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.......... Just hope your not in a grandfathered building ........
My house was started back in the 1890's...........it hasn't come down yet.......course I do some of the old ndn stuff to ward off things like that............
I've been planning a move to OK for a couple of years now. I think it's finally coming into fruitition September-December this year.
A few years ago I knew nothing about OK. I then met my fiance and her sister. They attended ORU in Tulsa and Rhema Bible College in Broken Arrow. After visiting OK a few times to see friends we decided to move. It has taken me almost two years since then to get ready. I'll be eligible for an early retirement on my job soon and I'll have the resources to set up in Oklahoma while I look for a position there. The problem is that I am engaged in a niche profession and its hard to go to interviews while I'm still employed here.
I think the reverse migration is based almost entirely on economics. People here in the NYC area think I'm crazy to move to Oklahoma. They really have the notion that people from OK are stupid rednecks. This is a generalization but, I think, a widely held impression. Over time a very few of my workmates have become intrigued with Oklahoma. These people, without exception, can envision moving specifically because of the perceived low cost of living. They would hope to parlay the sale of their home and buy a palace, so to speak, in Oklahoma. Not that anyone is moving but that would be the only way they can picture themselves in, what they deem, a backward area. I might be wrong but this kind of thinking may be driving the reverse migration.
NYC is not SoCal. I think certain people in CA may have an attachment to OK from family so their perception may be different from the New Yorkers I know. I do think a great migration in reverse will have a negative effect on OK in general but especially when it comes to taxes. People in CA are used to strong public service unions, heavy regulation and generally paying for everything through the nose. I sometimes read message boards from areas of the Carolinas where a lot of people there feel displaced in their communities from migrants from the north.
Well, as for me, I'm really looking forward to participating in what I think is a dynamic state with a generally good natured people- at least in respect to what I run into around here.
I really don't want to upset anyone with my impressions. I've gleemed some great advice on this board and it has helped me to no end as I make my plans. Thanks to everyone for posting.
I've been planning a move to OK for a couple of years now. I think it's finally coming into fruitition September-December this year.
A few years ago I knew nothing about OK. I then met my fiance and her sister. They attended ORU in Tulsa and Rhema Bible College in Broken Arrow. After visiting OK a few times to see friends we decided to move. It has taken me almost two years since then to get ready. I'll be eligible for an early retirement on my job soon and I'll have the resources to set up in Oklahoma while I look for a position there. The problem is that I am engaged in a niche profession and its hard to go to interviews while I'm still employed here.
I think the reverse migration is based almost entirely on economics. People here in the NYC area think I'm crazy to move to Oklahoma. They really have the notion that people from OK are stupid rednecks. This is a generalization but, I think, a widely held impression. Over time a very few of my workmates have become intrigued with Oklahoma. These people, without exception, can envision moving specifically because of the perceived low cost of living. They would hope to parlay the sale of their home and buy a palace, so to speak, in Oklahoma. Not that anyone is moving but that would be the only way they can picture themselves in, what they deem, a backward area. I might be wrong but this kind of thinking may be driving the reverse migration.
NYC is not SoCal. I think certain people in CA may have an attachment to OK from family so their perception may be different from the New Yorkers I know. I do think a great migration in reverse will have a negative effect on OK in general but especially when it comes to taxes. People in CA are used to strong public service unions, heavy regulation and generally paying for everything through the nose. I sometimes read message boards from areas of the Carolinas where a lot of people there feel displaced in their communities from migrants from the north.
Well, as for me, I'm really looking forward to participating in what I think is a dynamic state with a generally good natured people- at least in respect to what I run into around here.
I really don't want to upset anyone with my impressions. I've gleemed some great advice on this board and it has helped me to no end as I make my plans. Thanks to everyone for posting.
When I first told people in my apartment complex I was moving to Oklahoma, the reaction was why would anyone want to move there???? I had spent several months doing research and had fallen in love with all the space and trees and the people I met. I decided not to explain.
One woman was born here. I know she wanted to go back and was one who had to move and I do hope she made it. She was so friendly, even after all the time she was on the west coast. I still check the California board and love telling people why I moved. I don't know why the assumption seems to be there must ba a tie to here if you'd want to. None in my family. But its crowded and rude and busy and expensive. I grew up there when socal wasn't like that an wonder where it went so I very much like the way it is here because its different. I notice some can't wait to move home when they come for economic reasons. And some adjust. I think you have to like something about a place or you do eventually leave.
I went back a few months after moving for Thanksgiving and could think of nothing but how much I wanted to go HOME. I wonder how many people stick somewhere they don't like because its scary to move to a place thats different My sil I'm hoping does move here since I know her and she will be happy with the place. I think you find what your looking for and when you know you want to stay and leave it alone.
My house was started back in the 1890's...........it hasn't come down yet.......course I do some of the old ndn stuff to ward off things like that............
I was thinking of the ones in California that got left our of earthquake standards, actually. I clearly remember the last quake before I moved and how it was patterned after the way the big one will be. I was soooo glad I was on the second floor. Termites were eating the walls.
Here, the house was built in 1930. It could use more insulation (space heater being used to warm up feet) but its a very solid house and its got years left. There is a woman who roams the kitchen now and than too, who had been here a long time I'd guess. Sure don't get prior residents in cheap track homes.
I've been planning a move to OK for a couple of years now. I think it's finally coming into fruitition September-December this year.
A few years ago I knew nothing about OK. I then met my fiance and her sister. They attended ORU in Tulsa and Rhema Bible College in Broken Arrow. After visiting OK a few times to see friends we decided to move. It has taken me almost two years since then to get ready. I'll be eligible for an early retirement on my job soon and I'll have the resources to set up in Oklahoma while I look for a position there. The problem is that I am engaged in a niche profession and its hard to go to interviews while I'm still employed here.
I think the reverse migration is based almost entirely on economics. People here in the NYC area think I'm crazy to move to Oklahoma. They really have the notion that people from OK are stupid rednecks. This is a generalization but, I think, a widely held impression. Over time a very few of my workmates have become intrigued with Oklahoma. These people, without exception, can envision moving specifically because of the perceived low cost of living. They would hope to parlay the sale of their home and buy a palace, so to speak, in Oklahoma. Not that anyone is moving but that would be the only way they can picture themselves in, what they deem, a backward area. I might be wrong but this kind of thinking may be driving the reverse migration.
NYC is not SoCal. I think certain people in CA may have an attachment to OK from family so their perception may be different from the New Yorkers I know. I do think a great migration in reverse will have a negative effect on OK in general but especially when it comes to taxes. People in CA are used to strong public service unions, heavy regulation and generally paying for everything through the nose. I sometimes read message boards from areas of the Carolinas where a lot of people there feel displaced in their communities from migrants from the north.
Well, as for me, I'm really looking forward to participating in what I think is a dynamic state with a generally good natured people- at least in respect to what I run into around here.
I really don't want to upset anyone with my impressions. I've gleemed some great advice on this board and it has helped me to no end as I make my plans. Thanks to everyone for posting.
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I really don't want to upset anyone with my impressions. I've gleemed some great advice on this board and it has helped me to no end as I make my plans. Thanks to everyone for posting.
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Oh you won't make anyone mad...just keep perpetuating the Redneck myth up there in your neck of the woods. (Well, I guess I am a Redneck...and GP is just flat surly, but besides us too ol' crusty Okies....Thank God RedBird is on here to balance us out!)
We don't want folks to know the real Oklahoma. Just keep your move a secret and we'll welcome you with open arms.
Last edited by Bass&Catfish2008; 02-09-2011 at 09:21 PM..
When I first told people in my apartment complex I was moving to Oklahoma, the reaction was why would anyone want to move there???? I had spent several months doing research and had fallen in love with all the space and trees and the people I met. I decided not to explain.
One woman was born here. I know she wanted to go back and was one who had to move and I do hope she made it. She was so friendly, even after all the time she was on the west coast. I still check the California board and love telling people why I moved. I don't know why the assumption seems to be there must ba a tie to here if you'd want to. None in my family. But its crowded and rude and busy and expensive. I grew up there when socal wasn't like that an wonder where it went so I very much like the way it is here because its different. I notice some can't wait to move home when they come for economic reasons. And some adjust. I think you have to like something about a place or you do eventually leave.
I went back a few months after moving for Thanksgiving and could think of nothing but how much I wanted to go HOME. I wonder how many people stick somewhere they don't like because its scary to move to a place thats different My sil I'm hoping does move here since I know her and she will be happy with the place. I think you find what your looking for and when you know you want to stay and leave it alone.
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I still check the California board and love telling people why I moved.
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No, no, no, NightBird....It's great you're here and enjoying it...but don't let your Cali friends know it. As an alternative, tell them how wonderful Texas is and how much they will enjoy living in Tejas. That's where we want them to move to.
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, but besides us too ol' crusty Okies....Thank God RedBird is on here to balance us out!
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