Help with where to live in Dallas...

[phillymike]

Thanks guys for all the insight - going down next week to feel it out and look at some places. I appreciate all the feedback - does this mean I would have to be a Cowboys fan? I'm pretty loyal to the Jets...

[Lakewooder]

Curley Johnson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia went to my high school in Dallas and he was punter on the Jets team which won Super Bowl III.

[WillysB]

k - does this mean I would have to be a Cowboys fan

I was always a Green Bay fan, Dallas' eternal enemy, so I just kept it to myself. I've since come to like the Cowboys, one - because of their continuous struggle, two - because they appear to be acting like adults.

And finally, because for all the flack he gets, Jerry Jones has actually built a sports arena of outstanding qualities.

[Cascade4567]

Well, Dallas is not going to have that "dense" feeling as much as any northeastern city. The city grew in a different time and way! Dallas is larger than anything on the east coast except New York. Only Chicago, LA, and NYC are larger metros in the United States(also the most moved to metro/fastest growing metro). Dallas has amazing public transit, the best in the US-South, BUT is serving a city(metro)that is only larger in land than LA with almost 6.5 million people. Like someone said before, having a stop on a rail line every 10 blocks does not serve the population well. They are currently doubling the entire metro. In as little as 2 years there will be over 95 miles of rail lines in Dallas. No other city in the south can say that, or even come close! Get ready for some horrible traffic and large freeways(think LA)!! ALSO.....Dallas(city)is not the conservative beacon that so many people report. The metro(think Ft. Worth and other suburbs)is mostly conservative. The actual city of Dallas is very liberal and votes democrat, very heavily! In the 2008 presidential election Obama received almost 60 percent of the vote, where in Austin(Travis County), he received 64 percent of the vote, not a big difference! Some papers site Dallas is the more liberal CITY in Texas as having almost every seat held by a Democrat in the city(this changed when Ed Oakley(gay)lost in a close run-off last year). Crime is bad in Texas, BUT its is not like most cities and average around the city as a whole. Crime is very specific by area. I hate when people that live in Dallas point out that they dont go or would not recommend going downtown because of the homeless situation. I have lived in Dallas, Portland, and Vancouver and the homeless situation is not any different.

I just thought I would bring up some of the typical "stereotypes" that Dallas suffers from!

[pushDISD]

I lived in the Knox-Henderson area when I first moved to Dallas in 1992. It was great then, and now there are many new apartments built this year but a college girl was snatched and ganged banged from that area last month. Granted it was at 2 am but she was not alone either.
My vote, if you want a townhouse, do uptown. If you want a house and yard consider far east Dallas. It is less expensive but just 5 minutes from downtown if the traffic moves, or a half hour bus ride at rush hour.
Mockingbird area is really nice if you want a loft or apartment. EVERYTHING is there, literally!
Welcome to Big D

[phillymike]

Thanks again for all the advice - I found an apartment in Uptown in a great neighborhood in a great building...looking forward to the move! Keep me posted on fun Dallas activities! Thanks again to everyone for their input!

[Lakewooder]

Welcome to Big D. Have a beer at the Gingerman for us.