Stay away. Just. Stay. Away.
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6/17/2021
The only good thing about Lawton is that it's close to a nice wildlife refuge, which has great hiking, and some buffalo. Lawton tricked U.S. businesses into coming into the area about 10 years ago when it annexed the population of the adjoining Army base, Ft. Sill, onto its population, making it look like an enormous number of people were moving here. They weren't. But the businesses were successfully duped into coming. Now most of them are starting to cut their losses and leave. Pretty soon, Lawton will be 'that place where there used to be a lot of businesses.' The common complaint here is that there's really nothing to do. It's a horribly boring place, the crime here is terrible, the cops are terrible, and city council is terrible, the neighborhoods are terrible, and for God's sake, the public schools are terrible. When the city had trouble getting doctors to move here, the main problem was how ugly the town is. So they plotted a course of roads to "show people Lawton." On those particular roades, they invested in landscaping, which, of course, went by all the wonderful, new businesses that are now starting to leave. They showed the doctors a beautiful Lawton. It was a lie, but it worked for a while, and we did get some good doctors here. For a while. People, don't believe anything good you read about Lawton. You'll regret it if you move here. Everyone does.
Marnie | Lawton, OK