City of Dallas housing - is it sustainable?

[Treasurevalley92]

Originally Posted by eastdallasmom

Unfortunately, there are people who think this way about the City of Dallas, though. There was a thread in a FB group I am in where someone had asked for a recommendation on places for a 20-something young woman to look for an apartment and one poster was insistent that there is nowhere East of 75 that is safe for a single woman to live by herself. Of course, several others chimed in to say how inaccurate that was and to suggest areas of East Dallas that would be perfectly fine, but she kept arguing with them based on "her experience as a realtor." In all fairness to the people who think Dallas is trashy or horribly unsafe and scary, there are people who live in Dallas who paint the burbs with an equally broad brush.

Yeah, although to be fair, the criticism of the burbs is more about the lifestyle, culture, cost to other taxpayers and environmental damage, not misrepresenting how dangerous they are.

[biafra4life]

Originally Posted by Bullandram1

Dallas is either super wealthy people or homeless people. I recently went and visited downtown Dallas and that’s what it was. Super rich and super homeless. There is no middle class. And the streets smelled like trash juice and dog crap. Sad state of affairs. I’ll stick to the burbs with middle class people who actually take care of their communities.

I would amend this statement to say that I don't think Dallas has a lot of middle class families, mainly due to the lack of good schools. Either you are a super wealthy family that can afford private schools, or a poor family that accepts that DISD is the best they are going to get. A middle class family that wants good schools but cant afford private is going to have to go to the suburbs.

[FW transplant]

I agree that south Dallas will grow in the next few years. I see gentrification in its future.