24 Year Old Single male with job opportunity in Plano. Where to live? (Dallas: unemployed, closing)

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by Treasurevalley92

Which isn't what you said. You said take that money and time and get an MBA or go to Law school. That isn't enough time or money to do either.

The biggest costs are depreciation and time. You can't invest the depreciation your car doesn't take.

Time is the biggest cost. Driving is the biggest waste of commute time, but even with that you can listen to audio books.

It's totally worth it to live in a place you like...boomers have been doing exactly that forever except they drove in from the burbs vs the reverse commute.

I bet you personally could save alot of money by taking an apartment across the street from your job and no longer owning your cars/ walking to work. You don't do that do you? Why?

I noticed that you abandoned the hard money claims from above. You do that kind of thing a lot. Just gas and tolls would cost the OP ~$300mo.

1. If you want to assume I meant someone could pay for law school @ $400mo. go ahead. Same with time..........90+ minutes a day isn't enough but it'd cover a chunk of the required time.

2. Forgetting my yard and garage replicating my house within walking distance of my office would cost 3X what my house is worth. We looked last year.

[Treasurevalley92]

Originally Posted by EDS_

I noticed that you abandoned the hard money claims from above. You do that kind of thing a lot. Just gas and tolls would cost the OP ~$300mo.

I drive further than that and pay under $120 per month in gas.

They don't have to pay for tolls.

I have coworkers who do a longer commute than the OPs in a similar amount of time he said he is willing to drive -40min

(35 min from Knox Henderson to McKinney, 55min back) This is based on real life. Of the 4 people I know who do this, 2 of them started in CC when they transplanted and considered it a huge mistake.

Originally Posted by EDS_

Forgetting my yard and garage replicating my house within walking distance of my office would cost 3X what my house is worth. We looked last year.

Great, in that case, you should be able to understand that you can't replicate an urban environment of Dallas or number of people his age in Plano. Not at 3X the cost, not at any cost.

Luckily the price will be about the same.

[Treasurevalley92]

mod cut OP can take your advice, take mine or take neither. Not much else to say here.

[turf3]

Well, I've got no dog in this fight, and I'm old to boot.


My recommendation, for what it's worth, would be to take an apartment where you think you will have good proximity to making friends, going out at night, etc.


In a year or two, you can always decide the commute isn't good and move closer to work - at which time you'll have a social network in place and driving to meet up with friends won't be a big deal. Or you can decide you're young and springy, you'll keep doing the drive for a while.


This way, you won't do like a number of posters here have done, and decide Dallas is a horrible big baby-box with nothing to do, based on living in an all-family-all-the-time exurb.


Who knows, in a couple years, the job might change, you might meet someone and get married, you might have a great offer somewhere else in the country, who knows.


Remember the old story about teaching the goat to speak.

[SummerGirl05]

I live in Chicago, not DFW, and if I were still in my young 20s, I would live near my social center. You can't discount the convenience of those impromptu nights out and recreational opportunities with people your age. 30-40 min each way is a normal commute time living within the city of Chicago to the Loop so I wouldn't bat an eye at spending 30-45 min to get to work and back each day.

Besides, 24 year olds are resilient and can get up after a night out and put in an 8 hour day at work and rally back and go again that night.

[biafra4life]

Disclaimer: I’m old (40) and been out of the dating scene for 12 years (thanks wifey).
That being said, I can emphasize with the OP, as I too was once 26, single and living in the Village while working in Uptown. There’s definitely something to be said for being close to the action. Not much beats being able to hop over to happy hour for drinks after work. Having to drive an hour to do that would definitely suck.

Addison was crappy for twenty somethings back then too.
I go to Legacy with the wife once in a while. Definitely would not have been my hangout when I was single. Not even now. It feels too artificial. Not organic at all.

All that being said...
To the OP. You are 24. You essentially do not even have a career at this point. It appears that you might have a potentially life changing job offer. Take it from old geezers like me and Eds. Building up your career is far more important for you at this point in your life. The sacrifices you make now will set you up for the rest of your career.

The girls aren’t going anywhere. In fact, having a successful career will help out there too.
Get your foot in the door. Grind hard for a couple of years, then you will be in a far stronger position to address the social life. Good luck

[Tonytime224]

Thank you everyone for your insight. I really appreciate everyone's advice and comments. Come to think of it now I'm pretty attracted to the Addison area and I will continue to do research and look out more for it. I believe it's a decent Central point to the Plano office and when I do want to get rowdy in deep ellum or uptown. I'll keep up the research and I'll my homework more. I work in technology and I'm very grateful for where my career is at (knock on wood) and this opportunity I'm taking is a relocation from my company that's in San Antonio. Thank you all for your insight.


Should y'all have any more comments and/or advice please feel free to post!

[RJ312]

Originally Posted by Tonytime224

Thank you everyone for your insight. I really appreciate everyone's advice and comments. Come to think of it now I'm pretty attracted to the Addison area and I will continue to do research and look out more for it. I believe it's a decent Central point to the Plano office and when I do want to get rowdy in deep ellum or uptown. I'll keep up the research and I'll my homework more. I work in technology and I'm very grateful for where my career is at (knock on wood) and this opportunity I'm taking is a relocation from my company that's in San Antonio. Thank you all for your insight.


Should y'all have any more comments and/or advice please feel free to post!

It is good that you came back to update. It is also good for you that you are relocating to another office in your existing company rather than starting with a new company in a new city. The new company and new city simultaneous transition is a more difficult one.

Did you not pay attention to everyone here? The only point of consensus among posters here was that Addison wasn't good.

[NTXPerson]

Just because a lot of people here don't like Addison doesn't mean the OP won't like it. I know a lot of people who enjoy living in Addison and its social scene. The people on here posting don't represent everyone in DFW and their opinion.

[RJ312]

Originally Posted by NTXPerson

Just because a lot of people here don't like Addison doesn't mean the OP won't like it. I know a lot of people who enjoy living in Addison and its social scene. The people on here posting don't represent everyone in DFW and their opinion.

I've used that same argument before. Posters on this board are not a representative sample. It is true.

Individuals posting on this board do not seem to be those who find value in Addison's social scene for 20 something singles.

In the absolute first post on this board, OP mentioned he likes fitness and sports. There are plenty of sports leagues to join here, as well as fitness pursuits that can be valuable for meeting friends and finding romantic relationships. That's an angle that we haven't discussed in this thread, and related to some of the discussion about Millennial perceptions of Dallas in that other thread. It'd be ideal to get some input from the OP before I really go into depth about using fitness and sports leagues for social advancement.