northside vs southside 2010 version

[bronchoman]

Okay folks its 2010 and lets get it started again northside vs southside which is better. i moved here back in 2001 and at the time the northside was known to be the rich up and coming part of the city. If you wanted quiet living, no hoodlums and better shopping and entertainment you lived up north. The south side(Moore, Norman area) was dead not much development and was kinda laid back, except for your college kids in norman. Flash forward to 2010. Crossroads is shut down. but Moore has a state of the art movie palace and shopping palaces sprouting up everywhere along with restaurants. Norman also has just built the same thing on the west side of i-35. Up north they still probably have more money(maybe) and what use to be a great mall in quail springs is gone straight to hell with hoodlums and anything near 122nd and penn aka the village is just trash. Even the northwest expressway area has somewhat gone to hell. So are the sides changing or am i just imagining things?

[cdbthunder]

I live in Moore which by the way was just named "Oklahomas Most Affordable Suburb" and love it. I moved here from Edmond in 2004 to be closer to my job in Norman, the growth here in the last six years has been explosive. I can shop, dine and play in the Moore / Normam area without ever having to go into Okc. The one exception to that rule is going to the Okc Thunder games. I am not saying one side north / south is better than the other but I do enjoy living south more than north.

[Midtowner]

I live in a neighborhood touching lake Hefner. The parks surrounding Hefner are amazing.

I think the area is nice. Never have I had a single problem with the Section 8 apartments touching my neighborhood. I moved here from downtown and I've been impressed.

Moore's nice also. I'm just much more familiar with the north side of town. I'll likely never live south of the river.

[metro]

oh geez, do we really need a thread like this?

[Steve]

No Metro, not sure we do other than to revive old fractures in the city that have been healing in recent years.

[metro]

agreed, what's the point in rehasing old biases that are dying?

[MadMonk]

Since I moved here in '78, I've always been a north-sider, with the only exception being a (thankfully) brief stint in Del City. I've never really understood what people had against the south side though (except in a joking manner). I've been in some really nice areas south of the river and like was stated above, Moore has really just exploded over the last few years. Maybe the south side was a bad area at one time?

[CaseyCornett]

Not that this answers the question, but I do believe the Oklahoma City zip code representing the most money per household is on the south side, but I have lived on the north side my entire life.

(Plus, Brian Walters and Sally Kern represent areas on the south so......)

But please, oh please, oh please, oh please...can we let this question be put to rest.

[Steve]

bronchoman, your initial comment shows that there's more in common between south and north than ever before - both are seeing areas that sprawled in the 1960s and 1970s in decline. That means that north and south share a common challenge - and a common opportunity to make things better by having better control on future sprawl, stopping the decline, and using revival of the historic core (Capitol Hill to NW 23) to bring back the oldest parts of the city with downtown being the heart of it all.
Moderators, I propose renaming this thread "northside and southside share common challenges and opportunities in 2010."

[gen70]

bronchoman, your initial comment shows that there's more in common between south and north than ever before - both are seeing areas that sprawled in the 1960s and 1970s in decline. That means that north and south share a common challenge - and a common opportunity to make things better by having better control on future sprawl, stopping the decline, and using revival of the historic core (Capitol Hill to NW 23) to bring back the oldest parts of the city with downtown being the heart of it all.
Moderators, I propose renaming this thread "northside and southside share common challenges and opportunities in 2010."

Agreed..

[Northsider]

I was born on the north grew up on the north still live on the north

The south is to far of a drive and I went down there yesterday to get one of my rims fixed on 29th and I thought I was in San Antonio, not to be negative I like diversity
But I did not know it was like that it was on gangland and everything. You got to take the good with the bad. I have did that all my life I lived in north highlands and went to ( The REAL)John Marshall high school it was pretty violent but we brought so many state championships to the north side that they renamed the street State Championship drive.

And I also lived off of council and NW exwy and went to PCO it wasnt violent with gangs but I know of 2 kids that comitted suicide while I was enrolled there for a year and drugs were out of control.

the northside has better malls, dining options , and oh yeah diffently hospitals

I wish we could claim the THUNDER but I think the Ford Center is on the southside (bummer) !!!!


Northside all day!!!!!

[cdbthunder]

Northsider I can sympathize with you about the south side. You see I grew up on the southside not too far from where you were at on 29th street. Although it was bad back in those days it has only gotten worse and on the few occasions I find myself in that area I feel like I am in a foreign country. We lived in an older neighborhood and had probably one of the nicest houses in the area which made us a target for every burglar in the area. We had a two and a half story home, we put burglar bars on all the windows and doors on the first level with an alarm system. The straw that broke the camels back was when they bypassed our alarm and burglar bars by kicking in a panel out of a door, careful to not open the door, went in to this storage room moved the deep freeze and cut out a 2' x 4' section of wall that seperated this room from a bedroom. It was the only door on the first floor w/o burglar bars, they crawled through the hole they made disabled the alarm system and ransacked our house. Needless to say we moved not too long after that and have never looked back. I do have a lot of fond memories growing up on the southside but I don't miss the crime.

[ronronnie1]

From what I've read here, you'd think the northside is Paris and the southside is Johannesburg. It's just plain silly.

Seriously people. The north and south sides of OKc really aren't that much different.

[kwash]

i actually think the northside does have more options than the south side. As a young african american the crap i hear about the northside getting bad is all well somewhat racial. i hear people say my god quail springs mall or the walmart on 122nd and penn is all hoodlums. And of course what do i see at night in both those places is young blacks like i never saw before before 5 yrs ago. Why? Unfortunately if you folks havent heard they are cleaning up the ne side and pushing my folks more northwest towards the quail, village areas. Then i hear a guy on local radio news a few weeks ago say he loves it in moore because its less diverse lol wow wow. Which yea yea i know once you git moore into norman you dont get as much diversity especially blacks unles you run into the ou football team in norman. So honestly with that earlier post about coming south and it being like san antonio(aka another way for him to say too many hispanics). So what is it, lets complain about the northside going down hill because too many blacks are up that way now, or lets stay way south because we can stay away from the diversity here in moore or norman.

[windowphobe]

House District 84, represented by Sally Kern, does not extend south of NW 10th, and along its eastern edge (Meridian, more or less) it extends all the way north to 63rd.

Some southsider.

[PennyQuilts]

As a kid, I lived on the far NE side of town, past I35. Pretty area.

By the time I was twenty, I had moved to the far W side of town and lived there over twenty years. I didn't have any reason to go to the south side of town other than to drive down I35 to get to Norman. Even then, I usually would drive to Sooner and then south.

We've been gone back east for ten years and just moved back. OMG, the changes! We are now living on far SW OKC, towards Mustang and I am getting the opportunity to see the southside. I am super impressed. I don't much care for the area between I240 and I40 but the area south of I240 has just about anything I could want and I can take the backroads to get around.

[Matt]

House District 84, represented by Sally Kern, does not extend south of NW 10th, and along its eastern edge (Meridian, more or less) it extends all the way north to 63rd.

Man, if I lived just a few blocks to the west, I'd be in her district. I don't know if I should be elated that I'm not or pissed that I can't help vote that bitch out of office.

[Spartan]

From what I've read here, you'd think the northside is Paris and the southside is Johannesburg. It's just plain silly.

Seriously people. The north and south sides of OKc really aren't that much different.

Johannesburg is nice. I went to SA for Spring Break my senior year. What an amazing, heartwarming place.

Elsewhere in Africa is very bad..

[rcjunkie]

Enough with the North VS South., Every area of this Great City has something to offer and just because one group may have a higher income, that doesn't make them a better citizen or their "SIDE" of town a better neighborhood.

[mrbob]

Southside trash here an always will be. I was raised southside an this is my home. I live by Willow Creek Golf course off I-240 & Penn. This area was built in 1957 and still has nice big homes all around the golf course. These older homes are holding the $100.000 value in this area, no trashy homes or illegals. I-240 has a lot of new business and restaurants, my favorite Chick-Fil- A.

[bombermwc]

Anytime we see a thread with "vs" in it, we should delete it.

[earlywinegareth]

Enough with the North VS South., Every area of this Great City has something to offer and just because one group may have a higher income, that doesn't make them a better citizen or their "SIDE" of town a better neighborhood.

Agree 110%! I get so tired of the pointless sniping from these kinds of conversations. There's simply no value to it...I say, "diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks' and 'live and let live'.

[metro]

die thread die!!!!!!

[ultimatesooner]

SS is great if you are looking for girls who will crawl through a drive through window to get you food

[PennyQuilts]

Gosh, guys, compared to the politics thread, every single post here is like pillow talk.

Amateurs!!