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Metro grades: Oklahoma City, Tulsa fare well in rankings

The Oklahoman    Comments Comment on this article6
Published: October 27, 2009



Oklahoma City and Tulsa are on a list that should be the envy of lots of other places — for reasons that are familiar and comforting as the nation fights its way out of the Great Recession.

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BusinessWeek magazine puts Oklahoma City at No. 3 and Tulsa at No. 7 in a survey of its 40 strongest metropolitan areas. Adding credibility to the rankings is that BusinessWeek used data and analysis supplied by the Brookings Institution, a respected think tank in Washington, D.C.

What Oklahoma City and Tulsa have in common with many others on the list is the housing market. As we have noted previously, home prices here never skyrocketed before the recession began, which meant they didn’t crater when hard times hit (housing prices actually rose more than 2 percent in Oklahoma City earlier this year). There are many cities in which the subprime mortgage mess has put thousands of homeowners in financial ruin.

Oklahoma City and Tulsa also are buttressed by the oil and gas industries. BusinessWeek specifically mentioned Devon and Chesapeake, two companies that continue to supply steady employment even as natural gas prices are in a slump.

The magazine’s rankings are the latest stretch of positive publicity for Oklahoma City and Tulsa in the past year to year-and-a-half. Such developments prove the fundamentals of employment and quality of life in our two largest cities are headed in the right direction. The challenge will be to keep the momentum when the recession ends and competition from other cities picks up.

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I've suffered a couple of ingrown toenails in my time but I'll be damned if I'm ever going to form a heart filled with hatred....I've only been on this site for a few weeks and I've never heard David of Norman make a positive statement about anything..I grew up in Oklahoma, educated in OK, started a family there and still have family that live there...I have two nephews attending OU and their fathers graduated from OU as well. I've lived in Dallas, Austin, Bethesda, MD (adjacent to the crime capitol of the world, D.C.) Scottsdale, AZ, New Orleans and others....OK is without a doubt one of the best states in the union and OKC & Tulsa can be proud of their standing among their peers. Now that I'm wallowing in AR as Greg so ineptly put it and because AR is adjacent to LA & MS makes me an even greater wallower...at least I'm not wah,wah,waher
Don, Calion - Oct 28, 2009 at 5:26 pm
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This report really makes the liberals in oklahoma that do nothing on these boards but trash Oklahoma mad. Priceless
BERT, HENRYETTA - Oct 28, 2009 at 4:34 pm
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Isn't one of the arguements people use to talk crap about Oklahoma that our schools suck worse than anywhere else? According to this, is this not true?
Raven, Edmond's Ghetto (Guthrie) - Oct 28, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Very True. it is too bad that oklahoma did not have the high home prices so the homes in Oklahoma could have feel further and put more people on the streets . We do need to keep up with California and New York
BERT, HENRYETTA - Oct 27, 2009 at 12:22 pm
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David has a valid point. Those three nutcases will always manage to keep Oklahoma wallowing with Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana...too bad, because it really is a nice state.
Greg, Panama City, Panama - Oct 27, 2009 at 11:21 am
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Housing prices never skyrocketed because no one wants to move here and there wasn't any wild speculating- thanks sally kern, inhofe and coburn for helping keep our populatio0n small. Makes it easier to get to the mall.
David, Norman - Oct 27, 2009 at 7:39 am

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