Rural/country area, 20 mins to everyday retail, 80 mins to airport, no work commute (Denton: home, shops)

[lakehighlands]

Originally Posted by mdok88

Is it true Dallas city dumps bus loads of homeless in Denton, just to get them out of Dallas and offload the problem to elsewhere?

While that absolutely sounds like something the poorly managed city of Dallas would do, it is not true.

[Hank__]

Originally Posted by lakehighlands

While that absolutely sounds like something the poorly managed city of Dallas would do, it is not true.

Those are UNT students.

[CCCyou]

Originally Posted by mdok88

Now that full time work/city life is behind us we're looking for acreage (1-2 absolute min, hopefully more like 5-10) in a rural/country/ranch setting.

Still want to be within 20-25 mins drive at most to:
Dollar, Walmart, Kroger, Costco, ALDI.
CVS, Walgreens, Target.
Autozone, O'Reilly, Napa, Advance.
Ace, Tractor supply, Home depot, Lowes, Harbour freight.
Restaurants, BBQ, Steak, Italian, authentic Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese etc. You can bet our final decision gets made on where the good food is.....

Schools not important (no kids).
Daily work commute not important (online based part time work) but that does mean I need good internet connection.

I want a large 6 car garage/workshop to work on my car build/modify/restoration projects. Building a car/atv and then driving it around local area to test it is what I like. So some twisty sealed roads, trails, off road etc nearby and a set of neighbours that don't mind this sort of thing is what I'm aiming for. Perhaps if land is big enough I can stay on my own property for this. What's important is that you don't have neighbours that call the cops on you every time they see the neighbour riding his atv down the road again...

Wife likes being a housewife, going to shops/mall for pampering, imax cinema, retail therapy at least once a week. So still need to be within 20-25 minutes of a decent one.

Every second month or so we'll go to airport and have a two week or so holiday, so about 80 minutes to airport is about our limit. House will be vacant/locked at this point and would hope it's not going to get broken into whilst away.

Would prefer land and then build what I want. Doubt I'll find what I want ready made.
Land: 200-300k
House: 600-800k
Garage/workshop: 100-150k

We're red and don't want to turn it blue.

Any suggestions for good areas to concentrate on would be most welcome.

Here ya go - ticks all boxes! - https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1...7188369_zpid/?

[WorldKlas]

Look in Tarrant and Denton Counties. Go to Realtor.com and do an advanced search.

[mdok88]

Originally Posted by CCCyou

Here ya go - ticks all boxes! - https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1...7188369_zpid/?

Nice find! Thank you!

[mdok88]

Originally Posted by WorldKlas

Look in Tarrant and Denton Counties. Go to Realtor.com and do an advanced search.

Is Denton potentially in annoying areas of DFW International flight paths?

[mdok88]

Originally Posted by Hank__

Those are UNT students.

OK great. Thanks for the tip.
Saw a comment on a utoob video and started to worry...

[TheOverdog]

This should be pretty easy. 80 minutes to the airport could be halfway to Abilene down I20.

[WorldKlas]

Originally Posted by mdok88

Is Denton potentially in annoying areas of DFW International flight paths?

There are some areas that are in flight paths; if you find an area of interest come back and ask on City Data!

[CCCyou]

Originally Posted by mdok88

Is Denton potentially in annoying areas of DFW International flight paths?

No - most of the year winds are from the south, so planes are taking-off (noisiest) going that direction (south).

Even in the winter (north winds), Denton is far enough away that the jets are high up enough that won't be loud.

I used to live on the south end of Denton area for about 12 years - would spend a lot of time outside (2acres backing up to 60 acre preserve) and in winter only about once a month or so would notice/hear a huge jumbo ascending - inside the house never.