Yes, Tulsa and Marin County are two seriously different places, but I can top it.

In between those two areas we lived in Grants, New Mexico - off of I-40/route 66 - so called "Uranium Capital of the World" - should have been called "Economically depressed Capital of the World" - a serious contrast from wine-sipping, free-wheeling Terra Linda, CA.

Tulsa was far more cosmopolitan, amazing as that sounds, and w/ a NASL team to boot! Actually had a decent local music scene and good groups had some excellent venues to play. Politics is another story - there can't be many more politically backwards states than okieland.