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<blockquote data-quote="NightShade" data-source="post: 2746838" data-attributes="member: 29706"><p>Lawton is a messed up town.</p><p></p><p>Need to fill in a few details though, are you single, married, kids?</p><p></p><p>What are your budget constraints, are you willing to find a place for a month or two while you look around or do you want something final when you make the move. Time constraints are also good info.</p><p></p><p>As far as apartments in an upscale area. . . good luck with that. The "upscale" area's are not in Lawton really and that I know of they don't have apartments and likely finding a house for rent will be tough as well. Most of the people are moving to Elgin or Geronimo for better area's and better schools. I know that there were some "new" apartments west of town on Gore that were supposed to be nicer but never dealt with anything out that way. I can say that the biggest area to stay AWAY from is near the airport, So basically south of Lee between 11th and at least Sheridan and within a couple blocks of those roads on either side. From my understanding the apartments on Sheridan South of Gore are not that great, the inspectors were talking about shoddy building. Also heard about some people kicking in the wall on the landing to get into the apartments as it was faster than the door, don't know if it's true but would not be surprised.</p><p></p><p>The better area's in town are on the east edge of town and the west edge respectively. But you will just have to go down there and see. I can say one thing, there is a lot of good food available if you like to eat out. Authentic NY style pizza at the Luigi's and Luigi's express, and I mean just that. Went out to NY after eating there and got a slice at a place and was seriously disappointed cause I could get the same thing at home. Still some places are worse than others, mostly chinese buffets if that's your thing, I know there was a place just north of Cache road just west of Ft. Sill Blvd that serves Korean food that a friend who was stationed in Korea for a while liked but can't remember it exactly think it was a bar of some sort. Was a Mexican place just north of Cache on Sheridan that was pretty good and more authentic than most of the others IMHO but it may or may not still be there.</p><p></p><p></p><p>As far as area's to avoid, pretty much anywhere at night. Last I heard Lawton had more gangs and members per capita than anywhere else in the state. While I was there a couple shootings happened at 38th and Cache when people were pulling money from the ATM, there was a shootout at the mall near the theatre murders in a couple of the flop house motels near Cache and Ft. Sill and after I left a "explosive device" was found in a car not too far from 2nd and Euclid. And there was a story about cars driving around with headlights off at night waiting for someone to flash and "remind" them to turn them on. The car would then follow and some sort of gang initiation would be done and the flasher would be the target. There is also a reason why the Walmart on Sheridan is referred to as the Ghetto Mart, I think it would be closely equal to the one at Classen near I44.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NightShade, post: 2746838, member: 29706"] Lawton is a messed up town. Need to fill in a few details though, are you single, married, kids? What are your budget constraints, are you willing to find a place for a month or two while you look around or do you want something final when you make the move. Time constraints are also good info. As far as apartments in an upscale area. . . good luck with that. The "upscale" area's are not in Lawton really and that I know of they don't have apartments and likely finding a house for rent will be tough as well. Most of the people are moving to Elgin or Geronimo for better area's and better schools. I know that there were some "new" apartments west of town on Gore that were supposed to be nicer but never dealt with anything out that way. I can say that the biggest area to stay AWAY from is near the airport, So basically south of Lee between 11th and at least Sheridan and within a couple blocks of those roads on either side. From my understanding the apartments on Sheridan South of Gore are not that great, the inspectors were talking about shoddy building. Also heard about some people kicking in the wall on the landing to get into the apartments as it was faster than the door, don't know if it's true but would not be surprised. The better area's in town are on the east edge of town and the west edge respectively. But you will just have to go down there and see. I can say one thing, there is a lot of good food available if you like to eat out. Authentic NY style pizza at the Luigi's and Luigi's express, and I mean just that. Went out to NY after eating there and got a slice at a place and was seriously disappointed cause I could get the same thing at home. Still some places are worse than others, mostly chinese buffets if that's your thing, I know there was a place just north of Cache road just west of Ft. Sill Blvd that serves Korean food that a friend who was stationed in Korea for a while liked but can't remember it exactly think it was a bar of some sort. Was a Mexican place just north of Cache on Sheridan that was pretty good and more authentic than most of the others IMHO but it may or may not still be there. As far as area's to avoid, pretty much anywhere at night. Last I heard Lawton had more gangs and members per capita than anywhere else in the state. While I was there a couple shootings happened at 38th and Cache when people were pulling money from the ATM, there was a shootout at the mall near the theatre murders in a couple of the flop house motels near Cache and Ft. Sill and after I left a "explosive device" was found in a car not too far from 2nd and Euclid. And there was a story about cars driving around with headlights off at night waiting for someone to flash and "remind" them to turn them on. The car would then follow and some sort of gang initiation would be done and the flasher would be the target. There is also a reason why the Walmart on Sheridan is referred to as the Ghetto Mart, I think it would be closely equal to the one at Classen near I44. [/QUOTE]
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