Dallas vs. Los Angeles (size, smog, districts, building)

[nslander]

Originally Posted by rotorholic

What a worthless post, You are right about one thing, I am better off in Dallas away from people like you. You ignored to read and understand that I lived in LA for 30 years before moving to Dallas.

I ignored nothing.

You cited gangs as a problem. They are. I responded that Dallas have an even higher crime of rate.

You cited unemployment. Unemployment sucks here. I responded that TX has an even higher rate of poverty. I neglected to add its own unemployment rate has risen to a record high.

You stated you lived here for 30 years, cashed out, moved, and paid your debts. I responded by re-stating your own words: your financial condition is largely explained by the equity you gained from owing property in CA.

Please pardon me for being less than diplomatic when you’re trying to convince others how their lives suck by making huge generalizations based on your experiences and life decisions while conveniently omitting wild inconsistencies in your own story.

[bigdumbgod]

Originally Posted by nslander

wild inconsistencies

Everything's bigger in Texas. So are these.

[munchitup]

Originally Posted by bigdumbgod

Everything's bigger in Texas. So are these.

LOL this is great.

[RaymondChandlerLives]

Originally Posted by rotorholic

I lived in LA for nearly 30yrs and will tell you first hand, its a dump! Horrible place to live and raise a family at, I laugh when I read how people say, there is so much to do jere with the beaches and mountains close by.lol

What about all the Gangs, foreclosures, unemployment rate? All of my family and friends are doing worst since I moved to Dallas four years ago. I was lucky and sold my LA home in 2007, Came to Dallas with 200k and paid of my home at a young age.

For those thinking in moving here, DO IT! There are more opportunity's to make money than SO-CAL.

The award for "Least Believable Post of the Day" goes to...^

[Count David]

Originally Posted by RaymondChandlerLives

The award for "Least Believable Post of the Day" goes to...^

What's so unbelievable about it? Do you not know how cheap Dallas is?

[rotorholic]

Originally Posted by RaymondChandlerLives

The award for "Least Believable Post of the Day" goes to...^

Why is it so unbelievable? There are thousands of people who did the same. For the record, My debt in CA was my mortgage to respond to the "wild inconsistencies" post. You guys enjoy questioning my story and being a slave to your mortgages if you even have homes.


I stand by my original statement, There are more opportunities in Dallas to make money, make a living, raise a family, OWN a home in a better neighborhood without being rich. Don't believe these negative posters trying to keep you in the dump called so-cal.

[RaymondChandlerLives]

Originally Posted by David Aguilar

What's so unbelievable about it? Do you not know how cheap Dallas is?

Forgive me for teasing someone who despises LA, but I'm not buying that he owned a house here. At all.

[RaymondChandlerLives]

Originally Posted by rotorholic

Why is it so unbelievable? There are thousands of people who did the same. For the record, My debt in CA was my mortgage to respond to the "wild inconsistencies" post. You guys enjoy questioning my story and being a slave to your mortgages if you even have homes.


I stand by my original statement, There are more opportunities in Dallas to make money, make a living, raise a family, OWN a home in a better neighborhood without being rich. Don't believe these negative posters trying to keep you in the dump called so-cal.

Yeah, but you have to live in Dallas to do it.

There's a reason why Greater Los Angeles has a larger population than Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Austin's metros COMBINED. It's simply a far better city. Is it tougher to make it out here? Sure. Are more people willing to give it a shot as opposed to living in places like Dallas? You bet.

[nslander]

Originally Posted by rotorholic

Why is it so unbelievable? There are thousands of people who did the same. For the record, My debt in CA was my mortgage to respond to the "wild inconsistencies" post. You guys enjoy questioning my story and being a slave to your mortgages if you even have homes.


I stand by my original statement, There are more opportunities in Dallas to make money, make a living, raise a family, OWN a home in a better neighborhood without being rich. Don't believe these negative posters trying to keep you in the dump called so-cal.

You might want to look up the definition of "negative", because repeatedly generalizing millions of other peoples' homes over a huge region as one gang-infested dump and gleefully mocking foreclosure and unemployment rates while ignoring the same in your own backyard is a ****-poor way of being positive.

You're original post is below. Assuming all that is accurate, you sold near the top of the market and took with you $200k gained from the CA real estate market. Instead of expressing a shred of humility for benefiting from that fortuitous windfall and saying you are happy with your decision and you have found more economic opportunity since moving, you went out of your way to deride everything in Southern California from the mountains, the beaches, the housing market, the crime, the unemployment, to the people.

If you lived here for 30 years, took a bunch of equity in 2007 and have already paid off your TX home at a "young age", you must have been very young when you purchased in CA, and you must have been doing well financially to have purchased when you did, especially at such a young age. One would think you'd be escatic you entered and exited this market when you did, or be gracious enough to at least acknowledge the oportunity provided by CA at that time. But, nope.

People happy with their decisions don't feel the need to convince other people their lives suck, especially by resorting to such massive generalizations. Seriously, what the hell dis you expect when this was read by people who are doing fairly well and love living here? I've been to TX more than enough times to know I never want to live there, but I feel no need convince Texans otherwise. In fact, I want them to stay put. The only reason I'm wasting time on this is because you are torturing objective criteria to justify your subjective opinion, which only insults the reader.

"I lived in LA for nearly 30yrs and will tell you first hand, its a dump! Horrible place to live and raise a family at, I laugh when I read how people say, there is so much to do jere with the beaches and mountains close by.lol

What about all the Gangs, foreclosures, unemployment rate? All of my family and friends are doing worst since I moved to Dallas four years ago. I was lucky and sold my LA home in 2007, Came to Dallas with 200k and paid of my home at a young age.

For those thinking in moving here, DO IT! There are more opportunity's to make money than SO-CAL."

[RaymondChandlerLives]

Originally Posted by nslander

You might want to look up the definition of "negative", because repeatedly generalizing millions of other peoples' homes over a huge region as one gang-infested dump and gleefully mocking foreclosure and unemployment rates while ignoring the same in your own backyard is a ****-poor way of being positive.

You're original post is below. Assuming all that is accurate, you sold near the top of the market and took with you $200k gained from the CA real estate market. Instead of expressing a shred of humility for benefiting from that fortuitous windfall and saying you are happy with your decision and you have found more economic opportunity since moving, you went out of your way to deride everything in Southern California from the mountains, the beaches, the housing market, the crime, the unemployment, to the people.

If you lived here for 30 years, took a bunch of equity in 2007 and have already paid off your TX home at a "young age", you must have been very young when you purchased in CA, and you must have been doing well financially to have purchased when you did, especially at such a young age. One would think you'd be escatic you entered and exited this market when you did, or be gracious enough to at least acknowledge the oportunity provided by CA at that time. But, nope.

People happy with their decisions don't feel the need to convince other people their lives suck, especially by resorting to such massive generalizations. Seriously, what the hell dis you expect when this was read by people who are doing fairly well and love living here? I've been to TX more than enough times to know I never want to live there, but I feel no need convince Texans otherwise. In fact, I want them to stay put. The only reason I'm wasting time on this is because you are torturing objective criteria to justify your subjective opinion, which only insults the reader.

"I lived in LA for nearly 30yrs and will tell you first hand, its a dump! Horrible place to live and raise a family at, I laugh when I read how people say, there is so much to do jere with the beaches and mountains close by.lol

What about all the Gangs, foreclosures, unemployment rate? All of my family and friends are doing worst since I moved to Dallas four years ago. I was lucky and sold my LA home in 2007, Came to Dallas with 200k and paid of my home at a young age.

For those thinking in moving here, DO IT! There are more opportunity's to make money than SO-CAL."

Yup, looks like Dallas took a real winner off our hands, haha...