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Originally Posted by adaniel
Haha! What an ironic thread. i was just talking about this with some friends of mine at home. I am going to OU for school but I grew up in Plano, just north of Dallas. After being here for 4 years, I just have a hard time accepting any sort of possiblity of moving back there. This place does grow on you after time, the especially the friendly people and easy pace of life. In a way OK represents what Texas used to be before everyone from CA, NY, and the midwest decided to move there. During a summer internship in Houston last summer, I felt like such a fish outta water, I was so glad in August I got to come back home to Oklahoma! I have gotton so much flack from friends and even my parents (ironically, both are from here) on why I would ever want to stay in Oklahoma when I have the opportunity to move back to TEXAS, the greatest state EVER! I must admit I do like Texas but that state is just really changing, in some ways for the worst. I think I pretty much decided on staying in Oklahoma when I heard on the news that in 8-10 years DFW will have over 7 million people. YIKES!
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I really wanted to go home to Fort Worth, but Chesapeake owns the place. They made me rethink my course of study, and home. I wanted to work for Cross Timbers. I used to work for Schlumberger and Exxon. The drilling makes me glad I live in OK. I moved to N. Dallas, then Plano, 10 years ago. North Texas is suing for our water. What water? Don't they read the papers?
Fort Worth is no longer home. Too many people from out-of-state, OKC feels like MY old Fort Worth. No offense to my brethren, but it's pretty bad when one has to move to Oklahoma to feel like "Old Texas".