(06-02-2014 11:11 PM)dmacfour Wrote: (06-02-2014 06:47 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote: (06-02-2014 06:45 PM)stinkfist Wrote: has anyone given thought to how they don't give a shite about how the rest of the country feels....the west coast is the 4th largest economy in the world.....why would they care about anything other than themselves.....you gotta be kiddin' me with this shite.....
BTW The west coast has nothing to do with anything.
Says the dude from Oklahoma.
What is wrong with Oklahoma City?
http://articles.latimes.com/2014/feb/22/...s-20140223
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma traces its contemporary history to pioneers who populated the prairies. Now, new urban pioneers are repopulating the capital, Oklahoma City, as restaurateurs re-imagine landmark buildings and create new communities around them.
They could hardly have come at a better time: The local economy is booming, and Forbes ranks OKC as the nation's eighth-fastest-growing city, thanks to thriving oil, gas and wind-power sectors as well as fracking.
I was here in September for a consulting job, and I extended my stay to find these restaurants with a previous life. I had only three criteria: The restaurants had to have begun as some other kind of business, retain some of the old look and cook well.
It turned out to be an unexpected adventure in food, history and architecture.
I started in Bricktown, just east of OKC's compact downtown. Twenty-five years ago, these 45 city blocks of onetime warehouses sat mostly abandoned after the freight trains relocated. Now, Bricktown's music venues and clubs anchor the local night life, and hotels, restaurants and shops lend a low-key bustle during the day.