I've been looking for somewhere to move for a while now. So far narrowed it down to Tennessee or Texas, but in my research, I found out Oklahoma has a bunch of mountains in the eastern half of the state. Since I'm a sucker for mountain views, I've decided to look into it a bit more. I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty much ignorant about Oklahoma. All I know is it has the second highest population of Indians, it's super religious (a big plus), and there's lots of modern cowboys and tornados.
So figured I'd ask some fellow patriots what it's like and see if it's a nice place to live. From what research I've done so far, it LOOKS freaking beautiful when you're in the mountainous parts.
I've heard DFW is a living hell anymore, but I wouldn't really say it's californication. More like, it's rapidly becoming the biggest metro in the country so it's getting all of the problems that come with having the population of a small nation packed into 3-ish counties (I'm counting Denton).
But yeah, not interested in that area. If I were to live in Texas I'd pick somewhere in hill country or West Texas. it's kind of weird what's happening right now since we basically have an internal refuge "crisis" occurring where massive numbers of conservatives, and some liberals, are fleeing blue states for red states. Which is good on one hand, but on the other hand there's only so much room in cities, hence the massive increase in cost of living in places like DFW, Miami, etc,
More people are wanting to move there than housing will allow, thus by the law of supply and demand, everything is going to skyrocket. So it's a conundrum. On one hand, everyone welcomes the millions of extra red votes. On the other hand, more people means more problems.
But I loathe large cities anyway, mainly for all of the reasons you mentioned. I like to actually be able to talk to my neighbor and know them, rather than just grunt as a slight acknowledgement of their existence on the rare occasion our eyes lock.