Yes, Oklahoma City is a very, very family friendly city. The people are nicer than average, and the city is generally clean. If moving here, I suggest NW Oklahoma City, or a suburb such as Norman, Edmond, Moore, Yukon, or Mustang.

hmmm, i would have to say it depends on “where” you would plan to be, if your looking to retire, i would suggest something by Rivendell, if you plan on moving with kids and stuff, i would say NW okc, otherwise i would say the city is like most cities, it has its ups ands downs, so yeah…..

One of the most family friendly areas (if that is indeed what you are looking for) would probably have to be around the area of Pennsylvania Avenue in OKC and Santa Fe which seperates Moore and OKC in a very very south location of OKC this spans runs about 6-7 miles and is very developed and family oriented.
Another good place would be as “Lilies” suggested would probably either be Edmonad or Mustang. Edmond being the “pristine” area of the state where, generally the most wealthy live. Mustang, though is a very nice place to live too. However, Norman is very much a college town and those who live there would have to be accustomed to that sort of lifestyle.

Family friendly? No. At least, it hasn’t been friendly to my family. If you have kids BE CAREFUL of the pediatrician to take them to. DON’T take them to a guy by the name of Okey Nwokolo.

Where it comes to pediatricians, make sure that it is someone who is friendly, understanding, and realistic about something that people in general like to call LIFE. Nwokolo wasn’t like this. He started out being friendly (he was the attending pediatrician when I was in Baptist Integris Hospital to give birth to my daughter) but when we took my daughter to her 2-month well-baby checkup and it was found that she had lost a little weight (despite the fact that we were feeding her) and that she was showing signs of dehydration (we didn’t have any sort of air conditioning at the time, so the house was at a near constant 90 degrees during the day even with the use of box fans). I was totally all for his recommending that we take our daughter to the hospital, but from then on he and his other doctor treated us like we were absolute scummy parents.

Long story short, it’s because of him and a particularly spiteful home care nurse that both of my children, who are my life, were taken away and we are having to deal with the DHS, which is completely overrun with people that you’d swear that they must have slept with SOMEBODY to get their jobs. Either that or they lost a bet. And I’m not exaggerating. They’ve made our experience living here a complete misery, and it only adds to it when I think of the pediatrician that we had for our son back in Fort Worth. We’d had a little problem with his weight as well because I breastfed him, but my milk was drying up for some reason (I think it was the birth control pills) and he kept just absolutely REFUSING for the longest time to switch to being fed by bottle.

It scared the bejeebers out of us, but his pediatrician was really cool about it and she calmly advised us about what calorie formula to feed him to help him bounce back after we’d finally succeeded at getting him to eat from a bottle.

OKC family friendly? I suppose it could be, so long as you don’t just readily trust everybody. That was our painful lesson that we had to learn when we moved here. Especially because everyone is so paranoid and CPS here is out for blood this year.

You may be thinking that I’m exaggerating, but I’m not. If you have kids, MAKE SURE that they’re pediatrician is a good, friendly one who doesn’t mind coaching you through the difficult things that life throws at you. A friend of mine takes her daughter to a pediatrician down in Norman who is really nice. And he even advised her that if something happens that causes her daughter to get hurt, to NOT take her to the ER unless it’s really bad, but to call him first. Why did he say this? Because here in OKC and surrounding area, if you take your child to the ER, even for something that really is only minor and you know that what happened was just an accident and stuff, it doesn’t matter. They WILL call CPS on you. I’ve seen it happen a lot this year. We’ve had 2 other friends get their children taken from them by CPS over COMPLETELY stupid stuff, and these people adore their children as much as we do and would NEVER have done anything to hurt their kids. But CPS wouldn’t see it.

So, I’m sorry I’m so long-winded and I’m sorry if I’ve rambled. But long story short: If you have kids, BE CAREFUL here.