5 Reasons to live/move to Dallas (Austin, Denton: houses, universities, subdivisions)

[aceplace]

Originally Posted by Cupcake77

You are an embaressment to Texas and Texans I have met, who are intelligent and have class.

What you consider intelligence and class, most people consider as intellectual delusion and political correct.

Political correct is the religion of the ideological left, for people who are unable to learn and participate in a formal religious doctrine.

A perfect example of the financial and career worthlesness of a Liberal Arts college degree.

I hope I embarass them out of their demented condition.

[Cupcake77]

Originally Posted by aceplace

What you consider intelligence and class, most people consider as intellectual delusion and political correct.

Political correct is the religion of the ideological left, for people who are unable to learn and participate in a formal religious doctrine.

A perfect example of the financial and career worthlesness of a Liberal Arts college degree.

I hope I embarass them out of their demented condition.

Is this Chris Crocker?

Could you please make a video called 'Leave Texas alone!' I am a big fan of yours!

[TrueDat]

Originally Posted by aceplace

Places like Trader Joe's are an accommodation to middle-class poverty. It is not needed in a reasonably prosperous economy such as in Texas.

With nearly 30 million people in this state, I doubt if TJ will ignore this market for long, prosperous economy or no. While the bulk of Trader Joe's are on the West Coast and in the Northeast, the chain has made inroads in the South and Southwest in recent years, opening stores in Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, North Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee. Texas, Colorado, and Florida would be their next logical markets for expansion.

[GABMER]

wow guys! lets just leave this forum for positive comments. People like me are using this forum to get true honest opinion about the place we are interested in moving. I appreciate everyones input and like many have said, people are looking for different things. Some ppl say I am crazy for wanting to move out of Orlando and dont like when I give my opinion about this place.

[Cupcake77]

Originally Posted by GABMER

wow guys! lets just leave this forum for positive comments. People like me are using this forum to get true honest opinion about the place we are interested in moving. I appreciate everyones input and like many have said, people are looking for different things. Some ppl say I am crazy for wanting to move out of Orlando and dont like when I give my opinion about this place.

I did answer you in my last reply and in fact suggested you move here. it was aceplace that can't seem to keep on topic and went off the handle and attacked others.

[galore]

I'm neither religious nor conservative and still love living in Dallas. I moved here 11 years ago from Europe for a job and consider it one of the best things that ever happened to me. Dallas can come across ugly (especially, if you drive from DFW to the city - the first impression is a treeless barren landscape) but if you invest some time exploring the area, you'll be surprised how visually diverse and pretty it is (endless HOA subdivisions, prairie, forests, high-rises, huge lakes, quirky small neat homes, southern mansions, shopping from small markets to 80-style megamalls to modern town centers). Keep in mind that the "spectacular affordable homes" are typically far out on former prairie land (which I believe is the reason why people think Dallas doesn't have trees. It doesn't if you consider the northern plains Dallas).

I like it here because I can afford to live a debt free life working for a international corporation and owning a house without a mortgage in the city on a big lot with lots of trees and a creek. Life is convenient and good. Dallas has all the amenities that make life easy and while it is lacking spectacular topography (I lived in a country with what some consider the best alpine landscape for a few decades. been there - done that. Nice to look at but ultimately not that important for daily life), it offers enough outdoor activities for me. I also like the weather but I don't mind the heat. In fact, I love the heat and the sun!

[theloneranger]

Originally Posted by artsyguy

-Dallas might not have super high ranking universities featured on some BS Newsweek article but they are equally as good or better than the vastly overrated UT At Austin. Austin is way behind the times in my opinion. The further south you go, the more traditional, stupid, and behind the times it gets.

- Although Texas is no place for a liberal or a non-religious person. Dallas seems to be one of the best cities in Texas. Your only other option is Houston. Don't even try Austin that city is backward and behind the times like the philistine village it is.

I cannot fathom what would cause you to hate Austin so much and to spout nonsensical garbage about it on such a regular basis.

I am a Dallasite, and Dallas will always be home to me, but you are simply flat out wrong if you say that Dallas is more progressive or less "traditional, stupid, and backwards" than Austin. It just is not the case in the real world. Dallas is absolutely more traditional than Austin under any definition of the word. I don't know what part of Austin you've experienced, but it isn't the one that the rest of the 1.5 million people in the Austin area and the other 25 million Texans have experienced.

As for UT, obviously I'm a little biased, but I don't know anyone who says UT is overrated. The US News rankings penalize their fairly inclusive admissions practices for the university as a whole, but it's ranking by the academics they interview is in the top 25, and almost every single program they offer and that anyone ranks is in the top 25. There isn't a better university in the nation for Accounting or Petroleum Engineering or for many other business and engineering disciplines. Southern Methodist and UT-Dallas do not have the reputation or program offerings that UT does, and for you to claim otherwise is just flat out wrong. The University is an elite public university in the nation, in the ranks of UVA, Cal, UNC, UCLA, and Michigan. I don't know why your Austin hatred also extends to the University of Texas, but it's patently preposterous to try to claim that any university in the state other than Rice is better regarded.

[theloneranger]

Originally Posted by Dweller123

That's right, and most people don't want to live in Dallas, they have to. Either they can't get a job where they're from or RE has priced them out.

A lot of people I met in DFW, specifically more Dallas, felt they got stuck there. Of course some people like it, more power to em.

This only applies to the foreign and Yankee transplants, who thankfully aren't "most people" just quite yet. Most if not all natives of Dallas absolutely love the town and don't really want to leave.

You should go out and meet some real Texans. I promise they won't bite!

[$DFW8$]

Originally Posted by theloneranger

This only applies to the foreign and Yankee transplants, who thankfully aren't "most people" just quite yet. Most if not all natives of Dallas absolutely love the town and don't really want to leave.

You should go out and meet some real Texans. I promise they won't bite!

I am a Yankee, but I love Dallas and its people. Most people I know here love it here and are glad to call Dallas home,

[theloneranger]

Originally Posted by hsw

Most parts of world, aside from SF Peninsula and LA's Westside, have weather/topography that sucks

Much of Dallas' appeal to many major companies (like Exxon or ATT) that can locate HQs anywhere is its balance of low taxes, pro-business ethos and generally high QOL w/newer suburban housing and infrastructure, affordable for most middle-income workers

That same pro-business ethos is helpful for workers who may become entrepreneurs in future

Reality is, for upper-income people Dallas' Preston Hollow/HP is more costly than SF's Woodside and about as costly as LA's Brentwood/Palisades; suspect much of wealth in Dallas is oil&gas related...and other industries more specific to TX

However, it is probably career suicide for a promising software engineer to not be based in Silicon Valley or for a young financier to not start his career in Manhattan, no matter how "cheap" Dallas may seem to an entry-level worker

Most of SunBelt lacks much of pro-business, pro-education, modern infrastructure ethos of Dallas...consider how few major co. HQs relocate to Phx or SD or Austin or Atlanta or FL; even Houston rarely competes with Dallas for major HQ relocations, perhaps b/c of its less well-organized airports (esp useful for business travelers) and arguably weaker suburban schools (public or private; StMarks in Dallas is one of foremost schools in US in % of kids who enter top 5 colleges)

San Fran is pretty cold and has chilly winds quite often. And Los Angeles has great weather and topography if you ignore the cloud of smog hovering over your head.