Been thinking about a move to Texas. Whats a good location outside or near Addison or Dallas for a couple that makes 150k a year?
Pilot Point, Whitesboro, Van Alstyne, Blue Ridge, Frogknot
Moving from Vermont. I like vermont living just hate our politics and it doesn't seem to be getting better. Move budget would be 100k-150k. Maybe Texas or that area of Texas doesn't fit my needs the best. My wife job has a branch in Texas so it's at the top of the list. Especially if they're thinking about leaving. I'm not loving not being able to snowmobile so was also wondering on what I could replace it with in Texas.
commuting is the sport here in which most folks find themselves spending several hours a day engaged
two wheeling (wind therapy) is how they wind down in the evenings and weekends (theres a Harley Davidson dealer every 8 miles)
Californians landed here about ten years ago and property values have doubled in that time
My personal property taxes have gone from $3900/yr in 2010 to $7100 in 2020
the local police force has tripled their manpower in the past 5 years
Its hard to tell the suburbs from the regular urbs
We moved to the "country", more and more folks came out and they called it suburbs and more and more people came and now we are part of the metroplex.
I used to commute an hour a day to a $30k/yr job, now i commute 5 minutes to an $80k job. I have less disposable income now than ever. The dollar just doesnt go very far these days, and so many people chasing it
Good luck, if you like snow, you wont like Dallas, it snowed once here in the past ten years and that blew away inside of 8 hours, but somehow managed to close nearly every road due to traffic accidents. A half inch of rain will cause so many traffic accidents your insurance rates will go up every month. My auto policy costs me 715 a month and I havent had a wreck since 1991(got rear-ended at a stop light)
Someone above recommended the Piney Woods of East Texas and I couldnt agree more, its beautiful over yonder, 100foot tall pines and also some big hardwoods (how i picture VT)
Google will give you the demographics for almost every county if you do a search
Theres current about 4 million folks in the Dallas/Ft Worth area as opposed to the 3.9 million in the entire state where I come from.
12 million in Houston I believe and I think about 30 or 40 of those folks are Texans, maybe 3000 of them are Americans.
Austin/San Antonio is Sacramento2.0
my two cents: if you like VT but dont like the politicians, stay home and vote them out, grass roots style, get involved, run for office, support the candidates you do like, talk to your neighbors, get organized, make a differnce, bloom where you're planted.
Im following my own advice and I'm goin' back home. Texas is getting too purple, too full, too crowded, and too expensive.
Hope that helps
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