Moving to Green Country/Please Advise! (Owasso, Tahlequah: real estate, travel, new home)

[OUFan22]

I have to agree with Eddie Gein about Claremore. It is a nice community of about 18,000 people with some good History, some hills, nice people, good school district, and 20 minutes from Tulsa. There is the Will Rogers Memorial, J.M. Davis Gun Museum, Rogers University, and the Lynn Riggs Memorial at Rogers University. Claremore is 8 miles from Oologah Lake, about an hour to Grand Lake, 30 minutes to Hudson Lake, and about 45 minutes to Lake Keystone. It is also about 15 minutes to Owasso and 25 minutes to Tulsa International Airport.

[SinCity]

Thanks so much for recommending Claremore. If the town itself is near as attractive as its location, it would be a great fit. Realtor.com brings up many nice homes, affordble and sizable lots and acreage, which I like. I've looked for pictures in the area but can't find much. Is the area fairly flat or does it have some rolling hills and heavily treed areas?

[SinCity]

What areas of Tulsa should be avoided if I don't want to be very near the worst crime and drug areas?

[Synopsis]

Originally Posted by SinCity

What areas of Tulsa should be avoided if I don't want to be very near the worst crime and drug areas?

The North side. The southern boundary of which is East Pine Street with Lewis Avenue (or even N. Harvard) as the Eastern boundary and Cincinnati Ave on the West. These are rough guidelines, mind you.

[Synopsis]

Originally Posted by SinCity

Thanks so much for recommending Claremore. If the town itself is near as attractive as its location, it would be a great fit. Realtor.com brings up many nice homes, affordble and sizable lots and acreage, which I like. I've looked for pictures in the area but can't find much. Is the area fairly flat or does it have some rolling hills and heavily treed areas?

I think Claremore is in a valley but generally the whole area is rolling hills and lots of trees, much the same as Tulsa.

[eddie gein]

Yes,

the town sits in the valley but the hills are right there. If you go up the hill to Rogers State University you can look across the valley to the hills on the other side. Very nice when the leaves change colors.

[Payne]

I moved to California from Oklahoma, got over my insanity, and moved back.
I used to live in Green Country before moving near Ok City. The towns south of Tulsa (Broken Arrow, Jenks, Owasso & Bixby) are really starting to grow and the crime level is still low. Claremore (my old town) has really grown; Claremore also has a great university. My favorite town in Green Country is Bartlesville--nice small town atmosphere, decently priced housing, and close to all the great lakes in NE Oklahoma. One caution, before buying an older home be sure to have all the gas lines checked (have the inspector go under the house). I own a 100 year old home and have had to replace all the gas lines; but that comes with the territory.

[SinCity]

Payne, thanks so much for your input. You sound like a person that can give me the info I've been searching for. Notice that Claremore is a place recommended by a couple members in response to nice town that fits my description for ideal location; near the lakes/rivers but easy proximity to Tulsa. Higher priority than those 2 criteria (if I had to choose 1 out of 3!!) is the necessity to live and work smack dab in the middle of what I'll reference as "lush" for purposes of a one word description for my vision. I do not want to live in or near the flatlands or rlow rolling lhils, but smack dab in the middle of heavily treed and hilly terrain. How far to the west before the terrain starts to level off and trees become more sparce? Would you give me a good description of boundaries that might give me a feel for the land? Bartlesville looks to be out of the Green Country by its appearance on my map. Is it? If I want to stay smack dab in the middle of the "lush" areas, where would that be? Is it "lush" all the way from Hwy 82 to Tulsa? Is it "lush" all the way up Hwy 69, like from Wagoner all the way north to Vinita? Sorry to single you out and bombard you but I wasn't getting those answers on my thread and I'm going blind looking for it on the many others!! I woud sure appreciate input that would narrow down my choices more!!

[SinCity]

Would somebody familiar with Green Country please respond to my last blog full of questions? I'd appreciate it!

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SinCity,
If you'll go to this website, it will give you a general idea. Pretty much all of NE Oklahoma is "Green Country," but not all of it will be hilly; there are areas where the hills taper off a bit, pick back up, then taper off a bit, and pick back up again. It's kind of an off/on thing. If you'll also look at the following map, you can see the "bumps" which are the hills and mountains of eastern/southeastern oklahoma. It's hard to say exactly which area is exactly what you'll be looking for, but generally the whole northeastern part of the state and areas to the east of Tulsa and South are very hilly. SE Oklahoma and far Eastern Oklahoma are even more so. I'd say West of Tulsa about twenty miles is when the hills start tapering off a bit and you hit different country entirely. I haven't been to Bartlesville in so long I forget if it's on the plains or in the more hilly terrain. The general rule is that the Easter 1/3 of Oklahoma is much more lush and green than points to the West. I hope this helps.