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Old 11-22-2019, 01:29 PM
 
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I guess this guy doesn't consider that to be "seedy."





It's also horsepucky. I live just on the other side of 75 from there and have one of my businesses on K in the next plaza over. I wouldn't consider it seedy at all, but I grew up in a different environment. It's aging suburb-ville and that's about it.
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Old 11-22-2019, 01:40 PM
 
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Plano has crime maps you all know? The Red Roof Inn area has 16 incidents in the past 6 months and the one south also has 16 5 violent. The Home Depot/Costco in West Plano has 40 incidents 8 violent.
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Old 11-22-2019, 04:23 PM
 
Location: Eastern Tennessee
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I don't believe those ever existed.
See if the following link works -- it is the sign I remember. A quick google search of Texas road signs will provide the same sign.
Those signs DID (and may still) exist. Otherwise I wouldn't have said so.


https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...act=mrc&uact=8
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Old 11-22-2019, 04:26 PM
 
Location: Wylie, Texas
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I stayed at the Red Roof Inn between there and 75. Let me tell you, it was bad. Plano PD was there almost every night. The outdoor passageway was an open-air drug market, my last night a girl was getting beat down by two guys and they almost threw her off the balcony. When the police showed up that time one of the officers asked me if I smelled anything, apparently it was crack smoke.

When I checked out early the officers informed me that several other hotels in that same cluster were also "hot". I know trashy motels can pop up anywhere, but geez.

It certainly challenged my view of Plano. I visited my friends who live in apartments off Coit (more on the west side) and the atmosphere couldn´t have been more different.
I'll take your word for it if that was your experience.
Being in the Wylie/Murphy area, I pass through East Plano a lot to get to the PGBT/75 highways. Driving down Plano Parkway to get to 75 is all East Plano. All I see driving down that way (and Los Rios) are new expensive housing developments, a golf course. Yes there is a liquor store and the closer you get to 75 you start seeing more industrial buildings (Raytheon has an office there), but I would hardly consider this to be seedy or ghetto whatsoever. I guess being from West Plano it would seem run down to y'all over there. (Amazing how bougie some can become when they move to West Plano. Must be something in the water over there lol).
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Old 11-22-2019, 04:28 PM
 
Location: Wylie, Texas
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It's also horsepucky. I live just on the other side of 75 from there and have one of my businesses on K in the next plaza over. I wouldn't consider it seedy at all, but I grew up in a different environment. It's aging suburb-ville and that's about it.
I'm with you. While it's definitely not upscale, seedy is not the word that comes to mind when discussing most of East Plano. Now there are a few spots that are not great, but I can show you crappy parts of Allen, Richardson, McKinney, Rockwall, you name it. Most towns are not Highland Park so you are going to have a mix of the good, bad and ugly. Just like anything else in life.
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Old 11-22-2019, 05:56 PM
 
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I wonder how some of these people would react if they got "lost" and ended up in the trailer park that's just past Costco on 75
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Old 11-22-2019, 06:32 PM
 
Location: New Orleans
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I'll take your word for it if that was your experience.
Being in the Wylie/Murphy area, I pass through East Plano a lot to get to the PGBT/75 highways. Driving down Plano Parkway to get to 75 is all East Plano. All I see driving down that way (and Los Rios) are new expensive housing developments, a golf course. Yes there is a liquor store and the closer you get to 75 you start seeing more industrial buildings (Raytheon has an office there), but I would hardly consider this to be seedy or ghetto whatsoever. I guess being from West Plano it would seem run down to y'all over there. (Amazing how bougie some can become when they move to West Plano. Must be something in the water over there lol).
I mean look, it was my experience. Otherwise I don´t think the area is rough or anything. I guess I was just surprised that even in Plano you´d have a strip of seedy motels, I thought it was too high-dollar and too suburban for all that.

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Old 11-23-2019, 09:05 AM
 
Location: North Texas
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I mean look, it was my experience. Otherwise I don´t think the area is rough or anything. I guess I was just surprised that even in Plano you´d have a strip of seedy motels, I thought it was too high-dollar and too suburban for all that.
Nope, every city has a lower income area. Especially, the older and larger is gets. Unless your Highland Park. However, it is right next to some lower income areas of Dallas.
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Old 11-23-2019, 11:19 AM
 
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Nope, every city has a lower income area. Especially, the older and larger is gets. Unless your Highland Park. However, it is right next to some lower income areas of Dallas.
Exactly as large enough bubbles to cover large cities doesn’t exist.
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Old 11-23-2019, 11:26 AM
 
Location: Texas
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Part of the reason why Collin Creek Mall shut down. No one wants to touch there with 1-mile pole.
I firmly believe many malls get closed down due to gangs roaming through them and people hanging out in them during the daytime because they can't afford A/C.
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