What Is a Good Tulsa Neighborhood?

[tim huntzinger]

Love T-town, I am just bitter bc I cannot sell my house at the appraisal value and I live in one of our most 'desirable' neighborhoods.  Bunch of dumpy please-infill-me lots surrounding me - but it is still not as dumpy as my old hood.

[Ttowndad]

I agree.  I have been in Tulsa for 41 years.  My wife and I along with our 2 children live in midtown.  We love our neighborhood and most of our neighbors but there are even patches within our neighborhood that are starting to look rundown too.  Tulsa is weird that way.  You can have a nice neighborhood and a block away have a rat hole.  Things can be done about it however I have found.  Contacting the non-emergency TPD number along withe Mayors action center can get you help with code violaters that can bring your property value down.

[rwarn17588]

quote:Originally posted by tim huntzinger

One refrain about T-town is that unlike the suburbs it is more neighborhoodly, something this 25-year resident absolutely disputes.

Maybe you had bad breath.

[tim huntzinger]

And at that price point $150-$180??! Man, you must be poor! You gonna live in a shack! Sure you don't want a nice trailer? At that point you are gonna have an unremodeled tear-down or have to live around a bunch of legacy homeowners waiting to be bought out.

Maybe I have bad breath, but Tulsa's homes are overpriced, the schools are middling, and I still feel fortunate to live here!

[tim huntzinger]

Or like the time when the pig developer was going to restring my electric lines and showed up at 845 am with an AEP truck.  Must have been my breath, RWarn. The pig developer was going to put that pole in my backyard so that my electric line was one foot over my roof line.  All without my permission.  And it would have been damn near impossible to rectify. And good thing my wife is in the legal field because without her we would have been screwed.

Know how my neighbors responded when the pig developer was going to put the pole across the street and have a line running from the POS rental to his new infill Tuscan POS's?  Must have been my breath, RWarn because they were angry at ME for causing him to HAVE to put the line across 35th st.  As it was, he snubbed his nose at the Joke City Codes and strung my electric line right over top of the pool.

So this is what one can expect in Tulsa neighborhoods and their so-called developers.  Be prepared to be stabbed in the back and to fight for yourself.

[TulsaSooner]

So, anyway, drove through Rolling Oaks yesterday after work.  It seems to be a really nice neighborhood, especially for the price.  If the time comes, I guess we'll just have to decide if we want to live in the boonies away from retail development but closer to work.

[tim huntzinger]

You getting your price point? New construction?

[sauerkraut]

I'd move to Jenks. I also like west Tulsa that area has alot of old time charm. I'm not too big a fan of mid-town or North Tulsa. Good luck.[]

[mdunn]

quote:Originally posted by sauerkraut

I'd move to Jenks. I also like west Tulsa that area has alot of old time charm. I'm not too big a fan of mid-town or North Tulsa. Good luck.[]

But North Tulsa has so many kids!And low crime!Im thinking of moving there myself and becoming a gang member.Do the crips accept 42 year old white boys???

[tim huntzinger]

Do not go too far north.  I live in Brookside and we have gang graffiti all over the place - less than one mile from Sen. Inhofe and Mayor Taylor!

[waterboy]

Don't let your anger carry you too far Tim. I see "gang" grafitti south of 91st as well. Any punk with a spray can and a bad attitude can play gangster.

[tim huntzinger]

True, but when a Utica Square home is subject to home invasion at the same time I notice an increase in graffiti in the area, something is up.  You are absolutely right, Tulsa is too small not to be quickly accessible to miscreants.  I think the allure of the suburbs is that they tend to have limited access, and younger families naturally have more interaction than midtowners.  At least we no longer have idiot Drew Diamond dismissing the very idea of gangs in town.

[tim huntzinger]

quote:Originally posted by TulsaSooner

Huh?

The Berryhill area IS in the city of Tulsa.  Isn't it?

Uh. No.

[midtownnewbie]

quote:Originally posted by tim huntzinger

Love T-town, I am just bitter bc I cannot sell my house at the appraisal value and I live in one of our most 'desirable' neighborhoods.

Sell it to the guy that appraised it!

[midtownnewbie]

quote:Originally posted by tim huntzinger

Tulsa's homes are overpriced

Are you serious?  The homes here are dirt cheap compared to most other cities in the country.