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Old 08-11-2007, 07:21 AM
 
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The following is in the current issue of Esquire magazine:

"Having missed everything ... I decide to find a bar and drink until my situation improves. This turns out to be harder than one might anticipate; taverns don't seem to exist here. I have lived in some of the least exhilarating cities in America, but Tulsa is almost like urban sarcasm. Tulsa makes Akron seem like Las Vegas. It's Friday night, but every downtown street is a reenactment of the opening ten minutes of 28 Days Later. All the avenues have names like Denver and Detroit and Cincinnati, as if those cities were theoretical, unattainable utopias. The townsfolk are incredibly nice, but the emptiness is relentless (and kind of terrifying). I can't fathom what things are like here when they're not having a festival."
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Old 08-11-2007, 08:33 AM
 
Location: Hughes County, Oklahoma
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"I decide to find a bar and drink until my situation improves."



This guy is some deep thinker!
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Old 08-11-2007, 09:23 AM
 
Location: Fort Worth/Dallas
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Obviously how an alcoholic sees Tulsa, which means for those that are not alcoholics it must be a pretty great place. Hmmm... Food for thought.
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Old 08-12-2007, 02:36 PM
 
Location: So. Dak.
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No open beer joints and taverns so I can get slop-slickin' drunk whenever I feel like it? Oh the shame!!!

Davazzisback, you may be attempting to detour people from Tulsa with your quote, but you've actually made Tulsa look more appealing to the type of people who are looking at the area.
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Old 08-12-2007, 02:48 PM
 
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Sounds like the writer somehow missed all of the bars in the Blue Dome and Brady districts. How odd!

There certainly are places to drink in Tulsa if one is inclined to do so. It's true that you won't find a tavern on every street corner, but every Tulsan I know prefers it that way.
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Old 08-12-2007, 03:07 PM
 
Location: Fort Worth/Dallas
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That's the way these trolls work; they exaggerate everything and thrive on stereotypes. If one doesn't like a place, wouldn't you call it an obsession that they keep showing up and trying to talk crap about a specific area? We get it, you don't like Tulsa and never will Davaz. Others do (many others do), however, and I suppose that just rubs you the wrong way. Keep on posting, for every negative thing you post, there'll be hundreds of others to rebut.
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Old 08-13-2007, 05:05 AM
 
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This article Tulsa sound rather peaceful to me.
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Old 08-14-2007, 09:22 AM
 
Location: Wind comes sweeping down the...
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This is no article.... when an article is posted I only consider it valid if it has the WHOLE article and a valid source attached ...this was merely a paragraph.....OKCTALK- calm down.
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Old 08-15-2007, 07:00 PM
 
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Originally Posted by davazisback View Post
The following is in the current issue of Esquire magazine:

"Having missed everything ... I decide to find a bar and drink until my situation improves. This turns out to be harder than one might anticipate; taverns don't seem to exist here. I have lived in some of the least exhilarating cities in America, but Tulsa is almost like urban sarcasm. Tulsa makes Akron seem like Las Vegas. It's Friday night, but every downtown street is a reenactment of the opening ten minutes of 28 Days Later. All the avenues have names like Denver and Detroit and Cincinnati, as if those cities were theoretical, unattainable utopias. The townsfolk are incredibly nice, but the emptiness is relentless (and kind of terrifying). I can't fathom what things are like here when they're not having a festival."
Amen Brother!
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Old 08-16-2007, 05:36 PM
 
Location: Durham, North Carolina
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Default On the other hand ...

I'm very new to Tulsa and I'm also a writer. (Writers are classified as THE most neurotic of all creative genres.)

I think you who've lived here and made the city what it is should think of his write up as a Godsend.

This is a great place (even with the few Neanderthals who think they're gun fighters ... here in the New Millennium...) Hopefully, his article will keep the kind of people YOU DON'T WANT from coming here.

The crime is relatively low NOT because of the (paranoid) concealed guns, but because there are JOBS. Housing is low and plentiful, etc....

After living in alienated cities where there were far too many rats in the cage, Tulsa is going to challenge me to let down my walls and pre-conceived notions about people, about the South, and just enjoy all that is wonderful here.
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