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one thing the University of California system got right is that they put their campuses in large metropolitan areas, oftentimes in some of the most expensive re

• panglott 9y ago
  In Oklahoma specifically, central Oklahoma was largely settled in the land rush of 1889, and within a year or two OKC, Norman, and the University of Oklahoma were all founded. Oklahoma didn't even become a state until 1907. Norman was one of the largest cities at the time; it would not have been clear at all which cities would eventually become large metro areas a century later.