By now, I hope everyone has heard of the Pride in the Falls campaign. Carla Bolin has been hired to coordinate the effort to help residents and potential businesses realize just how great our community is.
If I discount the months of June through August, Wichita Falls is a great place--it's a great place even then, I just don't want to go anywhere or do anything that doesn't involve air conditioning. Of course, my personal best "great thing" about Wichita Falls is what it doesn't have--traffic. Every time I have to go to the metroplex, I am profoundly grateful about that.
I have often had to try to convince job candidates to relocate to Wichita Falls, with mixed success. They heard from other residents "there's nothing to do" and the city is a "cultural wasteland." Neither of those things is true.
Wichita Falls may not be a perfect community, but there is plenty to do. My problem is usually not that I can't find something to do, but that there is more to do than my time and budget will allow. The only time I had to admit defeat was one person who decided Wichita Falls wasn't for her because we didn't have a training facility for her son, an Olympic swimming hopeful. OK, that's not likely to happen anytime soon. But other than that minor issue, there really isn't much that can't be found here; and we have some plusses most other places don't have, not the least of which is a friendly bunch of people. Trust me, I travel and that's a rarity.
So let's get over the negative attitude, folks. Wichita Falls is a great place to live and work. If there's something you feel the community needs and doesn't have, speak up. That's what it took to get a skate park that draws people from the metroplex to our city. Anything is possible--just don't import the traffic.
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