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Old 03-19-2009, 12:06 PM
 
Location: Midessa, Texas Home Yangzhou, Jiangsu temporarily
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You go to Midland to raise a family. You go to Odessa to raise hell.

I don't think either city would have it any other way.
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Old 04-30-2009, 08:12 PM
 
Location: East Texas
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These are just broad generalizations but for the most part
Odessa=roughnecks
Midland=oil company supervisors, managers, and administration
There are rich people in Odessa and poor people in Midland, but Midland does tend to have an air of superiority when talking about Odessa. "Pulling the Midland card" is basically a Midlander implying that he/she is superior to someone from Odessa.
Actually It is quite different. Midland is the rich, nice, beautiful city & Odessa is the mid class, trashy, not so attractive city. But in saying that both cities like all cities have rich & poor, good spots & bad spots.

The Midland/Odessa thing goes like that. Both cities need to be there. Midland has a great skyline, museums, college, the International Airport & Baseball. Odessa has a great Mall, museums, University, football. I don't really know why people fight over Midland/Odessa.

It is called the Pecos-plex like the metroplex in Dallas-Fort Worth. So the cities should be more like Dallas-Fort Worth but I guess they like to fight.
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Old 04-30-2009, 08:27 PM
 
Location: from houstoner to bostoner to new yorker to new jerseyite ;)
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Actually It is quite different. Midland is the rich, nice, beautiful city & Odessa is the mid class, trashy, not so attractive city. But in saying that both cities like all cities have rich & poor, good spots & bad spots.

The Midland/Odessa thing goes like that. Both cities need to be there. Midland has a great skyline, museums, college, the International Airport & Baseball. Odessa has a great Mall, museums, University, football. I don't really know why people fight over Midland/Odessa.

It is called the Pecos-plex like the metroplex in Dallas-Fort Worth. So the cities should be more like Dallas-Fort Worth but I guess they like to fight.
Dallas and Fort Worth have their own rivalry, so I guess they are alike in that way.
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Old 04-30-2009, 09:21 PM
 
Location: Denver
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Actually It is quite different. Midland is the rich, nice, beautiful city & Odessa is the mid class, trashy, not so attractive city. But in saying that both cities like all cities have rich & poor, good spots & bad spots.

The Midland/Odessa thing goes like that. Both cities need to be there. Midland has a great skyline, museums, college, the International Airport & Baseball. Odessa has a great Mall, museums, University, football. I don't really know why people fight over Midland/Odessa.

It is called the Pecos-plex like the metroplex in Dallas-Fort Worth. So the cities should be more like Dallas-Fort Worth but I guess they like to fight.
I meant that Midland does have most of the rich people, but it has poor people also. Odessa has most of the poorer people, but there are some rich people also. Sorry that my post was confusing.
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