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Old 04-05-2012, 07:16 AM
 
Location: Allen, Texas
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Most, if not all, the people I know that live in Frisco are just one person working households. I don't know anyone that works IN Frisco (aside from college kids of my friends working at Red Lobster and the like), but most everyone we know works in Plano or Dallas when they go in (most of the people we know also work from home). I'm in Allen and I would venture to guesstimate maybe 5-10% of the professionals who live in Allen do NOT work here (except for when they work from home too). Heck the company I work for is located in Tennessee.
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Old 04-05-2012, 07:19 AM
 
Location: Texas
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Frisco is where you live to go work somewhere else (Plano, Dallas, Las Colinas, etc).
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Old 04-05-2012, 11:18 AM
 
Location: Katy,TX.
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All that tells me is Frisco must be a great place to live.
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Old 04-05-2012, 01:12 PM
 
Location: North Texas
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All that tells me is Frisco must be a great place to live.
Not according to the people I know who live in Frisco. They hate it.
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Old 04-05-2012, 03:50 PM
 
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If you like a 10yr old, 4k sf house on a 12k sf lot with good schools and lots of traffic for under $300k, it would be a great place.
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Old 04-05-2012, 07:55 PM
 
Location: Willowbend/Houston
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Not according to the people I know who live in Frisco. They hate it.
To each their own. I know people who live there and love it. It wouldn't be growing so fast if most who moved there didn't like it.
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Old 04-05-2012, 08:04 PM
 
Location: Southlake. Don't judge me.
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To each their own. I know people who live there and love it. It wouldn't be growing so fast if most who moved there didn't like it.
I heard that nobody lives there anymore because it's too crowded.
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Old 04-05-2012, 08:39 PM
 
Location: North Texas
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To each their own. I know people who live there and love it. It wouldn't be growing so fast if most who moved there didn't like it.
The people I know who hate it are my age and married (I know a few couples up there) and they totally drank the 'new is better' Kool-Aid. They hassled me for buying an old house in Richardson. Now one of those couples is house-hunting in my neighborhood and the others are wishing they'd bought much closer in. They loathe the distance and the Frisco attitude.

Sure, to each their own...but not everyone loves Frisco. When I started house-hunting, Frisco came highly recommended to me. I had not spent much time up there so I drove the neighborhoods and ran some of the same errands that I normally run down here on a Saturday. No, hell no, and OMG no no no no no no no. Frisco is definitely not for me.
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Old 04-06-2012, 10:45 AM
 
Location: Texas
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Oh, please. I know many people who like living in Frisco.
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Old 04-06-2012, 04:28 PM
 
Location: Georgia native in McKinney, TX
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I don't live in Frisco but I work in Frisco. Once again, I go against the flow!

Many of the big job centers in west Plano (Frito Lay, JC Penney, Hewlett-Packard (formerly EDS), Bank of America (formerly Countrywide), Ericcson, etc, etc, are just to the south of the Frisco border. Many Frisco residents work in these corporate campuses around the tollway within a mile of Frisco, so it is not like Frisco is out in the middle of nowhere away from jobs. And its not like all Frisco residents are driving all the way to Dallas for a job either.

As Frisco matures as a city, it will add more jobs to the mix. Plano wasn't a major employment center when it first boomed as a bedroom community. The Dallas Tollway corridor from 635 north is the major boom area for job growth and it will continue its march northward. When Plano gets built out, there is a ton of empty parcels on both sides of the tollway in Frisco ready to grow.

Some won't like Frisco, but most I know that live here love it.
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