White Middle-class suburb in the Metroplex (Dallas, Plano: good schools, living, moving)

[nzzi22]

I need some suggestions for communities in the metroplex that are mostly middle-class white areas with good schools. I'm from the Northeast and could be making a move there within 2 years.

Also, do any of these towns fit that description:

Haltom City
North Richland Hills
Hurst
Colleyville
Flower Mound
Coppell
Carrollton
Plano
Allen

[jeffari-al-texani]

I suggest you look at Pleasant Grove in Dallas. Seems like that would be right up your alley!

[nzzi22]

I was thinking more outside the city limits though.

[Macbeth2003]

Originally Posted by nzzi22

I was thinking more outside the city limits though.

I believe he was recommending a poor black urban area as a satiric response to your incredibly racist sounding question. Are Irish okay? I'd like to judge just how archaic your requirements are. 1950's racism 1850's racism the definition changes.

[jeffari-al-texani]

Originally Posted by nzzi22

I was thinking more outside the city limits though.

Oh...then try Balch Springs...

you will absolutely love it there!!!

[caligurltotx]

Just curious where in the NE do you hail from? It amazes me that the more things change the more they stay the same!

[compSciGuy]

GreatSchools.net has ratings for individual schools and also broad breakdowns for performance for racial groups and grade levels. So, people can infer in general if the members of the specific minority races are outperforming the whites, greater/similar social-economic scale, ... or being bused in from the poor part of the district for forced diversity, etc.

[rb4browns]

Originally Posted by Macbeth2003

I believe he was recommending a poor black urban area as a satiric response to your incredibly racist sounding question. Are Irish okay? I'd like to judge just how archaic your requirements are. 1950's racism 1850's racism the definition changes.

Funny how nobody calls out AA/latino/asian/Jewish posters when they request to be among people primarily of their ethnic backgrounds. Welcome to 21st century racism, the definition changes indeed.

[todd_a]

Originally Posted by rb4browns

Funny how nobody calls out AA/latino/asian/Jewish posters when they request to be among people primarily of their ethnic backgrounds. Welcome to 21st century racism, the definition changes indeed.

Add to this the fact that you encounter people asking "what part of town is best to live in?" then describing themselves and if their ethnicity is included in the description, someone usually points them to the parts of town that have a higher concentration of that ethnicity, and no one calls anyone out on that one either.

I read a post yesterday of a person moving from India that was directed toward an area that had a high concentration of people from India and I immediately thought to myself "I bet that was offensive to the Indian poster." But it was never mentioned in a negative light, so it was ok with the Indian poster, and apparently everyone else that posted. So segregation is still a factor, however now it is voluntary segregation.

Most people tend to migrate to areas primarily populated with their ethnicity voluntarily with a small percentage of deviation.

Call it racism, reverse racism, or total misinformation between ethnicities, but the world is a long way from being an integrated society. The fact that everyone is blatantly aware of, and can point out areas that are primarily populated with each ethnicity is proof.

I guess everyone is willing to mix and mingle to a point, but they find security and comfort around others that share their primary ideals, views, religious outlook, and other aspects which can usually be found most readily in a group with their similar ethinicity. Because in order to integrate fully, everyone would need to loose thieir own views in these areas, and find a happy medium in a combined integrated society, and people usually don't like to give up things they are used to and in this case it would mean loosing part of themselves for the ability to fully "blend" into the general mix. If you stand out, you will be pointed out and people have a problem with that, so they go to where they blend in easier and we are back where we started.

The only problem with this is that "caucasions" are not allowed to openly discuss this and everyone else is. This is todays racism. It is some sort of payback from how "caucasions" treated everyone else in the last centuries.

So, does anyone here see a problem with answering a question from someone who is actually being honest about their desire to live in a location where they will be surrounded by an ethnicity that they are comfortable being around primarily? If you actually have a problem with this, then think about it this way - would you rather have this person living next door to you in your ethnic area, causing whatever problem they might cause as a result of "having" to live among a different ethnicity when what they really wanted was to be around their own ethnicity?

Think about it while you are laughing about your satiric responses among your friends and family who may be looking over your shoulder urging you on, who are probably also your same ethnicity.

[MurphyPl1]

Originally Posted by rb4browns

Funny how nobody calls out AA/latino/asian/Jewish posters when they request to be among people primarily of their ethnic backgrounds. Welcome to 21st century racism, the definition changes indeed.

Actually there was a post last week from a woman looking to find out what AA women did for fun in McKinney. Quite a few of those responses were "um, the same as non-AA women."