Texans!

[terrax2]

I forgot to mention that my wife is a realtor and can help y'all with your search if you don't already have one.

Just don't tell her that I forgot to mention it. She'd kill me.

 

[Nosocks]

Only if you believe AZ is more conservative than TX.



You know those were record bad winters, yeah? Worst since 1989.

Every ~33 years doesn't seem a real problem.



Depends on what you like to do, and there's some alternatives (ranches, private parks), but you're right there.

There was a similarly bad storm about 10 years ago that nearly knocked out the power, I forget the specific year. There's a definite "rose colored glasses" approach I've seen from folks who are from or moved to Texas. It's a nice place but there are more downsides that most are willing to concede.

 

[clarence]

It's a nice place but there are more downsides that most are willing to concede.

Just depends on what's important to you.

Austin doesn't have the boating and edge-of-the-world feeling the FL Keys does, but it has music, great driving, and long-range shooting.

I don't know of anywhere without trade-offs.

 

[Xtrmwakeboarder]

Let’s not get carried away LOL
Tex Amex is everywhere.

Some of the best Mexican food I’ve ever had, and believe it or not is was here in Texas:

https://www.mesomaya.com/

Good lookin out. I'm going to have to try that this weekend. TexMex is terrible....and freaking everywhere

 

[rrrr]

It's about time they re-vamp their property taxes. When cities have the funds to spend 100M on high School football fields there's a big problem.

Those stadiums are built with money from voter approved bond issues, not property taxes.

 

[Nosocks]

Those stadiums are built with money from voter approved bond issues, not property taxes.

They also rake in a fair amount from ticket sales as I understand it. Allen High specifically.

 

[Cdog]

Those stadiums are built with money from voter approved bond issues, not property taxes.

Interesting. Friends that live there around Dallas may have confused the issue then. Either way they weren’t happy about it

 

[NIKAL]

I follow a few home inspectors in the Dallas and surrounding city’s. The new construction is pretty bad. Definitely not to the standards and codes we have in So Cal. And unfortunately with the building boom & less skilled labor they are using, the worse it’s getting. If buying a new home I’d highly suggest hiring a professional inspection before closing.

 

[Kachina26]

You only need what 6-7 years? You’d get buy really $well$ with 20+ and 65 years and you’re around 57 now if i recall. Don’t believe the bs story’s on retirement, my dad did 14 total and went at 67 his A&B was just over 4500$

12 more years.

 

[parker guy]

We moved in 2022, we live in Aledo. My wife works in the medical field in FortWorth. I would suggest Aledo, Weatherford for sure. Both places have everything you need and are close to DFW if you need to get on an airplane.

 

[Xtrmwakeboarder]

I follow a few home inspectors in the Dallas and surrounding city’s. The new construction is pretty bad. Definitely not to the standards and codes we have in So Cal. And unfortunately with the building boom & less skilled labor they are using, the worse it’s getting. If buying a new home I’d highly suggest hiring a professional inspection before closing.

Agree 100%. Even my “luxury” homebuilder had issues. They were out fixing stuff on our new build the entire year of the warranty. Same for all of my neighbors.

 

[Guest06]

12 more years.

Beats 18 but yea… just don’t see there being two of us in the cab that far down the road, but i also think there’ll be a solid 5-8 before they can pull it off.

 

[Wedgy]

Pretty sure I'm going to find myself moving to the Ft Worth area in the next few months. I started with my current employer to get out of Ca 17 years ago, but I gotta say, Texas was not the goal. I've been out there for various reasons over the years, but moving there is going to be tough. I don't want to live in a housing tract, but I also don't want to live in an area like I'm in now where zombies roam free and the workforce is made up of meth monsters. I'm gravitating toward areas northwest of Ft Worth. Currently, if I want good medical care, I have to drive down to Loma Linda. My wife has to drive to Redlands for a decent job. I also don't want to live somewhere where it's building faster than the roads can handle. A morning commute out of the high desert used to be 45 minutes when I first got up here. Now, 1.5 hours is the norm and 2 hours isn't unheard of because there's really only one way up and one way down. The internet has made known any 'back way' so when shit goes sideways, everyone knows the route around. I've gotten used to a 3 car garage and room to park my toys and have some privacy from the neighbors. Any Texas inmates with thoughts? Sure am ready for some sub $6 a gallon gas.

Hey Kachina26,
Don't do it. East, North, South Texas, IMO sux.

West Texas. Family home, so why I'm here. Going on 10 years. You need good medical? Lubbock, Texas. I live 30 minutes East, in Levelland. I look around all the time. Nowhere West, to San Diego is anywhere I could or would want to live.
Lubbock medical is exceptional. I use it all the time. Hi intensity MRI at University Medical center, 2 no joke operations this year. My dog breeder has had her life saved twice there this year. Excellent specialists. The nicest people in the entire world. I've had 2 cataract surgeries. Those people there were even nicer. My general surgeon Derick Haggard is top notch Baddass.

My recovery room nurse this last time, talking about fun with our kids, "I love to shoot." Her husband has an FFL. Yeah. The Gun Guy for ALL the Doctors in town.
My Dad died at Loma Linda, buried at Riverside National. His name is on 2 memorials, here. Along with my Uncle.

I'll never leave. 2 great lakes, 90, and 120 miles. But Lake Meredith has Walleye. Lake Alan Henry, is Awesome. Buffalo Spings lake in Lubbock for check rides. Levelland is in the Canadian Municipal Water Authority, which owns Lake Meredith. Lubbock owns Alan Henry. Canadian River flows into Meredith. A major tributary of the River Brazos, flows into Alan Henry. Lubbock is in the CRWA and doesn't even tap Alan Henry. We are on top of the Ogallala aquifer.

Lubbock has everything. Flat ground, Never stopped building here. Cotton, Oil. Construction. Railroads too.
Pop 275000.

We are on the Southern Great Plains, at 3500 feet elevation. "The Dirt," Locals call it. All 4 seasons here. Snow, but none of the can't handle it power goes out dying ice storm disaster bullshit they have had 2 years now, exactly where you are thinking of going. It's a shithole Bro. Why? Lot's of reasons not to live there. Yeah, green, trees, lakes rivers, but overrun with a lot o undesirable, and it getting worse there, especially with unchecked illegal immigration.

They are also on the "Texas power grid." Up her in West Texas in the panhandle, we are not.
Unregulated Texas is a market like California had in the year 2000. Even parts of Lubbock are in it. South of here too. The power companies have to buy power on the spot market, If short supply, prices spike.

Excel Energy owns their generation in the federally regulated grid market. They have to apply for a rate hike to us. My electric has been under $200 all year, with a $208, once in the triple digit for 2 weeks this summer. Natural gas? $24. Water trash- city, $106.

A nice split level, detroit Ave, Levelland, $169000. Nice place The little house like mine across just sold in 2 weeks for less.

My 1364, 3-2-1, 7000 ft lot, block underground slab top storm shelter. Zillows at $119-$140K
.33 acre 3-1 carport. Anton, Tx. My hometown/farm area. $85000
New homes spec home, 3 out of 4 left $298,000 Levelland. Some deals on existing lot of opportunity Lubbock, Levelland.

It's like a time machine. I'm on Medicare, and the Doc's, staff don't treat you like dirt here. they are nicer than nice. And I'm an asshole. lol. Like my Buddy in Yucca Valley. Chaps my hide. Not at all like that here.

I had a great career in Tile in SoCal, wish I was out here 30 years ago, might be driving a tractor on the family farm, lol, But I could clean house still, with Tile with my Boy with me out here. No problem. Half the houses anywhere need remodeled.

,
More Folgers. HMU anytime. Good Hunting Sir.

 

[Kachina26]

We moved in 2022, we live in Aledo. My wife works in the medical field in FortWorth. I would suggest Aledo, Weatherford for sure. Both places have everything you need and are close to DFW if you need to get on an airplane.

PM sent.

Hey Kachina26,
Don't do it. East, North, South Texas, IMO sux.

West Texas. Family home, so why I'm here. Going on 10 years. You need good medical? Lubbock, Texas. I live 30 minutes East, in Levelland. I look around all the time. Nowhere West, to San Diego is anywhere I could or would want to live.
Lubbock medical is exceptional. I use it all the time. Hi intensity MRI at University Medical center, 2 no joke operations this year. My dog breeder has had her life saved twice there this year. Excellent specialists. The nicest people in the entire world. I've had 2 cataract surgeries. Those people there were even nicer. My general surgeon Derick Haggard is top notch Baddass.

My recovery room nurse this last time, talking about fun with our kids, "I love to shoot." Her husband has an FFL. Yeah. The Gun Guy for ALL the Doctors in town.
My Dad died at Loma Linda, buried at Riverside National. His name is on 2 memorials, here. Along with my Uncle.

I'll never leave. 2 great lakes, 90, and 120 miles. But Lake Meredith has Walleye. Lake Alan Henry, is Awesome. Buffalo Spings lake in Lubbock for check rides. Levelland is in the Canadian Municipal Water Authority, which owns Lake Meredith. Lubbock owns Alan Henry. Canadian River flows into Meredith. A major tributary of the River Brazos, flows into Alan Henry. Lubbock is in the CRWA and doesn't even tap Alan Henry. We are on top of the Ogallala aquifer.

Lubbock has everything. Flat ground, Never stopped building here. Cotton, Oil. Construction. Railroads too.
Pop 275000.

We are on the Southern Great Plains, at 3500 feet elevation. "The Dirt," Locals call it. All 4 seasons here. Snow, but none of the can't handle it power goes out dying ice storm disaster bullshit they have had 2 years now, exactly where you are thinking of going. It's a shithole Bro. Why? Lot's of reasons not to live there. Yeah, green, trees, lakes rivers, but overrun with a lot o undesirable, and it getting worse there, especially with unchecked illegal immigration.

They are also on the "Texas power grid." Up her in West Texas in the panhandle, we are not.
Unregulated Texas is a market like California had in the year 2000. Even parts of Lubbock are in it. South of here too. The power companies have to buy power on the spot market, If short supply, prices spike.

Excel Energy owns their generation in the federally regulated grid market. They have to apply for a rate hike to us. My electric has been under $200 all year, with a $208, once in the triple digit for 2 weeks this summer. Natural gas? $24. Water trash- city, $106.

A nice split level, detroit Ave, Levelland, $169000. Nice place The little house like mine across just sold in 2 weeks for less.

My 1364, 3-2-1, 7000 ft lot, block underground slab top storm shelter. Zillows at $119-$140K
.33 acre 3-1 carport. Anton, Tx. My hometown/farm area. $85000
New homes spec home, 3 out of 4 left $298,000 Levelland. Some deals on existing lot of opportunity Lubbock, Levelland.

It's like a time machine. I'm on Medicare, and the Doc's, staff don't treat you like dirt here. they are nicer than nice. And I'm an asshole. lol. Like my Buddy in Yucca Valley. Chaps my hide. Not at all like that here.

I had a great career in Tile in SoCal, wish I was out here 30 years ago, might be driving a tractor on the family farm, lol, But I could clean house still, with Tile with my Boy with me out here. No problem. Half the houses anywhere need remodeled.

,
More Folgers. HMU anytime. Good Hunting Sir.

That sounds nice and all, but my job is in Ft Worth. Texas isn't really my choice. I'm not mad about it, but it wasn't what I picked on my own.

 

[Kachina26]

Took a quick ride up to Springtown, I like it overall. Not nearly as flat as Ft Worth. Although I was hoping that it would be a little less rushed. I was doing 70 in a 60 while in the slow lane and getting my ass rode like I was doing 40 on the 15 in the fast lane.