Former Hollywood producer Neal Nordlinger, raising funds for a technology venture a couple of years ago, was stunned when a partner suggested locating the start-up here in Oklahoma’s capital and leaving Los Angeles behind: “I said: ‘Are you blankety-blank crazy? Oklahoma City? It’s a cow town.’ “
One of the things I get a chuckle out of is watching people’s perceptions of OKC transform when they go from being an outsider to an Okie.
The stereotypes have always been exaggerated, but since the dramatic shift that’s taken place in Oklahoma City over the past decade or so, the differences are even more surprising for the transplants.
One of the more documented segments of people moving here these days is the Californians:
[where: Oklahoma City, OK]Since 1999, the number of Californians departing the Golden State for Oklahoma has outnumbered those going the opposite direction by more than 21,000, a reversal of the Depression-era migration west that John Steinbeck described in The Grapes of Wrath.
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