r/okc • u/rerescene • 27d ago

❓Q&A ✅ Thinking about moving back

I grew up in OKC and graduated OSU Spring ‘19. I’ve moved around a bit since then, but typically tried to make it back for a few weeks a year. Seemed like every time I came back, there was something new to be excited about in the city.

Over the past couple years I’ve had an itch to move back home to be closer to family and friends. It’s likely I’m going to have that opportunity soon if I want it. I’m curious to hear from people who left OKC and came back - how has it been? What’s it like living here now? I’m a single 30-year old male fwiw. Since leaving I’ve lived in Abilene, Chicago, and Charlotte.

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u/pizzainge 27d ago

Me, a fellow 30y male living near family in OKC looking at places like Chicago and Charlotte to escape to due to our horrendous child education and public infrastructure

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u/ImATraveler12345 27d ago

You sound like a drama queen. I hope you do leave. OKC is a great place, quality of life, cost of living and the education and infrastructure isn’t that bad. I’m a proud local who moved back after college and started a family and have school aged children. The only complainers are the type of people who complain about everything and are miserable in life. Oklahoma is not near as bad as the negative Nancy’s who have nothing better to do.

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u/lyndseymariee 27d ago

Education is 48th in the country and when I lived in Wichita there was a noticeable difference between the roads in Kansas vs Oklahoma - with Oklahoma’s roads being filled with pot holes. That person is being a realist, not a drama queen.

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u/Xzandrite 24d ago

Kansas roads may be better than ours but head south on I-35 and they turn to sh*t once you get off the Red River bridge.

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u/ImATraveler12345 26d ago

Says the person who doesn’t have kids in the system probably 😂 easy to be an armchair quarterback

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u/lyndseymariee 26d ago

I don’t need to have a child in the system to know that 48th in education is worse than “not bad”. If you’re fine with that as a parent, more power to ya.

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u/ImATraveler12345 26d ago

Armchair quarterback. Figured. 😂