Moving to job in Garland from CA - where should we live?

[triciaandpat]

Originally Posted by turf3

I don't think Rowlett would be closer to Miller Road than Wylie/Sachse. I worked 10 years on Miller Rd. and 10 years in Wylie.

Not sure where in Wylie but there are lots of homes less than 5 miles from the posters location and zip code. The center of Wylie is close to 11 miles. Are you referring to traffic on Miller Road? We have been looking at homes in Wylie but are drawn to being close to the lake, kayak park and the new Bayside development in Rowlett. I would encourage the original poster to drive both areas and look at some houses to see what is a good fit. Sometimes a place just resonates or feels right to you.

[TurtleCreek80]

Originally Posted by Gvine21

75228 is the hood.

75228 is a large zip code area that includes a lot of different neighborhoods. The Casa Linda Forest and Crestview neighborhoods are safe, desirable, and full of $500,000 homes. Claremont is a great family neighborhood with $200k range homes - getting very difficult to find in Dallas proper! Yes, there are bad parts of 75228 which is why I gave the general guidelines of which streets to stay west of, but the zip code isn't "hood".

[yrs2009]

Originally Posted by TurtleCreek80

Garland is a HUGE suburb so depending on where in Garland the job is, you might want to check out the following:

1. North Garland or East Richardson if the job is near the northern curve of 190 Bush turnpike. This is the nicest part of Garland. In Richardson, avoid the area around Richland College for safety reasons. The Forest/ Audelia area is one of the worst pockets of Dallas County.

2. East Dallas if the job is in central or southern Garland. Zips 75228, 75218. There are great neighborhoods mixed in with not so great ones. This can be an awesome place to live but do your research. Generally, east of Jupiter and east/south of Ferguson are places to avoid.

Richland College is in Dallas itself and the Forest Audelia Area as well right? I think there is a section of Garland in there as well.

[yrs2009]

Originally Posted by TurtleCreek80

Garland is a HUGE suburb so depending on where in Garland the job is, you might want to check out the following:

1. North Garland or East Richardson if the job is near the northern curve of 190 Bush turnpike. This is the nicest part of Garland. In Richardson, avoid the area around Richland College for safety reasons. The Forest/ Audelia area is one of the worst pockets of Dallas County.

2. East Dallas if the job is in central or southern Garland. Zips 75228, 75218. There are great neighborhoods mixed in with not so great ones. This can be an awesome place to live but do your research. Generally, east of Jupiter and east/south of Ferguson are places to avoid.

These are great suggestions, East Richardson, North Garland, East Dallas!

[TurtleCreek80]

Originally Posted by yrs2009

Richland College is in Dallas itself and the Forest Audelia Area as well right? I think there is a section of Garland in there as well.

Yes, those are both in the city of Dallas VERY close to where Richardson, Dallas, and Garland all meet. Across the street from Richland College's northern edge is the city of Richardson and Garland is a few blocks east. That area is in Richardson ISD though which we know ISD's can be confusing to newcomers as they don't follow city lines.

[yrs2009]

Never understood the fluidity of the ISD systems, I guess they grew according to the development of the area, but I wonder how that whole section of Dallas, North of White Rock lake ended up in RISD versus DISD. I would think development was growing north as an outgrow of Eastern Dallas, not growing south as an outgrow of Richardson. Is it the developers who petitioned their particular area to be served? Just wondering.

[turf3]

White flight, baby.

[TheOverdog]

White flight, baby.

I don't think 'white flight' is the answer to why school ISD boundaries don't follow city boundaries- unless it's because the richer folks lived on the edge of towns and the ISD (Richardson ISD looking to build a school on Walnut Hill for example) just grew into it. It seems like that was an insanely short-sighted decision though. Seems more likely that the edge ISDs pushed for it to get student population from the existing larger cities and therefore more $$$$.

[turf3]

I was there.

Areas like Lake Highlands (some parts) or far North Dallas (some parts) did their damndest to have their schools included in RISD to avoid what was shaping up to be a DISD disaster. RISD certainly didn't mind including those (relatively) well heeled areas into their tax base.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by turf3

I was there.

Areas like Lake Highlands (some parts) or far North Dallas (some parts) did their damndest to have their schools included in RISD to avoid what was shaping up to be a DISD disaster. RISD certainly didn't mind including those (relatively) well heeled areas into their tax base.

Hyper-simplified........
What you experienced was a continuation of a system set up in the 1800s.
DISD and its antecedents added several, perhaps a dozen, little school districts in Dallas County from around 1900 - the '60s. State law allowed DISD to absorb these districts and in doing so the new district boundaries didn't match city boundaries. Similar logic played out across Texas as some little towns and school districts faltered, later to be absorbed by other districts.

I think The Observer is a POS rag that very occasionally prints an interesting story. Long ago they did write a good one about the history of Texas school districts and whatnot. I'll try to find it and post it.