The real scoop on Dallas (Little Elm, Trinity: homes, neighborhood, schools)

[lpepping]

cold weather, cheese and an interesting accent?

[lh_newbie]

You can drink from a "bubbler" and freeze your #$% off in the winter, eh?

[south-to-west]

Hey, hey, hey now! I'm a Milwaukee native.

There is no other place where the beer and brats are better, where frozen custard is as abundant, where fish fries are an obligatory Friday night affair, where the state's NFL team is adored and owned by the people, where you can drive 5 miles in any direction and run into a lake, and where you can dance to polka music and still be cool.

I'll never return to Milwaukee, but I'll be a proud Wisconsinite til the day I die!

[aceplace]

I haven't done a survey, but I'd guess that there's nothing in Chicago that you couldn't buy in Dallas

Originally Posted by SickOfTheSunbelt

Right here is the #1 problem with Dallas.

You're saying that Dallas' parity with Chicago is a problem? Well, if it's a problem for Dallas, it must also be a problem for Chicago.

If you think the availability of consumer goods and services due to the size of a city is some sort of moral failure, then you should find yourself a monastery somewhere in the desert and take a vow of poverty. Don't expect much agreement from the general population, though. In my experience, only losers use the word "materialistic".

Ye gads... everytime this troll named SickO opens his mouth, he makes himself for a fool.

[KerrTown]

Originally Posted by SickOfTheSunbelt

I have met some life long friends here, have gained valuable career experience and saved up a lot of $$. Dallas would be a great place to settle down for the long haul if you had a family and weren't interested in doing anything outside of your own backyard.

But did you seriously put "play video games at D & B's" on your list of things to do in Dallas? This only reinforces my point.

The people in Dallas are friendly, cost of living as low as you're gonna get anywhere in the nation and there are a ton of jobs. But this place is a snooze fest. Everybody lives to work rather than works to live.

And to the poster who wondered where I lived before. Chicago, IL.

I'm so sorry your experience of Texas was so bad. Hopefully you've been to other parts of the state so that Dallas is not the only part of Texas you have seen. If you like the urbanity of Chicago, Houston is its southern counterpart. I guess you're not a suburban person.

I saw your other post in the Milwaukee forum. I thought you were going back to Chicago from this post? I wouldn't live there with all that racial tension except for a cheap condo on the lakefront in downtown.

[aceplace]

Originally Posted by KerrTown

I'm so sorry your experience of Texas was so bad.

Don't worry about him, KerrTown... he's just a troll.

[aceplace]

Originally Posted by SickOfTheSunbelt

Everybody lives to work rather than works to live.

Yo, boss, it's sicko.

Hey, listen, I won't be in to work for a few days. Well, we've made up the rent money on the double-wide, and I got a few cases of beer, so I figured me and my bros would do a little leisure time for a while. After all, I don't live to work, I work to live.

What? I've gotta come to work every day? Where do you think you are? Dallas?

[SDBreaux]

Originally Posted by SickOfTheSunbelt

Right here is the #1 problem with Dallas. Even when somebody is desperately trying to promote Dallas, it still comes back to shopping. It's all about what you can buy. This place is so materialistic and boring. Thanks for helping me out on this one aceplace.

Everything in this society is about shopping. What we see on TV, movies and even websites is geared toward shopping. That's what creates growth.

That said, here is a list of a few things to do without shopping:

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Further out you'll have the choice to enjoy many lakes for whatever purpose, swimming, fishing, exploring, relaxing. What you do in or around Dallas is up to you. If you have a sour attitude about the opportunities in the city, then you'll have a sour response to everything bad AND good.

[Lakewooder]

Actually I shop very little in Dallas. My own general rule is that I only buy apparel and some other items while in Europe, NYC, LA or SF. I have bought a couple of things in Chicago and Miami.

I will say that Neiman-Marcus is an important part of Dallas history and has set the bar very high for Dallasites who know how to dress, groom themselves and act appropriately in most situations.

[lh_newbie]

My wife went out yesterday and shopped for, of all things, FOOD. Must be a Dallas thing. Geesh!