Tulsa native here. Don't do it unless you want to be surrounded by religious nut jobs.
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#102Ironically, Tulsa had a chance to be a thriving business center around the turn of the century. Unfortunately, the business owners were the wrong skin color as Tulsa was known as The Black Wall Street. In 1921, a white mob killed hundreds, and white police officers flew planes firebombing 35 blocks, in the first use of air bombing in anger on American soil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot Part of me is…
And Tulsa tried to cover it up.
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#103Admittedly 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…
Moved from Oklahoma City to California. Never going back. If you're religious, right-wing, and don't care about having outing options, then Oklahoma is the place for you.
I ask this out of genuine curiosity since I can't pick a definitive meaning: outing options? Is that ability to go somewhere or the ability to be publicly gay? My confusion is the first two adjectives tend to imply not pro-gay.
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#104https://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…
I mean this with all possible sincerity, but what gives you the impression that Tulsa would be an exciting place to be? I’ve never been to Tulsa, but my grandfather is from the state. My impression is that outside of OKC and maybe Tulsa, Oklahoma is basically a burnt out husk of a state.
And is OKC really much better? I was uncomfortable there and I'm a straight, white, married male. I can't imagine what it would be like to be brown or gay or anything outside a very narrow definition of "normal". I also can't believe that a smaller city could possibly be better than OK's larger centers...
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#105https://www.numbeo.com/crime/in/Tulsa Yeah...No.
My family in Tulsa confirmed that crime has gotten worse.
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#106It seems like every dozen threads or so in the last year have at least one thread with bizarrely cantankerous / dismissive replies, with a few lonely voices saying when did you all get so unhappy? Tulsa's initiative here is really, really good . It doesn't matter if you want to live in Tulsa, specifically (fine! don't move!), and it doesn't matter if the incentive is high enough to make it Worth It to You Personally.…
I’m not sure about everyone else, but I can point to a very specific date as to when we all became unhappy
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#107https://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…
I live in Tulsa now. Don't do it. Just because this website says it is exciting doesn't mean it is. They are throwing money at the issue of a brain drain and lagging economy. Tons of people who "went to school in Tulsa" don't live there now because it is the opposite of exciting.
Thought experiment: you are now Mayor of Tulsa and have received a $100M grant to "make Tulsa exciting". Assume the situation is that whatever you propose would not be opposed.
What would you do?
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guarantee that if I spent more than one week in Oklahoma or Kansas, I would get into a terrible political argument with the locals. I can only bite my tongue for so long.
Yes, I’ve heard they’re prone to gross generalizations out there, and that’s pretty intolerable.
Note that I didn't say what my politics are, you're making a big assumption there.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Statewide aggregates are not always super useful. Portland, Oregon is really different from Burns, Oregon, for instance.
The Portland area would dominate the aggregate because they have 80-90% of the population. I mean, how many in tech are going to move to Pendleton anyways? I’ve heard Bend is kind of hot these days, but went through during a forest fire and wasn’t impressed. Oklahoma is a bit more balanced on population than Oregon.
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#110No direct flights from SF or NYC :(