New Strip Mall

[alan]

I'm sure there are snobs anywhere. I'd say that most of the snobby people in Edmond moved there from somewhere else. My family goes back to the Landrun being in Edmond and isn't rich or snobby.

Exactly. Snobby isn't an Edmond condition or a Norman condition, it is a people condition. As is stupid, stingy, jerky, ignorant, mean or whatever.

and don't tell me it is a rich or poor or middle class thing. i've met snobby poor people.

a certain percentage of people anywhere are just jerks. period. and sometimes you just catch people on bad days.

so lets all act like sorta mature people and leave the name calling in grade school.

[fuzzytoad]

Whenever I go to the Albertsons/Williams/Homeland at Danforth & Bryant for groceries, I'm always aware that the Escalade-driving super-soccer moms are looking down their noses at me as I push my cart around the opulent grocery store that GOD HIMSELF placed at that location just for the use of the snobby, well-kept, social-elite that make up the Kickingbird community(both residential and club-members)..

I've been told, on numerous occasions, that if I DARE look directly into the eyes of children being carted about in $12,000 strollers(yes, that amount has been quoted to me at least 4 times), I will corrupt the euro-asian adopted children of the culturally elite beyond all hope of recovery..

Apparently the standard of clientele for this particular Edmond-based grocery store is well beyond my reach on any level... In order to attain the acceptable plateau of acceptance, one must earn NO LESS than $200,000(yes, I was told this by a lady in line) a year.. she even pointed her fingers at me in the face when she said "NO LESS".. hehe


One must learn to soldier on in Edmond.. Ignoring the cat-calls and heavy sighs of the tennis-gear garbed harpies that patrol these so-called "public" places in Edmond.




Besides the traffic it is a nice place to live..




and seriously, go to the Homeland at Bryant and Danforth around 6-8pm wearing sweatpants and a ripped t-shirt to buy beer.. it's a hilarious experience...

sometimes they open a checkout lane just for you so the "elite" won't have to look at you

[andimthomas]

That is not the Edmond way. It is build first or destroy nature and then cover with pavement. Wallah! Wal-Mart, and no more hill.

Are you talking about the WalMart all the way up there that you could see from the highway below? I've passed it multiple times, wanting to go in. But never found out how to get there...

[Richard at Remax]

in response to fuzzytoad

[alan]

Besides the traffic it is a nice place to live..

i've been around edmond/ nw okc for about 18 years. i've never had that experience.

ps - i'm below the poverty line, drive old loud cars, sport a feaux-hawk and rarely wear anything beyond a t-shirt.

perhaps it is an attitude thing, i dunno.

[Stan Silliman]

I'm sure there are snobs anywhere. I'd say that most of the snobby people in Edmond moved there from somewhere else. My family goes back to the Landrun being in Edmond and isn't rich or snobby.

If you're going to be a snob, here's a tip:
Never look down your nose... at a nudist.

[CuatrodeMayo]

i've been around edmond/ nw okc for about 18 years. I've never had that experience.

Ps - i'm below the poverty line, drive old loud cars, sport a feaux-hawk and rarely wear anything beyond a t-shirt.

Perhaps it is an attitude thing, i dunno.

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[FFLady]

I hope they put up 6 more stoplights to control traffic around it.

please be careful WHAT you wish for!! lol

[jsibelius]

i've been around edmond/ nw okc for about 18 years. i've never had that experience.

ps - i'm below the poverty line, drive old loud cars, sport a feaux-hawk and rarely wear anything beyond a t-shirt.

perhaps it is an attitude thing, i dunno.

x2

x3 (well maybe not the faux-hawk thing)

[alan]

x3 (well maybe not the faux-hawk thing)

don't be a hater.

[hipsterdoofus]

Besides the traffic it is a nice place to live..

I'm annoyed by the traffic as well, but doubt it is any worse than any other suburb. The problem with Edmond is that there is no major highway to speak of that immediately services the population. With Broadway Extension ending at 33rd and such. It takes as long to get out of town as it does to get from there to downtown OKC...but again, probably not worse than many other places.

[alan]

I'm annoyed by the traffic as well, but doubt it is any worse than any other suburb. The problem with Edmond is that there is no major highway to speak of that immediately services the population. With Broadway Extension ending at 33rd and such. It takes as long to get out of town as it does to get from there to downtown OKC...but again, probably not worse than many other places.

a big problem is that nearly every main road in Edmond has construction on it somewhere.

[jsibelius]

don't be a hater.

For you, not for me.

[kevinpate]

> a big problem is that nearly every main road in
> [insert city of choice here] has construction on it somewhere.

Eddie's mound may have lots of construction, but that seems to be a rather common affliction for any town in excess of 30,000, and quite a few below that threshold as well.
Of course, if we weren't always working on roads, i shudder to think what the state unemployment numbers ioght become

[hipsterdoofus]

a big problem is that nearly every main road in Edmond has construction on it somewhere.

Not sure what you are talking about? Most of the construction near in Edmond is in OKC, not Edmond. Besides that, basically everyone does large amounts of road work over the summer ...

[Soonerinfiniti]

I hate to keep on the topic, but the construction at Sooner and Covell is for a business park development - not a retail strip mall. I read the sign.....

[jeffkchuckk]

Try working retail in Edmond if you want to know the true Edmond snob experiance.

[hipsterdoofus]

Try working retail in Edmond if you want to know the true Edmond snob experiance.

Again...I'm sure there are no snobs anywhere else...

[Midtowner]

i think i'd rather enjoy visiting a business built in the top of trees in swiss-family-robison style....

If the Ewoks could do it...

[Midtowner]

Try working retail in Edmond if you want to know the true Edmond snob experiance.

Did that.. never experienced an Edmond snob.

[lbj1117]

The problem with Edmond is the traffic....all of you can deny traffic is bad if you want. The engineers should consult similar cities and then make the sequencing decisions. I have never seen a place with traffic lights so ridiculous. My father retired from being a traffic engineer so I know that they can change it if they want to. The lights on broadway are way too long...I bet the businesses lobby for longer lights so you will spend more time in traffic just looking at their stores. I stay as much to the outside of edmond as I can or avoid "bad" intersections as much as possible

[stlokc]

Oh please... You guys are not very well traveled if Edmond, OK is your idea of a snobby town. Any place that so enthusiastically supports Wal-Mart, chain restaurants, and mega-churches does not rate high on the "snob-o-meter."
Come to the near-Western suburbs of St. Louis sometime and bear witness to an area larger geographically than Edmond that purposely keeps all it's roads 2 lanes to discourage passers-through. Announce yourself as anything but a Catholic, Jew, or selected Main-Line Protestant and note the reaction. Have the audacity to send your kids to your state's flagship, 4 year public university and be asked (politely, of course) why they "didn't want to go back East." read about the only commercial development allowed in 10 years, a Whole Foods, and how it was fought tooth-and-nail for being "out of character of the community."
Edmond is marginally more affluent than the average for Central Oklahoma. That is all.