Conservative Areas? (Dallas, Highland Park: school, living, law)

[loves2read]

check out this link to article about cattle ranching in Florida in early part of 1900s--and see if there is any coorelation to what usually happened in Texas--and I think this FL technique was common to that area because of the land's physical composition...
The Cattle Industry: 500 Years in Florida

[texastiger81]

I just moved here from High Point and my family loves Prosper. Look at Prosper in Prosper :: Welcome to Prosper

[Macintosh Sauce]

Originally Posted by Spade

And Tarrant County is trending that way itself. Also, be mindful in choosing where in Collin County (since that's where it's best to go to if you're looking for a conservative area). Because the closer you are to Dallas County, the more you'll be surrounded by Californians.

What about Canadians? LOL

[HealthInfoTech]

Originally Posted by loves2read

and I am SO TIRED of the people who want new/updated/attractive parks, no-pot-hole streets, librairies with plenty of computers and story time and all the best sellers, top quality schools with low class sizes and perfect teachers to guarantee their children will achieve better than anticipated results, any extra curricular activity they might want and eventually earn college scholarships so they don't have to pay for tuition, the best police and fire service with enough personnel to handle any emergency quickly and professionally, city utilities that actually drop their rates, cheap tuition at state colleges, ad infinitum...
all at lower taxes than the year before...
Frankly that is what most people I see talking about "fiscal" conservatism want---

I soooooooooooooooooooo agree. Preach, honey. Puh-reeeeeeech!

[yjc281]

Originally Posted by BigDGeek

That is my fear too, that the Californians will turn Texas into California II.

Don't worry. Obviously my definition of "liberal conservative" is totally different from what some "liberal" says. California is full of liberals (Liberal Democrats plus moderate(i.e. liberal) Republicans In Name Only) who prefer a bigger government. We surround them in DFW and we will not succumb!

[loves2read]

my take on liberal conservative is that companies who pay their CEO mega millions should not qualify for ANY tax breaks--yet many of them do...

my take on liberal conservative is that anyone whose hand is caught in the cookie jar should have it slapped--no matter what political party they belong to or pay into

that NO person from public office should be able to take a job with any company or its subsidiary or parent company s/he has done business with for a year BEFORE entering public office for as many years as s/he was IN public office--
so if a two term senator leaves office--16 years must elapse before can take a job with any company that was in any special interest legislation...or does business in the senator's expertise field...
like Chris Dodd and banking/finance or John McCain in military issues or "science, commerce, transportation" since he was chairman of that committee ...

[hstfan82]

Originally Posted by yjc281

Don't worry. Obviously my definition of "liberal conservative" is totally different from what some "liberal" says. California is full of liberals (Liberal Democrats plus moderate(i.e. liberal) Republicans In Name Only) who prefer a bigger government. We surround them in DFW and we will not succumb!

As someone who lives in DFW and a trasplant, I am happy to tell you the area is getting more liberal by the day. Dallas County went for Obama by 15 points, and in the city he won by a 30 point margin. The only conservatives left in Dallas proper are confined to the Park Cities/Preston Hollow areas. Collin County even voted more Democratic than 4 years ago.

[Scout3]

Originally Posted by Robin2007

We are thinking of making a move next summer. We are Conservatives and are starting to feel like fish out of water here in Charlotte. Can you recommend areas around Dallas where we might feel at home...good schools and neighborhoods are a must.

Right now, we are looking at West Plano...Frisco...Richardson.

Thanks for any advice that you may have!!!

Do you plan to live in a neighborhood where almost every house has a sign welcoming George back to the area?

[theloneranger]

Originally Posted by Scout3

Do you plan to live in a neighborhood where almost every house has a sign welcoming George back to the area?

That's my neighborhood. I think it's a great honor to have a former president in the neighborhood--he literally lives across the street from my old elementary school and I think it would have been awesome to have the president come visit as a little kid.

He was a damn good governor--he managed to work with a severely divided legislature to actually get stuff done.

It took Rove and Cheney to turn him into a blundering idiot.

[redman421]

Collin County is a Republican-stronghold in Presidential and congressional elections. The last Democrat to win in the county was Lyndon Johnson in 1964. As the northern Dallas suburbs spilled into Collin County in the late 1960s and early 1970s its politics immediately swung to the Republican Party.
In the House of Representatives, the southwestern part of Collin County is represented in Texas's 3rd congressional district and the rest of the county is represented in the Texas's 4th congressional district. Both districts are held by Republicans, the 3rd by Sam Johnson, and the 4th by Ralph Hall, who only recently switched to the Republican Part