View Full Version : Oklahoma City Ranked No. 53 in the Nation for...



possumfritter
05-04-2010, 05:18 PM
http://www.portfolio.com/interactive-features/2010/04/living-it-up-the-top-100-fun-cities

progressiveboy
05-04-2010, 05:25 PM
Wow. I am surprised that Omaha and Des Moines are listed higher than OKC. Does the city need to start picking up the slack and pace?

dmoor82
05-04-2010, 05:27 PM
^^^LOL! Wichita more fun than Tulsa?

SkyWestOKC
05-04-2010, 05:30 PM
We rank higher than Tulsa and Austin! Gotta find some silver lining.

onthestrip
05-04-2010, 05:47 PM
This is probably pretty accurate, minus us being ahead of Austin. As far as we have come, we are still lacking quite a bit in the fun and cool categories. I know some of you will argue that this is wrong, and you may have some valid points, but this is no doubt the perception of OKC.

EBAH
05-04-2010, 06:52 PM
ok, the ones I notice, yes, Austin behind okc is kind of a joke, depending on what you do for fun I guess. But, Nashville, is only one step ahead of us?!?! Nashville, is a wicked fun town.... Nashvile Tennessee is les fun than Des Moines or Scranton ?!?!?! What the Hell is that?

semisimple
05-04-2010, 08:00 PM
This is probably pretty accurate

LOL...this list is anything but "accurate." Really, it's so bad that I first thought it was a joke. OKC in front of cities like Austin, San Antonio, and Kansas City throws absolutely any shred of credibility out the window. Especially heinous is the shopping rank--greater OKC (#49) is perhaps the most retail-deficient metropolitan area with >1 million in the country, while Austin (#78) has the shopping/retail selection of metropolitan areas twice its size. (OKC also beat Houston which was #58 for shopping.)

Guess I need to make it to #8 Portland, ME sometime soon and see what I've been missing.

metro
05-04-2010, 08:25 PM
Or Poughkeepsie, NY in at #21

SkyWestOKC
05-04-2010, 08:27 PM
Yeah, I've never even heard of that city/town, metro....the list is pretty messed up.

We are the 8th best state for gambling though! Some more silver lining!

MikeOKC
05-04-2010, 08:33 PM
I have to agree with everyone else...what a joke. The shopping is what did it for me. Oklahoma City over Houston? There's probably more shopping in the Houston Galleria District alone than all of OKC. Sometimes I think these lists are made up by people with too much time on their hands, a map on the wall and fifty or so darts.

Spartan
05-04-2010, 08:46 PM
This is the worst list I have ever seen.

NickFiggins
05-04-2010, 10:55 PM
I love these lists, OKC is near Dallas on shopping, and Dallas is ranked higher than OKC on gambling, where the closest casino to Dallas is in OK. So did the Portland Maine CoC pay for this?

Larry OKC
05-05-2010, 12:18 AM
Or Poughkeepsie, NY in at #21

The name alone probably got it there...LOL

MikeOKC
05-05-2010, 12:28 AM
The name alone probably got it there...LOL

Poughkeepsie, NY: The town is small, I don't get that rating at all. I'll say this about it...it's a very quaint and picture-postcard-pretty New York town on the Hudson river . I've been there a few times doing the Hudson River Valley drive. It's seen some tough days but it's made a comeback of sorts. Some things stay the same, like Mahoney's Pub. It's right on Main Street and if you can picture in your mind a working-class Irish pub on a quaint main street in a beautiful little town on the Hudson river...you're picturing Mahoney's. Neat little place, but that rating? It's got to be a joke.

Spartan
05-05-2010, 01:05 AM
For certain, Portland ME really is an awesome little city. Never been, but always wanted to check it out. Mostly just to try the seafood.

http://www.colgatealumni.org/s/801/images/editor/portland_skyline_large.jpg

It's very urban. Good part of the country. Look at all of those FISH at the surface of the water!

bombermwc
05-05-2010, 07:01 AM
Another list that means less than the paper it's printed on.

metro
05-05-2010, 07:57 AM
Yeah, I've never even heard of that city/town, metro....the list is pretty messed up.

We are the 8th best state for gambling though! Some more silver lining!

It's actually a fairly known well sized micropolitan area, about 700,000 people, and it has been up and coming as of late. Heck, OKC's own (now bought out) Dobson Communications used to have a decent sized operation in Poughkeepsie. It's a quaint town about an hour north of NYC on the way up to Albany.


Poughkeepsie, NY: The town is small, I don't get that rating at all. I'll say this about it...it's a very quaint and picture-postcard-pretty New York town on the Hudson river . I've been there a few times doing the Hudson River Valley drive. It's seen some tough days but it's made a comeback of sorts. Some things stay the same, like Mahoney's Pub. It's right on Main Street and if you can picture in your mind a working-class Irish pub on a quaint main street in a beautiful little town on the Hudson river...you're picturing Mahoney's. Neat little place, but that rating? It's got to be a joke.

russellc
05-05-2010, 08:26 AM
Best Markets For Young Adults - Interactive Features - Portfolio.com (http://www.portfolio.com/interactive-features/2010/03/Best-Markets-for-Young-Adults)

From the same website we are,

#6 best market for young adults
#3 lowest unemployment for 18-34 yr olds.
but we are dead last in households under 45 that make more than $100,000.

Larry OKC
05-06-2010, 01:26 AM
^^^
Unless you get one of the 3 new jobs in the City's "Office of Sustainability"...LOL