Just moved to Plano? Still not sure why people have a problem with it. (Dallas: house, established neighborhood)

[TurtleCreek80]

Originally Posted by jimithing78

Nice attitude. HP actually goes all the way up to McFarlin, east of SMU. How about I help you out with a map directly from the HP website:

http://www.hptx.org/Modules/ShowDocu...x?documentid=3

You can see Knox sneaking in at the southern most part of the map.

Thank you. I grew up there and am QUITE familiar with it. 90% of HP is south of Mockingbird.

There are exactly 18.5 residential blocks north of Mockingbird.

There are nearly 150 residential blocks south of Mockingbird.

[jimithing78]

Originally Posted by TurtleCreek80

31. I'm currently pulling together the guest list for my wedding and out of the 60-something good single friends & couple friends of mine from high school, college, & post-college-->

0 of the girls had kids out of wedlock or are/were divorced
0 of the guys had kids out of wedlock
2 of the guys were divorced (but childless 1st marriages) before marrying friends of mine

The only ones with kids are married with kids.

All but 2 couples got married after age 25. I'd say average marrying age was 28-32 range.

My fiance is 37 and his friends mirror my friends very very closely- no divorces amongst the couple friends, no out-of-wedlock kids, older (late 20's/ early 30's) age for marriage. One guy got married at 22 and divorced at 23. Other than that, everyone is pretty darn stable.



Not being snarky, but maybe you need to find a better dating pool to fish in?! The majority of my female friends have had careers (or still have them), all went to college, most all went to grad school, most all are from very stable family backgrounds (2 parents, still married, many still live in their childhood homes).

We're off topic here but your friends not having children out of wedlock, not being divorced, having good careers, etc is a result of the very stable family backgrounds that you mentioned. Doesn't really have anything to with where you live or where you're from. I hope you weren't implying otherwise.

[jimithing78]

Originally Posted by TurtleCreek80

Thank you. I grew up there and am QUITE familiar with it. 90% of HP is south of Mockingbird.

There are exactly 18.5 residential blocks north of Mockingbird.

There are nearly 150 residential blocks south of Mockingbird.

So looking at that map would you say Knox comes in at the Southern part of HP or right smack in the middle?

[TurtleCreek80]

Originally Posted by jimithing78

We're off topic here but your friends not having children out of wedlock, not being divorced, having good careers, etc is a result of the very stable family backgrounds that you mentioned. Doesn't really have anything to with where you live or where you're from. I hope you weren't implying otherwise.

No, I didn't bring that up in any sort of Plano vs another place discussion.

I was surprised to hear DaveG99 saying that most of the women he meets in their late 20's & up have kids, wheras in my social cirlce & my fiance's (which includes people in Dallas, Houston, Austin, NYC & the East Coast, and other cities around the globe).....not one person falls into that "single with kids" bucket.

[TurtleCreek80]

Originally Posted by jimithing78

So looking at that map would you say Knox comes in at the Southern part of HP or right smack in the middle?

If someone told me that Knox-Henderson was SOUTH of Highland Park, I'd be looking for it somewhere along Turtle Creek (where the high rises are), in Oak Lawn (perhaps along Lemmon?), or somewhere along the McKinney/ Cole corridor SOUTH of Highland Park (which would be around Fitzhugh). Those places are all SOUTH of Highland Park.


If someone told me that Knox-Henderson was EAST of Highland Park, I'd be searchign in the cooridor between Mockingbird Station, the M Streets, KNOX-HENDERSON, all the way down to Fizhugh. Those places are all EAST of Highland Park and just so happen to include Knox-Henderson.

[stan4]

Originally Posted by DaveG99

Single moms are everywhere. Im 34 and go on dates every now and then and most of the women I meet have a kid and are not married. Its VERY rare to find a women that is 30 and does not have a child.

How old are you turtlecreek? Maybe your in the older generation where things were different?

Lol! Not only do I know single women in their 30s without kids, I know MARRIED women in their 30s without kids. Many of them have just spent so much time in school and training that they're just now getting around to that part of their lives.

[jimithing78]

Originally Posted by TurtleCreek80

If someone told me that Knox-Henderson was SOUTH of Highland Park, I'd be looking for it somewhere along Turtle Creek (where the high rises are), in Oak Lawn (perhaps along Lemmon?), or somewhere along the McKinney/ Cole corridor SOUTH of Highland Park (which would be around Fitzhugh). Those places are all SOUTH of Highland Park.


If someone told me that Knox-Henderson was EAST of Highland Park, I'd be searchign in the cooridor between Mockingbird Station, the M Streets, KNOX-HENDERSON, all the way down to Fizhugh. Those places are all EAST of Highland Park and just so happen to include Knox-Henderson.

What if someone said:

Knox-Henderson is on 75 North of downtown and south of Highland Park. There's a single exit for it and if you go West you'll be on Knox and if you go East you'll be on Henderson. Here's a link to the general vicinity.

dallas, tx - Google Maps

Would you still be searching all of those places?

[TurtleCreek80]

Originally Posted by jimithing78

What if someone said:

Would you still be searching all of those places?

considering there's no (zero, zip, nada, 0) exits on 75 (or the Tollroad, or any other highway in Dallas-Fort Worth) marked "Highland Park".....if I were new to the area, I might be.

[tyanger]

Originally Posted by jimithing78

... Doesn't really have anything to with where you live or where you're from. I hope you weren't implying otherwise.

Originally Posted by TurtleCreek80

No, I didn't bring that up in any sort of Plano vs another place discussion ...

Actually you did.

Originally Posted by TurtleCreek80

Hmm.....not myself or ANY (and I mean ANY) of my single friends from high school, college, or post-college fit into your description.

Maybe that's more common in Plano to either be divorced with kids by your late 20's or to have kids out of wedlock??

Not that any of this matters ... just sayin' ...

[jimithing78]

Originally Posted by TurtleCreek80

considering there's no (zero, zip, nada, 0) exits on 75 (or the Tollroad, or any other highway in Dallas-Fort Worth) marked "Highland Park".....if I were new to the area, I might be.

Even with a direct link to the area on Google maps? You don't think you could find it?