Thinking of Moving to Tulsa Area (Broken Arrow, Sapulpa: sale, how much, new house)

[Honeybee]

Hello my hubby and I are considering moving to the Tulsa Area we had never seen it and we were shocked of how green it was and how many rolling hills there were and Tree's !!! we live in Central Ca, flat valley .We are looking into Broken Arrow , Jenks, Owasso , Bixby. Glenpool S. Tulsa want to spend around $150-$185.000 .We would love to here from anyone who knows about these areas .We have been in Ca. are whole life . Visited Tulsa OK. in Sep. Hubby would love to come there he has already been offered a job there we would buy us a Bass Boat and retire at 59 we would live there but travel all over after 59 . We thought it was a cheaper place to retire then Ca. Anything you can tell me would be helpful.Hubby is a Hunter and Fisher . I want to know everything you can tell me weather, like humdity, snow if any ,rain how much , torandos , Bugs, good the bad and the ugly .Where to live , where it is beautiful , peaceful we both love moutains or hills ,Green Trees and our Privacy and not far from shopping docs. ext. Whats best a older home or have one built .They are building in Glenpool , and afew other places as well . whats property tax like there . Oh and I love Jesus so hearing about him all day long will not bother me My Pastors from Modesto just moved out there to Pastor a Church in Tulsa so I feel I am being led there by God . will see what happens though as I am struggling with leaving my family here and my 2 grandkids it will be by far the largest step of Faith I have ever taken I feel my kids will follow in time but if they don't I am perpared for that . I think we are to go because my Hubby landed a job there and they have told us when ever we get there the job will be waiting for him It is a great Co. also Hubby has been a boss for foster-farms 30 yrs, and makes excellent income and they almost matched what he makes now plus the same great benfits . That was God ! We placed home on the market the day before Thanksgiving and in Ca. it is very slow .Well my home was seen by 1 buyer from San Jose and they made offer it was only on market 6 days and sold !! Well I could'nt sell before Christmas and cried and totally had a melt down ! I am very emotional about all this moving thing due to I just lost my daddy and I am handeling his property to be sold and the thought of leaving my kids all over welming me ! I told the lady take it off .I don't want to sale till after spring so here we sit waiting till spring to put back on market and I know it will sale fast because I feel it so I need a plan for OK. please tell me everything you can Thank you so much .Honeybee~~~~

[sallybell]

Sounds like you'd be happy in McAlester Oklahoma. It's right near Lake Eufaula and you can have all the hunting and fishing you want. I know housing there is very affordable as well.

[Mattie Jo]

i like the area really well. Have only lived here a month. we say if we had to work we would not live here due to ice and snow on the roads, but we are snuggled into a warm home. We came from CA too. Tulsa got 10 inches of snow a couple of weeks ago, Tahlequah were we live only got 4 inches. some of it is still on the ground. It dropped down to 14 degrees the other morning, and one morning it didnt' get above 36. the summers are hot and humid, so I am told, and that may be unbearable to us even though we have lived in humid climates before. We have a lot of bugs, but I don't mind that since I like bugs. and for snakes we have copperheads, and i hope to never see one.

probably a good idea to have taken your home off the market; even without what you are going through, it makes one emotional to move. i felt irritable for a couple of months when we were making our decision. perhaps it was because I was leaving some good friends behind.

We have lived all over CA except above San Francisco. And we just decided that we didn't want to be in the traffic anymore, and N. CA was too expensive. I searched out the net and found that OK had the best prices in homes. We didnt' want to go to the south because of the racist, but that does't mean that people here are not racists. Just that we haven't seen it. If we were of another race, then we would know more about it, but in the south it was so blantent.

I was told that the east doesn't get many if any tornadoes due to it not being the plains, but when house hunting I did see a storm shelter in one yard.

The utility bills are supposed to be really low. Knock on wood, but we got an electric bill for one week and it was $5.00. And we are heating this house. Now in CA it would be $300 a month, but I won't know if we are only going to pay $20 a month or what, but i won't know for a while. And I have not seen the water or garbage bill.

The people are friendly here, and they will invite you to church. You will like living in the Bible belt. I am not a Christian, but I don't mind it so far.

I would suggest coming out here in the spring and deciding whether you like it or not. East Ok has the prettiest scenery or is that what you did when you say it has green rolling hills? I think it is flatter in McAlester/Lake Eufaula area, but I can't say for sure, just that is how i remember it. Some say that the Grove area is really pretty.

Have you asked your kids if they would be willing to move to OK? I imagine it would be hard to leave your kids.

[Ponderosa]

I have some property in OK and was there early last summer building a shop. The humidity was awful, just no words to describe it. You just can't believe how much you sweat doing the least strenuous activity. Ten minutes of serious work and you start to get dizzy and have to stand in front of a fan or something to keep from passing out. I had my boat along and we would go on the lake and it was just sultry and miserable unless a breeze came up. And this was in June before the real stuff starts. We still entertain the idea of moving from Phoenix to OK, but the humidity really has us worried and may end up being a deal killer. I think that anyone from the west is really going to struggle with this kind of heat.

People rationalize away negative things because they get their heart set on something. You end up saying, "Oh it can't be that bad," or "We'll adjust to it.". There forums are full of people who did that and now wish they would have stayed home. I hope to avoid that myself and be sure I am not just casually dismissing what could be real problems down the road.

[Synopsis]

The humidity can be bad in Oklahoma but it's nowhere near as bad as in the South, or even the East Coast and is probably on par with the humidity in Ohio or places like that in the midwest. It gets hotter than it does in Ohio, however. I've been living in Texas for the last 20 years and so I guess the heat/humidity don't bother me quite so much as I've become accustomed to sweltering summers. When I go to Oklahoma in the summer, I've found the heat and humidity there to be much less than down here, but still it can get hot and humid. I think last year was an exceptionally hot year though, and although those kinds of unseasonally hot temperatures aren't the norm, with (what seems to be) global warming they will become more frequent in the coming years. Seriously though, if you want to live in one of the hottest places in the US, come down to the DFW metroplex. The massive number of people down here with all of the concrete and glass makes for very uncomfortable summers. At least in the country areas of Oklahoma (even in the cities because they aren't ginormous metropolitan areas) it does cool down somewhat at night. There's my 2 cents! :-)

[Chancellorman]

If you are looking for a suburb of Tulsa, let me reconmend Owasso. Owasso has a ton of new houses being built, and the town has everything you would need in it. There has been huge development here in the last 5 years, which includes tons of shops and two new hospitals. Owasso is only 10 minutes from Tulsa and allows you to live near Tulsa and avoid its crime. As far as churches go, there is a church on about every corner, and I cant think of one bar in owasso (besides the ones at resturaunts). We also have laws where resturaunts selling alcohol have to be at least 500ft. from schools and churches. The school system is excellent too. There are also many good physicians, dentists, optometrists, and chiropractors in Owasso so you shouldn't need to travel to Tulsa anymore for basic health care. From what you are wanting to spend on a house, I would recommend Bailey Ranch Estates which has your price range, and the houses are built around a very nice golf course. Bailey Ranch is also right near all of the near development so you should't have to travel more than a few minutes to walmart, target, applebees, ect.

[Honeybee]

I was in Tulsa in Sep. we looked at homes in Wagnor , Claremore , Broken Arrow ,Sapulpa , and Jenks, also Coweta . We like the rolling hills is Owasso rolling hills or flat ? Jenks is were we were really considering , Then I was told there building in Glenpool also do you know anything about that area? We like country we live in the country now .I have to say though when we went into Sapulpa it was the most hills we had seen .We were high up on a Hill looking at a home and you could look out and see Tulsa way off in the back ground it was so pretty up there . I have not exp. humdity like what the others are speaking of but here in Ca. we had 114" weather for 12 days straight then it finally dropped down to normal 106". It gets really hot here but it is a dry heat . People passing out ! from it sun strokes ! things like that . Thanks Honeybee~~~~~~~~~~

[Honeybee]

Originally Posted by Synopsis

The humidity can be bad in Oklahoma but it's nowhere near as bad as in the South, or even the East Coast and is probably on par with the humidity in Ohio or places like that in the midwest. It gets hotter than it does in Ohio, however. I've been living in Texas for the last 20 years and so I guess the heat/humidity don't bother me quite so much as I've become accustomed to sweltering summers. When I go to Oklahoma in the summer, I've found the heat and humidity there to be much less than down here, but still it can get hot and humid. I think last year was an exceptionally hot year though, and although those kinds of unseasonally hot temperatures aren't the norm, with (what seems to be) global warming they will become more frequent in the coming years. Seriously though, if you want to live in one of the hottest places in the US, come down to the DFW metroplex. The massive number of people down here with all of the concrete and glass makes for very uncomfortable summers. At least in the country areas of Oklahoma (even in the cities because they aren't ginormous metropolitan areas) it does cool down somewhat at night. There's my 2 cents! :-)

Thank you for your 2 cents I am sorry but I have not a clue what DWF means

[Honeybee]

Originally Posted by jessaka

i like the area really well. Have only lived here a month. we say if we had to work we would not live here due to ice and snow on the roads, but we are snuggled into a warm home. We came from CA too. Tulsa got 10 inches of snow a couple of weeks ago, Tahlequah were we live only got 4 inches. some of it is still on the ground. It dropped down to 14 degrees the other morning, and one morning it didnt' get above 36. the summers are hot and humid, so I am told, and that may be unbearable to us even though we have lived in humid climates before. We have a lot of bugs, but I don't mind that since I like bugs. and for snakes we have copperheads, and i hope to never see one.

probably a good idea to have taken your home off the market; even without what you are going through, it makes one emotional to move. i felt irritable for a couple of months when we were making our decision. perhaps it was because I was leaving some good friends behind.

We have lived all over CA except above San Francisco. And we just decided that we didn't want to be in the traffic anymore, and N. CA was too expensive. I searched out the net and found that OK had the best prices in homes. We didnt' want to go to the south because of the racist, but that does't mean that people here are not racists. Just that we haven't seen it. If we were of another race, then we would know more about it, but in the south it was so blantent.

I was told that the east doesn't get many if any tornadoes due to it not being the plains, but when house hunting I did see a storm shelter in one yard.

The utility bills are supposed to be really low. Knock on wood, but we got an electric bill for one week and it was $5.00. And we are heating this house. Now in CA it would be $300 a month, but I won't know if we are only going to pay $20 a month or what, but i won't know for a while. And I have not seen the water or garbage bill.

The people are friendly here, and they will invite you to church. You will like living in the Bible belt. I am not a Christian, but I don't mind it so far.

I would suggest coming out here in the spring and deciding whether you like it or not. East Ok has the prettiest scenery or is that what you did when you say it has green rolling hills? I think it is flatter in McAlester/Lake Eufaula area, but I can't say for sure, just that is how i remember it. Some say that the Grove area is really pretty.

Have you asked your kids if they would be willing to move to OK? I imagine it would be hard to leave your kids.

Thank you so much I would love to stay in contact with you through e-mail just to see how your adjustment is going .How did you deceide to buy where you are ? We went to sevral towns in Sep. when we were there , Claremore, Coweta , BA , Sapupla , Jenks and was leaning toward buying in Jenks . My children have said they would come later :O) Thanks so much .Honeybee~~~~~~

[Synopsis]

Originally Posted by Honeybee

Thank you for your 2 cents I am sorry but I have not a clue what DWF means

DFW = Dallas/Fort Worth. Well Honeybee, if you're accustomed to 116 degrees, Tulsa will be a cool down for sure. Dry heat or no, 116 or an average of 106 is far hotter than anything you'll see in Tulsa. Yes, the humidity in Tulsa is higher than where you are but the heat index (combination of heat and humidity/how hot you "really" feel) is not as high as where you are. A good website for looking at the current weather temps as well as seasonal averages is

www.weatherunderground.com

Type in "Tulsa" in the search box and then once the current conditions come up, you can scroll down the page for "Detailed History and Climate." Select a date in the past to look at the conditions for that date. From there you can look at a month/week view and seasonal averages.