The real scoop on Dallas (Houston, Fort Worth: credit, lawyer, relocation)

[aceplace]

Originally Posted by cosmochick

I moved here last year because of Real Estate. I lived in So. Cali and 3 years in NYC prior.

I regret moving here. There's just no culture in this city.

The DFW area has a dozen art museums, several symphony orchestras, one of the best art/foreign/specialty film scenes in the United States, over 100 theatre companies...

Originally Posted by cosmochick

I guess it would be a good move for people coming from smaller states. Dallas is not cosmopolitan, it's still far from being a first rate state.

First of all, Dallas is not a state. Do you know how to speak English?

About 40% of the DFW population is foreign born or the children of foreign born. This includes dozens of nationalities.

Originally Posted by cosmochick

Downtown area is dead at night except for a few pockets of night life here and there.

Downtown Manhattan is dead at night. Downtown San Francisco i dead at night, so is dowtown Washington DC, downtown LA, etc. A downtown is a bunch of office buildings. Uptown Dallas, Deep Ellum, McKinney Ave, West End/Victory, West Village, Cedars, etc., are full of night life.

Originally Posted by cosmochick

Let's talk about real estate. I thought since it's very affordable it was a good idea to invest in a house here. Well, if I had 10 years to wither some more in this state, I should see good appreciation--maybe.

Housing is not supposed to be a get-rich-quick investment, it's a provision of a necessity of life. The ideal situation is for a house to be low in cost and appreciate slowly, in order to afford peoiple high quality shelter.

Originally Posted by cosmochick

Don't forget about the ridiculous school taxes. If you don't have kids and you own property, you still have to pay for school taxes. No exceptions!

You're out of your mind, or completely unreasonable. Is there a taxing jurisdiction in the USA where people without children are exempt from school taxes? If so, it's not a general rule to which Dallas is an exception.

Originally Posted by cosmochick

Scenery-- well they have no beaches, mountains--just a lot of traffic and still lot of undeveloped land and tons of hay.

The vast majority of cities in the United States and Europe, for one are lacking tall mountains in the city limits. Major European cities are not on the seacoast. Actually, Dallas has dozens of beaches on the lakes, all of them very wet.

Originally Posted by cosmochick

This state is good for families, especially for transplants who can't afford houses in the nicer states.

Are you floating in outer space somewhere? EVERY one of the 50 states in the USA is good for families.

Originally Posted by cosmochick

All in all, I am very disappointed that this city does not have a lot to offer for singles. I can't wait to move.

DFW has a huge population of singles who are very happy here. Whether you move away today or tomorrow will have no effect on the monumental population growth of the DFW area. Your opinions, incoherent as they are expressed, are of no particular consequence.

Why are your opinions inconsequential? Because you do not state any basis for them, you do not explain them. We have no idea how sane or deranged you may be, whether your experience of life is wise or immature, or if your whims and wants are well-balanced or neurotic. In my personal experience, people who talk like you are disturbed and eccentric. Of course, I have also met people who had good and valid reasons for migrating away from the DFW area... but they don't share your obvious anger and hostility.

[aceplace]

Basically, people like Cosmochick are abberations... people suffering from problems of adjustment of one kind or another. Her continual reference to Dallas as a "state" is a clue to her disconnection to the reality of where she is.

Since DFW has over 6 million people, and has a critical mass of people to support just about every interest and outlook on life, it is clear that rants and criticisms such as we see above are excuses and self-justifications for some deeper problem... alienated and unhappy people are like that... they come up with any and every excuse they can to avoid confronting some real problem with their lives.

Does this mean that Dallas has night life equal to that of New York and Los Angeles? No, not by a long shot. But why move from NYC to Dallas and then complain about the obvious differences? Does Cosmogirl really know what she is doing? Is Cosmogirl ready to take responsibility for her actions?

[galore]

Originally Posted by aceplace

The DFW area has a dozen art museums, several symphony orchestras, one of the best art/foreign/specialty film scenes in the United States, over 100 theatre companies...

But this isn't obvious to a passive person in contrast to cities like NYC (e.g."Broadway"). You have to make an effort to discover the culture and Dallas in general.

[lh_newbie]

Cosmochick -

Obviously TX isn't for you - that's cool. I hope you can make a successful move to a more urban-dense city - it sounds like that's what you enjoy. I have a question though:

Originally Posted by cosmochick

If you don't have kids and you own property, you still have to pay for school taxes. No exceptions!

Are you saying that in SoCal or NYC, you only pay school taxes if you have kids? I find that very hard to believe.

Brian

[aceplace]

lh_newbie, the poster was rambling on with whatever insults she could think of, without even bothering to try to be credible. She did not state the real problem she had with the city because it would disgrace her, be a discredit to her... that's usually why people lie, or spout a list of phony excuses.

I've run into her kind before... harboring some personal grudge or smarting from some injustice, and wanting to retaliate by lashing out at the reputation of the city.

[aceplace]

Originally Posted by galore

But this isn't obvious to a passive person in contrast to cities like NYC (e.g."Broadway"). You have to make an effort to discover the culture and Dallas in general.

You have to make an effort to discover the culture in San Francisco, Washington DC, Los Angeles, and every other city.

Visitors to Washington don't automatically know how to get to the Kennedy Center, they have to look it up in a map. Visitors to San Francisco won't find the Palace of Fine Arts or the Davies Symphony Hall by riding a cable car or walking up Powell street. When I last went to Los Angeles, it was a grueling chore to find the location of the LA County museum complex on Wilshire Boulevard, and then to get there on the #720 express bus.

Visitors to Dallas may see the Meyerson Symphony Hall when they fly over the city, or it may stand out when they drive down Woodall Rogers, but its schedule for the week doesn't pop into their heads via telepathy.

The daily entertainment section of the Dallas Morning News, and other publications, have plenty of information about Dallas' arts scene. And so do the newspapers and city publications of every other major city. People read them to decide which playhouse to go to, which performer is playing in which nightclub, what new art films are in town, and which theater shows them.

[lh_newbie]

Originally Posted by aceplace

lh_newbie, the poster was rambling on with whatever insults she could think of, without even bothering to try to be credible. She did not state the real problem she had with the city because it would disgrace her, be a discredit to her... that's usually why people lie, or spout a list of phony excuses.

I know. I was being nice and discrediting her post at the same time. No need to cut down people that are obviously unhappy. What's the gain?

[aceplace]

Originally Posted by lh_newbie

I know. I was being nice and discrediting her post at the same time. No need to cut down people that are obviously unhappy. What's the gain?

She needs to learn not to take her misery out on other people by insulting their city.

This would be a better world if antisocial behavior had immediate and disquieting consequences.

[USA_Mom]

Eh she hates Dallas. I had a friend that hated it too. But she loved it initially. She thinks real estate is overpriced, people are pushy and mean, and the gamat (she's native from Myrtle Beach which I assume has pricey real estate?). BUT she also had a horrible marriage to a Texas guy and I think THAT is the real issue, her experiences with him that made her upset with the whole state. And that's fine. After years of complaining about it, she moved to a better place for her.

Now where are these states people don't pay school taxes? bahaha.

[aceplace]

Originally Posted by USA_Mom

Eh she hates Dallas. I had a friend that hated it too. But she loved it initially. She thinks real estate is overpriced, people are pushy and mean, and the gamat (she's native from Myrtle Beach which I assume has pricey real estate?). BUT she also had a horrible marriage to a Texas guy and I think THAT is the real issue, her experiences with him that made her upset with the whole state. And that's fine. After years of complaining about it, she moved to a better place for her.

Now where are these states people don't pay school taxes? bahaha.

You've hit it on the head... people can't confront their personal failures, so they blame others, or the city they're in, or the country they live in.

When she claims that Dallas people are pushy and mean, does that include you? What about me, am I pushy and mean? Well, maybe I am sometimes, but only to people who insult my family, my city, my state, my country... When they insult me personally, though, I somehow laugh it off most of the time.

Your friend needs to take responsibility for her own failures, and discover what it was about herself that caused them. Living in Dallas didn't cause her to get intimate with Mr Wrong, and moving away from Dallas won't cure her lack of judgment.

Actually, I'm glad I'm not married to someone like that. If I were, though, I wouldn't blame it on Myrtle Beach.