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Originally Posted by BG918
A lot has changed in 20 years. Lots of urban growth has happened since then and continues. Outside of downtown there are some cool neighborhood districts like the Plaza and Paseo. Norman is also nearby and is a great college town.
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I’m sure it has much improved, like all cities have in the past couple decades. Norman... umm, ok I guess, but very FAR from “a great college town”, in my opinion, when compared to many places that are widely considered to be just that.
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Originally Posted by mrnyc
you know going back to the mid century no one would have predicted texas cities becoming such big cheeses, so you never know, okc could get the spillover effect someday. and its not like generic places dont boom.
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I guess if Dallas experiences continued burgeoning growth for the next half century, then maybe it could connect northward with OKC... but that’s a real fantasy at this time. But I think we’d have to see a lot of loss from other major cities in order for OKC to become top ten, not just due to its own growth.
I just can’t see that many people wanting to live there. And if you didn’t have to for work, then why would you you want to live there? Ugly terrain/setting, blah weather that gets extremely hot and very cold and smack dab in the middle of “tornado alley”, Great Plains location, regressive politics... There’s just nothing too attractive about it to me.