Best place in Texas to move to...
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I felt like I had traveled back in time, just driving Shiloh road from Plano into Garland...
Exiting Richardson and enterign Garland I was like, "Damn, this is the Metroplex?!" Back in there looks like something from the 60's or 70's.
Garland was once the 2nd largest subrub of Dallas; if that's the case- it must be the OLDEST too... Sheesh!
Anyhoo, when I got here, Plano had a population of 151,000 and Garland was 180,000. The last census put Plano at 232,000 and Garland at 188,000. So, Plano is the 4th largest city in the DFW Metroplex. Unofficially, the estimate puts Plano at close to 262,000. But, Plano will soon cop off, probably somewhere between 300,000 - 400,000 because it's now surrounded by other suburbs, and has no where to grow more- unless it annexes Wylie and Parker like Dallas did Renner, TX,
Dallas: 1.2 million
Fort Worth: 625,000
Arlington: 332,000
Plano: 232,000
Garland: 215,000
Irving: 191,000
Carrollton: 116,000
That's just the big "Suburbs", I didn't count all the 20 - 80,000 towns.
The DFW Metroplex has 5.8 million people, making the DFW area larger than Houston's metro area, with roughly 5.3 million. (Houston itself counts for over 2 million of those people...
But, to put it in perspective... Dallas (385 square miles), Houston (600 square miles), etc. as cities, in terms of land are both larger than New York City (321 square miles). But, the city of New York has 8.1 million people, and the New York Metro area has nearly 18 million people. In that little region of land, live more people than the ENTIRE STATE OF TEXAS.
That's wall-to-wall people right there. That's why traffic is so bad. That's why (From my top of the bus view) times square looked like it was crawling with ants, as opposed to people.
But, if you think that's bad, Tokyo, Japan has 12 million in the city, and 35 million in it's Metro area. Seoul has 10 million in the city, and about 25 million in surrounding areas. Both of these cities, in terms of land, are smaller Dallas, but has 10 - 20 times the people. Talk about no elbow room...
Exiting Richardson and enterign Garland I was like, "Damn, this is the Metroplex?!" Back in there looks like something from the 60's or 70's.
Garland was once the 2nd largest subrub of Dallas; if that's the case- it must be the OLDEST too... Sheesh!
Anyhoo, when I got here, Plano had a population of 151,000 and Garland was 180,000. The last census put Plano at 232,000 and Garland at 188,000. So, Plano is the 4th largest city in the DFW Metroplex. Unofficially, the estimate puts Plano at close to 262,000. But, Plano will soon cop off, probably somewhere between 300,000 - 400,000 because it's now surrounded by other suburbs, and has no where to grow more- unless it annexes Wylie and Parker like Dallas did Renner, TX,
Dallas: 1.2 million
Fort Worth: 625,000
Arlington: 332,000
Plano: 232,000
Garland: 215,000
Irving: 191,000
Carrollton: 116,000
That's just the big "Suburbs", I didn't count all the 20 - 80,000 towns.
The DFW Metroplex has 5.8 million people, making the DFW area larger than Houston's metro area, with roughly 5.3 million. (Houston itself counts for over 2 million of those people...
But, to put it in perspective... Dallas (385 square miles), Houston (600 square miles), etc. as cities, in terms of land are both larger than New York City (321 square miles). But, the city of New York has 8.1 million people, and the New York Metro area has nearly 18 million people. In that little region of land, live more people than the ENTIRE STATE OF TEXAS.
That's wall-to-wall people right there. That's why traffic is so bad. That's why (From my top of the bus view) times square looked like it was crawling with ants, as opposed to people.
But, if you think that's bad, Tokyo, Japan has 12 million in the city, and 35 million in it's Metro area. Seoul has 10 million in the city, and about 25 million in surrounding areas. Both of these cities, in terms of land, are smaller Dallas, but has 10 - 20 times the people. Talk about no elbow room...
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i always say i wish i could live in the country , but have the money i make in the city, hard to do both. I live in a small town next to Houston.
Is employment part of the desicion as that might narrow it down for you.
as much as home makes me happy, i spend 8 to 10 hours a day at work.
Is employment part of the desicion as that might narrow it down for you.
as much as home makes me happy, i spend 8 to 10 hours a day at work.
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Originally Posted by BROTHERDAVE
i always say i wish i could live in the country , but have the money i make in the city, hard to do both. I live in a small town next to Houston.
Is employment part of the desicion as that might narrow it down for you.
as much as home makes me happy, i spend 8 to 10 hours a day at work.
Is employment part of the desicion as that might narrow it down for you.
as much as home makes me happy, i spend 8 to 10 hours a day at work.
If I could make what I make now, and live in Killeen, TX, that's where I'd still be. Not too big, not too small, and centrally located.
- Dallas in 2 hours
- Austin in 1 hour
- San Antonio in 2 hours
- Houston in 3 hours
El Paso in 12 hours!!!! (Yep, Texas is that big!)
With what I paid for my house here, I'd have 3,500 square feet, a media room with room for an HD projector and a 101" screen, with 2 - 3 rows of stadium seating.
Well, at 1999 prices anyway...
My house cost more than my aunt's, and she lives on 2.5 acres in Copperas Cove, TX and her house is twice the size of mine.
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Just to summarize what others have written above:
Stay away from Houston. Terrible traffic, worse weather, Katrina crime (Karime?) and an unpleasant smell around the chemical plants make it a bad to live.
Grim
Stay away from Houston. Terrible traffic, worse weather, Katrina crime (Karime?) and an unpleasant smell around the chemical plants make it a bad to live.
Grim
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Yeah, Killeen is nice. My daughter had a varsity HS soccer tournament there, we made the road trip to watch (she was goalkeeper, she got injured though), I liked the town and the country is very nice. I still prefer the DFW area to live though, my job is here, but if I was to retire it would be in the country down there if I could, even if that's WAY far off. 
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Originally Posted by jamzwayne
I'm in East Texas now. I was born and raised in Central Texas (about 40 miles SE of Austin).
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Originally Posted by DTheobald
Hey pat... another boring day at work again lol
well hopefully my girl will stop by in a little bit, so i might not be on the computer to keep you intertained.....
but yes 
