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Don’t really understand it. It’s cookie cutter suburban sprawl on flat land. Looks like any other nondescript suburb. If this is the premiere suburb in America, beam me out of here please. I can think of 20 nicer streetcar suburbs around the country where I would much rather live.
I'm aligned with you, but I would think that most would consider things like quality of schools, home prices, and employment opportunities before Google street view. Streetcar suburbs are a sub-genre of suburb that would tend to fair poorly at such statistics. For example, if they have good schools they will likely be super expensive.
Don’t really understand it. It’s cookie cutter suburban sprawl on flat land. Looks like any other nondescript suburb. If this is the premiere suburb in America, beam me out of here please. I can think of 20 nicer streetcar suburbs around the country where I would much rather live.
I didn't say the best suburb at urbanity. The best suburb for what people who are looking to live in suburbs care about the most. Access to high paying jobs, amenities, safety, good schools, affordability, infrastructure, availability of nice homes.
I didn't say the best suburb at urbanity. The best suburb for what people who are looking to live in suburbs care about the most. Access to high paying jobs, amenities, safety, good schools, affordability, infrastructure, availability of nice homes.
From my perspective, Cary has very similar qualities to Frisco - both are prosperous and largely white collar suburbs with many transplants from across the nation and world. The major difference is that Cary is in a prettier setting and has developed at a solid but less explosive pace.
I choose Frisco given that its becoming more of an employment center and not just a bedroom community. Companies based there or with large offices include the
The PGA,
Great Batch Medical
Keurig/Dr. Pepper
Oracle
MoneyGram
Level 3
Fiserv
Dallas Cowboys HQ
True story - prior to it becoming a Flavor of the Month suburb, Frisco was just a wide spot on Highway 121 that was known for a cat house, bath houses, and massage parlors with happy endings.
I believe you get it mixed up with The Colony to the west of Frisco lol. I believe the only thing that was up that way was a battery plant that they had to clean up when it closed down and people who had estates with a lot of land that were happy to cash out to developers.
I believe you get it mixed up with The Colony to the west of Frisco lol. I believe the only thing that was up that way was a battery plant that they had to clean up when it closed down and people who had estates with a lot of land that were happy to cash out to developers.
I was told by long-timers that both cities (which are right next to each other) had a seedy past. When we lived in DFW, Frisco was full of snobby, WASPY d-bags who couldn't afford the Park Cities or Southlake, but acted like they were on-par with them.
I'm aligned with you, but I would think that most would consider things like quality of schools, home prices, and employment opportunities before Google street view. Streetcar suburbs are a sub-genre of suburb that would tend to fair poorly at such statistics. For example, if they have good schools they will likely be super expensive.
Fair enough. I grew up partly in Plano with family still there so pretty familiar with the area hence my eye roll when I see Frisco described as the “premiere suburb in America.” 8 lane intersections, strip malls in every direction and tract houses on tiny lots with nowhere to walk to. And it’s not even that cheap when you factor in property taxes. Also there’s quite a bit of variability in the schools too within Frisco. Some are pretty mediocre, you still have to pay for the good ones.
Neither would be a top pick for me, for the same reason as Guineas, but out of the two I guess I'd take Frisco, just because the DFW metro is so much bigger and more diverse. I think it's important for kids to be exposed to different cultures, lifestyles, and experiences. Better-located airport, too, for taking trips to different cities to expand their horizons. Ideally I'd want to be closer to Dallas, but in Frisco I'd try to live close to the town center, just so my kids could bike and walk places alone or with friends, and not depend on me + my partner in this hypothetical to get around.
I'm also in tech and it'd be easier to find another job in DFW if something happened with my current one (though the Triangle is making strides here too).
The big advantage in Cary would be outdoor recreation, but the impression I get from most parents is that they don't have nearly as much time or energy for that stuff as they'd hoped.
Frisco, TX is the premiere suburb in America right now. Access to the one of the largest and fastest growing metro areas in the country, dynamic economy, lot of amenities. Kind of hard for most suburbs to compete against it.
I understand areas like Phillips Creek and Hills have no shortage of luxury homes. But to call the city a crown jewel of American suburbia seems pretty out there. A vast majority of it is fairly unremarkable. I've never once thought to myself in Frisco, "this is a premiere suburb", let alone "this is THE premiere suburb". I mean, it's large?
Off of the downtown, many of the neighborhoods are very meh.
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