A South African hovel or a neighborhood on Detroit's East Side? You decide.
Posted on 03/21/2002 9:42:47 PM PST by andrew
If you could live and work from anywhere in the U.S, where would that be?
Take into consideration lifestyle, schools, recreation, weather, cost and quality of life, etc.
Don't all dirt roads lead to Tech?
Just kidding, from a Wahoo. Tech has a lovely campus, and is a damned fine school to boot. Although the last time I was there, I saw the Hokies beat my beloved 'Hoos by something like 40 points (I lost track). I was in the absolutely highest and last seat in Lane Stadium, and it was so cold my flask froze.
Ahhh...memories
I live in Tulsa and would recommend it to anyone myself. Are you here too, and if not, I am interested in why you chose Tulsa? I think it is a wonderful place to raise children, and it is just the perfect size, not too big and not too small.
Unless you weren't being serious, of course.
Hey, you know we are now a basketball school too! ;^)
Me, personally, I can't stand Boise....but then, I'm not a big city person.
(Are you addicted to having phony people around?)
Adding this conservative city, in what is arguably the most conservative state in the union, is an exercise in redundancy. The sidewalks roll up at 8:00 pm sharp, and not being in church on Sunday is a social no-no. Folks here have elevated conformity into the ionosphere. Tulsa's politics are to the right of Mussolini and provide us with such charmers as Representative Steve Largent and Senator James Inhofe, both of whom wax idiotic on the subject of gays and Lesbians. Inhofe ran in '94 on the Three G's: "God, gays and guns", whatever THAT means. What's scarier is that Tulsans have been voting for this bigot since 1966. Dole, of course, won Tulsa County, as did Bush, Reagan, Ford and Nixon. Tulsa's history of race relations is so pitiful, nicknaming the city "The Johannesburg of the Southwest" would not be too far off the mark. Add to this delightful mix a lot of Big Oil money, and then stir in the fact that Tulsa has more evangelists per capita than any other place on the planet. This is one funky town. Speaking of evangelists, two of this backwater's luminaries are the Reverends Oral Roberts and Billy "FDR-was-a-Communist!" James Hargis. Roberts saw a 600-foot tall Jesus in a vision, and don't forget that Oral Roberts University (aka Six Flags over Jesus) is a bastion of academic non-freedom. By the way, born-again status is a requirement for admission. Hargis, too, had his own university (Ahem.), until the world learned that he was dallying with the students; female AND male. He blamed it on Satan. All this makes one wonder if there is anybody in this burg who has it together. Oh, and everybody's favorite native... Anita Bryant. The only thing amusing about Tulsa is spelling it backwards.
BUT HERE'S YOUR WARNING:
Yes, its from "Turn Left," a very liberal website. But that is the point: these commies compose a list of what they believe to be the most "unfriendly" cities for liberals. Therefore, they cannot be too bad!
Myself, I am looking to move from Louisville, KY to the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky area soon, much improving my personal political landscape.
Any little town off of I-81 from Lexington to Abigdon.While not really southwest,Luray is one of my favorite towns,Salem,south of Roanoke,is too.
We looked at Cville but the traffic was a turn-off to us. Housing prices are cheaper here as well. But there is a LOT of money in and around Cville. It's definitely second on my "after the kids go to college" list behind Hot Springs, Va.
When I graduated from high school in 1976, Tech was still a "fall back" school for many of us. It's no where near as easy to get into now.
Sort of like Mogadishu, or, maybe Maputo in Mozambique ...
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