Conservative, but less conservative than FM, for kids (Dallas, Plano: vehicle registration, home)

[UnfairPark]

Originally Posted by kyam11

True. Funny thing is you say this as if it is bad and are poking fun. The reality is those people likely are superior which is why they can afford to live there.

What? Seriously? Superior people?

[kyam11]

Originally Posted by UnfairPark

What? Seriously? Superior people?

Superior at something.

[thenewtexan]

Originally Posted by kyam11

Superior at something.

Anyone else picturing the Church Lady doing her famous Superior Dance?

[Morgan427]

We live in FM, been here 17 years and I'm a native Texan. I can totally understand your frustration with how conservative FM as well as much of Texas is. I learned after the last disastrous presidential election that there are MANY more liberal minded people than I realized. I can assure you there are probably a lot more around than you know. I just tended to keep quiet because I wrongly assumed everyone was Republican. There are a lot of liberal type groups in FM I promise you. I would try looking into meeting some more like minded people like that because much of this area will be similar. Take heart though, people are opening their minds and lots of people are moving to the area from more liberal states.

[BigDGeek]

Originally Posted by Morgan427

We live in FM, been here 17 years and I'm a native Texan. I can totally understand your frustration with how conservative FM as well as much of Texas is. I learned after the last disastrous presidential election that there are MANY more liberal minded people than I realized. I can assure you there are probably a lot more around than you know. I just tended to keep quiet because I wrongly assumed everyone was Republican. There are a lot of liberal type groups in FM I promise you. I would try looking into meeting some more like minded people like that because much of this area will be similar. Take heart though, people are opening their minds and lots of people are moving to the area from more liberal states.

Please don't say things like that. It implies that we "need" Californians to "save" us from our Republican government. If California was so awesome, why do they keep moving here to ol' red Republican KKK cross-burnin' Texas?

[Siphon9r]

What a canard. People moving from the West coast to Texas aren't leaving some economic wreckage behind. The economy in CA or WA, for example, is very strong, so much that real estate prices in the big cities make DFW attractive by comparison. All three states are doing very well despite very different approaches to government. Success isn't just a Republican or Democrat thing despite what some posters want to believe.

As to the OP, I live in FM and haven't felt that it is unusually conservative for Texas - and I'm one of those horrible people who didn't vote for the current president. Maybe we're just not plugged into local happenings, but from the town Facebook site to places like Nextdoor it seems people argue about the same variety of things they do everywhere else.

[TeamLynn]

coppell probably more conservative than flower mound.
Then again how do you really know.
Want liberal...then move to dallas.

[BigDGeek]

Originally Posted by SolarCoaster

Because I somehow thought it would be more affordable than California


Southlake 750k, Valley Ranch 350k, Addison 350k, Flower Mound 350k, Anywhere in Downtown 400k


That's ok, I can pick up a 65 year old property in the hood for 225k so it's all good


Note: Listed prices will continue to rise 10% a year with no end in sight

It's like a plague of locusts.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by Siphon9r

What a canard. People moving from the West coast to Texas aren't leaving some economic wreckage behind. The economy in CA or WA, for example, is very strong, so much that real estate prices in the big cities make DFW attractive by comparison. All three states are doing very well despite very different approaches to government. Success isn't just a Republican or Democrat thing despite what some posters want to believe.

As to the OP, I live in FM and haven't felt that it is unusually conservative for Texas - and I'm one of those horrible people who didn't vote for the current president. Maybe we're just not plugged into local happenings, but from the town Facebook site to places like Nextdoor it seems people argue about the same variety of things they do everywhere else.

My wife and I own a little place in SF and we love going out there. A few things to chew on and this all correct not me projecting - I can provide links if you'd like to see some.

Somewhere between 25 and 30% of all people on welfare in The US live in CA. CA holds about 11-12% of the population.

U6 unemployment in CA is 11.1%, 11.4% in LA County. It's 9.0% in Texas and less than that in Dallas/Irving/Plano.

Best guesses from experts indicate there are more homeless people around LA than in all of Texas.

Five of the ten US cities/areas with the most homeless are in CA.

CALPERS/CA state retirement programs are in real trouble. A taxpayer bailout is more likely than CALPERS earning 7.5-8.0% yoy forever.

My wife has employees in SF who earn $80-120K and without gifts from family very few of them can/will take the risk to buy a home within a reasonable commute of work. Several of those who do own homes have long car commutes then ferry rides and then long walks to work.
A friend of mine is a medical researcher/MD at UCSF. His rent is $11K per month for a place that could be rented around here for $2500/3000. His kids go to a worse high school there than when they were here in DFW - he can't afford private schooling out there under any circumstances etc.

Younger, working poor and lower middle class blacks are fleeing CA coastal cites in huge numbers - to be far this is also a big problem in Portland and to a lesser degree Seattle and has been for years.

We can go into effective pay, tax burdens, migration of young professionals another time.

I love CA and want to see the state succeed. As things stand now we are one national recession away from another CA mass home value decrease.

[Gravy Train]

Originally Posted by Siphon9r

What a canard. People moving from the West coast to Texas aren't leaving some economic wreckage behind.

In some cases, they're bringing their economic problems with them or leveraging their employers' relocation as a means to make faster reparations. Not that there's anything wrong with an approach, but jobs moving to Texas should make opportunity for Texans first.

Among the means to get ahead faster, I'm noticing a fair number of cars on DFW roads with out-of-state license plates. Expired tags on an out-of-state plate are one thing, but adding traffic to Texas roads while leveraging your foreign plate to skirt Texas registration is just dirt people problems.

Is Texas among the 'flyover states' a progressive west-coaster would otherwise ignore on most facets aside from cost of living?