final result= OKC beat Tulsa

Greetings,

After visiting OKC and Tulsa back in May, I liked OKC better. So I am officially moving there from Cali near the end of August.

Can anyone please let me know their thoughts on NW OKC. I liked the area just north of Lake Hefner. Is this a good area? I found a nice apartment complex and the rest of the area seemed cool.

take care,

Dustin

final result= OKC beat Tulsa

Welcome to Oklahoma! I guess you have work already lined out? Out of curiousity, I%26#39;d like to hear what made you prefer OKC over Tulsa.

My son lives in NW OKC, west of Lake Hefner. It%26#39;s a nice area, growing and clean and safe. The lake is a big asset, and you can find almost everything you need in that corner of the city. Traffic is pretty heavy in that part of town during rush hour, what with so many folks living there, but I%26#39;m sure that it%26#39;s nothing like southern California. Did you have specific questions?

final result= OKC beat Tulsa

Hi Radio63,

Thanks for the greetings. I cant wait to get through all the moving and just get settled down there at the end of August.

Actually i dont have any job lined up, so that is a worry. My plan is once i move there, to start looking for jobs in that area. Do you think it is a good job area?

So you think NW OKC is a good area?

You think there is alot of traffic there?

Honestly Tulsa was not what i thought. There were tooooooo many trees and many hills to climb up and down and the roads just didnt seem user friendly.

take care,

Dustin

OKC seems to be having good job growth lately, though I cannot speak to what skills and training are necessary. If you have some good experience, you should be fine. If you tell us what line of work you do, someone might have some suggestions.

Since NW OKC is primarily a residential area, you will get into traffic during the rush hours, but it%26#39;s nothing terrible. It%26#39;s worse going to Edmond (straight north) or Norman (straight south), in my opinion. OKC is definitely a car-centered place, however, so everyone drives everywhere. Clearly, you%26#39;d have less traffic if you lived near your work, but since you don%26#39;t where the work is....

www.newsok.com is the web site for the local paper, including their classified ads. You%26#39;ll have to complete a free registration to use it.

Soon-to-be welcome to OKC! I hope you find what you are looking for here. It%26#39;s a great place to live, IMO.

There are jobs all over OKC - and it really doesn%26#39;t matter where you work compared to where you live, except as a matter of gasoline use, since the longest commute within the city is maybe 40 minutes total travel time - tops! Many commutes are less than 20 mintues.

Are you still looking for weather work? If so, unless you have a current meteorological degree it will be tough to do. This is a highly competitive market when it comes to weather related jobs. What other areas do you have experience in besides sales?

Traffic? Coming from So.Cal you will not think there is any traffic here. What you would consider rush hour lasts maybe 40 minutes - and it%26#39;s probably less traffic than you see at the earliest moments of rush hour where you are currently located. It%26#39;s heavy for Oklahoma, but unless there is an accident, it%26#39;s nowhere near the problem it is in larger cities. Besides, unlike a lot of areas there is always at least three or four ways to get to anywhere from anywhere within OKC - with a very few exceptions.

I live and work in NW OKC and there are some older areas with very small homes (less than 1500 sqft) and older areas with very nice, larger homes. There is also a lot of new construction around the further NW areas - west of where you are thinking of locating. I haven%26#39;t any experience with the apartments in the area you are looking, but I knew some people that lived in one of the complexes located just north of Hefner about 15 years ago and they were nice for that time. Once again - where exactly are you considering?

Your questions are pretty general and if you want to get more specific we may be able to help more. If you haven%26#39;t already done so, you might also read some of the other threads in the OKC part of this forum for more information and join okctalk as well.

www.okctalk.com

Thanks Radio and Modcon for the info!

Yeah i am 32 and dont have a meteorology degree and too expensive to get. However i looooooooooove the weather field and especially severe storms so I guess my dream would be to somehow get my foot in the door of some weather job!!!

I have checked a bit online for jobs there but other than inside sales/customer service, i honestly dont know what else i can be qualified for. I do have 7.5yrs experience in that field but i would rather go another direction. However if after 3 months there and i keep running out of money, i will probably take up a C/Service job.

The apt complex i am considering is the INVITATIONAL apts at NW 122nd.

take care

NW OKC is my favorite area of OKC (other than the inner city, of course.) It%26#39;s almost like a seperate city, as it basically has its own skyline centered around NW Expressway and Hefner Parkway, of which you can get great views from the road that goes around the lake. So lots of jobs in that area, plus lots of new office construction along the Kilpatrick Turnpike between Macarthur and May. The lake offers great recreational opportunities- biking, boating, fishing- plus several upscale restaurants at East Wharf.

Seems like the meteorology profession in OKC is more centered in Norman, though, and I doubt you%26#39;d get a good job in that field without being very qualified- OU is one of or the best meteorology schools in the country and Oklahoma would likely be the most competitive market for the field in the country. I think even our TV weather guys seem to know more about what they%26#39;re talking about than the guys I see when I travel...

You MIGHT be able to get on with someone as a storm chaser - but lately even those guys have meteorology degrees. And it%26#39;s a part-time/seasonal deal as well. Still, it doesn%26#39;t hurt to ask - after all, all they can say is %26#39;no%26#39;. :)

Since your experience is limited, you might have some trouble getting another type of job as well. 32 isn%26#39;t too old to start over, but you really need to think about what you might want to try so you know where you want to concentrate. Mostly, I think you are going to be looking at either sales or service jobs without some sort of experience or even a degree (do you have any type of college degree to work on?)

www.apartmentratings.com/rate…

That%26#39;s a website that has apartments and ratings you might want to check out. Invitational doesn%26#39;t fare all that well, but then again, none of the apartments with any real number of reviews appear to fare all that well. I guess you can%26#39;t please everyone, huh? Anyway, you need to read the reviews and decide for yourself. Since you don%26#39;t have a lease yet you can always check out some of the other properties in your price range.

Good luck with your move!

Here are other sites with OKC Apt Reviews:

apartmentreviews.net/ratings/ok-oklahoma-cit…

http://www.apartmentguide.com/

www.apartments.com/partner/Rent.aspx…

Thanks mod for the websites. Yeah after checking that apartment rating site, it seems like the one i want got a bad rating. However its one of the top rated ones compared to the rest. Pretty much all the apartments in the NW area got very bad ratings overall. Oh well. Its never going to be perfect.

I do have a BA degree in Communication Studies. Yes you are correct that the meteorology field is very competitive there. So i guess i will have to get lucky just to get my foot in the door.

take care,

Dustin

You could probably get a job with Dell. They have a new call center there.