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I went to high school in Tulsa, so allow me to clear up some misconceptions.

> Looking at the website, pretty obvious that they're not asking me to settle in a small town or a burnt-out husk of a city.

In reality Tulsa is somewhere in between a "small town" and a "burnt out husk of city".

> Despite my biases against Oklahoma, I get the sense that this is a pretty exciting place to be.

It is not.

Its main benefits are being cheap and not super cold.



See, I would be afraid to move to Tulsa with this context. I don't have a firm grasp on the economic outlook of the region, nor the demographics or the culture. Nor do I know how welcoming the citizens in Tulsa are toward gay, athiests like myself. I know most of my friends wouldn't feel comfortable (one calls the place she hails from Misery, in reference to the state and her former state of mind while growing up there).


Seth Andrews, the founder of TheThinkingAtheist.com, grew up in Tulsa and called it "Jesustown" in his book Deconverted. (Not sure exactly how I wrote it as I listened to the audio version.)




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