Prettiest OK city (Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Norman: relocating, tornadoes, jobs)

[okie in tx]

Originally Posted by okie in tx

I live in a very pretty subarb of Dallas, but I long to be back in OK. Some people around here are nice, but they just assume you have monye and some are just down right snobbish. I am so tired of paying almost 4000.00 a year in property tax for a house worth1410000.00 with a postage stamp sized back yard. We have our house up for sale and are planning to move to South Tulsa in the Union school district.

Ment to say 141000.00

[peggydavis]

I don't think Holdenville would get any votes for the prettiest city, and I know Yeager wouldn't either. It's the people who live there that make me love them.

Lamar has about the prettiest setting for a town I have seen.

How about a thread that says, "10 ways Tahlequah is the best place to live" Jess.

[mkfarnam]

Some big cities are pretty in a picture, but when you actually go into the city it's nothing but a dump, Example: New York, L.A., Chicago, Detroit, ect

Not to rename the topic, but for me it's not the looks(cosmetic wise) that count as much as what's in it and what it has to offer and of course the attidude of the people.

TULSA,OK.

[Peace_Maker]

Originally Posted by jessaka

That was my view of Texas too. I lived all over Texas, and the people were nice. But nothing in comparison with those in OK. Here nice has an entire new meaning. I am trying to explain that to a friend of mine who may be moving here in a year or less. Her husband is from the panhandle of Texas, and I told her that the people and the area in Tahlequah is so much better. I need to find a thread here to show her what I mean. Any ideas?

I have found the people in the Texas Panhandle to be as nice or nicer than the people in Oklahoma. Great people in both places. I wouldn't say the people are "so much better" in Oklahoma. If they are friendlier it is just by the tiniest margin. The Texas Panhandle is nothing like the rest of Texas.

Truthfully the biggest difference between the Texas Panhandle and most of Oklahoma is the weather, it is much warmer (in the winter) cooler (in the summer), less wind, more rain, and less snow. And Oklahoma is much more green. If you want to convince someone from the Panhandle to move to Oklahoma talk up the weather, not the people. By far the biggest gripe of people who moved from Oklahoma to the Panhandle is the weather especially the wind, followed by the lack of trees.

I have lived in either eastern nm, or the Texas or Oklahoma Panhandles all of my life (minus military and job related stints in other places), now I work in Oklahoma (or "down state" as we call it). I love both and I would leave the Panhandle for the OKC area in a heartbeat but my family still lives in the Panhandle.

[jessaka]

I just told a friend of mine that another friend was thinking of either moving here or to the Texas panhandle, Lubbock, I think. She said that she knew someone that lived there and if you haven't lived their all your life you are not really welcome, that they are clickish. I don't know, but I have tried to move to different places in Texas, and the people were very unfriendly and when I asked about renting they became more unfriendly. One woman in a small town told me that they don't rent to outsiders. This was a small town just east of Victoria. We ended up having to live in a large city.

[mkfarnam]

Originally Posted by jessaka

I just told a friend of mine that another friend was thinking of either moving here or to the Texas panhandle, Lubbock, I think. She said that she knew someone that lived there and if you haven't lived their all your life you are not really welcome, that they are clickish. I don't know, but I have tried to move to different places in Texas, and the people were very unfriendly and when I asked about renting they became more unfriendly. One woman in a small town told me that they don't rent to outsiders. This was a small town just east of Victoria. We ended up having to live in a large city.

We're all "clickish", especially if you have a computer

I have a Baby Sister who lives in Amarillo.

[Peace_Maker]

There are clickish towns in both Oklahoma and Texas, I would recommend Oklahoma over Lubbock. Oklahoma vs. Amarillo is alot tougher choice IMO. Amarillo is my perfect city, I like OKC but I love Amarillo, I wish Oklahoma had a town similar to Amarillo, Tulsa and OKC are a touch too big for my liking.

[Nameless]

Originally Posted by Peace_Maker

There are clickish towns in both Oklahoma and Texas, I would recommend Oklahoma over Lubbock. Oklahoma vs. Amarillo is alot tougher choice IMO. Amarillo is my perfect city, I like OKC but I love Amarillo, I wish Oklahoma had a town similar to Amarillo, Tulsa and OKC are a touch too big for my liking.

What is more to your liking of Amarillo over Lubbock? Everything I've read seems to point that Lubbock is a nicer town, is more on the move and is larger both in city and metropolitan populations than Amarillo..

[Jammie]

I wish Texas had a town like Grove. We love the Grove area, but unfortunately it still gets ice storms and more winter then I'd like to have. Of course, considering where I've spent my entire life, I can't throw stones at someone else's winter.

As far as the Conservative and Christian atmosphere, that wouldn't be a problem for us. Actually, if you check stats, the town I live in has over 80% people who consider themselves to be Christian. That's much higher then most cities even in the South which is known to be the Bible belt.

[peggydavis]

Jammie, I don't think you would have liked that ice storm this year. I don't know if it hit Grove but it sure hit Tulsa. Have you ever thought about El Paso? It has beautiful mountains and very nice weather. It is just in the desert.