Depends. Unless a company is up-sizing due to future planned expansions, I would say that most are looking to fill positions that they have vacant now. They are looking to fill these positions quickly. Its been my experience that the same week that my resume goes out, I need to be available for interviews. If not that week then the following week. Employers don't want to wait around very long unless its a position that requires a very specific skill set and is difficult to fill.

 

So....


In town?

or

Country?

 

I lived in Grand Prairie (next to Arlington)...if you like Ricers...and baseball (Ball Park in Arlington is nice) you should at least check it out.

 

I agree, I think that Charlotte, Raleigh or Alexander, Va should be on your list.

 

Williamson County area has some really good schools.


...oh, and are you sure you dont weant to be a lumber jack? (damn that cracked me up Kobi)

The Lumberjack

Sorry high_lander...nothing personal...I just thought that was funny as hell.

 

I wouldn't mind country-ish.

 

Come to south western NYS lovely place, quiet, NO traffic, cheap living avg New home here in the country~120k. Don't say it you guys its wonderful here. No pollution, no people, no traffic, great schools, hunting,fishing traping,camping, hiking, whatever its here waiting.

 

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BuckDropper,

Thanks for the photos. I had a chance to drive through WNY when I helped my sister move back from CT. Beautiful country. However, the winters would keep me from moving there. Sorry, I was born and raised in SoCal, just not used to that kind of weather. Summers are are a little too humid for me as well.

Thanks though.

 

All you need is a plow truck and an air conditioner!!!!!! but i do understand!

 

Coming from LA to DFW you'll adapt easily to the traffic... You may even think it's "light" compared to LA, for the first 3 months, then you'll be like, "Damn, the traffic is a real b*tch here!".

We're currently enjoying the coolest summer I have ever had in TX, only hit 96 so far, and rain damn near daily. Again, that's an anomalie. It could jump to 108 any day, and couple that with our humidity, and you'll have to go to the Middle East to find a more suffering type of heat.

Houston is more humid than Dallas, but we get hotter than Houston, so it's about 50/50. Houston is cheaper, but- they also have to worry about hurricanes from time to time.

Best places in DFW to live.

• PLANO (Often in the top 10 US cities over 150,000, with hardly any crime, further west your house sits, the more money you have.)
• NORTH DALLAS If you can't get to Plano, this is the next best thing- Preferably between Keller Springs Rd. and Plano Parkway, near the toll way.
• Southlake: #1 High School Football program in the United States, 3 years in a row. Lots of rich kids.
• Frisco (Growing so fast, it's ridiculous. Expect horrible traffic due to people filling up Frisco, faster than the roads are growing.
• Addison (This is the DFW version of Austin's 6th street- except its a whole town. If you like to party, and hit the resturants- this is the town for you.)
• Allen (Plano Jr.)
• McKinney (Country town, gone metro-sexual)
• Las Colinas (Diamond in the rough)
• Lewisville (Nice. Got to get on I-35 to get there though.. Ooohhh)
• Flower Mound (Nice, and close to DFW.)
• Irving, TX: is OK, but looking run down in certain spots. (180,00) *Las Colinas is a master planned "town/community" in the middle of Irving.
• Garland, TX: I haven't seen an "up & coming" spot in Garland in 10 years. (190,000)
• Mesquite, TX: Up & Coming.

If you want to be in the middle of everything, try the H.E.B. area (Hurst Euless, Bedford). Grand Prarie is nice too. With all the suburbs, and 4 cities in the area with over 250,00 people (Dallas 1,100,000, Fort Worth, 750,000, Arlington 375,000, Plano 260,000). There are a lot of smaller towns to move too, and nearly 6,000,000 people in the DFW area. There's something here for every taste, from rural (Lucas, TX, Justin, TX, Anna, TX) to urban (Dallas, Ft. Worth, etc..)

If you're in IT, there are jobs everywhere, but Legacy (Plano) and Telecom Corridor (Richardson) is probably where you'll end up working. Plano ISD has the highest salaries for teachers in this area- but is also the toughest district to land a job in. As was suggested before. Rent somewhere, until you guys are stable, and know where you're gonna work- then put some roots down a reasonable driving distance from your places of employment.

Snows rarely, but we do get ice- and we have a LOT of over passes here... High overpasses.

If you have a house in LA, and sell it, you can probably pay cash for a house here, then use the left over cash to get yourself a nice bimmer.

The city of Dallas itself may not be as populous as LA, but the Metro Area is vast. Live in McKinney, and work in Grand Prarie, and you'll see what I mean. This SOB is w-i-d-e, and tall, and spread out.

Best shopping in the country- so your wife will love that. Mall's the size of small towns here.

There are some towns south of Dallas that are growing, and even less expensive than any town I mentioned so far. (Cedar Hill, Red Oak, Desoto, etc...)

 

Went to Houston once. Fly in and get picked up by the rental car chick. See a brawl in the mall parking lot. See a big *** wreck go down in torrential rain storm on the freeway. Get mugged trying to by a VCR cheap. Meet up with a down and out Banker selling everything he owned (bought his Corvette and drove it back to Oregon) And on the way back get in the worst lightning and hail storm of my life. All this happens within one week. I’m telling you it’s a strange place.

 

Why has nobody mentioned Granbury yet?

 

Granbury is a great place! Just a little far to commute to the DFW area, but some do.

 

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks very much.