Why do I live in Oklahoma?

Wheel Gun · Apr 9, 2014

Back to the original topic:

We've decided to retire here. We're not natives, but have been here since '95. About three years ago, the missus and I started doing some retirement planning. We'd always assumed that we would retire in a pretty place on some coast. I favored Corpus Christi. She favored the Carolinas. So, we started travelling and visiting and researching pretty coastal locations.

Ultimately, we decided to stay right here. We could have afforded those places, but a much larger percentage of our savings and planned budget would have gone to housing. So, after kicking around ideas, we decided to retire in Oklahoma and maintain a healthy travel budget. When we want to visit a prettier place, we can afford to do so. We can live like kings here instead of living like paupers in a pretty place. So, we sold our big home in Edmond and downsized to a nice home in S.E. Logan county.

Here, I can retire sooner, travel more and live more comfortably. Besides, people here are nice and people at the coasts tend to be snotty.

Old Fart · Apr 9, 2014

I've lived in quite a few defferent parts of this fine country but I was born an Okie and will most likely die an Okie.
I tell my yankee friends I lived in Duluth MN for a couple years and that's why I don't live in Duluth MN.

Hobbes · Apr 9, 2014

EdmondMember said:
Back to the original topic:

We've decided to retire here. We're not natives, but have been here since '95. About three years ago, the missus and I started doing some retirement planning. We'd always assumed that we would retire in a pretty place on some coast. I favored Corpus Christi. She favored the Carolinas. So, we started travelling and visiting and researching pretty coastal locations.

Ultimately, we decided to stay right here. We could have afforded those places, but a much larger percentage of our savings and planned budget would have gone to housing. So, after kicking around ideas, we decided to retire in Oklahoma and maintain a healthy travel budget. We can live like kings here instead of living like paupers in a pretty place. So, we sold our big home in Edmond and downsized to a nice home in S.E. Logan county.

Here, I can retire sooner, travel more and live more comfortably. Besides, people here are nice and people at the coasts tend to be snotty.

My alternative plan is to remain a resident of OK but live somewhere else about 4 months a year.
Maybe live in ID from May - Aug.

kerryt1 · Apr 9, 2014

Weather sucks, true. That said...how about the low cost of living, the somewhat durable economy during this recession, and the reddest state on the election map?

BadgeBunny · Apr 9, 2014

Everybody's gotta be somewhere ... this is where I am ...

dennishoddy · Apr 9, 2014

Like some, I've lived all over the world for short periods of times, and we travel out of the US annually. I've never found one place that I can live, and be fishing, or hunting within 10 minutes of my home. All of this for free. I don't have to pay $200+ for fuel to catch a tuna, nor pay trespass fees to fish or hunt. I have keys for close to 100,000 acres of ranch land with unfettered access.
We have more shore line in lakes than almost every other state. We have small, yet young mountains, plains, cross timbered areas, swamps with gators, clear water streams, navigable rivers, and the friendliest people on the planet.

Yeah we have some temperature/weather extremes, but honestly, what state doesn't in one manner or another?

No matter where I've lived, I've always thought of Oklahoma as my home. It will always be my home.

Boomer7 · Apr 9, 2014

I have lived about everywhere else. I like it here. I like the people. People wave when you are out running. Not like Maryland where my grandfather lives. The day and night are fairly equally split throughout the day for the entire year. No one has tried to blow me up like a couple other countries. It is not extremely hot like southern New Mexico nor is it absurdly cold like up north. I think Oklahoma is a fair compromise between all the other states. No hurricanes, but tornadoes (which are smaller in size than a hurricane). It is a little dry but not 323 days of rain in a year. If I had my choice Oklahoma is #1, Montana is #2 (because it is remote like Alaska, but I don't have to take my guns through Canada, which I couldn't), Alaska is definitely #3. Fishing, hunting, outdoor stores are bigger than Wal-Mart, beer on tap in the liquor stores.

Nov 7 2011, I seem to remember three natural events occurring in the same day. Earthquake, tornado, blizzard in north OK, or earthquake, tornado, wildfire. Something was peculiar about that day.

0341 · Apr 9, 2014

EdmondMember said:
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She favored the Carolina's

I imported my wife from Carolina's she absolutely hated Oklahoma for the first couple years but has grown to love it

Lurker66 · Apr 9, 2014

I've got a list.

I've live thru hurricanes (Andrew) I'll take my chances with Oklahoma Tornado s.
I've lived thru a real earthquake (oakland/sanfrancisco)
I've survived the blizzard of '98 in PA and fug shoveling snow.
Connecticut just sucked alot
Virginia sucked a little
California is well ....California, all the dumb Okies went there.
Oklahoma has good fishing, good hunting
Since we are near the bottom, we can always move up.
Oklahoma is relatively cheap to live
If Gabriel ever blows his horn there's a church on every corner
The people are great for the most part, a little ummm closed minded but very genuine.
I like to drive and ya gotta drive out here to get anywhere.
There's good schools and awesome high school sports.
We've got the best sense of humor of anywhere in the world.
We're not over populated.
very racially diverse.

And

we have OSA

SdoubleA · Apr 9, 2014

My Granddad's family left Atlanta after Sherman burned it, and moved to Tennessee. The war followed. They moved to Missouri. The war followed. They moved to the Nations, later known as Indian Territory, later known as Oklahoma. The war didn't follow.

Through the years I have been all over the country, and have seen the good and bad each place offered. I have also seen the black dog, seen it rain on a sunny day, and fought the dragon.

The best place is still my own driveway. Same town, fifth generation. Roots are deep enough until the Trumpet sounds, then I'll be in a better place.

Why do I live in Oklahoma?

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