Anyone here from Oklahoma? EDIT - Anyone here from Dallas?

[Dulanic]

DFW area is nice, I loved it there. I am from chicago myself and I moved about a year and a half ago to DFW area, Flower Mound was the exact city, but that whole area is very nice Denton, Lewisville, Flower Mound area. I had to move back to Chicago about 6 months ago. Honestly if I had the chance to move back I would jump all over it, the people are very nice, the area is nice, everything was great there. The only real thing I missed from Chicago was the pizza And the heat sometimes sucked, but I wish I was still there.

 

[Sluggo]

Wow, Poor Oklahoma took quite a beating

Yeah I live here, not the greatest of all places, but it seems to be home. If my whole family and career (as well as my wife's family) werent here we would probably move. I was born here and have never lived anywhere else so probably familiarity is what makes it tolerable.

To answer your specific questions:

What areas should I avoid?

Quite a few if you get more serious I would be more than willing to help.

Whats the downtown area like?

Suckville. There is an entertainment area that show some promise, but it could very well be abandon in 3 years.

How much would it cost to buy a house in a nice area?

Oklahoma City's only saving grace. Housing is incredibly cheap for what you can buy. Nice house in a decent heighborhood can be found for 100k

Really nice house, good schools and neighbors (2500 sq. ft, 3 car garage w/pool) for 200k


What's there to do on weekends?

Lots of college sports, lots of drinking, Mow your yard. If you want to have fun Dallas is 3 hours drive away. Stuff to do seems to be lacking, but at my advanced age sometimes staying home is just as fun as anything.


What are the job prospects?

Poor. Dell is moving here (sales center), but currently have 10x the number of apps as jobs available. Tons of CSR call centers SprintPCS, Hartford, AOL etc.


What are the winters like?

Relatively mild, 5 days of snow or ice tops, lots of mild days during winter. Spring storms can be rough, Summer is hot as crap, fall is nice. Windy as hell about 90% of the time.....OK 80% of the time.

Tornados? Lived here 39 years, have never even seen one except on TV. They are a lot like earthquakes and hurricanes nobody thinks about them until one happens.

Lot slower pace of life. I think we have a low crime rate, at least me personally, I have had a low crime rate. I think our house was broken into about 10 years ago, that is about the worst.

Feel free to PM me if you have any more questions.

EDIT

DonVito may have a point, we do seem to have quite a few more mentally unstable people here. Of course maybe that is why I fit in so well here.

 

[Sluggo]

Originally posted by: Thraxen
I personally wouldn't live in Oklahoma. Too flat and ugly, IMO.

On a side note, I drove through Oklahoma City this last Saturday on my way back from visiting some relatives in Texas. Got stuck on I-40 East just outside of OKC. Some wreck was blocking traffic and I ended up traveling 3 miles in 2 hours :disgust: We were forced to exit the interstate and travel on some county road a few miles before getting back on I-40. Never did see the wreck itself. Anyone in OKC know what happened?

One of the many semi-truck accidents that we are forced to endure. I think that one was a gasoline tanker that turned over, and the haz-mat guys had to clean it all up.