Moved Oklahoma from Califoria (condo, buy, luxury)

[johnspecial]

Originally Posted by Hazel Eyes

I might be a "fish out of water" but I don't wear pj's to Walmart. And, if I wore dentures, I'd have them in....

I don't shop at Wal Mart. I wouldn't know. Maybe you should find a better place to shop.

[Hazel Eyes]

[quote=johnspecial;33599896]I don't shop at Wal Mart. I wouldn't know. Maybe you should find a better place to shop.[/quote

Oh, do they have Piggley Wiggley's here you haunt? FYI: I shop high end stores too as that's how I roll....But I do buy my food at Wally World as OKC sucks for grocery stores....

[johnspecial]

[quote=Hazel Eyes;33600615]

Originally Posted by johnspecial

I don't shop at Wal Mart. I wouldn't know. Maybe you should find a better place to shop.[/quote

Oh, do they have Piggley Wiggley's here you haunt? FYI: I shop high end stores too as that's how I roll....But I do buy my food at Wally World as OKC sucks for grocery stores....

LOL what a helpless transplant you are. Don't have a flat tire.

[Hazel Eyes]

[quote=johnspecial;33600712]

Originally Posted by Hazel Eyes

LOL what a helpless transplant you are. Don't have a flat tire.

Helpless? Since when does shopping for groceries at Walmart mean someone is helpless???

And you're the reason we "transplants" have found OKC not so friendly.....

[johnspecial]

[quote=Hazel Eyes;33601663]

Originally Posted by johnspecial

Helpless? Since when does shopping for groceries at Walmart mean someone is helpless???

And you're the reason we "transplants" have found OKC not so friendly.....

You are the one who used Wal Mart as an insult. Not me.

Reading some of your previous posts, I'm betting it has more to do with your condescension. I wish you well in your quest to find a suitable grocery store. Sorry we couldn't meet your delicate standards.

[Griffis]

Originally Posted by Hazel Eyes

...OKC sucks for grocery stores...

Crest is pretty decent. Good prices typically. In my experience, they are cheaper for groceries than Wally.

[misscassandra]

Why does this have to be a fight? When people move here to NorCal, I am interested in their hometowns and respectful of their lives. I take them to San Francisco and have them over for supper. I welcome them, I guess.

I have lived in other states (OK and Texas) while in the military. I felt very welcomed there and didn't feel I stuck out as much as I probably did. Loved Lawton, the summer rain, chicken fried steak, crickets at night. I visit each year for family reunions since my huge family hails from OK and Texas. Each year I wish I could just snatch up a home and stay. Love the big skies, love the quick weather changes, love the relaxing pace. I grew up in 4-H and was President of the FFA in high school.

Now I am a client success manager for a tech company and make good money, but pay most of that back to rent. The fast pace of life out here, combined with the low possibility of paying off a mortgage, make Silicon Valley a pretty stressful place. I want to buy a home near OKC and get a slower-paced job and lifestyle. Save up a down payment here and I can buy a house outright in OKC.

I will harbor no hard feelings toward California when I leave and I will ignore any comments about my home state after I move. I grew up with Anti-California sentiment from my family out east and I understand most of it. The rest is just over-generalization because other than the coastal areas, California is as red as OK. So, I let it roll, no big deal.

Thanks for any info you can share about having a positive move from NorCal to OKC.

[nightbird47]

As a transplant from socal going on six years, I will say that thought there are some utterly nonsensical things done here (mostly political) I'll take the slowed down society here over socal any day or year. I don't live in OKC so I don't know how it is there, but I find this state much more like the California I grew up in. I grew up in Los Angeles, San Fernando valley when it was just turning from Oranges to houses and it was a very different way of life than one finds now. There are places there I love, but I don't want to go see them since I'd rather remember them how they were.

I'm never going to demand someone who came from here comply to the norm of some other state, be it California, Florida or Britan (with someone in mind for all three) and all found a place they wanted to stay. Though my British friend still keeps his accent with occasional bits of Oklahoma entwined.

I think you get what you give, and most Californian's wouldn't much like someone from New York telling them how to live, or from Oklahoma or some other place. I myself don't try to be anyone but me. If I fit in good, if not good. But I have no, none, any desire to go back the coast. I love our sunsets and sky and trees and the open land. I was used to wind thanks to the Santa Ana's which blew most of the time, but I wouldn't go back the same old weather (would like a tornado shelter, though). I think most expats from California who stay are not making lists of things which the locals do wrong. I think its kind of funny when some work was being done on my house and relatives in California were helping out, and they kept complaining it was taking TOO LONG. I just laughed, but realized I'm internalized the Oklahoma sense of time, so I think I'd be really unhappy back in the old rat race pace.

[Bass&Catfish2008]

Originally Posted by Hazel Eyes

I was born and raised in Southern California and moved here 3 years ago...As a U.S. citizen, I can do that! I would pack and move back today if I could. I found the Calif. people much more accepting to out-of-staters while living there than what I've experienced here.

I'm not a liberal and my family and friends in CA. aren't either! We aren't all granola eating hippies!

The drivers here have a death wish; MINE...Do people here have to take driving tests? No IQ required here for getting behind a wheel! Oklahoma was on the list of 10 for having the worst drivers in the nation...I agree!!

Yes, the weather is bad; but I knew that before moving here. I just didn't know the wind blew this hard all the time! The song, "Oklahoma, where the wind blows softly across the plains" isn't completely true. Brushing my hair before I get into the car is a waste of time!

So, Oklahoma, we feel your unwelcome vibes and I thank you for that. I now know I won't stay here after my husband retires!.

The song actually states and implies otherwise: "Where the wind comes sweeping down the Plains . . ."

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[Bass&Catfish2008]

Originally Posted by Hazel Eyes

I might be a "fish out of water" but I don't wear pj's to Walmart. And, if I wore dentures, I'd have them in....

Hey now...