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Old 08-30-2018, 08:43 AM
 
Location: Fram
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Sorry but out of all the metro areas in the US, Boston is not one I prefer at all. "Nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there."

This is funny, because I've always described DFW as "Nice place to live, but I wouldn't want to visit here."


I'm actually moving back to DFW from Boston (suburbs) next week. The main reasons are friends (in DFW), weather, and cost.
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Old 08-30-2018, 09:10 AM
 
Location: Wonderland
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This is funny, because I've always described DFW as "Nice place to live, but I wouldn't want to visit here."


I'm actually moving back to DFW from Boston (suburbs) next week. The main reasons are friends (in DFW), weather, and cost.

Yep different bites for different likes.

Oh my gosh, the last time we were in Boston (a couple of years ago) I heard sirens non stop. I mean, non stop, nothing but sirens all day and all night. I think people just get used to that and tune it out or something, I don't know, but it was totally getting on my last nerve after a few days.

Good clam chowder though.
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Old 08-30-2018, 09:14 AM
 
Location: Richardson (NE DFW)
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Stay in Boston. Uprooting children is majorly traumatic.
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That is a gross over generalization.

It depends on the kids, their ages, their personalities, etc.

When I was 10 my family moved to California. It was the best possible thing for me and was not traumatic in the least. Our move here is turning out to be beneficial for both our children.
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Oh please. I am a former military brat and military wife. Living in various areas of the country can be great for a family and for kids.
Some of the most amazingly mature, intelligent and well-rounded kids that I have met came from families that relocated more than once (work/military). But simply moving around won't do that; they had to process the changes in perspective instead of stewing in resentment. I think you can only "parent" so much of that into them. That's not meant as an indictment of one's parenting skills, nor any individual. Just saying that "it depends" (duh!) but it can also be great.

My family relocated to DFW from Toronto when I was 12. We drove down in August, in a car with a burgundy velour interior and no A/C. Utterly miserable. If you make a scouting trip in summer you are virtually guaranteed to make yourselves hate it.

OTOH scout it at the height of Boston winter and it might seem really great.

For that reason, if you are at all serious about this type of relocation I would suggest checking both seasons. I personally find the summer heat more tolerable after 7pm, when the sun and humidity are least intense.

Outdoor activity data point: The Dallas Off Road Bicycle Association (DORBA) has cultivated an impressive network of dirt trails for bicycling. It's not "mountain biking" compared to Moab or Angel Fire, but there are some nice pockets of escape from the concrete jungle.

Budget-stretching bonus: cars don't rust here. You can buy a new car and keep it on the road for 20 years or more with proper maintenance.
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Old 08-30-2018, 10:08 AM
 
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OP, schedule a trip with the family and see. With the lower cost of housing, you could buy a home here that had a pool and a media room for the kids to help convince them.

Ultimately, you have to do what makes financial sense for your family, but as someone who has moved away and then come back to the Dallas area, I can tell you that as a total package (jobs/income/housing/weather/amenities/etc)... Dallas is really tough to beat IMO. You're a short, cheap flight away from beaches in Mexico or the Caribbean, which beats Cape Cod any day of the week. There are many large multinational companies that are headquartered here, so you have a lot of options for your career projection. The DFW metroplex has many affluent areas, so options for shopping, dining, entertainment, are all very good.

About the only thing I could give the Boston area the nod for would be seafood.
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Old 08-30-2018, 10:18 AM
 
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Couldnt disagree more
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Old 08-30-2018, 10:28 AM
 
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OP, schedule a trip with the family and see. With the lower cost of housing, you could buy a home here that had a pool and a media room for the kids to help convince them.

Ultimately, you have to do what makes financial sense for your family, but as someone who has moved away and then come back to the Dallas area, I can tell you that as a total package (jobs/income/housing/weather/amenities/etc)... Dallas is really tough to beat IMO. You're a short, cheap flight away from beaches in Mexico or the Caribbean, which beats Cape Cod any day of the week. There are many large multinational companies that are headquartered here, so you have a lot of options for your career projection. The DFW metroplex has many affluent areas, so options for shopping, dining, entertainment, are all very good.

About the only thing I could give the Boston area the nod for would be seafood.

Which islands? Airfares were crazy expensive all summer long pretty much to anywhere in the Caribbean, especially for non-stop flights. And very few non-stops (which are the only "short" ones) in general.
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Old 08-30-2018, 11:36 AM
 
Location: In a George Strait Song
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Hot tubs? Who uses a hot tub in the summer, those are for the fall/winter/spring.
The person I was responding to said you wouldn't go outside "6-7 months of the year".
Since it is not *unbearably* hot 6-7 months, I figured he was including the cold months. Hence, the hot tub suggestion.

Although we do often use our hot tub after swimming and then hop back in the pool.
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Old 08-30-2018, 11:56 AM
 
Location: plano
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Stay in Boston. Uprooting children is majorly traumatic.
Life is traumatic. Move now and they learn to adjust earlier in life. I love cold weather and the NE winter's were too long for me. Did you visit Plano or phone I terview only? Schools are great sports more competitive than you might think and population is diverse. Jump I'm the deep end now and swim.
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Old 08-30-2018, 12:01 PM
 
Location: Richardson (NE DFW)
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Couldnt disagree more

Noted.
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Old 08-30-2018, 12:20 PM
 
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You're a short, cheap flight away from beaches in Mexico or the Caribbean, which beats Cape Cod any day of the week.


No, it's not especially cheap to get to Mexico from DFW. And it's absolutely not cheap or especially easy to get elsewhere in the Caribbean. Houston has more direct flights to FAR more places in the Caribbean, as a point of comparison. The fact that Southwest is not allowed to fly direct to international destinations for idiotic political reasons doesn't help. And there is a HUGE difference in having destinations a couple hours away by car than in having convenient flights out of town, even if the destination is a superior version of what is closeby.


There are good reasons to like living in Dallas but I get annoyed when people exaggerate or tell untruths in DFW's defense.
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