Sorry To Break This To All Of You Oklahoma City Oklahoma Haters..... But OKC Is One Of AMERICA'S TOP TEN BOOM CITIES (Tulsa: house, unemployment rate)

[Atlguy39]

Originally Posted by bawac34618

This is for the most part true. The weather in the OKC area is probably the most violent and consistently so of any populated area in the U.S. There are other tornado-prone cities but nowhere sees destructive, violent tornadoes as often as OKC. It's rare for OKC to go a year without being hit and a major tornado usually comes once every 5 years or so. It's a high source of anxiety for those who didn't grow up here or who have lived long-term in other places where this wasn't an ever-present fear.

Secondly, the government here is the epitome of "nanny state" only it's the Southern Baptist Church running the show rather than a large, liberal government. I get so tired of my own rights being infringed on and/or laws being passed to please a deity I don't believe in. The state is insolvent yet all legislators can focus on is who is having sex with who, where people use the restroom, teachers being allowed to teach the earth is only 6,000 years old in science classes, and controlling what I can do with my body. I am quite frankly, sick of it, and hope to be out of here by 2020.

OKC is improving in a lot of ways, but it will never be a "desirable" place as long as the politics remain so oppressively far-right. The severe weather season will always be a big hindrance to OKC ever taking off as a "hot spot."

As usual, well said.

[Howest2008]

Originally Posted by Atlguy39

As usual, well said.

I could not find one point off base in the post that bawac made , OKC should take a careful look at everything that AltGuy and bawac has to say about OKC , in order to improve the general desirability and attractiveness of the city , you need to look at your negatives.

[gr to okc]

I'm from up north and the weather is not that bad to me. But as far as the conservativeness of the city its nothing that can do about that as long as the state holds the city back. I think the city wants to move in a more liberal direction but us held back.

[bawac34618]

Originally Posted by gr to okc

I'm from up north and the weather is not that bad to me. But as far as the conservativeness of the city its nothing that can do about that as long as the state holds the city back. I think the city wants to move in a more liberal direction but us held back.

OKC itself is the purplest it has ever been, but the state is as red as hell fire. Regardless of the bluing of inner-city OKC, it feels downright oppressive to live here as right-wing and ultra-fundamentalist as the state government is. It's hard to believe that while other states are legalizing cannabis, Oklahoma is looking at increasing the penalty...all to please the all powerful Baptist Convention of Oklahoma.

[StillwaterTownie]

Originally Posted by Howest2008

I could not find one point off base in the post that bawac made , OKC should take a careful look at everything that AltGuy and bawac has to say about OKC , in order to improve the general desirability and attractiveness of the city , you need to look at your negatives.

Oklahoma City, as the most populated city in the state, is just a short drive to the State Capitol. People ought to organize and go there to demonstrate and chant in the rotunda against the bad governing state legislators have been doing. The recent House vote to gut SQ 780 is just one example of the insanity going on there. Who knows how bad things are going to have get against the people before enough insanity is enough? But if people keep voting to keep these vacant headed legislators in office, then they all too painfully deserve more bad government right back in their faces! Let them enjoy being masochists!

How do we get a punch a lawmaker day at the state capitol? https://www.thelostogle.com/2017/03/...state-capitol/

[eddie gein]

Originally Posted by Threestep

This thread is about Oklahoma. Having lived in most of the cities you are citing I am somewhat familiar with the weather there. Maybe the ice storms 2015/2016, water restrictions, airport/school closings, the stench of wildfires in the air was in my part of OK.

The actual thread is about OKC I think.

But to your point, are you saying that no place else besides Oklahoma (City) has ice storms, water restrictions, airport/school closings and wildfires?

[Threestep2]

Originally Posted by eddie gein

The actual thread is about OKC I think.

But to your point, are you saying that no place else besides Oklahoma (City) has ice storms, water restrictions, airport/school closings and wildfires?

If you want to split whiskers be my guest. After yesterday's flipflops and tanktop weather today is fireplace and cat on the sofa weather:>)

[manitopiaaa]

Oklahoma will never have boom towns unless it can find a way to attract educated Millennials.

I lived in Tulsa for 16 years (from ages 6-22). I went to school at OSU and then went to get my Master's Degree at Johns Hopkins University. Graduated Summa *** Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Top 1% of my college class with a 3.97 GPA from the Honors College with a Fellowship at Princeton. I love Tulsa (it's a stunning underrated city, especially since the Blue Dome and Brady Arts became trendy) but I will never return to Oklahoma to live.

As others here have pointed out, Oklahoma's state government is so backwards and fanatically right-wing that Oklahoma is not a place where I want to raise a family. Schools are crumbling, infrastructure is low, rural areas are plagued by population decline and meth epidemics. Police in Oklahoma are some of the most racist I've experienced (I'm half-Hispanic). Yet you meet so many right-wingers who are so proud of Oklahoma and think it to be some paradise. Having lived in Tulsa, I'm puzzled as to how some can be oblivious to how badly the state is doing. Drive north of 41st east of Harvard and you have nothing but fast food chains, pawn shops, payday loan dealers and closed up shops.

It's quite sad to be honest. I wish Oklahoma the best (and would consider buying a home in Tulsa if Oklahoma became a swing state or blue state), but I've now made Virginia (beautiful Alexandria) my home. I don't regret my decision in the least.

[StillwaterTownie]

A major problem in Oklahoma is the people are quite happy and satisfied with settling for less than mediocre conditions. For instance, switching to a 4 day school weak to save money is not a well proven good idea. That won't change until people decide to change their ways and strive for a better society.

Oklahoma legislators, when they're not serving the far right Christian agenda, are driven to make the lives of the already well off more so. The less than well off are expected to either sink or swim the best they can. Legislators need kicked out of office, but Oklahomans keep voting them back in. How sad. It's been said that the way they govern is about as sane as a two story outhouse. How sad that is, too.

[manitopiaaa]

Originally Posted by StillwaterTownie

A major problem in Oklahoma is the people are quite happy and satisfied with settling for less than mediocre conditions. For instance, switching to a 4 day school weak to save money is not a well proven good idea. That won't change until people decide to change their ways and strive for a better society.

Oklahoma legislators, when they're not serving the far right Christian agenda, are driven to make the lives of the already well off more so. The less than well off are expected to either sink or swim the best they can. Legislators need kicked out of office, but Oklahomans keep voting them back in. How sad. It's been said that the way they govern is about as sane as a two story outhouse. How sad that is, too.

Exactly. Oklahomans appear to have Stockholm Syndrome. They don't even care that the State Legislature is destroying the state at this point.

Look north to Kansas. The Republican Governor brought the state to the brink of bankruptcy and the Kansas voters gave him another term because he has an (R) next to his name. And then they wonder why young people flee the state the second they finish school. Oklahoma is a state always in the Bottom 5 on any positive metric, yet nobody seems to care.

I live in Alexandria, Virginia, where the City Government tearing down a tree brings out hundreds to the City Council meeting. In Oklahoma, the State Government can destroy the State and nobody cares.