Possibility of moving to Dallas


buckwheat1911

buckwheat1911

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My wife is interviewing for a job in Dallas today and it's a good possibility she may get it. I've been to Dallas several times, but never considered living there. She said the company that she would work for is in Dallas/Fort Worth. She looked at houses in Plano on yesterday. What's a good town to live in the area? I love the DC/MD/VA metro, but if she gets the job I'm willing to move. I just don't like being bored. Hopefully Dallas has a lot to do.
 
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Where exactly will her job be located? DFW is huge. Its a seller's market right now in DFW so housing prices are WAY up. Especially in Plano with all those California transplants that moved in from Toyota. Personally, I think folks are overpaying right now. DFW is definitely different from the DMV...lol.
 



Storm96 said:
Where exactly will her job be located? DFW is huge. Its a seller's market right now in DFW so housing prices are WAY up. Especially in Plano with all those California transplants that moved in from Toyota. Personally, I think folks are overpaying right now. DFW is definitely different from the DMV...lol.
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I am not sure. She just said Fort Worth. She mentioned that some of the houses she looked at for sale were at $600k and above. I want a swimming pool where we move to. Hopefully Dallas is not too different. I don't want to be bored.
 
buckwheat1911 said:
I am not sure. She just said Fort Worth. She mentioned that some of the houses she looked at for sale were at $600k and above. I want a swimming pool where we move to. Hopefully Dallas is not too different. I don't want to be bored.
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If she is working in Fort Worth then I wouldn't move to Plano if I were y'all. That's a hell of a commute. Maybe look into some of the Ft Worth suburbs.
 
I work in downtown Fort Worth and travel throughout Tarrant County most of the day, but I live in the Dallas suburbs right off of I-20. My commute is about 35 to 40 minutes without traffic, 45 to 55 minutes everyday with traffic. Depends on what type of commute she wants how far out yall want to look, but here are my suggestions on the Ft. Worth burbs:

If you have kids, consider Mansfield. Great school district, short commute to Fort Worth and closer to things to do in Arlington. However, know that EVERYONE is trying to buy in Mansfield right now. We lost out on so many bids when we were buying last fall. Come to find out later that it was people putting down cash offers sight unseen from Cali smh

I just can't suggest Ft. Worth per say as I am not a fan of the city itself, but other burbs to try that would not be too bad of a drive:

-Alliance Area/Roanoke (when they finish 35 it won't be a bad commute into Ft. Worth), nice and growing area
-Southlake (very nice area, but not very diverse), Grapevine/Colleyville (also has a pretty good school district), or Euless area if you guys want to be in a nice area near the airport
- Burleson if you want a little more money for your buck (and in some areas bigger yards) and a smaller town feel with still not a bad commute. City has really grown and they have a number of nice housing developments popping up.
 



TSUGIRL07 said:
I work in downtown Fort Worth and travel throughout Tarrant County most of the day, but I live in the Dallas suburbs right off of I-20. My commute is about 35 to 40 minutes without traffic, 45 to 55 minutes everyday with traffic. Depends on what type of commute she wants how far out yall want to look, but here are my suggestions on the Ft. Worth burbs:

If you have kids, consider Mansfield. Great school district, short commute to Fort Worth and closer to things to do in Arlington. However, know that EVERYONE is trying to buy in Mansfield right now. We lost out on so many bids when we were buying last fall. Come to find out later that it was people putting down cash offers sight unseen from Cali smh

I just can't suggest Ft. Worth per say as I am not a fan of the city itself, but other burbs to try that would not be too bad of a drive:

-Alliance Area/Roanoke (when they finish 35 it won't be a bad commute into Ft. Worth), nice and growing area
-Southlake (very nice area, but not very diverse), Grapevine/Colleyville (also has a pretty good school district), or Euless area if you guys want to be in a nice area near the airport
- Burleson if you want a little more money for your buck (and in some areas bigger yards) and a smaller town feel with still not a bad commute. City has really grown and they have a number of nice housing developments popping up.
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Thanks, I will look into those areas.
 
buckwheat1911 said:
I've heard. The houses don't have basements though and the lots are small according to my wife. The houses are close together. Well at least the houses she saw yesterday.
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Buck, you can get a huge movie/game room etc in Texas instead of the basement in the DMV. You can get a custom built house that will get you a man cave, extra bed rooms if you like. Cheaper than N.VA
 
Storm96 said:
Where exactly will her job be located? DFW is huge. Its a seller's market right now in DFW so housing prices are WAY up. Especially in Plano with all those California transplants that moved in from Toyota. Personally, I think folks are overpaying right now. DFW is definitely different from the DMV...lol.
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I figured them fools from Torrance and other areas outside L.A. would drive prices up over there when Toyota moved it's N.American HQs. Austin went through that as well with Cali transplants.
 
IMO, Dallas beats the DMV hands down. A little pricey, but the quality of life is a lot better IMO. The only thing you might have to worry about more are those spring time tornadoes. Dallas is located in the lower half of tornado alley. If I had the choice to move anywhere in the country, the Dallas area would be first on my radar. I have plenty family members that live in the Dallas area and it is close enough to my hometown that I can drive home within 5 hours or catch a 30 minutes flight via American Airlines from DFW. Also, you could get more land in the Dallas area, which is what I look at instead of the size of a house. One can always expand their home if they have the land.
 
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JR said:
I figured them fools from Torrance and other areas outside L.A. would drive prices up over there when Toyota moved it's N.American HQs. Austin went through that as well with Cali transplants.
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The tech industry is what driving a lot of Californians to Dallas. University of Texas at Dallas is one the largest computer science and information technology programs in the country. The campus has close to 27,000 students with over half being in graduate school.
 
TSUGIRL07 said:
-Southlake (very nice area, but not very diverse),.
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Man "diversity" is so overrated, imho. For self, I wanted to "diverse" w/ folks who made the same amount of nickels/pennies I did, if not more, when I paraded around areas bordering the big cities of n-tx lol. I just sold my little bitty shack out of Southlake a few years ago. I never felt so poor in my life living in that area lol :D . That area is still hott hott hott, btw.

I still office out of Southlake/Keller and enjoy my visits there, even thought about retiring there soon simply for the isolation it provides :D . The SW sector of FW was beginning to explode when I sold my crib northward. I think Hulen/Burleson were advancing and tollways were being created for those areas. when I officially left.
 
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