Over this site’s long existence, we’ve never shied away from criticizing or poking fun at Oklahoma City’s gated suburb to the north – the vaunted hamlet of Edmond.
From Royce Young’s “10 Reasons Edmond Sucks” to Marisa’s “9 Reasons Why I Hold a Grudge Against Edmond” to my very recent “7 Alternatives to the Weird Edmond Sculpture Park,” we’ve produced plenty of listicles that call out the city, and all the various upper-class elites, snoots, and racist crazies who call it home.
Although we like to make fun of Edmond and its shortbread cookie-cutter culture, I must admit that now that I’m getting older and more settled, I’m starting to better understand Edmond’s allure and charm.
Say what you want about the town, but if you’re a boring upper-middle-class or rich person who wants to live exclusively around other upper-middle-class or rich people, it’s hard to top Edmond!
In most neighborhoods, the property values are growing higher than the iron gates and stone walls that encircle them, easily keeping out most of the up-and-coming middle-class riff-raff who either A) don’t make enough money or B) don’t have rich enough parents or C) don’t have enough home equity in their OKC home to make the jump to the fertile lands south of Waterloo.
Sadly, this unattainable charm – which is also Edmond’s biggest appeal to the people who live there – is being lost on the wokes who care about things like affordable housing.