[BAGuy]

Claremore is a nice community and really close to Tulsa and many of the area's great lakes.

[swamp nurse]

Thanks for the info and the heads up. Yes Bonham is still an option. The VA has a new opening plus I am still in the running for the home health job and the local vets home and hospital have openings. Thing here is I need to roll my Arkansas license over to Texas to work that local facility or the vets home as my Arkansas and Texas are members of the nursing compact and one can only hold one compact state license. Oklahoma on the other hand is not a member of the nursing compact and all nurses practicing in Oklahoma must hold an Oklahoma license and I am also licensed in Oklahoma. if I got one of the VA jobs in Bonham it would be just a transfer plus my Arkansas or Oklahoma license is fine to work in a federal facility.
I have not yet considered McAlester but I have a friend there that moved back recently. I've visited "Big MAC" and it is a growing town like Atoka and Durant and Dennison and Sherman. There are really so many options there for a nurse I should be able to find a place in many of those towns. its a good area the four state corners around the Red River.
Thanks for the heads up on Antlers and Hugo. I have a friend from Idabel and she says the same thing.
I did some checking on Sulphur and they say it is nice and the pictures of it I saw looks very pretty. Ardmore is decent looking.
I grew up a about an hour from either Tulsa and Tahlequah. Tulsa has grown so much (Lived there too) and Tahlequah sounds very good also (I love Tenkiller). Muskogee has picked up some. I always liked Chouteau and that Dutch Pantry (good eating there). I got to where the snow and ice bother me (muscle and bone aches). I'm trying to stick to southern Oklahoma or northeastern Texas. Arkansas has gotten too high in costs and Louisiana has too much oil business now and is pricy too.
The whole region is great though.
West Texas out here has gotten so crime ridden and pricy and the dust is horrible and ugly landscape to look at and one can't go hiking anywhere without getting cactus thorns in them.
I'm so ready to get moved to green scenery too.