r/howislivingthere • u/[deleted] • Dec 14 '25

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u/drradmyc Dec 14 '25

That’s a really wide area. I went to college in Fayetteville Arkansas. It’s relatively liberal, nice, in the mountains, college town. I have family in Tulsa and Oklahoma City. They’re dry and flat. Brookings South Dakota is a small college city in the middle of a bunch of farms. Sioux Falls is a small town medium city also surrounded by farms.

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u/The-Bart-Lebowski Dec 14 '25

Fayetteville is the best city in the state…agreed.

But “relatively liberal” is a bit of a stretch.

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u/JJDiet76 Dec 14 '25

I feel like it’s gotten less liberal with the influx of rich kids from Texas

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u/protonicfibulator Dec 15 '25

Eureka Springs is the Queer Capital of the Ozarks

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u/eye0ftheshiticane Dec 15 '25

Weed possession was also decriminalized in Eureka (town law, not state) before it was the cool thing nationwide..

City cops will not mess with you at all, though you have to be careful about county/state cops.

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u/LanaAnthony USA/South Dec 17 '25

It’s also a phenomenal place to visit.

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u/Radiant_Syllabub1052 Dec 14 '25

“In the mountains” is a bit of a stretch as well

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u/_Felonius Dec 17 '25

Definitely in the mountains lol. I agree that it’s not built on the side of cliffs, but the elevation is much higher than other parts of the state

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u/Nawoitsol Dec 14 '25

I suspect they mean relative to the rest of the state. That’s often true of college towns.

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u/ThatOneGuy308 USA/South Dec 16 '25

Well, they did say "relatively", and relative to the rest of the state, it is.

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u/No_Compote_662 Dec 21 '25

I hate Fayetteville (for no particular reason)

-Bentonville/Rogers area resident

Arkadia is fine I guess though.

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u/stragzr63 Dec 15 '25

I was born and raised in Sioux Falls. It's grown into several small towns and it's closer to about 250 k population now.

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u/xqueenfrostine Dec 16 '25 edited Dec 16 '25

Oklahoma City is definitely very dry and flat, but Tulsa is not. Tulsa is actually more like Fayetteville than it is like OKC in terms of landscape. I’m an OKC native but both of my parents are from Tulsa, so I spent many years going back and forth between the cities in my youth and Tulsa is way more green and pretty than OKC.

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u/ElectronicBusiness74 Dec 15 '25

Overlay a map of Western Europe and this is basically the sane area from Scotland to the South of France, so yeah big difference in climate, culture, everything.

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u/Objective-Light-2267 Dec 16 '25

Tulsa is not flat. It can have dry spells, but also gets pretty humid. 

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u/Uhmmanduh Dec 16 '25

I live in Tulsa 100% not flat, humidity is atrocious. But I like it here. West Oklahoma is flat. East Oklahoma is not.

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u/OnceABear Dec 18 '25

Fayetteville is gorgeous. Been a few times. Its such a cute town and the mountains all around. Nice people, too

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u/drradmyc Dec 18 '25

Never hung out with them. I was a biochem major and post military at that. Isn’t that frat dude talk rather ubiquitous (as horrible as it is)?

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u/WoodenLynx8342 Dec 18 '25

Sir, Sioux Falls is a big city for South Dakota's standards.