX with more big city amenities. The surrounding landscape of the city is flat, barren, and ugly with some bland buildings in the downtown area. This poll makes me laugh.
Face it, that post was from some guy from Austin. If you live there it's your job to bash Oklahoma. And the OP? We all know why he starts these threads. He hates living in OKC and enjoys starting the threads so he can delight in all the OKC bashing that goes on in them.
To me, while the Amarillo/Ft Smith hybrid has a grain of truth, OKC is as much or more a hybrid of DFW and Wichita. And as a community it is almost exactly what someone should expect of a city that sits between DFW, Wichita, Ft. Smith and Amarillo. And that includes the weather, terrain, culture, amenities, on down the line.
Face it, that post was from some guy from Austin. If you live there it's your job to bash Oklahoma. And the OP? We all know why he starts these threads. He hates living in OKC and enjoys starting the threads so he can delight in all the OKC bashing that goes on in them.
Why does OKC get torn to shreds in every one of them? It's one of America's least favorite cities and it's that way based on a stereotype that is rooted in truth (though some of it is outdated or exaggerated). I would really like to say OKC is very different from the image most people have of it but cannot. It isn't quite as bad as most people think it is, but it isn't really that far off from it. It's not like Kansas City for instance which is nothing like its national image.
Any city that would compare favorably to wouldn't be well known enough for the thread to make it past its first page. I believe the only peer cities it has won against were Birmingham, Bakersfield, and Little Rock. It would probably win against Jackson MS. Any other city that isn't plagued with a perception of high crime or undesirability will lose to OKC, even if it's half the size.
Why does OKC get torn to shreds in every one of them? It's one of America's least favorite cities and it's that way based on a stereotype that is rooted in truth (though some of it is outdated or exaggerated). I would really like to say OKC is very different from the image most people have of it but cannot. It isn't quite as bad as most people think it is, but it isn't really that far off from it. It's not like Kansas City for instance which is nothing like its national image.
Any city that would compare favorably to wouldn't be well known enough for the thread to make it past its first page. I believe the only peer cities it has won against were Birmingham, Bakersfield, and Little Rock. It would probably win against Jackson MS. Any other city that isn't plagued with a perception of high crime or undesirability will lose to OKC, even if it's half the size.
It was a few years back. I think Birmingham might edge out OKC, but both have very negative stigmas associated with them so it would likely be a draw if somebody hasn't been to both cities. I've they've been to OKC but not Birmingham, they might choose OKC. If they've been to Birmingham but not OKC, they would probably choose Birmingham. If they've been to both cities, they would choose Birmingham. If they've been to neither, OKC might barely win.
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