Question regard moving to/from Oklahoma?

[nurfe]

I was born in Enid in 1975, grew up in Alva, and moved to the OKC area when I started college in 1993; first 2 years at OBU, then graduated from UCO. I moved to Portland, OR in 2006 and have never looked back. My family spread out across the country and I have only a few friends in OKC.

Why did I leave? Well I'm gay and a Democrat. Okies don't take too kindly to that, and so I found a more open minded city with more to do. I am proud of Oklahoma City for redevelopment efforts, Bricktown, river walk, Chesapeake Boathouse, etc., but it was too little too late in my opinion. I have some good memories of the place, but the conservative politics and homophobia were much too scary. Had to leave.

[nurfe]

For each person that leaves OKC, one new hurdle arises. If people would stop leaving, and help create OKC into the dynamic place we are working so hard for, we WOULD have more opportunities.

OKCpulse, that will never ever happen until this state learns to just zip it with the homophobia crap. I got sick of it and moved to the west coast; I was tired of being treated like garbage.

Until that state learns to vote the Sally Kerns and Ernie Istooks out of office, the young, the educated, and especially the gay, will continue to flee in terror.