I am looking for a new town 60-100 from Dallas, with trees. (San Antonio: home, neighborhoods)

[justinjj1]

Emory, Mineola, and Sulphur Springs are all nice smaller towns with lots of trees that are about an hour drive to Dallas or an hour to Tyler. Lake Fork offers a lot of good fishing and recreational activities.

[Creature of the Wheel]

Originally Posted by edujop

Hi, I am a day-trader, and looking to relocate to Texas because it doesn't have a state income tax, and it is in the Central Time Zone. I currently live in Pasco, WA, and I have to get up quite early to day-trade because the markets open at 0630 Pacific time. I like Dallas, but I don't want to live in a big city. I want a small city. And one with trees. Most of the cities I am looking at are to the East of Dallas, such as Tyler, Mt. Pleasant, Paris, Athens. And also Corsicana, and Sherman, which are South and North. All of these cites are about 60-100 miles from Dallas. I am moving at the end of May, and I have just started looking at these cities. So any information you can give me is GREATLY appreciated.
I also prefer a place with affordable rents. I want to rent a HOUSE for me and my pets. My ideal rent for a house would be about less than $900. J. I don't need much, just a small, clean city that has grocery stores, Walmart, and restaurants. I am a single and in my 50s. Thank you.

Why would you want to leave beautiful WA for TX? I moved here from La Center, WA almost a year ago. There aren't any trees where I am currently living. You can drive almost 50 miles in any direction without seeing a tree. If you do see one, it was either an act of something mighty or somebody planted it there.

[JimGarrison]

Do not listen to those who say pick cities north of Dallas like Denton or Sherman. Those places are still pretty congested and it's not what you are looking for from a nature perspective. You want East Texas. Places around Tyler north, south and east are beautiful places.

[edujop]

Originally Posted by JimGarrison

Do not listen to those who say pick cities north of Dallas like Denton or Sherman. Those places are still pretty congested and it's not what you are looking for from a nature perspective. You want East Texas. Places around Tyler north, south and east are beautiful places.

Thank you.

[edujop]

Originally Posted by Creature of the Wheel

Why would you want to leave beautiful WA for TX? I moved here from La Center, WA almost a year ago. There aren't any trees where I am currently living. You can drive almost 50 miles in any direction without seeing a tree. If you do see one, it was either an act of something mighty or somebody planted it there.

It's mainly for the different time zone. If I was in the central time zone, the stock market would open at 0830, and the sunrise is about 0700. In Washington state, the market opens at 0630 and it is still dark outside for another hour. I just can't day trade when it's dark outside in the morning. The best trading occurs the first two hours of the day.

[edujop]

Originally Posted by justinjj1

Emory, Mineola, and Sulphur Springs are all nice smaller towns with lots of trees that are about an hour drive to Dallas or an hour to Tyler. Lake Fork offers a lot of good fishing and recreational activities.

Thank you for the ideas. I will also look at Lake Fork and see what types of recreation there is. I am not a fisherman or hunter. The only recreation I enjoy is ATVs (and of course bicycling and walking).

[edujop]

Originally Posted by Mark Senior

Maybe more litter than you are used too. I'm extremely littler conscience, and pick it up often. It's just not, I guess, as clean as a few other places in the country that I have been too. Even in front of gyms, the parking lot, people leave the gym but throw down their plastic water bottles, drink cups. Tyler has a Keep Tyler Beautiful Committee to clean parks, stream beds, and plant trees, flowers, but it is that some people just don't care, I'd hate to see the insides of their houses.

But again, I don't know what you are used too, some people don't even see what I'm talking about.

I know what you are talking about. Nothing makes me feel more uneasy than a town that is littered, or dirty. It makes me feel unsafe, or insecure. Likewise, a city or town that is well-kept and where the people care is something I could not be without. I really need that sense of being in a well-functioning city where people care.

[KathrynAragon]

Originally Posted by edujop

I know what you are talking about. Nothing makes me feel more uneasy than a town that is littered, or dirty. It makes me feel unsafe, or insecure. Likewise, a city or town that is well-kept and where the people care is something I could not be without. I really need that sense of being in a well-functioning city where people care.

Just food for thought - I have lived in the Tyler area for over 20 years and I don't notice "more" litter here than in other areas of the state, or country for that matter. And I'm a naturally neat and clean person who thinks littering is one of those things that you just may go straight to hell for if you die without asking God for forgiveness! Right up there with killing mockingbirds with a BB gun.

Come check out Tyler. I think you will be very pleasantly surprised at the amenities, the housing choices, the cost of living, the pace of life, etc. Tyler is a little jewel in the great state of Texas!

[edujop]

Originally Posted by KathrynAragon

Just food for thought - I have lived in the Tyler area for over 20 years and I don't notice "more" litter here than in other areas of the state, or country for that matter. And I'm a naturally neat and clean person who thinks littering is one of those things that you just may go straight to hell for if you die without asking God for forgiveness! Right up there with killing mockingbirds with a BB gun.

Come check out Tyler. I think you will be very pleasantly surprised at the amenities, the housing choices, the cost of living, the pace of life, etc. Tyler is a little jewel in the great state of Texas!

The litter comment really spooked me.

[KathrynAragon]

Originally Posted by edujop

The litter comment really spooked me.

It would have spooked me too in your shoes. But honestly, if you don't come check it out, I think you are really shorting yourself. Don't let that one comment take Tyler off your list. You really need to come check it out for yourself and compare it to the other top contenders.

I don't think Tyler has any worse of a litter problem than any other place I've been in the US. That comment really surprised me. After I read it I have tried to notice if the problem here is actually severe or more noticeable and I truly can't see how it could be considered so. It really doesn't seem like an issue here - at least not anymore than anywhere else. Face it, ANY littering is irritating, and I see littering as an issue across the US - heck, I see littering in many parts of Europe for that matter and it didn't used to be as severe there as it is now. It's actually more striking there to me, but maybe it's because it has been on such an increase over the past twenty years.

Just look at the level of littering wherever you are and then compare when you visit. I doubt very seriously that it's worse in Tyler than it is in your current location.