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Oklahoma public schools have gone downhill so rapidly that past experience is unfortunately no guide to the present.
Jenks High School class of 2016, MIT class of 2020. Honestly, Jenks was an incredible high school to go to since it was public; having a $20M Math and Science center let me go to places like MIT.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/21/7-us-cities-that-will-pay-yo... Financial relocation incentives don't appear to be anything new, but the alternatives never seemed to ring any bells for me. Hard to pin down precisely, but I think part of it was the fact that a lot of them were asking you to settle down in what might as well be the frontier in terms of urban density and amenities, or maybe the city in question was a bu…
> Looking at the website, pretty obvious that they're not asking me to settle in a small town or a burnt-out husk of a city.
In reality Tulsa is somewhere in between a "small town" and a "burnt out husk of city".
> Despite my biases against Oklahoma, I get the sense that this is a pretty exciting place to be.
It is not.
Its main benefits are being cheap and not super cold.
I can cite many anecdotes of folks who have tried living in different environments and fled due to (lack of) diversity and the political culture. These pitches and comparative analyses should give it due consideration.
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Oklahoma public schools have gone downhill so rapidly that past experience is unfortunately no guide to the present.
Jenks High School class of 2016, MIT class of 2020. Honestly, Jenks was an incredible high school to go to since it was public; having a $20M Math and Science center let me go to places like MIT.
No it didn't.
Tulsa's geographic upside is the nearby Ouachita Mountains. There's hiking, climbing and caving, moreso than in nearby cities like Dallas or Wichita. The downside is five snowy days per year and eleven above 100 Fahrenheit, and occasional cases of scary spinning sky triangles. This rules it out for me.
https://www.numbeo.com/crime/in/Tulsa Yeah...No.
Admittedly this is aggregate for the whole state: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/oklahoma Overall Rank Out of 50: #43 Health Care #48 Education #39 Economy #36 Opportunity #38 Infrastructure #31 Crime & Corrections #34 Fiscal Stability #22 Quality of Life #17 Those aren't great incentives for people with families to want to move. Might be more tolerable for younger folks? Of course, getting fresh tax revenue…
Statewide aggregates are not always super useful. Portland, Oregon is really different from Burns, Oregon, for instance.
Oklahoma is a bit more balanced on population than Oregon.
If the housing assistance wasn’t tied to a specific apartment complex I’d seriously consider it though.
Just relocated back to my home state of California and my wife and I are already planning to leave when the lease is up.
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This means that states without income tax (WA, NV, TX, TN etc) are yet still more enticing for most high-earning professionals. I agree with other commenters saying this doesn't do much except help the people who always were considering moving to OK/VT.
If you want to work remote AND live in a very quiet area, there are some nice rural areas of WA state... Remote parts of Chelan and Okanogan counties. Mountains, snow, forests, fruit farms, etc.
Better to work in Vancouver without a state income tax and then shop in Portland without a sales tax.