As the Covid pandemic unfolds around them, Ari Kaplan, his wife, Hannah Phillips-Kaplan, an interior designer, and son, now 13, look for somewhere to live after nearly two decades in Los Angeles Was doing. “We wanted to raise our son to be more complete and with a stronger sense of community,” said Mr. Kaplan, 50, chief financial officer of the e-commerce company Mamenta. “And we talked AustinPortland, Charlotte, Denver and New York,” he said.
Kaplan’s list quickly expanded to New York and Denver. But the former “I’m just changing one nuts for another nuts,” Mr. Kaplan said, while the latter felt “too bouncy and crunchy.” And so the Kaplans landed in Ms. Phillips-Kaplan’s hometown of Tulsa, Okla., 43, inspired by family ties, the city’s booming tech scene, its reasonably priced upmarket housing and its middle-of-the-road political climate.