Thinking about moving to Dallas / Suburbs (Fort Worth, Plano: for sale, crime rates, transfer)

[MissLizzie85]

Originally Posted by EDS_

If it's so very awesome why is NY's population shrinking and NJ's population growth just a hint above flatline?

Real Estate Prices. Jobs. Taxes.

You get a LOT more bang for your buck in TX, even with rising housing prices. I do miss a good eggplant parm (like - a minimum of 3 inches of stacked eggplant - yum!), gravy, and Chinese takeout, though... and I REALLY miss 24 hour diners and the whole culture that comes with them. Someone in Dallas has got to fill this super specific culinary void at some point, right?!

[Peter5457]

Originally Posted by MissLizzie85

Real Estate Prices. Jobs. Taxes.

You get a LOT more bang for your buck in TX, even with rising housing prices. I do miss a good eggplant parm (like - a minimum of 3 inches of stacked eggplant - yum!), gravy, and Chinese takeout, though... and I REALLY miss 24 hour diners and the whole culture that comes with them. Someone in Dallas has got to fill this super specific culinary void at some point, right?!

Naah, why would a successful mom and pop, multi generational family operation up and move to TX, leave behind their customers and their vendors and start all over to win over customer base that goes out for Mexican food? They don't wont know what kind of Graavy to serve them, LOL

[turf3]

I tell you I get really tired of New Yorkers complaining they can't find the same kinds of things elsewhere.

"You know, it's just horrible out here in EBE Nebraska. Never mind the reasonable housing the big sky the safe neighborhoods and all that, it's just simply impossible to find good Serbian-Korean fusion barbecue takeaway at 2 in the morning, like we used to could in Manhattan. What a dump!"

Well, DUUHHH. Why is it a surprise that the choices available in one of the three or four major city centers of the ENTIRE WORLD are not available in smaller cities?

It's like moving to Hershey, PA and complaining about the smell of chocolate.

[tcualum]

Originally Posted by Peter5457

Naah, why would a successful mom and pop, multi generational family operation up and move to TX, leave behind their customers and their vendors and start all over to win over customer base that goes out for Mexican food? They don't wont know what kind of Graavy to serve them, LOL

That’s all sorts of insulting. I knew nothing about traditional Vietnamese spring rolls the first time I went to a Vietnamese restaurant but I figured it out. I didn’t know which tapas to order the first time I went to Cafe Madrid but I figured it out. I’m not the only Dallasite who can say this. One of the things I love about Dallas is how much the residents like to try new and different types of cuisines. We love our Tex Mex and barbecue but we have in our hearts for tons of other kinds of food as well.

[turf3]

Originally Posted by Peter5457

Naah, why would a successful mom and pop, multi generational family operation up and move to TX, leave behind their customers and their vendors and start all over to win over customer base that goes out for Mexican food? They don't wont know what kind of Graavy to serve them, LOL

Because everyone in New York and California knows that here in Texas we just learned how to tie our shoes last week, can barely read and write, and all we eat is corn pone, poke salad, and squirrel stew.


Yep.


You know, when a state has three of the ten largest cities in the USA, there is probably a little bit of urban life here and there.

[MissLizzie85]

Wow, lol. Lots of weirdly hurt feelings over people liking regional food. It's not better or worse, just different. I sure didn't know a good taco or good BBQ before coming to Texas. And sorry, just like good Tex Mex is few and far between in the northeast, good bagels and Italian food are few and far between down here. Not everything is a personal (or regional) slight.

[tcualum]

I agree that regional cuisine exists. Peter5457, however, was using an insulting and patronizing tone of voice to claim that us Mexican food eaters didn’t have the capability to appreciate other regional cuisines.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by MissLizzie85

Real Estate Prices. Jobs. Taxes.

You get a LOT more bang for your buck in TX, even with rising housing prices. I do miss a good eggplant parm (like - a minimum of 3 inches of stacked eggplant - yum!), gravy, and Chinese takeout, though... and I REALLY miss 24 hour diners and the whole culture that comes with them. Someone in Dallas has got to fill this super specific culinary void at some point, right?!

My point was rhetorical. We have a place in NYC and a small parcel of farmland in Columbia Co. PA.

Give me the Finger Lakes region - FWIIW.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by MissLizzie85

Wow, lol. Lots of weirdly hurt feelings over people liking regional food. It's not better or worse, just different. I sure didn't know a good taco or good BBQ before coming to Texas. And sorry, just like good Tex Mex is few and far between in the northeast, good bagels and Italian food are few and far between down here. Not everything is a personal (or regional) slight.

It's the phony better than you, provincial and patronizing words people, just as you wrote above, from The NE US lay on Texas/Texans. It's tiresome and phoney.

[Capitalprophets]

Italian food to NJ is like Mexican to Texas. You can't find decent Mexican restaurants in NJ. I remember Jose Tejas and Taco Bell being pretty famous lol. But no one really cared much for Mexican food.