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This thread has spurred an interest in Tulsa for me and I've been messing around online checking things out. I have to admit their downtown loop does look very "bombed out" as somebody else mentioned. It's a sea of surface lots outside the Boston Ave streetwall and cluster of skyscrapers. One thing I noticed that was really interesting to me is that they have a Home Depot in their downtown loop! Just a normal suburban-style store. That is kind of odd:
Some views of Tulsa that help show Tulsa a great place to live. Tulsa has been very fortunate it never knew there was a recession the cost of living is low our gas prices is the lowest in the nation. With the BOK center and all the casinos there is a great night life lots of great parks and the fishing is marvelous.
The pearl district of Tulsa just a short distance is going under revitalisation.
The Tulsa pearl district will be a great addition the the Tulsa night life when its finished.
The 11St bridge is a Tulsa land mark.
The art deco 11Th St. bridge in Tulsa crosses the Arkansas river and is part of route 66 history.
PSO plant in Tulsa.
A view of the river in Tulsa along riverside drive.
A view of Tulsa downtown looking north.
Most of the neon in Tulsa is gone but I love this view of Tulsa at night.
You can see this view of the Tulsa river from the riverside trail most people just pass it by with out a second look.
The 23Rd St. bridge Tulsa Oklahoma there is always geese and ducks to see and feed.
A view of Tulsa from a sand bar in the Arkansas river.
This sandbar view of Tulsa was taken at night Canon 5Dii 30 second exposure really brings out the reflections
Pearl District looks ambitious, but from what I have found online it has a long road in front of it. Any progress on the proposed canal? If they got that underway development and activity would explode.
That neighborhood actually really reminded me of the Dahlman Neighborhood in Omaha. Both look like they have a solid strip of older brick lowrise just outside of downtown that sat mostly vacant for a long time.
I've never been to Omaha and would love to go some day. I have been to Tulsa and I was shocked at how nice it is. I'm assuming that because of the oil boom of the early 20th century, Tulsa had lots of wealth which resulted in those elegant, European-style homes in the residential areas south of downtown.
They also have pretty, rolling terrain and plenty of trees. Also, the commercial sprawl is relatively contained. When driving around the main, affluent part of town, the main grid of major roads is almost entirely free of ugly sprawl. They also have a sophisticated-looking shopping area with some fancy stores.
By comparison, in Oklahoma City it seems the sprawl is everywhere. It's like someone in Tulsa swept the floor and put the sprawl into neat piles, whereas Oklahoma City never bothered to sweep. That said, Oklahoma City does have Nichols Hills which feels like a slice of Beverly Hills in oil country. That was impressive. And Edmond is pretty nice, with some trees and rolling terrain. Also if memory serves, downtown Oklahoma City was a lot better than I was expecting. I never got to see downtown Tulsa, so I'll have to go back someday.
One fascinating thing about Tulsa is the lack of suburbs. I was looking at a map at schooldigger.com, which displays the good schools and the bad schools in a given metro area on a map. By comparison in Birmingham, the good schools and bad schools are placed neatly into two completely separate areas. This is because virtually all of Birmingham's nice neighborhoods are in suburbs, nearly all of which are on the other side of a small mountain from the main city.
But when you look at Tulsa on the schooldigger.com map, there are very few good schools and also not quite as many bad schools as Birmingham. They all appear to be average or below average, presumably due to Tulsa not having as many suburbs that are strict about maintain homes of a certain size.
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