Why the hostility towards suburbanites?

[rowlett mom]

There is not enough housing in Dallas to support all the families that have moved to the burbs anyway. Most people want a decent house, nice neighborhood and good schools.
The decent houses in nice neighborhoods with good schools in Dallas are too expensive for young families. Therefore people move to the burbs and actually enjoy the peace and quiet, the safety and less traffic. People with families really aren't interested in living in affordable sub par neighborhoods in Dallas just to live in Dallas. Jobs are spread out in every direction anyway so you can be closer to work and live in a suburb. I enjoy going to Dallas to shop and to look at the fantastic christmas lights in some areas, but the traffic is a grind. Some suburbs are just as bad, great for shopping but traffic is a nightmare. I travel all around Dallas and the surrounding areas for my job and the one thing you can count on in Dallas is there will always be traffic, no matter the time or day.
I understand it is tough for people who grew up in Dallas years ago and see all the changes going on, all the new people who have moved in and changed Dallas. It has happened in every big city. My old hometown has gone through the same thing, on a smaller scale because it was a smaller city, but it looks completly different when I go for a visit now. The good thing is if you live and work in Dallas you don't even have to venture out to the burbs, you can just pretend were not here, we won't even be offended.

[rantanamo]

Originally Posted by rowlett mom

There is not enough housing in Dallas to support all the families that have moved to the burbs anyway. Most people want a decent house, nice neighborhood and good schools.
The decent houses in nice neighborhoods with good schools in Dallas are too expensive for young families. Therefore people move to the burbs and actually enjoy the peace and quiet, the safety and less traffic. People with families really aren't interested in living in affordable sub par neighborhoods in Dallas just to live in Dallas. Jobs are spread out in every direction anyway so you can be closer to work and live in a suburb. I enjoy going to Dallas to shop and to look at the fantastic christmas lights in some areas, but the traffic is a grind. Some suburbs are just as bad, great for shopping but traffic is a nightmare. I travel all around Dallas and the surrounding areas for my job and the one thing you can count on in Dallas is there will always be traffic, no matter the time or day.
I understand it is tough for people who grew up in Dallas years ago and see all the changes going on, all the new people who have moved in and changed Dallas. It has happened in every big city. My old hometown has gone through the same thing, on a smaller scale because it was a smaller city, but it looks completly different when I go for a visit now. The good thing is if you live and work in Dallas you don't even have to venture out to the burbs, you can just pretend were not here, we won't even be offended.

Do you ever wonder why this is? The fed made their bed with cities post depression and WWII.

[ladysrodgers]

Originally Posted by mbd723

Other great Dallas neighborhoods:

Forest Hills
Little Forest Hills
Bent Tree
Bluffview
Devonshire
Greenway Parks
Preston Highlands
Timberglen
Melshire Estates (WT White is another great high school)
Northwood Hills

Don't forget: Dallas' TAG (talented and gifted) HS was ranked #1 HS in the US last year (US News and World Report).

The subject is: Why the hositlity towards suburbanites, not neighborhoods in Dallas.

[ladysrodgers]

Originally Posted by rowlett mom

There is not enough housing in Dallas to support all the families that have moved to the burbs anyway. Most people want a decent house, nice neighborhood and good schools.
The decent houses in nice neighborhoods with good schools in Dallas are too expensive for young families. Therefore people move to the burbs and actually enjoy the peace and quiet, the safety and less traffic. People with families really aren't interested in living in affordable sub par neighborhoods in Dallas just to live in Dallas. Jobs are spread out in every direction anyway so you can be closer to work and live in a suburb. I enjoy going to Dallas to shop and to look at the fantastic christmas lights in some areas, but the traffic is a grind. Some suburbs are just as bad, great for shopping but traffic is a nightmare. I travel all around Dallas and the surrounding areas for my job and the one thing you can count on in Dallas is there will always be traffic, no matter the time or day.
I understand it is tough for people who grew up in Dallas years ago and see all the changes going on, all the new people who have moved in and changed Dallas. It has happened in every big city. My old hometown has gone through the same thing, on a smaller scale because it was a smaller city, but it looks completly different when I go for a visit now. The good thing is if you live and work in Dallas you don't even have to venture out to the burbs, you can just pretend were not here, we won't even be offended.

You're totally right. Why people can't just accept that not everyone "wants" to live "in" Dallas without their obvious animosity is beyond me.

[ladysrodgers]

Originally Posted by rantanamo

Do you ever wonder why this is? The fed made their bed with cities post depression and WWII.

Does it really matter why it is? WWII was over 60 years ago, and the depression by far longer than that.

Dallas would grow whether transplants moved there or not, that's still no reason to be so demeaning towards suburbanites.

[SepiaZelda]

Originally Posted by MurphyPl1

What I find interesting is how even within some of the group of die-hard Dallasites, there's a snobbery about just what is Dallas. Nothing above Forest, nothing above 635, etc.

Oh honey! I get a nosebleed if I go north of Lovers. Good thing MFP doesn't have that problem!

[SepiaZelda]

Originally Posted by nativeDallasite

When I was in HS a lot of the people in my neighborhood were the original owners of the houses; they raised their families there in the 1950s-1970s and were dying off in the 1990s and early 2000s. Now the vultures are swooping in and wrecking the place.

Sounds like Highland Park.

[SepiaZelda]

Originally Posted by Lakewooder

For 1950s areas I would suggest the areas just to the north and south of Mockingbird from Skillman to White Rock Lake (Lakewood Elementary) and on up Mockingbird to Peavy over to Lochwood (exemplary Hexter Elementary). Some of these are known as 'L-Streets'. As the west shore of the lake gets more and more expensive (you think they are 'overpriced' now, wait 7-10 years -- yikes) I expect the east side to take off...

Ridgewood Park is another good one.

[nativeDallasite]

Originally Posted by SepiaZelda

Sounds like Highland Park.

Eh...I'm not a Parkie.

[SepiaZelda]

Originally Posted by nativeDallasite

Eh...I'm not a Parkie.

I grew up there but wouldn't live there now. It makes me sad to see the family oriented neighborhood that had excellent schools and protection turn into Stepfordland. Though, I am glad there are other races in the Park Cities, now. That's one change I can get behind.