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Old 02-27-2017, 09:06 PM
 
Location: The State Of California
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This is pretty hard for me to believe , but here are the COLD HARD FACTS.... OKC.. OKLAHOMA CITY OKLAHOMA is one of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA ( TOP TEN (10) BOOM CITIES ...up and coming cities/metro's.


We Okie's have finally got out of the bottom of the pile and America Pecking Order and risen to new heights Acolades and Kudos to the great state of Oklahoma and it's shinning example of a City OKC.


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Providence23.311.5%5.1%0.5%-0.4%-3.210.433.2%4.9%Analysis by Mark Schill, Praxis Straetgy Group (mark@praxissg.com). The index incldues eight

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Old 03-01-2017, 02:20 AM
 
Location: Stillwater, Oklahoma
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Tulsa is not on there, so that is a bad sign how the rest of Oklahoma, over all, is like.
 
Old 03-01-2017, 08:51 AM
 
Location: Oklahoma City
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Tulsa is not on there, so that is a bad sign how the rest of Oklahoma, over all, is like.
The list was done for metros with at least 1 million residents, which Tulsa is just shy of.

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Old 03-01-2017, 03:40 PM
 
Location: The State Of California
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The list was done for metros with at least 1 million residents, which Tulsa is just shy of.
Me being born and Coming from Metro Tulsa I always had this one burning nagging question why in the world doesn't Metro Tulsa have A Million OR TWO MILLION Population.
 
Old 03-01-2017, 04:22 PM
 
Location: The Republic of Gilead
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For whatever reason, Tulsa doesn't seem to be growing at quite the same rate as OKC. Tulsa has a lot of built-in advantages but that doesn't seem to be translating into a population boom. I think Tulsa is one of the more underrated and overlooked cities in the country.

OKC is getting quite a bit better than it used to be even just a few years ago. The biggest problems is the climate and the politics, both of which I believe are serious barriers to the city becoming a true boomtown a-la- Austin, Portland, etc.
 
Old 03-01-2017, 04:25 PM
 
Location: Dangling from a mooses antlers
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Me being born and Coming from Metro Tulsa I always had this one burning nagging question why in the world doesn't Metro Tulsa have A Million OR TWO MILLION Population.
Cause that would just turn it into an urban cesspool of humanity. Not everyone views quantity as quality.
 
Old 03-01-2017, 07:39 PM
 
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I moved to Oklahoma City in 2013. It's nice driving around and seeing all the growth that's going on and is planned. I wish we had the kind of growth that cities like Dallas and Austin are having, but at the same time, I prefer nice and steady growth. It keeps the cost of living down and allows cities time to adjust (hopefully) to the changes.
 
Old 03-02-2017, 04:53 PM
 
Location: The State Of California
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Cause that would just turn it into an urban cesspool of humanity. Not everyone views quantity as quality.
Very close but no cigar......

The powers that be mainly the city fathers who are Republicans have always sought to keep Tulsa small to prevent it from becoming a city with a democratic majority.. in other words a blue city.

Meaning that the number one reason why tulsa hasn't crossed that Golden Milestone of 1 million Metro population or perhaps even two million Metro population is because very poor , you heard me right bad leadership in city government , which OKC doesn't seem to have.

OKC is most likely to be a blue Democratic City by 2020 or at the latest 2022 or 2024 everybody start biting your lips.... LOL.... falling out of my chair.
 
Old 03-02-2017, 04:59 PM
 
Location: The State Of California
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I moved to Oklahoma City in 2013. It's nice driving around and seeing all the growth that's going on and is planned. I wish we had the kind of growth that cities like Dallas and Austin are having, but at the same time, I prefer nice and steady growth. It keeps the cost of living down and allows cities time to adjust (hopefully) to the changes.
I do not want Oklahoma City to become a Austin or maybe a Dallas , which would cause the city to be much too expensive to live in and cause it to lose some of its luster.

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Old 03-03-2017, 12:42 AM
 
Location: US
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A co-worker of mine used to live in OKC. He said the job market there was abysmal.
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