Quote Originally Posted by soonerguru View Post
This has stopped. It's not that we're losing lots of smart people, it's just that we need to recruit more -- or educate more of our people to create more of them.

OKC is a far more attractive place for smart people to live than it used to be, but the idiocracy running our state and demanding media attention (Fallin, Inhofe, Kern, etc.) substantiate negative stereotypes about our state and do not make our state an attractive place to relocate for smart people.
Thank you. Said poster should look at the thread where OKC ranks 12th in the increase in millennials in the past 5 years. But don't let facts get in the way.

With that in mind, it is becoming apparent that for all the great things lining up in OKC the state is increasingly getting in the way. Since I have no hope of them changing anytime soon, I really believe that urban legislative members should start pushing for a constitutional convention that allows for more local control. Texas IMO is even more right wing in some ways at the state level, but localities here have more power in raising revenue and setting their own guidelines vs municipalities in OK.