Lord Ba'al
Well Known GateFan
Is this shit for real?
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It's probably a bit hyped and exaggerated but there's some truth to it. OK is a dump. Why anyone would want to live there is beyond me. I once worked (briefly) with a woman from OK. She was a mess of illiteracy and confused thinking. Her entire worldview was from a trailer park perspective. I'm not kidding. She routinely talked about her trash family who lived in a trailer there and popped out babies that had been fathered by deadbeat cousins that were always in trouble with the law. This woman was so un-self aware that it was fascinating. But her OK accent was like fingernails on chalkboard. No one missed her when she moved on.
*BTW, this woman's claim to Oklahoma fame was that, unlike her sisters and her cousins, she had made it to her early-20's without popping out any babies. Seriously, she considered that a huge accomplishment. If I was a religious person I would have said a prayer for her.
I went there with a military buddy to pick up his car (I was stationed in Tennessee). We drove through Arkansas and I thought THAT was creepy. Tulsa looks nice and is clean and well maintained. However the people all seem displaced, like they don't belong there. Outside of Tulsa, everything changes into a nightmare. So many poor people...so many children and so many crucifixes! It seems like there is one hanging on every wall in every business. And that accent they have is the most irritating American dialect I have ever heard.
OK is a dump. Why anyone would want to live there is beyond me.
so true. hate the place
went there for my basic training and mos (job) training
it didn't suck BECAUSE it was basic trng, it sucked BECAUSE it was oklahoma!!
i was there from august till march
weather is way screwed; 40f days in september, snow in october then 75f in december and january with snow in march
this was in 84
had to go back in 94 for a advanced non commissioned officer mos course. then able to drive and do whatever after classes, i saw just exactly how miserable and desperate the place is. at least on Ft sill they had a lot of huge oak trees and other vegetation. lawton was a wind blown, dirty and dusty sack of shit. didn't see anything better out oft own either
but i know guys who have moved there since retirement and work for the army there. they could have gone anywhere else, but they picked oklahoma. not just your white, maybe a cracker types either; a african american from chicago, a mexican from san diego, a puerto rican guy from NYC
i don't get the attraction at all
People cut down the city owned trees on their streets to use as firewood in some places in OK and some rent out rooms in their homes to multiple individuals to make ends meet.
i have absolutely no problem painting that word picture....
and, for being such a christian and moral state, there was sure one hell of a lot of all nude strip clubs and massage parlors around. even away from ft sill.
pot--kettle / oklahoma--california
My buddy and I went to one there! One of those "massage parlors". They did not even try to hide what was going on inside.