OMG! You did have inflation....

[amber]

Originally Posted by estranged4life

one is that you do not have to worry about over-priced housing such as on the West/East Coasts...Geez, I have never seen rent over $700 a month here for an luxury apartment.

Another reason is that I like living here (I am allowed to rip on Oklahoma since I was born/raised here, Just as I am allowed by Oklahoma tradition/law to rip on Texas as much as humanly allowed!!!), Oklahomans are the most layed back people there are in the U.S., not as bad as most places (Though Tulsa has WAY too many religious zealots for my taste) and even the NYFD members who helped out during the Murrah bombing stated they never know Oklahoma was as great a place as it is (Sadly several of those firefighters perished on 9/11...Including Father Judge). We all DO NOT LIVE in FORTS to protect us from injuns or not have running water/electric like some East Coast asses have assumed! Besides those East Coast wusses couldnt make it through a typical summer's day here (100-110 degrees with 40-70% humidity) or the typical winter's night (10-20 degrees with 30MPH winds and a sub-zero windchill...Don't need a foot of snow when your freezin' yer ass off!!!)

I could easily have moved to the San Jose and or Bakersfield area of Ca-Li-For-Nia where my Mother's first cousin (And assorted relatives) resides and work for her at her place of employment (She works for a Defense Contractor) but why bother? I like the easy life in Oklahoma, The solitude of living in a small (Suckass) town but also having a large city (OKC) just an hour away...Besides, It's great to be able to go outside at night and watch the stars, Which ya cant do in more crowded states, So why move???

Brian j.

Aaaaah - that makes sense. There are nice places in Cali, by the way, i grew up in one. They are called "the foothills" But Oklahoma sounds nice. I am used to summers that hot, but not with the humidity (bleah!) But, yeah, my rent is $650/mo. for a one bedroom,(utilities included) about 20 blocks from Berkeley campus, and right on a main road (although mine is in back, with a courtyard, not on a road) But then again, people get paid more here, too.
I'm very glad that you actually like it. I thought maybe you didn't. But that's an awful lot of religious and republican for me. But, the town I grew up in in Cali is like that, too, so who's to say???

AMber