I grew up in the mountain west and lived in Texas after college and then moved to Oklahoma City. In OKC I thought that Tulsa was a very nice civilized town and that seemed to be the thinking of most of the people I knew. I moved here and found that to be true but what really amazed me was the average Tulsan's jealousy and envy of OKC. "They get all the state money" (not true, they also pass almost all their bond issues unlike Tulsa), "I bet you are glad to get out of that ugly town", (I was glad to be in Tulsa but I never thought of OKC as ugly, it isn't as pretty as Tulsa but OKC has its own charms."

So, I'm proud to be a Tulsan of 19 years and don't want to live anywhere else but I'm still puzzled by the jealousy of Tulsan's toward OKC and the reluctance of a big part of Tulsa to invest in their city.