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Tulsa should be on more people's radar as a vacation destination. It's a fascinating city with good museums, galleries (including contemporary Native American a
by smelendez 7y ago
Tulsa should be on more people's radar as a vacation destination. It's a fascinating city with good museums, galleries (including contemporary Native American art) and parks, a welcoming population and very interesting architecture (art deco downtown and Oral Roberts University's gonzo Christian version of midcentury modernism).
There's a strong local music and bar scene and good vintage shopping, and some great barbecue, kind of an Austin alternative.
- texasbigdata 7y agoHaving been a few times.... This is a wild exaggeration.
- hoten 7y agoWhich internet stranger am I to believe?
- DoreenMichele 7y agoThe one that actually lived there.
- iso947 7y agoSurely the opinions of visitors are more important when looking to visit somewhere. I wouldn’t ask tourists what it’s like to live in NY, but I wouldn’t ask someone from Queens of its worth visiting.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoSome people are perpetual tourists who go to museums and the like while living someplace for a few years. Such people tend to have more familiarity with touristy stuff than either one-time visitors or regular/typical residents.
- smelendez 7y agoYou need to dig a bit but I spent a month there and was never short of things to see and do.
- TulliusCicero 7y agoI mean this is probably true of literally any city medium sized and bigger, as long as you're not too picky. In the modern age, a city with 200,000 people is considered not major, only medium sized, but if you think about it that's still a shit-ton of people! So of course there's still a lot of things to do around. Middle Ages London wasn't that big!
- asdff 7y agoDepends on what you like to do. If you like to do something niche, you might very well be one of the only people in town doing that niche thing, and there won't be a store or community to cater to that interest of yours. I bet the only things to do in Middle Ages London were to drink and pray you didn't die of disease that week.
- TulliusCicero 7y agoAgreed, for sure. If you're into martial arts, you're probably good for Karate or TKD or MMA/BJJ, but something like Sambo or Capoeira is gonna be hard to find.
- tracer4201 7y agoMy husband lived in Tulsa for a while, and he grew up outside Tulsa in Sand Springs. We both were in Tulsa for a few years. Unless something major changes in the last few years, Anything worth exploring in Tulsa can be seen in a couple days. Going outside of Tulsa in all the little towns- Skiatook, Bartlesville, Sand Springs, Cleveland, Mannford — people will look at you as if you landed from Mars. It’s some of the most backwards, racist places. These aren’t great places to live or raise a family.