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Feb. 24, 2009 12:47 p.m. Mental SuperDork

Texas in whole is a suckers bet. Don;t let any of their "We're still allowed to succed from the Union... we're the only state allowed to fly our flag as high as the US Flag..we used to be our own country..." crap sway you.

Nice conservatice peaple? GREAT BBQ and Mexican food? (and yes Texas folks, BBQ can be done with pork) Good job market? Affordable housing? Churches? My friend you need to look at the oasis of Oklahoma. OKC is actually a very cosmopoliatn city and we have a pro basketball team now (suck it Seattle!). Great SCCA club, small but loyal. A good road course at Hallet and a day from he SCCA nats in Nebraksa. Mild winters and summers.....well its the midwest, summers are just friggin hot. The twisters only scare you the first season, then you catch yourself in you car with a camera trying to get good footage of one.

Curvy roads....curvy roads....well I won't lie, for that you have to go to Arkansas, but its not that far.

Seriously, I am in Colorado but returning to OK in Sept. I really did enjoy my time there and its an affordable place to live with a lot of what you are looking for. If you must have a big city, Dallas is merely 2 hours away, so you can go for the weekend and still get back and enjoy the non-crowded OKC highways.4 major military installations, and while they have a conservative lean, they are also big on not getting getting in peaple's business.Smaller but plentiful lakes, prettier in the fall than you ever expect. Give it a look.
Feb. 24, 2009 1:32 p.m. billy3esq Dork

The reason Texas doesn't slide off into the Gulf of Mexico is that Oklahoma sucks.
Feb. 24, 2009 2:08 p.m. Snowdoggie Reader

The good news is that there are lots of jobs in Oklahoma. The bad news is that most of them pay $10 an hour or less. I am surprised at the number of small manufacturing operations up there. I ran into one guy who owned a factory that builds motorcycle parts. There is also a lot of small manufacturing in Arkansas too. They have job fairs from time to time in Texas trying to bring more people up there. Coming from someplace like Michigan with a manufacturing background it would be a good place to go.

I have a lot of relatives up there. One of them owns a cattle ranch. Several own small businesses and the rest all work for the government. One of my cousins is a County Sheriff. They have all been trying to get me to move up there. I found very few professional jobs outside of health care and no jobs in the legal field. In fact there are quite a few people who went to law school in Oklahoma who are down here in Dallas looking for work. If you do find work, the pay is less, but the cost of housing is about the same as Texas. Coming from anywhere else in the country, housing is cheap. Depending on what you do, in might not be a bad place to job hunt.
Feb. 24, 2009 2:20 p.m. slantvaliant Reader

"Oklahoma is OK"
I'm leery of any state that used a joke on its license plates.

I lived in south-central Oklahoma for a while, because Uncle Sam said to, I enjoyed it, and could live there again (I think all the statutes of limitations have passed). It would be my second choice, after Texas.

Like North Texas, there are twisty roads if you look for them, especially in eastern Oklahoma. If you're into dirt roads, you'll have it made.
Feb. 24, 2009 3:21 p.m. longhorndude New Reader

AHHHH houston run away run away....

no but DFW isnt bad, grew up there and u will run into a lot a car guys in the area. good roads if you look for them, just watch out for cyclist, the ones in flo mo always thought they were cars...and texas is great for finding cars, far better than mass ugh... cant tell you how many mgb's and tr6's and other fun stuff my dad picked up cheap as project that were rust free that you either couldnt find in other, like ma, or would be a fortune
Feb. 24, 2009 4:38 p.m. billy3esq Dork

slantvaliant wrote:

"Oklahoma is OK"
I'm leery of any state that used a joke on its license plates.

They only did that because nobody in the state could spell "mediocre."
Feb. 25, 2009 12:34 p.m. Mental SuperDork

billy3esq wrote:

slantvaliant wrote:

"Oklahoma is OK"
I'm leery of any state that used a joke on its license plates.

They only did that because nobody in the state could spell "mediocre."

Oh, we could, but you guys already had texas on your license plates

BAM! Thank you, I'm here all week!
Feb. 25, 2009 1:39 p.m. z31maniac HalfDork

Snowdoggie wrote:

The good news is that there are lots of jobs in Oklahoma. The bad news is that most of them pay $10 an hour or less. I am surprised at the number of small manufacturing operations up there. I ran into one guy who owned a factory that builds motorcycle parts. There is also a lot of small manufacturing in Arkansas too. They have job fairs from time to time in Texas trying to bring more people up there. Coming from someplace like Michigan with a manufacturing background it would be a good place to go.

I have a lot of relatives up there. One of them owns a cattle ranch. Several own small businesses and the rest all work for the government. One of my cousins is a County Sheriff. They have all been trying to get me to move up there. I found very few professional jobs outside of health care and no jobs in the legal field. In fact there are quite a few people who went to law school in Oklahoma who are down here in Dallas looking for work. If you do find work, the pay is less, but the cost of housing is about the same as Texas. Coming from anywhere else in the country, housing is cheap. Depending on what you do, in might not be a bad place to job hunt.

$10/hr? I haven't worked for that little since High School, but that's not the point.

Housing is the same price in Texas? Texas is cheap, but OK is still cheaper from what I've seen. As an example, we went and looked at an 1800 sq ft house 3/2/2, on 5 acres of land, within 15-20 minutes of downtown Tulsa, $110,000.

Texas is one of the few places I would consider moving to, and only because there are more opportunities for someone in my profession (Tech Writing) that aren't directly tied to the Defense Budget.

Oh I love the AR twisties. They actually maintain their hundreds of miles of glorious roads there.
Feb. 25, 2009 6:51 p.m. ronbros New Reader

IN Austin hill country, a road famous around here is 1341,from Cedar park to Marbles falls 35miles, you better bring somthing that handles!!! Ron