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Crime has doubled and prices have tripled basically and that math doesn't make sense to me anymore so I won't be moving back. The draw isn't enough to excuse the 6 months of deathly cold anymore, there are other pleasant cities in better climates you could go such as Nashville or Charlotte and get much the same in a better climate.
Nashville and Charlotte? Their crime rates have spiked up too. Midtown Charlotte isn't known to be a utopia, same with downtown Nashville. Nearly everyone's packing heat in those 2 cities for a reason. And it's not 6 months of deathly cold(more like 3).
Minneapolis sucks, but in terms of QOL it's still less trash than OKC. You people just can't include murder rates. There are other factors(property crime, rapes, trash in the streets, ghettoism, etc.). Just cuz a city looks more suburban doesn't make it better.
I grew up in MPLS and I once visited OKC. Despite the recent problems I would kiss the ground to be back in MPLS. It just offers so much more even today. There are a few neighborhoods you don't want to live in or go to. OKC is a complete pit.
I gather while in Oklahoma City you couldn't bother visiting the Paseo, the Asian District, 23rd St. where the famous Gold Dome is, the Oklahoma City University area, Penn Square, Frontier City, the Automobile Alley, the state capitol, Remington Park for the horse races and the casino with a highly regarded zoo nearby, the gay district with the nation's biggest gay hotel, if gay, or the great new Scissortail Park. That was just for great starters. Like in other great cities, there are some neighborhoods you would sooner not try to experience. If you know so much more about MPLS, then name some great iconic neighborhoods from there.
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I gather while in Oklahoma City you couldn't bother visiting the Paseo, the Asian District, 23rd St. where the famous Gold Dome is, the Oklahoma City University area, Penn Square, Frontier City, the Automobile Alley, the state capitol, Remington Park for the horse races and the casino with a highly regarded zoo nearby, the gay district with the nation's biggest gay hotel, if gay, or the great new Scissortail Park. That was just for great starters. Like in other great cities, there are some neighborhoods you would sooner not try to experience. If you know so much more about MPLS, then name some great iconic neighborhoods from there.
Lots of assumptions about what I did or didn't do. Now you are calling me out to name neighborhoods like I am not from there. Lol you need to get over yourself. I think just about anybody would agree that MPLS is a second tier city and OKC is a third. The thing is if I named every attraction and neighborhood it could take entire pages. You did The entire OKC area in a tweet
Lots of assumptions about what I did or didn't do. Now you are calling me out to name neighborhoods like I am not from there. Lol you need to get over yourself. I think just about anybody would agree that MPLS is a second tier city and OKC is a third. The thing is if I named every attraction and neighborhood it could take entire pages. You did The entire OKC area in a tweet
stillie seems to have a love/hate relationship with oklahoma. he rarely misses an opportunity to introduce the state into any topic, particularly ones having nothing whatsoever to do with OK (as he did in this very thread), but will at random times he will run to defend it
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The post is pointless since Republican run Oklahoma City also has bad weekends with shootings and murders.
stillie seems to have a love/hate relationship with oklahoma. he rarely misses an opportunity to introduce the state into any topic, particularly ones having nothing whatsoever to do with OK (as he did in this very thread), but will at random times he will run to defend it
He would do himself a favor to compare it to places it has a swinging chance. Does Moines, Omaha, would be realistic comps. MPLS is a few weight levels higher. Where he lives in Stillwater actually looks nice but we have our own Stillwater in Minnesota that also blows it away. Lol I thought he was from their because of his name and thought it was odd how he always ranted about Oklahoma.
We are off topic now so if Stillwater or anybody else wants to participate in a MPLS vs OKC discussion here is the place to do it. Never mind it was deleted like 30 seconds after I posted. I guess it wasn't considered a valid comparison.
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Minneapolis has crime issues without a doubt, but we don't need sheltered out of state conservatives weighing in with their "expert" opinions.
So you make a national effort out of BLM with police and criminal justice reforms, many of which were badly needed and I agree with.
Then, when some place take things too far or screw up some of the reforms and the poorer minority communities are taking the brunt of that carnage....we are to be dismissed with a wave of the hand and even having some posters noting that it's really just impacting the "bad areas".
So, now that it's no longer politically useful and in some ways a bit embarrassing...we're to just turn a blind eye to the very people we were exhorted to care so much about just 2 years ago.
Still SMH at the "it's not a big deal, it's really just impacting the poorer areas".
Your primary concern seems to be how it looks politically.
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