5 Reasons to live/move to Dallas (Spring, Howe: statistics, eat, associations)

[aceplace]

Originally Posted by Cupcake77

Because it's CHEAP!
Colorado people try and chase people out. Not very succesful.

Or maybe because people don't think Colorado is worth the price you have to pay.

They chase people out? What a demented group of xenophobic sociopaths!

[Cupcake77]

Originally Posted by momof2dfw

I don't ask "where do you go to church" just to speak about my faith or whatever. I and most people, I'd say 95%, ask it as a way to find a common denominator. It is akin to asking a person you just met:
Where do you live?
Where are you from?
Kids? Ages?
Where do the kids go to school?
Where do you work?
Where do you go to church?

They may not go to church and they may not have kids but we still ask the questions. If someone said they don't go to church or don't have kids you just simply move on to the next question. No biggie at all. But if they name a church they go to then the next thing that might come up could be: Oh, we go there..........or, we know some people that go there. Do you know jane doe? I've even been answered w/, "when we go we go to abc church". No biggie at all. If someone does say they go somewhere and you happen to go there as well it makes a CONNECTION! WOW! They might then say being a "newbie" to the area, "we don't know anyone there yet but were wanting to go to the xxxx festival they are having. Is your family going? That is how friendships and connections are made.



Well, they did get you to leave....... Sorry, couldn't help it on that one. Since you not being a native from Colorado and all . Moving there when your 16 doesn't make one a "native" . It just makes you part of the influx of people coming in that are causing the growth

I am a native and it's my home and where I choose to live. Unfortuantly due to circumstances out of my control keep me here.

native or tranplants from cali, people want to live in Colorado because it is beautiful and for the weather. Nobody wakes up one morning and says hey I want to live in the armpit of the US! Yes, I must go there now!

No, people go where there's work or in our case transferred. They also go where they can afford to live, californians are a great example of that. But if people had the jobs they wanted and the cost of living wasn't so bad in some states, they would not move to Texas or any place they find undesirable.

I can understand being defensive over where you live. I get crap from people all the time because I live in Texas. And I find myself defending it because I am embaressed. I used to agree with them, but after awhile I got tired of them telling me how crappy it is here and how they are sitting in their house with the windows open and cool breeze coming through or how they hiked in the mountains and went river rafting... I am aware of it!

meanwhile I am sweating my a$$ off, maybe taking a dip in the pool. Driving to the store and seeing nothing but a sea of yellow grass, flat land and busy highways... it sucks. sorry if you find it offensive or not agreeable to your way how you see Texas. But it is what it is.

The people are very nice here, I think much nicer and polite vs Colorado, Denver ( colorado in general) has the snobs, I haven't met any here in Dallas. that was the first thing I noticed when I got here. I do like the humidity, it's been very good for my skin and hair and night time swimming is awesome. Tex Mex, not the same in Colorado. much better here hands down.

I still rather be back in Colorado

[Cupcake77]

Originally Posted by Lakewooder

Colorado people are a strange mix of California and Midwestern types if you ask me -- why is Cupcake trying to hijack the thread to Colorado? Because they hate Texans? We own a lot of Colorado and part of it used to be Texas. So get over it.

The Japanese do. At least the Ski Slopes... You just learned something today.
Oops and The state of Colorado
Actually Ted Turner owns a continuous tract of land that goes from Mexico to Canada and is in fact the largest individual landholder in the country, so maybe him. Not sure if he owns in Colorado

[Cupcake77]

Originally Posted by aceplace

They chase people out? What a demented group of xenophobic sociopaths!

That's us. Now stay out. nothing to see or visit.. just drive around the state. Thank you

[aceplace]

Originally Posted by Cupcake77

I am a native and it's my home and where I choose to live. Unfortuantly due to circumstances out of my control keep me here.

No, not that tired excuse. You live here because you find it better, on balance. Or maybe it's because you've been enslaved into indentured servitude?

native or tranplants from cali, people want to live in Colorado because it is beautiful and for the weather. Nobody wakes up one morning and says hey I want to live in the armpit of the US! Yes, I must go there now!

Just a tiny fraction of the migrant population choose to live in Colorado. Weather? What weather? Lethally frigid winters?

No, people go where there's work or in our case transferred. They also go where they can afford to live, californians are a great example of that. But if people had the jobs they wanted and the cost of living wasn't so bad in some states, they would not move to Texas or any place they find undesirable.

They don't have the jobs they want and they have a high cost of living because they live in the USA version of a third world country with a Banana Republic legal system and Soviet-era economic controls. Dallas has become a big winner because it is better than all other places with plenty of jobs and low costs. The American Sunbelt has plenty of places that have plenty of jobs and low cost of living. Dallas is not unique in that regard.

after awhile I got tired of them telling me how crappy it is here and how they are sitting in their house with the windows open and cool breeze coming through or how they hiked in the mountains and went river rafting... I am aware of it!

We've had plenty of pleasant days like that in the last 8 months. Hiking in the mountains? That's an example of cognitive dissonance. You get a group of people that move to mountains so they can hike in them, and sooner or later they delude themselves into thinking that the entire human race makes mountain hiking their number one priority.

In your case, you claim that Western Colorado is "better". If that's true, you'd take a job waiting tables in a greasy spoon to be there. In the case of Dallas, people move here because they want the buzz of big city life, in the 4th largest metro in the USA, 5th in North America. Colorado has no urban area similar to Dallas, certainly not Denver.

meanwhile I am sweating my a$$ off, maybe taking a dip in the pool. Driving to the store and seeing nothing but a sea of yellow grass, flat land and busy highways... it sucks. sorry if you find it offensive or not agreeable to your way how you see Texas. But it is what it is.

Well, I've never seen texas, since it's 800 miles across... I can only see to the horizon... but from where I am here in Savannah, Texas, I see vivid green fields, darker green trees, rolling hills, shimmering lakes and bayous...

The people are very nice here, I think much nicer and polite vs Colorado, Denver ( colorado in general) has the snobs, I haven't met any here in Dallas. that was the first thing I noticed when I got here. I do like the humidity, it's been very good for my skin and hair and night time swimming is awesome. Tex Mex, not the same in Colorado. much better here hands down.

You know why Colorado people are so insufferable? It's the harsh weather... it raises their irritability level, acts as a source of subtle, chronic pain, and wears out whatever feelings of good nature they ever started life with.

[Lakewooder]

Anyplace where you have to pay $30,000 to heat your driveway so that you don't break your back or have a heart attack shoveling snow would not appeal to me.

[Cupcake77]

Originally Posted by Lakewooder

Anyplace where you have to pay $30,000 to heat your driveway so that you don't break your back or have a heart attack shoveling snow would not appeal to me.

first of all people use snow blowers, LOL
2nd usually the city comes in and does the streets and HOA hires people to do the sidewalks and driveways.

As for who owns the land..
the US Federal Government controls the most land in CO
http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/i...edlands/co.pdf



Sheesh this is too easy. But keeping me busy today.

[Cupcake77]

Originally Posted by aceplace

No, not that tired excuse. You live here because you find it better, on balance. Or maybe it's because you've been enslaved into indentured servitude?

Just a tiny fraction of the migrant population choose to live in Colorado. Weather? What weather? Lethally frigid winters?

They don't have the jobs they want and they have a high cost of living because they live in the USA version of a third world country with a Banana Republic legal system and Soviet-era economic controls. Dallas has become a big winner because it is better than all other places with plenty of jobs and low costs. The American Sunbelt has plenty of places that have plenty of jobs and low cost of living. Dallas is not unique in that regard.

We've had plenty of pleasant days like that in the last 8 months. Hiking in the mountains? That's an example of cognitive dissonance. You get a ggroup of people that move to mountains so they can hike in them, and sooner or later they delude themselves into thinking that the entire human race makes mountain hiking their number one priority.

Well, I've never seen texas, since it's 800 miles across... I can only see to the horizon... but from where I am here in Savannah, Texas, I see vivid green fields, darker green trees, rolling hills, shimmering lakes and bayous...

You know why Colorado people are so insufferable? It's the harsh weather... it raises their irritability level, acts as a source of subtle, chronic pain, and wears out whatever feelings of good nature they ever started life with.

I can't even read this. what are you babbling about now? geezus.. take a nap and settle down. You're going to burst an artery. lol Starting to worry about you. Besides I don't give a toss what you post because you are irrational. You're just jealous. I can't change that.

[aceplace]

Originally Posted by Cupcake77

I can't even read this. what are you babbling about now? geezus.. take a nap and settle down. You're going to burst an artery. lol Starting to worry about you. Besides I don't give a toss what you post because you are irrational. You're just jealous. I can't change that.

Hahaha, you can't win a debate on the facts and the arguments, so you descend to a personal attack. ... the final, ultimate thrust of an inarticulate loser of the argument.

[Canine*Castle]

Originally Posted by Lakewooder

Anyplace where you have to pay $30,000 to heat your driveway so that you don't break your back or have a heart attack shoveling snow would not appeal to me.

How can anyone have a heart attack or break one's back shoveling snow? Now I can see working in the heat of Texas to cause one to have a heart attack or worse. It happens every year to many. If I'm not mistaking, heat causes the most weather related deaths than any other weather event.