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Depending on where you live, balancing a high quality of life and low costs of living can be a pretty difficult task—but difficult doesn’t mean impossible!

Earlier this month, a delegation from the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber went to New York City to spread the good word about Oklahoma City retail at the ICSC New York Deal Making conference.

When Tim King encouraged Luke Hadsall to start making cider, Hadsall said he wasn’t thrilled with the idea.

For the month of October, the Oklahoma City MSA had an unemployment rate of 2.8 percent. The rate remains unchanged from the month before and represents the lowest rate the metro has seen since January 2001.

The North American Business Cost Review analyzed 47 metro areas with more than 1 million people and ranked various costs associated with doing business.

After more than a decade of discussion, planning, design and construction, the Oklahoma City Streetcar began service Friday morning with a huge celebration. Confetti rained down and a large crowd cheered as Mayor David Holt, City Council members, MAPS 3 staff, advisory board and streetcar subcommittee members and many other people instrumental in this milestone celebrated the streetcar system’s inaugural ride.

The Oklahoma City Streetcar, a voter-approved project funded by the MAPS 3 program, is set to open today after 21 months of construction and testing. The OKC Streetcar, which will cover 5.1 miles with two routes throughout downtown Oklahoma City, represents a new era in local public transit.

The city’s new downtown streetcar system accepted its first riders Friday, setting aside fares for a few weeks to allow for cultural acclimation.