I just hope you're not giving people from Illinois or West Virssippi (Indiana) the bright idea to move to Texas. I love the areas around Winnsboro or near Corpus. ALL OF TEXAS IS AWESOME!!! Texas is one of few places where people know how to act like Americans still. 🍻
I prefer your straight-facts/stats format and not the suggestions...it sounds like Forney and Rockwall and Celina, etc, may be cutting you a check on the side LOL
This format is good. It has additional information about home price ranges that go with where people are leaving to. Quite different from your other top ten videos. Thumbnail is accurate because it gets stormy in the Dallas M.S.A. Great video.
I would have mentioned Fort Worth TX being the fastest growing city in the country last year in this video. Fort Worth added more new residents then any other city in the country in 2022.
I’ve lived in Dallas most of my life and one of my biggest disappointments with its growth is how cheaply built the new homes are and how expensive they’re being sold for. Every development is so cookie cutter it looks like someone hit copy paste a hundred times.
That happens in every metro across the US. I lived in 4 different ones and they each have a few major local or regional builders. Because you have 4 local major players, the same houses are repeated in each one because each one has the same builders. If you throw a national builder in the mix the same house you see in Dallas you see in Chicago LA or DC.
I lived in Dallas for 30+ years, and I can summarize the city and its surrounding areas in one simple statement: Brutal heat, brutal traffic, violent weather, and expensive. If that sounds like your cup of tea, your search is over, you’ve found your final resting place.
"Expensive" maybe for Texans. I see it as extremely cheap compared to here in Boston. I'm considering moving there as rent is half price and I'd get the no state income tax and warmer weather.
The fact that you said it’s expensive made you lose all credibility. Expensive compared to where? Name a city/Metro that has 7.5 million people that’s cheaper. Is it hot? Yes for about 2-3 months. Care to tell the people about the rest of the year? A cold snap? Sure it happens, but you left out the fact that the majority of the winter is relatively mild.
A warning about moving a little too far from where you work in the city and have to commute in. There was a community built 2.5 hours north of Los Angeles in the Mojave desert. Developers made sure it had everything, was well planned and beautiful, and was cheap to buy in. They hoped LA workers who were sick of LA's problems would flock to the development, lured by low prices and higher quality of life. They were right and the community filled. Within 2 years, it was a ghost town. The daily total of 5 hours commuting resulted in no time to do anything at home except eat and sleep. People were stressed out to the max and began fighting and drinking. Divorces skyrocketed and families broke up. Be careful what you wish for.
@billl1127 No, and I can't remember the name of the place. I tried searching the Internet for it but nothing. I was living in LA at the time (1990's) and thought about buying up there but was glad I didn't.
Very surprising how many people will let a job dictate their lives. Especially, where they decide to live longterm. My job works around me and my needs. I dont work around it.
@@mrddkeyify I looked at this via the Internet but Rosamond houses look too old. There were a lot of articles & photos in respectable newspapers and magazine about how this place turned into a disaster. The LA Times has a free but limited archives section that allows you to search headlines. If I get any free time, I'll try searching there.
I moved from NYC to Dallas/Ft Worth with my job 43 years ago, and for 43 years I suffered from this heat here. It is brutal. I'm an outside person and trying to bike/walk/garden in this heat, for me, is almost impossible. This year 2023, is the hottest summer ever. First it was record heat/humidity, then the humidity left and now, not a drop of rain for weeks and bone dry outside where the soil is cracking open. If you can stand the heat, it's a nice place to live. I am planning on moving back home because I miss the 4 seasons and the ocean. I'm not moving back to the city but probably somewhere in Connecticut. I don't think I can make it through one more summer here, not after this year.
I agree! I live in Dallas and my wife and I are looking to move to a cooler place with more outdoor activities. The weather is absolutely brutal from May to September & the allergies are out of this world. It’s also gotten outrageously expensive to live here. I mean it’s crazy to think that 97 degrees is a cold front down here 😅
I've lived in Dallas for 16 years and the amount of building and construction in the last 5 years is insane. I moved here from NY for the weather and less expensive cost of living. Now its so much more expensive and crowded.
I left Dallas 4 years ago, I lived there since 1998 til 2018 Off and on, I loved the winters, I hated the summers and allergies! I now live in Washington State and very happy.
I lived in west Texas and traveled periodically to the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, before leaving a couple of years ago for other opportunities. The weather can get extreme in that metroplex & surrounding area -- 100 degree heat, cold snaps, and severe thunderstorms that bring large hail, 70 mph winds, and tornadoes. Something to consider, for those visiting before deciding to move there.
The way the are pouring roads and foundations around DFW is turning it into a big concrete jungle heat pit, just like what’s been happening to Phoenix.
I've been in DFW my whole life and this has always been a hot spot but it's insane how much it has grown in the last 20 years! It's almost unrecognizable sometimes! My Dad used to hunt deer here! Let that sink in how country it was 45 to 50 years ago!
I live in Dallas, and honestly it is going out of hand when it comes to rental prices ! Believe it or not it is way more expensive than Austin and many other considered expensive cities
There seems to be a downside to living in an affordable smaller town outside of a big city. If you're hoping to get some space, nature, peace, and serenity in that area decades from now, more than likely it won't stay like that forever and will head toward suburbanization. Pretty soon more traffic, restaurants, shops, hospitals, and office buildings will start going up.
Yeah, go out north of Frisco and drive the 380 between Greenville and Denton -- its become the "new big expensive suburban destination" boundary to the north. (Frisco was the one before it, took about 20 years to built out Frisco all the way to 380 and west to Little Elm) That whole stretch is already overbuilt with hospitals, shopping areas, and every chain you every heard of (and a lot you haven't) well represented in the strip centers. That is how far you go out for a brand new big house on a decent size lot now. Because nobody seems to want to buy a "used" house in the 'burbs. And of course Briggs didn't mention the OTHER reason a lot of people move out and THOSE specific towns are so popular. White Flight. Dallas city is majority Black/Hispanic. The ones with a lot of money buy into the Park Cities. There was a HUGE construction surge downtown in apartments for the last 10 years that drove that increase - -but now most of its built and its becoming tight if you don't want to live in an apartment. What happens is the college kids live in the urban core apartments.. until they buy a BRAND NEW house way out in the burbs. They love living in Dallas until their kids are near school age.. then its off to the burbs where they have new fancy schools. So its still a form of White (or really WEALTH) Flight.
@@redwolfexrI work in Allen. It's mostly Indian & Muslim. Followed by a hispanic population. White people are even selling their properties in Anna, TX now. They are about to get push into OK in 5 years.
@@redwolfexri remember driving down 380 from Denton and it was EMPTY. 2-3 years later and got damn 380 so damn full of traffic. Lots and lots of new stores
Back when i lived there i would drive to certain areas to get away from the city and see some dark skys...... now the city stretches 30 miles north of where that was
Your report touched on schools. Please consider reporting on housing for seniors and disabled. We are being forced to move due to insurance and taxes. Thank you for a wonderful report.
Grew up in Dallas, Texas. Joined the military and traveled around the world and states. Dallas is still one of the best cities I want to live in. Im talking about the North dallas area(Plano Mckinney, etc). Cost of living is still cheaper than other cities, good schools, less crime, no state tax, etc. Its hot but its dry heat. Dry heat is better than heat+humidity you get in the east and south coast. California had best weather but its so expensive and dirty. Also homeless every corner.
I don’t know who told you but it is NOT a dry heat here. Granted maybe not as bad as Houston or NOLA but our heat index has been the highest in the country consistently this past month.
For me it was the crime. I lived there for 7 years. in that time my apartment was robbed 2 times. The apartments force you to carry renters insurance, because it happens so often.
I have two different relatives who moved to the Dallas Metro area but they do not live in the actual city limits of Dallas. One of them lives in Rowlett, which borders Rockwall to the West and the other lives in Flower Mound. While Dallas is a very vibrant and prosperous city, many people do not live in the city limits. The city has a multitude of very nice, relatively rural suburbs that are highly desirable. It’s kind of interesting that everyone I know from Dallas does not actually live in the city proper, but instead lives in one of its suburbs.
The city is 42% Hispanic and 24% Black. The city had a school lottery with busing until because of an old policy in the 50s and 60s that allowed "local" areas to buy up better schools with special assessments and the good "aka white" areas did so. Also the Black schools from the segregation days were in poor shape. So Dallas had very good, very poor and "decent" schools based on the race and wealth of the areas. So the feds ordered busing, which really meant that if your kids got selected in the lottery to go to a "bad" school -- you moved to a suburb. But really since Texas "teaches to the Test" now, education is fairly uniform across the state. (uniformly poor, and the teachers can't deviate from the curriculum or "waste time" encouraging educational deviation) If they don't teach the test they get poorly scored by the state.
Haha, I've been telling my coworker I want to move to Dallas, but I always say not actually Dallas, I mean Grapevine or Plano. She always says no one ever actually means Dallas.
@@bradleylovej They have been redeveloping ("gentrifying") all the older downtown neighborhoods with luxure apartments. SOMEBODY is moving into downtown. It REALLY comes down to whether you have kids or not. Grapevine/Flower Mound/Plano/Frisco -- are where you live when School District really matters. Those areas have a higher tax base per capita and it shows in the schools. Also those districts are less likely to get Abbotted. (State taking over school districts on slight pretext) No kids? It comes down to whether you want a suburban cookie-cutter home surrounded by strip centers (Plano/Grapevine) -- or you want more central apartments or more central smaller less cookie cutter home where your distances are shorter but you have to time traffic. No kids? Downtown Dallas is much nicer. The only places in the 'burbs I might be interested in are the ones that are designed to be like what Downtown already is. (Grapevine downtown, East Plano, ect...)
@@redwolfexr I don't have kids but don't want to live right in the middle of the action 😅😅 I want a somewhat smaller area that is big city adjacent. Also, you have to admit, a lot of people say they live in Dallas but don't actually mean Dallas. I don't know how many times I've had this exact conversation: "We live in Dallas." "Dallas, Dallas?" "No, it's way too crowded. We live in (insert suburb)."
Very cool Briggs! Thanks for the extra motivation to "find my next place". I love it here in DFW! I'll probably stay somewhat local...unless something crazy happens. Your numbers for Frisco and Plano....on housing. A bit LOW. Plano avg home price is about $520k right now and Frisco is even higher at $660k. Both places are great to live in/work in.
Dallas used to be an engineering town back in the 1950s and 1960s. The fully integrated circuit was patented at Texas Instruments in 1958. The ATM was patented in Irving in 1969. Collins Radio engineers designed and produced the telecom equipment for the 1969 moon launch. These patents and engineering talents created wealth and jobs. Millions of people have showed up since then for the jobs. We now rare long-term residents warned everyone how bland Dallas is, but none of the millions listened.🙄
I have been living in Flower Mound for over 20 years. The real estate here is far over $300k. A 20-30 year old house with a square ft of around 2,500 can easily sell at over 500k. All the new developments are high end builders like Toll Brother. New houses having starting price of over $1m is the norm. There some apartments and those tiny houses and town homes by the Grapevine lake. They are priced over $500k too.
Unfortunately for Dallas, when most people talk abouit, they're 85% of the time talking about a suburb. So, when you hear people talk about Dallas, most are referring to the suburbs of Dallas. And believe it or not, for the South, the DART has great transit in the CITY of Dallas. (Keyword CITY)
"great" is a stretch. Also the "city" of Dallas looks is the same as the suburbs in most parts, a bunch of sprawling single family homes. DART isn't just in the city, goes into Plano, etc.
@@michaelphilipoliver2466 Yep, you and the rest of the CA Evacuee POS Locusts are why our cost of living skyrocketed. A friend of mine wanted to camp out on highways and pick off everyone he saw coming in from CA but we had to tell him that was a bit extreme, and too late. You all already screwed up our way of life. It's why AZ, UT, and ID hate you all too.
Yeah I rode dart for years. Only complaint is sometimes you have to take a roundabout way....Like I lived in Garland and went to school at Eastfield.. I had to downtown dallas and catch a bus back to eastfield which is right off 635 and 30
My hometown was just a few miles north of Bonham - it seemed surreal to hear you mention it in the video as, when I was growing up, Bonham, Howe, Sherman, and Denison were all considered really far away from Dallas. It's amazing how far the Dallas urban sprawl has extended over the last few decades.
Yep, as someone that is a Gen-Xer and grew up in tiny(not anymore)Lucas, Texas we were all out in the sticks but like a cancer DFW has grown and we all hate it.
Crazy how far outside of Dallas you have to get to save any significant money on housing nowadays. My family moved to Grapevine in 2013 and it was wild to see rent at least double within a decade in the area. Hardly cheaper rent than Dallas or FW proper (also you’ll get a bit more square footage) and you’ll be absolutely car dependent.
And dont forget the fact it right under a very busy flight path to DFW INTL Airport, there is no such thing as peace and quiet in this area, we screwed up and moved right between Roanoke and Keller, literally my weather app shows I’m in Keller if I’m in the front of my house, and Roanoke at the back lol. Non stop air traffic, but we are off of Alliance Gateway/170 so we hear all the cargo planes from that commercial airport, DFW, and the joint reserve airbase…NON STOP. I absolutely hate it here. 35W has been under construction in the same area for the 4 years, and 2 years ago they started pounding the ground and moving huge dirt mounds left and right on 170 so the beeping backup warning on the dirt shovers starts at 5:30am I might be able to tolerate all of that if the people here weren’t so entitled. Did I mention I hate it here? We live in the suburbs, almost every house, and every subdivision is exactly the same, so why all the pretentiousness? I feel like I’m in some Stepford Wives movie, the Karen and Kyle concentration is super intense here.
@@valerief1231 100% all of this. We lived just off 121 north of the airport and constantly had a windows rattling when a 747 or A380 was landing. I could complain all day about DFW, I swear the best thing is the food.
Grapevine has been popular for years. It's near DFW and right in the middle of the distance between Dallas and Fort Worth. It's been trendy for at least 20 years now.
When I bought my house in 1995 I noticed that the same builder was building the same floorplan in Plano, Flower Mound, and Lewisville. Lewisville had the low price, with FM being +$20K, and Plano being an additional +$20k.
As someone who grew up in and just moved from Forney to East Texas because of Dallas people - everyone moving to Forney is destroying the city and it's no longer the place it's been. Highly recommend avoiding it like the plague.
Lived in east Dallas (Lakewood) for many years before moving back east to NYC. After nearly 20 years (reluctantly) came back to Texas, but for family. Landed in Ft. Worth. Thought we'd go to our old town of Dallas often, but never go. Arlington is a traffic bottleneck and it just gets worse closer to Dallas. Honestly, It was easier to drive around Manhattan.
Ft. Worth is much better than Dallas imo. Downtown is cooler, the traffic is much better and it's just overall a better place to live. I can't see any reason anyone would make the journey to Dallas unless they had to. Not to mention it's a drive, 34 miles (55km), about 45 minutes without any major traffic to get anywhere.
I am retired from American Airlines, having worked in California. We had days where terrible weather delays came out of DFW in wild combinations. A typical example was an ice storm in the morning and severe thunderstorms and even tornadoes by afternoon.
I left Dallas for El Paso. There are aspects of Dallas I miss. But I don't miss the humidity. I don't miss the anxiety I felt every time we had a storm watch or tornado warning and wondering if my roof was going to cave in on me. I don't miss the yard work, hearing the annoying leaf blower at 7 AM and smelling exhaust from lawn mowers. No grass & weeds to deal with. Nothing but rocks and sand out here.
El Paso is awesome. Mountains right in the middle of the city, year-round sunny weather, and some of the lowest crime rates in the country. I miss living there.
@@kristenmoonrise We don't have saguaro cactus as your emoji suggests. That is typical of the Sonoran desert in Arizona. You see El Paso is high desert. We're in the Chihuahuan desert. Places like Phoenix & Tucson are lower elevation. Typically it's hotter in AZ during the Summer and lower elevation allows for slightly different desert flora to survive. We do have Nopal cactus. But more than anything we have lots of creosote. But, aside from dealing with sand spurs that hurt like hell if you step on them, my yard has nothing but rocks and sand. It's great not having yard work.
Great video Briggs but i have to bring something up...prices in communities north of Dallas moving up fast some great towns for sure north of Dallas but you have to be aware of severe weather in the spring and fall and is hot and humid in the summertime. Just so people are aware between Dallas and the Oklahoma border is where Hail,and Tornadoes can still be problematic at certain times of the year..if you want a smaller great community head south of Dallas.less problems with weather and more affordable..I know this because i live here..Thanks Briggs.
Yup heard the same from friends in San Antonio & Austin abt ridiculous property taxes & little improvements to the city. And the electricity bill is high in the $3-500’s per month, higher to manage a swimming pool. 🫤
Yeah, I moved to Dallas back in 2017 and I love it here. Dallas has been great for my career and financially gain. I’ve lived the city of Dallas not the suburbs. I work in property management as a property manager. And yes the cost of living for apartments are higher than 2017. I’m now in Fort Worth and it’s over crowded as well. The prices are rising as well. However there’s great opportunity for and industry. Just make sure you do your research before moving here.
Thanks for the insight. I am interested in moving to Dallas from NYC. Would greatly appreciate any tips you can share for finding great opportunities in your area of work?
The reason I want to leave the Dallas area is the weather. It is to hot and humid here. I want to live somewhere that air conditioning is not necessary for me to live (my health means I can not get overheated without getting very ill).
I grew up in Plano and you're really in the wrong place if you can't stand the heat for health reasons. Honestly you're going to have issues anywhere in Texas if you have this problem. You need to go north of even Oklahoma.
@christianoliver3572 the problem is that my wife doesn't want to move. I want to move to the mountains of Northern Arizona. Highs of about 90 and less of about 60 in the summer.
@@dracphelan I live in Corpus Christi and over the next 7 days we are going to have highs in the 90-95 range with Heat Indices of 105-115. But hey - 5 years out of 10 you can go to the beach comfortably on Christmas Day!!
@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN I do hope you're solely speaking of the weather Mr. Denver. I'm a 50 year old Native Texan, and although I've lived in London and New Orleans, 42 of those years have been spent in different regions of Texas. I've lived in the Corpus Christi area for 23 years now a ten minute walk to Corpus Christi Bay and a 15 minute drive to the Gulf. I got used to the weather down here but my first two summers here were pretty hard to get used to walking outside and feeling like you can't breathe. And summer here is pretty much May to November. But even here in Corpus is nothing compared to New Orleans. They're surrounded by water on all sides and unlike here there's no breeze coming off the Gulf. Plus NOLA is very much a walking city and where I lived up by Tulane parking sucked and we got student discounts for public transportation. Riding the streetcar is actually really fun but waiting to get onto one in August sucks.
I was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. Truth is, it's a great place. Like any city you have your messes. Mainly have to do with people. Other than that, you can find all kinds of places in Dallas FT Worth area and outskirts. Always remember when you go to big cities for opportunities, time has changed. You have to do both look for opportunities and be entrepreneurial and create your own. You don't necessarily have to start your own business, but you need to be a risk taker and create some of your opportunities. It's not enough just to put in applications and sit back. You can be waiting awhile. Also, you have to know the types of environments your SPIRIT likes and is attuned to. Cause no matter where you move your spirit has to sense and connect with an environment and there are all types. Peaceful, chaotic, snakey, sound, dark, light, jealously. Etc. I am not talking about dealing with people. I am saying the environments those people create. You can go to one side of town and it's nice and uplifted but the people can be hateful and all kinds of things. You can go to a side that has a dirty environment. You can go to another and so on and so on. So know what type of environments your spirit like and go from there. The types of styles of buildings matter too. You as a person like a certain style of things.
This comment was needed 🖤 thank you . I’m living in fl but been contemplating between the two . I see similarities but I feel like I can get more house for my $ there
Hi Briggs. I like it. You get to see a lot of nice places and it makes sense on why they're moving there. Thanks for the video and have a great weekend.
I’ve been a realtor in the Dallas area for 30 years. Happy to talk to you about the differences of all the cities in find the right home for you. I specialize in Frisco and Plano , Carrollton, Prosper.
I want to move to Dallas but I'm legitimately looking at Frisco. I have a friend there and visit frequently. I really feel at home in Frisco. This video is right on time!
I don't currently live in Dallas but I'm from there, I have a lot of family still there, and I'm there 4-5 times a year. Family is almost entirely in Plano, so I'm in neighboring Frisco quite a bit. The biggest negative I have about the area is that Frisco is just a newer version of the same old you'll find all over DFW. It's all the same place.
I moved San Antonio Texas a year from New York and i end up moving back to New York, don’t get me wrong I loved Texas but it started to get to crowded. I think a lot of people are going start leaving San Antonio soon because the rent is stated to get expensive there now too
@@corrosivedevourer I remember that too because my son uncle moved to San Antonio over 8 years ago after he got out of the military and his rent was so cheap, when I move to San San Antonio of November 2021 the rent started to rise. Now for a 2 bedroom in certain areas can go for about 1700 to 1800 in a good neighborhood and Anything really cheap wasn’t in a good neighborhood
Rent is getting expensive literally everywhere. Our financial institutions have artificially inflated the cost of real estate to drive up both rent and home prices. The goal is to leave more and more people unable to save or have any hope of upward mobility. Property values increase, thereby increasing property taxes they can charge that have to come out of the owner or landlords' incomes that don't increase at the same rate as the property value. They want people spending every last dollar on things the government or investment firms own, slowly forcing people to sell what little they still own so they aren't able save, build wealth, or help their children build wealth. They are eradicating the middle class and private ownership. It's modern feudalism, and we just allow it.
@@haroldfarquad6886 Financial institutions have nothing to do with inflating the cost of real estate. It's simply supply and demand. We have a lot of well-paying high-tech jobs in the area now and a lot of people moving in, with very few homes being built under $400K. This is causing the older housing stock to appreciate significantly. Not to mention the rehabbers "adding value" to the old stock and almost getting new build prices of close to $300/sqft. Inflation has also not helped as the money supply that has been pumped into the economy, with lower interest rates, has been funneled into real estate investments. If you bought rental property at the rate of 1 per year since 2008, you'll be ready to retire soon.
As Dallas congestion spread to surrounding areas, escaping it involved driving farther and farther. And until recently municipal services like water and phone were somewhat spotty in some outlying communities. My plotting to live away from congestion soon revealed that my better choice was to find a quiet street in Dallas itself. Doing so has minimized driving and keeps me close to necessary services. As I age, this becomes more significant. But my neighborhood now boasts million-dollar properties that in 1980 went for seventy thousand.
All of the people in those smaller towns you mentioned are now violently cursing you for mentioning them! Doesn’t matter though because the way DFW is growing, in the next ten years it’s going to be solid urban sprawl from just south of the Red River all the way to at least Waco - maybe even farther!
@@FeR-kt1jt I think so! I worked in Gainesville for a couple of years in 2010-12 and I enjoyed it and going to Denton. No more! Nothing but solid traffic from the Red River to well south of Dallas. And that in barely ten years. Give it another ten! I have friends in Pilot Point. They told me there are 2,000 houses planned there to build and their roads are laid out for about 900 people! It’s gonna be a nightmare.
I'm from Dallas/Ft Worth and you have confirmed what I've been thinking, that Fayetteville is our escape city! I know it's mainly because of University of Arkansas and it has Whataburger and Fuzzy Tacos! I'm sorry if my Texas natives crowding it up there!
You should do these for all the major cities briggs, I LOVE this. If people wanna move to these areas and not have to deal with all the bull, talk about why people are moving to the communities nearby. You will help a lot of people with this, as well as the city and towns
Yes, except much of the drone footage displayed has no relation to the community being highlighted. Case in point, in this video much of the drone footage was from California/Arizona/Utah/Nevada (I am not exactly sure which one) and of other places with more dense hardwoods and a higher canopy (taller trees.) The DFW metroplex and all of the towns he mentions do not look like the drone footage in this video.
We moved to Plano in 1976 when it as a small town of about 31,000 residents. Both my boys graduated from Plano East HS and both went to Ivy League colleges. Before we moved out of Plano in 1993, Plano ISD was ranked on top 2% of the nation. One of our children still lives in Dallas, and we may move back there soon as we are growing older each year.
I live in Dallas, it's not just a city it's a metroplex. Most major cities are shrinking while the suburbs are growing. Dallas has never been one of the best cities to live in. The growth rate of the Dallas area is off the charts.
Property taxes are sky high. And new community’s add MUD or PID yearly fees. Many schools are adding school bonds on top of the school isd property taxes. Then you have HOA. Some people are paying 20k total on property taxes for a house that’s worth 500k.
Crazy thing is we moved to Frisco in 2002 with 35k population. When we left in 2007, it jumped to 100k. I can’t wrap my head around Celina becoming a Frisco.
I moved to Plano in the earlier 90s when it was about half the population it is today. In 2004 I moved to Frisco and it has gone from 60k to over 200 in 20 years. Celina will be next in the march to near 300k.
I hope outsiders understand that living in DFW or N. Texas is not for the faint at heart. The summers are brutal, the winters can be very cold because of the humidity that goes right to the bones and the spring storms are down right scary. I have lived all over the state of Texas since I was 2 years old. The only place I have not lived is El Paso and I am blessed to not have to live there. LOL My favorite area is the South Plains as I graduated from Texas Tech and love the arid weather and the people are soooo friendly.
May I also recommend Seagoville, just southeast of Dallas, if you want a small-town experience that's conveniently close to the main city. My uncle lived there for about ten years. He now lives in Terrell, having also tried living in Mississippi for a few years in the 2010s but ultimately deciding that he liked Texas better. If you want a more upscale suburban experience, Coppell on the northwest side of the city is the way to go. My aunt lived there in the 1990s and 2000s before moving to Mississippi, then Louisiana, then back to Mississippi. Her daughter (my cousin) lived in Frisco for a while before recently relocating to Mississippi herself to be closer to her aging mother.
Lived in dallas for 10 years , bad weather(extremely hot , will be roasted in July , august ) , not much greenery, positive is cheap , huge homes for the buck and best bbq you will ever find. Recent years has been a tech hub , but if you like mild weather this is not the place for you .
Chicago, New York, Seattle, and Portland got that unfortunately two out of the four are losing Population but they are better plan for an American city. Obviously still need improvements.
@@hectorvega621 people are leaving those cities because they’re growingly unaffordable for the middle class and exuberant housing prices. texan cities are great at keeping prices down because we keep building new housing, unlike cities like LA or san francisco who refuse to take action on solving the housing crisis because of nimby’s.
@@lolomar I fucking hate NYMBY'S, but with what Texas is doing is not good planning. We need to build more than single house families. While, also creating Public Transportation to negate the negatives of single house families.
@@hectorvega621 yeah, densifying is what we need in our urban areas, if you’ve been around houston you’ll see that investors are finally starting to build homes in communities that were blighted years ago, townhomes are popping up everywhere in the city.
@@hectorvega621 added security to rail lines is what’s truly needed as well, most people don’t use the rail because they don’t feel safe with people harassing/consuming dr!gs right outside of the stops.
I lived in Dallas area for many years and have family still there. Home prices are substantially higher than this video indicated, especially in Flower Mound, Frisco, and Plano. And property taxes are horrendous! Do your own research.
I’m glad you went west to Weatherford. There’s also Alido closer to Fort Worth and we live in the wonderful community of Stephenville to the southwest of Fort Worth. Also to the southwest is the very popular Granbury
I lived in Plano for 20 years of my life. Now in retrospect, overall it was great in terms of general lifestyle and values. Today, my daughter lives in Allen, just a street away from the Plano City limit. It is basically the same. I grew up in Dallas and Michigan. My only regret about moving to Plano is it was not good at that time (80's and 90"s) to raise my daughter. I say that because the teenagers were a bunch of ingrate spoiled brats that tormented each other. So, in a way it was the worst decision I ever made to live in Plano. My daughter was bullied by children who the day before were her best friend. It is a very competitive city. She was devastated and made the entire family miserable. So, if you have children keep this in mind before moving there, this may have been an isolated incident, but I don't think so. I do hope it is better. Today I live in a rural area east of Dallas closer to Bonham.
We moved to Plano in 1976 when it as a small town of about 31,000 residents. Both my boys graduated from Plano East HS and both went to Ivy League colleges. Before we moved out of Plano in 1993, Plano ISD was ranked on top 2% of the nation. One of our children still lives in Dallas, and we may move back there soon as we are growing older each year.
@@pastoryau2237 I was living in Dallas in the early 70's close to the hospital district. I recall that back then Plano might have been Montana for how far it was from anything. I wish it were still like that. But yeah, there were many positives about it.
@@douglaspage2398 You are kidding? Woke? Not that long ago, Collin county was the most conservative county in Texas. That changed fast. But yes, there was the snobby part, very materialistic, and competitiveness. I still go back to my old doctors tho.
LOL. I love your B-roll of the towns you mention that all look suspiciously like Las Vegas and Phoenix, complete with desert mountains in the background.
The downtown freeway "mixmaster" of dallas, tx is an amazing & scary place to be driving in between 7am-7pm, monday-friday!! On the weekends, it's kinda chill!! The "mixmaster' freeway system consists of, at some point: I-45, US 75, I-30, I-35E & TX 366. And US 67, US 175, TX 183 & DALLAS NORTH TOLLWAY are close to the downtown dallas, tx "mixmaster" as well, contributing to the traffic delays!! Quite an amazing setup for a multiple freeways junction!!
I live in Bedford tx, it’s a great area to be located. Right in between Fort Worth and Dallas and the TRE metro runs through the area, so I can get to any American Airlines event easily! The mid cities are suburban but busy, and located right next to dfw airport. Not much new construction here however, due to a lack of new lots available. We just lack healthy restaurants due to the demographic in the area, hopefully it changes some time but our next home will be in southlake/colleyville
“Overcrowding”…interesting. Dallas is massive in terms of land area and doesn’t even crack top 20 densest large cities in US. When I lived in DFW (Arlington), I personally considered the City of Dallas as largely suburban; I only felt the “city vibes” when I was in the urban core. The great thing about TX is that it definitely gives you a range of options in terms of community size/lifestyle preferences. When I left in 2022, DFW housing cost was steadily increasing; not slowing down anytime soon.
The reason Dallas is less dense in total when compared to other cities is because of the Trinity river bottoms and other areas that are below flood planes. if you take those areas out of the equation, it is up there with everywhere but NYC, LA, DC and San Transcisco.,
@@douglaspage2398 lol no it is not. Not even close. Even without the Trinity river bottoms, Dallas would be nowhere near as dense as Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, or even Los Angeles and Seattle. To many suburban style densities throughout the city. I don't think they have a census tract over 20,000.
@@StylistecS As I pointed out, the Trinity river bottoms are not the only flood plane areas, that's why i specifically added, and flood plane areas. there is a reason there is so much undeveloped space between Dallas and Pleasant Grove, Dallas and Mesquite Dallas and Grand Prairie, Dallas and Irving, Around White Rock, Much of Dallas is simply not as suitable for development, which is why in the other cities houses have basements, but in North Texas, they do not, in spite of the fact that houses with basements would provide more escape from the heat in the summer.
@@StylistecS You would be right about NYC, Philly and NYC, not Chicago, Boston, or Philly. I have been to these Cities, and you are forgetting that no one said that Dallas was more densely populated, the Term was almost. Sheldon.
Dallas area was our home from 1977 - 2021. It was a great place to build our careers, raise kids and make great friends. Sadly, today it’s become a massive concrete jungle with constant road construction and crazy traffic. Recently we moved to the Texas Hill Country and we love it!
Nice job on this topic and "Thank You" - My husband and I are big fans of all your videos. I would like to add that one of the reasons people, specifically families, leave Dallas proper is that their school system is very poor. Since so many families are moving from Dallas city limits, the tax base is rapidly shrinking, which affects of course funding for their school district, infrastructure and parks system. One thing I definitely like about the Dallas area is the availability of national stores and eating establishments. I actually live southwest from the city limits of Fort Worth now and for us, Dallas is just too far to go without dedicating an entire day to it. We often only do this for the Christmas shopping experience, which is great! For context though, most of our counties are about 900 square miles. The time spent in traffic to get to Dallas, is no longer worth the trip. This brings me to a helpful fact I'd like to see in your research - the square miles of the city and it's county that your research encompasses. Again, Thanks for all you offer us!
Having lived in Tyler for about eight years, I know a thing or two about Dallas... but not a whole lot more. We used to go to Dallas several times a year (about 1-1/2 hours or so). Big D is a great shopping and restaurant city. But the D/FW area is just too big, and the traffic is a nightmare. Honestly, it's a pretty good city otherwise. Texas property prices throughout urban East Texas are now way too expensive, in my opinion. Terrell is a good choice, although kids might get easily bored living there. Tanger outlet stores are in Terrell, and there's also a Russell Stover outlet store! Also, Terrell has an interesting old cemetery. (Yes, I like that sort of thing!) I now live in a small North Mississippi city, where I see quite a few cars with Texas plates. I'm hoping our state doesn't become a net recipient for the hoards leaving other states.
My wife and I started our family in Dallas proper South of 635) in 1997. We moved to the NW DFW burbs in 2000 when my first son was born as I didn't want to raise my family in Dallas proper. Reasons: bad Dallas public schools for top ranked suburb public schools / costs associated with potential future private schools if we stayed in Dallas, potholes/terrible streets, salvage titled cars on the roads, city politics not aligned with ours, city council infighting, crime, not feeling comfortable with my young kids being able to safely ride their bikes. Many great folks and hard working families in Dallas proper... but it wasn't for us. Downsides to DFW metroplex: Traffic, constant new home/apartment/condo/strip mall/warehouse construction taking away green open space, oppressive June-Sept heat, high property taxes and home/auto insurance policies (hail). With all this in mind the best decision we met was moving to north DFW burbs. The incredible school system prepared them for college, careers and life...are now well adjusted, balanced, capable men that loved living here with friends for life. Thank you Lord.
Much appreciated video. I'm from Dallas and I'm looking at other cities to move to that are more affordable and less crowded. I'm even looking at Vegas or it's surrounding areas from some reason lol.
Traffic in Vegas is nowhere near as bad as Dallas. Maybe some slow downs during rush hour but it's manageable. I moved here from Denver and couldn't be happier! Denver is getting over crowded now too. I live on the far west side. Hiking trails, quiet, even rock climbing and Jeep trails into the mountains.
@@TheBandit7613 Traffic in E. Dallas is about to get worse once the I-30 project from Jim Miller to Downtown is kicked off. At least 3 years of traffic headaches are in store for E. Dallas as TxDOT moves the highway below street level.
I started coming to the DFW area in the late 1970's. I've seen it grow into what it is today. Flower Mound was the only one I agreed with. People should have bought in Frisco 20 years ago. Plano, even longer. Weatherford? If your goal is to work in Dallas and live in Weatherford, you can expect to spend your days sitting in freeway traffic, driving from the westside of Ft. Worth to get to Dallas. Consider this, Ft. Worth tends to be more business friendly than Dallas, so maybe get a job in Ft. Worth instead. Then, Weatherford doesn't sound so bad. It's actually quite nice. I work in Addison, and travel daily between there and Frisco, Plano, Richardson and Uptown and Downtown Dallas, but I live in Fort Worth. I moved here in 2017 and bought my 4 bedroom house in Central Meadowbrook, on Ft.Worth's eastside, at the end of 2018. I'm about 25 minutes to downtown Dallas on I-30 and under 10 minutes to downtown Ft. Worth. I'm 45 minutes from Addison via PGB tollway. I'm about 25 minutes to the airport. I characterize Dallas as Partytown and Ft. Worth is Sleepytown. I don't really need to live in Partytown to enjoy it. But I do need to live in Sleepytown if I want to sloop easy. I'm 2 blocks from a City course and half a mile from Woodhaven CC and the massive nature preserve donated by Amon Carter over 100 years ago. I'm next to little treasure neighborhoods like Eastern Hills, White Lake Hills, Chimneywood and Woodhaven. I have beautiful mature trees as do all my neighbors. They're mostly older homes, but they were really nice homes winding around the beautiful rolling hills on Ft. Worth's eastside. All four of my bedrooms are huge. All the houses on my cul de sac are different and all custom built. I have the best of the DFW area right here. Ft. Worth is exploding too and Tarrant County is projected to eclipse Dallas County in population before the end of the decade. New construction is going up on every vacant space. Chimneywood is building on it's vacant lots for the first time in well over a decade. Ft. Worth's property taxes are much lower too. I love it here in Ft. Worth.
The traffic is bad for the entire DFW metroplex. It's been a nightmare since we all came back from Covid. Like already mentioned, the weather here is pretty brutal. Other than Plano, Frisco, McKinny and other northern suburbs are known to be safe. In the Metroplex, it's hard to see where one place ends and the next begins. Forney, Terrell, and Waxahachie, three places mentioned, seem a little on the outskirts, but I wonder for how long?
I remember going to Dallas International Airport. The Worst Airport I have ever been to and I was 7 at the time. My mother, sister, & I got lost here. We had to take a train to our next flight inside the airport. Remember this is 1995. I can only imagine what DIA is now.
I agree with the small town feel but being close to the city. Sometimes it's best to be outside the city limits. There's about 23,000 people here in Lutz FL, but we're only 20 minutes from downtown Tampa. It's quite and safe and we have great neighbors, great schools, we love it.
Interesting episode. My family moved from N.C. to Dallas in 1965. I was eleven years old. Dallas has been “My City” for all these years. We live in an inner city historic district, Junius Heights. It is an awesome neighborhood, and we love it here. We are close to everything that is “cool” about Dallas: Deep Ellum, Lower Greenville Ave., White Rock Lake, the Dallas Arboretum, downtown, the Arts District, etc. If I never had to leave my neighborhood, I’d be perfectly happy here. Unfortunately, I do have to go to work, which means driving to DFW Airport five days a week. Speaking of DFW Airport, it is the second busiest airport in the world, right after ATL, and is a tremendous growth and revenue generator for the whole Dallas/Fort Worth area. I would never live in any “suburb”, even here in Dallas. We are retiring soon, and do plan on leaving Dallas. We’ll be relocating to an undisclosed location, mainly because of the brutal summer weather and oppressive right wing politics here in Texas. If anyone wants to buy my house in Junius Heights Historic District, let me know. I’m putting it on the market for $400,000.
Great, just don't move to a red city and bring your poisonous politics along with you, destroying the very essence that made you gravitate to you're potential new location in the first place. Regards, every potential red landing spot you speak of.
The public transit will be a challenge for the Dallas suburbs. If a suburb city wants to be part of Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), they have to dedicate 1% of the available 2% sales tax revenue to DART. (The State of Texas sales tax is 6.25%, and allows cities to change an additional 2% for sales tax). The growth along US-75 north of the George Bush Turnpike is exploding, but the light rail route ends at Plano. The immediate north city of Allen is not a participant preferring to spend that 1% on economic development. Likewise, while the Texas Ranger and Dallas Cowboys play in Arlington, there is ZERO public transit options. This is going to be a challenge when the 2026 FIFA World Cup comes to town. As for Frisco and Celina, Texas, they will be taking the Dallas North Tollway to get to downtown Dallas. South of I-635, and it's a very narrow tollway with no expansion options. As for Rockwall, besides being the smallest county in Texas, also had that congestion point over Lake Ray Hubbard on I-30. There is a construction project to expand that crossing, but it won't be completed until 2027.
The cities without DART aren't missing anything, except muggings, bullying, sexual harassment of women by local thugs, and constant harassment by panhandlers, I used to take the dart to school (El Centro College), after about a year the free pass just wasn't worth it, after having to risk my life to stop a sexual assault on the train. I wasn't big enough to physically stop him, but just letting him see that I was on the phone was enough to get his full attention. I don't think he was caught because despite several of us tracking him until the dart police arrived, he slipped away into one of the high crime areas along the line.
We survived the World Cup in the Cotton Bowl in 1994. I think we will survive this one as well. There is nothing different about the traffic between that event and the Cowboys' or Rangers' games in Arlington. It will be hell on visitors who don't get hotels in the Arlington area, though. Uber drivers and Airbnb hosts will make a killing!
I Was born and raised in Dallas and have lived in Dallas county also live in Garland and Urban float worth Richardson around all Dallas counties. i’m 63 now and was surprisingly is that I always meet people that I don’t know.
I live in the rockwall/rowlett area. Wanted to get closer to the lake and away from all the BS in the downtown Dallas area. Lakeray Hubbard is a sexy lake.
If you think any of the cesspool reservoirs in the Dallas area are nice, then you have never seen a real lake. You need to travel more and see what real lakes look like.
The older I get the more I prefer my small cities/big towns with small healthy growth. I love living an hour south of NWA where I do not got to deal with rapid growth, sky rocketing rent/housing prices, and constant road work.
“BIG ‘D’!” Excellent video! I’m 300 miles east in La. and spent over 20 years making weekly/bi-weekly runs to the west side of Dallas to pick up materials in pickup trucks; half the time with a tandem axle trailer. The majority of the people are great; and the left lanes of the 635 Loop are fantastic! But I wouldn’t want to live there. The summer heat is always a few degrees hotter and winters -a few degrees colder; it’s just a nice place to visit. Downtown traffic during rush hour is terrible but if you manage to breakout on a ramp and find a cafe/restaurant to wait it out, the food is good and meals are ‘Texas-style’ BIG! I often wondered how people could live like that spending 45 minutes in both the mornings and evenings in gridlock, -and wondering who’s number is going to be up today on the highway; what a waste. Despite it’s enormous size, they still retain a lot of good, small town attitude. As far as ‘big cities’ go, Dallas is the BEST!
My daughter just sold her house in one of those newer $250+ subdivisions in Forney. What they didn’t tell her when they bought this brand new home 3 years ago is the subdivision allows section 8 so this 3-4 yr old subdivision has drug dealing, home break ins , and my son in law came home from work to find a car blocking the driveway with a man and Pregnant woman inside alive but both shot multiple times by a 16 yr old over drugs a few houses down. This isn’t the only Forney hood with these issues. Forney is becoming the new Fair Park.
Born and Raised here, in Dallas. I hate how the Gentrification and Environmental Racism has permeated . I ran for office to stop it...! Won and just sworn in , too😠
I've been living here for ten years when I saw the title of this video I couldn't help but laugh😂. People leaving going on vacation but trust me they're coming right back😂😂😂
The problem with cities in texas is how car dependent they are. If you don't have a car, you will struggle getting around. Had to find that out the hard way.
I’m from Fayetteville, Arkansas and there’s a lot of people here from Dallas. So much so that now we have an overcrowding problem and probably half of the people here now are from Dallas alone.
😂😂😂you do know that’s not even remotely true right? Nobody’s leaving Dallas like that especially to Fayetteville. I’ve been, and hardly witnessed any Texas license plates.
@@KingAsa5 That’s not true at all. I see Texas plates everywhere here. Some of the most craziest drivers I’ve seen on the interstate that runs through here have Texas plates.
@@cameronadkins you’ll see Texan plates everywhere. But most aren’t from Dallas because nobody’s fleeing Dallas for a rural state like Arkansas. They’re fleeing for the suburbs
How do you like how this video was done? Instead of just why they are leaving we included where they are going. Also, how do you like the thumbnail?
I just hope you're not giving people from Illinois or West Virssippi (Indiana) the bright idea to move to Texas. I love the areas around Winnsboro or near Corpus. ALL OF TEXAS IS AWESOME!!! Texas is one of few places where people know how to act like Americans still. 🍻
I prefer your straight-facts/stats format and not the suggestions...it sounds like Forney and Rockwall and Celina, etc, may be cutting you a check on the side LOL
This format is good. It has additional information about home price ranges that go with where people are leaving to. Quite different from your other top ten videos. Thumbnail is accurate because it gets stormy in the Dallas M.S.A. Great video.
Awesome idea! I would love to know what cities have the most native American culture.
I would have mentioned Fort Worth TX being the fastest growing city in the country last year in this video. Fort Worth added more new residents then any other city in the country in 2022.
I’ve lived in Dallas most of my life and one of my biggest disappointments with its growth is how cheaply built the new homes are and how expensive they’re being sold for. Every development is so cookie cutter it looks like someone hit copy paste a hundred times.
That's TX in general given the poor building codes and zoning.
I love the copy paste statement! So true. My mom calls them cookie cutter homes
The new stacked condos in e dallas are the worst. $400k. Have windows, but no light. U could probably reach out and touch the bldg across from you.
@@wageslave387 that’s nothing new . I don’t know why people are getting so upset about it now.
That happens in every metro across the US. I lived in 4 different ones and they each have a few major local or regional builders. Because you have 4 local major players, the same houses are repeated in each one because each one has the same builders. If you throw a national builder in the mix the same house you see in Dallas you see in Chicago LA or DC.
I lived in Dallas for 30+ years, and I can summarize the city and its surrounding areas in one simple statement: Brutal heat, brutal traffic, violent weather, and expensive. If that sounds like your cup of tea, your search is over, you’ve found your final resting place.
"Expensive" maybe for Texans. I see it as extremely cheap compared to here in Boston. I'm considering moving there as rent is half price and I'd get the no state income tax and warmer weather.
@@Andrew-3445Fricking rich people
@@Andrew-3445it’s a great place really
The fact that you said it’s expensive made you lose all credibility. Expensive compared to where? Name a city/Metro that has 7.5 million people that’s cheaper. Is it hot? Yes for about 2-3 months. Care to tell the people about the rest of the year? A cold snap? Sure it happens, but you left out the fact that the majority of the winter is relatively mild.
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A warning about moving a little too far from where you work in the city and have to commute in. There was a community built 2.5 hours north of Los Angeles in the Mojave desert. Developers made sure it had everything, was well planned and beautiful, and was cheap to buy in. They hoped LA workers who were sick of LA's problems would flock to the development, lured by low prices and higher quality of life. They were right and the community filled. Within 2 years, it was a ghost town. The daily total of 5 hours commuting resulted in no time to do anything at home except eat and sleep. People were stressed out to the max and began fighting and drinking. Divorces skyrocketed and families broke up. Be careful what you wish for.
Are you talking about California City, CA? That was a failed development that never attracted very many people to begin with.
@billl1127 No, and I can't remember the name of the place. I tried searching the Internet for it but nothing. I was living in LA at the time (1990's) and thought about buying up there but was glad I didn't.
Very surprising how many people will let a job dictate their lives. Especially, where they decide to live longterm. My job works around me and my needs. I dont work around it.
Are you talking about Rosamond?
@@mrddkeyify I looked at this via the Internet but Rosamond houses look too old. There were a lot of articles & photos in respectable newspapers and magazine about how this place turned into a disaster. The LA Times has a free but limited archives section that allows you to search headlines. If I get any free time, I'll try searching there.
I moved from NYC to Dallas/Ft Worth with my job 43 years ago, and for 43 years I suffered from this heat here. It is brutal. I'm an outside person and trying to bike/walk/garden in this heat, for me, is almost impossible. This year 2023, is the hottest summer ever. First it was record heat/humidity, then the humidity left and now, not a drop of rain for weeks and bone dry outside where the soil is cracking open. If you can stand the heat, it's a nice place to live. I am planning on moving back home because I miss the 4 seasons and the ocean. I'm not moving back to the city but probably somewhere in Connecticut. I don't think I can make it through one more summer here, not after this year.
Move to Honduras or Belize, best weather in the Americas, nice beaches, a lot of things to do for a retired person.
Nah mate you don't want to do that stay in Texas do not move to east coast. It's too liberal trust in God
@@lloydfrancis9149why not Florida
I agree! I live in Dallas and my wife and I are looking to move to a cooler place with more outdoor activities. The weather is absolutely brutal from May to September & the allergies are out of this world. It’s also gotten outrageously expensive to live here. I mean it’s crazy to think that 97 degrees is a cold front down here 😅
One year it was so hot in DFW that the roads buckled open.
I've lived in Dallas for 16 years and the amount of building and construction in the last 5 years is insane. I moved here from NY for the weather and less expensive cost of living. Now its so much more expensive and crowded.
Been a resident since 2016 and even I've noticed the surplus of supply chain warehousing, logistics is booming in dfw
@@DattBoiiT That's good, it's a sign of development
@@John_.Cabell_.Breckinridgeit's good for landowners and politicians
I am glad he clarified that the DFW metroplex is growing exponentially. I live here and it keeps expanding. Traffic is the worst issue with Dallas.
I left Dallas 4 years ago, I lived there since 1998 til 2018 Off and on, I loved the winters, I hated the summers and allergies! I now live in Washington State and very happy.
I lived in west Texas and traveled periodically to the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, before leaving a couple of years ago for other opportunities. The weather can get extreme in that metroplex & surrounding area -- 100 degree heat, cold snaps, and severe thunderstorms that bring large hail, 70 mph winds, and tornadoes. Something to consider, for those visiting before deciding to move there.
West Texas gets hail storms dust storms etc....Im from Dallas and live in west Texas and I think the weather her eis more tempermental
The way the are pouring roads and foundations around DFW is turning it into a big concrete jungle heat pit, just like what’s been happening to Phoenix.
Totally agree with the crazy weather and tooo much concrete. The traffic sucks too.
Three hail storms in Farmersville last three weeks.
Housing is 25% over what it should be. It is coming down with the downturn in the economy.
I've been in DFW my whole life and this has always been a hot spot but it's insane how much it has grown in the last 20 years! It's almost unrecognizable sometimes! My Dad used to hunt deer here! Let that sink in how country it was 45 to 50 years ago!
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I live in Dallas, and honestly it is going out of hand when it comes to rental prices ! Believe it or not it is way more expensive than Austin and many other considered expensive cities
Yeah blame it on those Californians demorats moving to the lone star
Idk about it being more but it’s pretty much the same and I’d rather live in Austin if I’m paying the same $
Rental prices are great if you're a landlord. Sub 5% refi rates in 2020 mean that landlords are sitting on some pretty wild cash flows monthly.
I thought Austin is the most expensive city in Texas since it’s a capitol city
There seems to be a downside to living in an affordable smaller town outside of a big city. If you're hoping to get some space, nature, peace, and serenity in that area decades from now, more than likely it won't stay like that forever and will head toward suburbanization. Pretty soon more traffic, restaurants, shops, hospitals, and office buildings will start going up.
Yeah, go out north of Frisco and drive the 380 between Greenville and Denton -- its become the "new big expensive suburban destination" boundary to the north. (Frisco was the one before it, took about 20 years to built out Frisco all the way to 380 and west to Little Elm)
That whole stretch is already overbuilt with hospitals, shopping areas, and every chain you every heard of (and a lot you haven't) well represented in the strip centers. That is how far you go out for a brand new big house on a decent size lot now. Because nobody seems to want to buy a "used" house in the 'burbs.
And of course Briggs didn't mention the OTHER reason a lot of people move out and THOSE specific towns are so popular. White Flight. Dallas city is majority Black/Hispanic. The ones with a lot of money buy into the Park Cities. There was a HUGE construction surge downtown in apartments for the last 10 years that drove that increase - -but now most of its built and its becoming tight if you don't want to live in an apartment.
What happens is the college kids live in the urban core apartments.. until they buy a BRAND NEW house way out in the burbs. They love living in Dallas until their kids are near school age.. then its off to the burbs where they have new fancy schools. So its still a form of White (or really WEALTH) Flight.
@@redwolfexrI work in Allen. It's mostly Indian & Muslim. Followed by a hispanic population. White people are even selling their properties in Anna, TX now. They are about to get push into OK in 5 years.
@@redwolfexri remember driving down 380 from Denton and it was EMPTY. 2-3 years later and got damn 380 so damn full of traffic. Lots and lots of new stores
@@XdarkendGOSPLE yeah, they are doubling the lanes as fast as they can.. that ALWAYS helps traffic for a few months....
Back when i lived there i would drive to certain areas to get away from the city and see some dark skys...... now the city stretches 30 miles north of where that was
Your report touched on schools. Please consider reporting on housing for seniors and disabled. We are being forced to move due to insurance and taxes. Thank you for a wonderful report.
Grew up in Dallas, Texas. Joined the military and traveled around the world and states. Dallas is still one of the best cities I want to live in. Im talking about the North dallas area(Plano Mckinney, etc). Cost of living is still cheaper than other cities, good schools, less crime, no state tax, etc. Its hot but its dry heat. Dry heat is better than heat+humidity you get in the east and south coast.
California had best weather but its so expensive and dirty. Also homeless every corner.
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Dry heat ? It's been terrible lately
😂😂😂 I live here in Dallas, the weather is really bad, heat and humidity.
I don’t know who told you but it is NOT a dry heat here. Granted maybe not as bad as Houston or NOLA but our heat index has been the highest in the country consistently this past month.
@Jiebsooenkl When you say dry heat, are you talking about Dallas, TX?
For me it was the crime. I lived there for 7 years. in that time my apartment was robbed 2 times. The apartments force you to carry renters insurance, because it happens so often.
I have two different relatives who moved to the Dallas Metro area but they do not live in the actual city limits of Dallas. One of them lives in Rowlett, which borders Rockwall to the West and the other lives in Flower Mound. While Dallas is a very vibrant and prosperous city, many people do not live in the city limits. The city has a multitude of very nice, relatively rural suburbs that are highly desirable. It’s kind of interesting that everyone I know from Dallas does not actually live in the city proper, but instead lives in one of its suburbs.
The city is 42% Hispanic and 24% Black. The city had a school lottery with busing until because of an old policy in the 50s and 60s that allowed "local" areas to buy up better schools with special assessments and the good "aka white" areas did so. Also the Black schools from the segregation days were in poor shape. So Dallas had very good, very poor and "decent" schools based on the race and wealth of the areas.
So the feds ordered busing, which really meant that if your kids got selected in the lottery to go to a "bad" school -- you moved to a suburb.
But really since Texas "teaches to the Test" now, education is fairly uniform across the state. (uniformly poor, and the teachers can't deviate from the curriculum or "waste time" encouraging educational deviation) If they don't teach the test they get poorly scored by the state.
Same thing
Haha, I've been telling my coworker I want to move to Dallas, but I always say not actually Dallas, I mean Grapevine or Plano. She always says no one ever actually means Dallas.
@@bradleylovej They have been redeveloping ("gentrifying") all the older downtown neighborhoods with luxure apartments. SOMEBODY is moving into downtown.
It REALLY comes down to whether you have kids or not. Grapevine/Flower Mound/Plano/Frisco -- are where you live when School District really matters. Those areas have a higher tax base per capita and it shows in the schools. Also those districts are less likely to get Abbotted. (State taking over school districts on slight pretext)
No kids? It comes down to whether you want a suburban cookie-cutter home surrounded by strip centers (Plano/Grapevine) -- or you want more central apartments or more central smaller less cookie cutter home where your distances are shorter but you have to time traffic. No kids? Downtown Dallas is much nicer.
The only places in the 'burbs I might be interested in are the ones that are designed to be like what Downtown already is. (Grapevine downtown, East Plano, ect...)
@@redwolfexr I don't have kids but don't want to live right in the middle of the action 😅😅
I want a somewhat smaller area that is big city adjacent.
Also, you have to admit, a lot of people say they live in Dallas but don't actually mean Dallas. I don't know how many times I've had this exact conversation:
"We live in Dallas."
"Dallas, Dallas?"
"No, it's way too crowded. We live in (insert suburb)."
Very cool Briggs! Thanks for the extra motivation to "find my next place". I love it here in DFW! I'll probably stay somewhat local...unless something crazy happens.
Your numbers for Frisco and Plano....on housing. A bit LOW. Plano avg home price is about $520k right now and Frisco is even higher at $660k. Both places are great to live in/work in.
Dallas used to be an engineering town back in the 1950s and 1960s. The fully integrated circuit was patented at Texas Instruments in 1958. The ATM was patented in Irving in 1969. Collins Radio engineers designed and produced the telecom equipment for the 1969 moon launch. These patents and engineering talents created wealth and jobs. Millions of people have showed up since then for the jobs. We now rare long-term residents warned everyone how bland Dallas is, but none of the millions listened.🙄
Bland? How so?😂😂 when Millions upon millions visit every year.
@@KingAsa5 I recite what the transplants say.
@@lisasdfwhightechworld9946 I recite it too.
Most I’ve came across said they loved. It here
And the dildo too.
@@KingAsa5I visited Dallas and I loved it but I do know it is Bland from what people say. Mostly talking about the geography
I have been living in Flower Mound for over 20 years. The real estate here is far over $300k. A 20-30 year old house with a square ft of around 2,500 can easily sell at over 500k. All the new developments are high end builders like Toll Brother. New houses having starting price of over $1m is the norm. There some apartments and those tiny houses and town homes by the Grapevine lake. They are priced over $500k too.
Unfortunately for Dallas, when most people talk abouit, they're 85% of the time talking about a suburb. So, when you hear people talk about Dallas, most are referring to the suburbs of Dallas.
And believe it or not, for the South, the DART has great transit in the CITY of Dallas. (Keyword CITY)
"great" is a stretch.
Also the "city" of Dallas looks is the same as the suburbs in most parts, a bunch of sprawling single family homes.
DART isn't just in the city, goes into Plano, etc.
@@michaelphilipoliver2466 Texas sucks
@@michaelphilipoliver2466 Yep, you and the rest of the CA Evacuee POS Locusts are why our cost of living skyrocketed. A friend of mine wanted to camp out on highways and pick off everyone he saw coming in from CA but we had to tell him that was a bit extreme, and too late. You all already screwed up our way of life. It's why AZ, UT, and ID hate you all too.
Yeah I rode dart for years. Only complaint is sometimes you have to take a roundabout way....Like I lived in Garland and went to school at Eastfield.. I had to downtown dallas and catch a bus back to eastfield which is right off 635 and 30
Dallas has its ghetto.
My hometown was just a few miles north of Bonham - it seemed surreal to hear you mention it in the video as, when I was growing up, Bonham, Howe, Sherman, and Denison were all considered really far away from Dallas. It's amazing how far the Dallas urban sprawl has extended over the last few decades.
I am in Sulphur Springs. I expect one day it will be at my doorstep. Still waiting for my own Costco.
Its booming up there compared to what it once was
Bonham was BFE to me forever 😂
Yep, as someone that is a Gen-Xer and grew up in tiny(not anymore)Lucas, Texas we were all out in the sticks but like a cancer DFW has grown and we all hate it.
DFW is expanding to Oklahoma
Crazy how far outside of Dallas you have to get to save any significant money on housing nowadays. My family moved to Grapevine in 2013 and it was wild to see rent at least double within a decade in the area. Hardly cheaper rent than Dallas or FW proper (also you’ll get a bit more square footage) and you’ll be absolutely car dependent.
And dont forget the fact it right under a very busy flight path to DFW INTL Airport, there is no such thing as peace and quiet in this area, we screwed up and moved right between Roanoke and Keller, literally my weather app shows I’m in Keller if I’m in the front of my house, and Roanoke at the back lol. Non stop air traffic, but we are off of Alliance Gateway/170 so we hear all the cargo planes from that commercial airport, DFW, and the joint reserve airbase…NON STOP. I absolutely hate it here. 35W has been under construction in the same area for the 4 years, and 2 years ago they started pounding the ground and moving huge dirt mounds left and right on 170 so the beeping backup warning on the dirt shovers starts at 5:30am
I might be able to tolerate all of that if the people here weren’t so entitled. Did I mention I hate it here? We live in the suburbs, almost every house, and every subdivision is exactly the same, so why all the pretentiousness? I feel like I’m in some Stepford Wives movie, the Karen and Kyle concentration is super intense here.
@@valerief1231 100% all of this. We lived just off 121 north of the airport and constantly had a windows rattling when a 747 or A380 was landing. I could complain all day about DFW, I swear the best thing is the food.
You are right on this. With that said, it’s like that in all major cities in the south, not just Dallas.
Yeah, you gotta move about one hour outside of the metro to get a good price home
Grapevine has been popular for years. It's near DFW and right in the middle of the distance between Dallas and Fort Worth. It's been trendy for at least 20 years now.
When I bought my house in 1995 I noticed that the same builder was building the same floorplan in Plano, Flower Mound, and Lewisville. Lewisville had the low price, with FM being +$20K, and Plano being an additional +$20k.
As someone who grew up in and just moved from Forney to East Texas because of Dallas people - everyone moving to Forney is destroying the city and it's no longer the place it's been. Highly recommend avoiding it like the plague.
That and Sunnyvale, really one particular group that's ruining everything
I bet your a republican 😂
Womp womp
@@scribecypressthe yts 🎯✅
Lived in east Dallas (Lakewood) for many years before moving back east to NYC. After nearly 20 years (reluctantly) came back to Texas, but for family. Landed in Ft. Worth. Thought we'd go to our old town of Dallas often, but never go. Arlington is a traffic bottleneck and it just gets worse closer to Dallas. Honestly, It was easier to drive around Manhattan.
That's the same reason I never want to go to ft worth from Dallas. I hate driving through Arlington
@@jimmy-rm3cl
The Fielder Bridge has got to come down and make way for eight or ten lanes. Even still, why bother?
Ft. Worth is much better than Dallas imo. Downtown is cooler, the traffic is much better and it's just overall a better place to live. I can't see any reason anyone would make the journey to Dallas unless they had to. Not to mention it's a drive, 34 miles (55km), about 45 minutes without any major traffic to get anywhere.
I am retired from American Airlines, having worked in California. We had days where terrible weather delays came out of DFW in wild combinations. A typical example was an ice storm in the morning and severe thunderstorms and even tornadoes by afternoon.
Your new silent intros always make me think something is wrong with my audio! 😅Makes us pay attention! Well done!!
I have noticed that too.
😂😂😂 me too
I left Dallas for El Paso. There are aspects of Dallas I miss. But I don't miss the humidity. I don't miss the anxiety I felt every time we had a storm watch or tornado warning and wondering if my roof was going to cave in on me. I don't miss the yard work, hearing the annoying leaf blower at 7 AM and smelling exhaust from lawn mowers. No grass & weeds to deal with. Nothing but rocks and sand out here.
El Paso is awesome. Mountains right in the middle of the city, year-round sunny weather, and some of the lowest crime rates in the country. I miss living there.
And cacti? 🌵
Good choice right there. El Paso is the hidden gem of Texas.
@@kristenmoonrise We don't have saguaro cactus as your emoji suggests. That is typical of the Sonoran desert in Arizona. You see El Paso is high desert. We're in the Chihuahuan desert. Places like Phoenix & Tucson are lower elevation. Typically it's hotter in AZ during the Summer and lower elevation allows for slightly different desert flora to survive. We do have Nopal cactus. But more than anything we have lots of creosote. But, aside from dealing with sand spurs that hurt like hell if you step on them, my yard has nothing but rocks and sand. It's great not having yard work.
El Paso is so hot the insects wears swamp coolers!
I left this Summer bc the Army needed me in Colorado Springs instead. But trust me, I miss it every day.
I live in Dallas and I couldn’t be happier to hear this news! Go on git!!!!!
Dallas ❤❤
My friends moving from Canada to Dallas and can’t wait
Move to Arlington, I live here and it's GREAT!
Great video Briggs but i have to bring something up...prices in communities north of Dallas moving up fast some great towns for sure north of Dallas but you have to be aware of severe weather in the spring and fall and is hot and humid in the summertime. Just so people are aware between Dallas and the Oklahoma border is where Hail,and Tornadoes can still be problematic at certain times of the year..if you want a smaller great community head south of Dallas.less problems with weather and more affordable..I know this because i live here..Thanks Briggs.
TX has some of the highest property taxes in the country. Rockwall county its over 2%. My friend lives there.
Austin was 3.19
Yup heard the same from friends in San Antonio & Austin abt ridiculous property taxes & little improvements to the city. And the electricity bill is high in the $3-500’s per month, higher to manage a swimming pool. 🫤
Texas has high property taxes because there is no state income tax.
@@Victoria-pz9dvThere are other states without income tax that do not have high property taxes.
@@Dreblueskies That would be great! Which states? I don't know how many more Texas summers I can tolerate.
Yeah, I moved to Dallas back in 2017 and I love it here. Dallas has been great for my career and financially gain. I’ve lived the city of Dallas not the suburbs. I work in property management as a property manager. And yes the cost of living for apartments are higher than 2017. I’m now in Fort Worth and it’s over crowded as well. The prices are rising as well. However there’s great opportunity for and industry. Just make sure you do your research before moving here.
Thanks for the insight. I am interested in moving to Dallas from NYC. Would greatly appreciate any tips you can share for finding great opportunities in your area of work?
@@seun-ohm I do apologize for the late response. What field of work are you in?
@@quittajean6578 Thanks for taking the time to respond. I'm sorted for now. Cheers!
Cheers Briggs. i moved to Dallas metro especially to Frisco just for 1 simple reason. SCHOOL district. You hit the nail with the hammer
I lived in DFW area 15 years ago. The house price then and now is unbelievable.
The reason I want to leave the Dallas area is the weather. It is to hot and humid here. I want to live somewhere that air conditioning is not necessary for me to live (my health means I can not get overheated without getting very ill).
I grew up in Plano and you're really in the wrong place if you can't stand the heat for health reasons.
Honestly you're going to have issues anywhere in Texas if you have this problem.
You need to go north of even Oklahoma.
@christianoliver3572 the problem is that my wife doesn't want to move. I want to move to the mountains of Northern Arizona. Highs of about 90 and less of about 60 in the summer.
@@dracphelan I live in Corpus Christi and over the next 7 days we are going to have highs in the 90-95 range with Heat Indices of 105-115.
But hey - 5 years out of 10 you can go to the beach comfortably on Christmas Day!!
@@christianoliver3572Texas and Oklahoma suck DENVER way better and no humidity
@@DENVEROUTDOORMAN I do hope you're solely speaking of the weather Mr. Denver.
I'm a 50 year old Native Texan, and although I've lived in London and New Orleans, 42 of those years have been spent in different regions of Texas.
I've lived in the Corpus Christi area for 23 years now a ten minute walk to Corpus Christi Bay and a 15 minute drive to the Gulf.
I got used to the weather down here but my first two summers here were pretty hard to get used to walking outside and feeling like you can't breathe.
And summer here is pretty much May to November.
But even here in Corpus is nothing compared to New Orleans.
They're surrounded by water on all sides and unlike here there's no breeze coming off the Gulf.
Plus NOLA is very much a walking city and where I lived up by Tulane parking sucked and we got student discounts for public transportation.
Riding the streetcar is actually really fun but waiting to get onto one in August sucks.
I was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. Truth is, it's a great place. Like any city you have your messes. Mainly have to do with people. Other than that, you can find all kinds of places in Dallas FT Worth area and outskirts. Always remember when you go to big cities for opportunities, time has changed. You have to do both look for opportunities and be entrepreneurial and create your own. You don't necessarily have to start your own business, but you need to be a risk taker and create some of your opportunities. It's not enough just to put in applications and sit back. You can be waiting awhile. Also, you have to know the types of environments your SPIRIT likes and is attuned to. Cause no matter where you move your spirit has to sense and connect with an environment and there are all types. Peaceful, chaotic, snakey, sound, dark, light, jealously. Etc. I am not talking about dealing with people. I am saying the environments those people create. You can go to one side of town and it's nice and uplifted but the people can be hateful and all kinds of things. You can go to a side that has a dirty environment. You can go to another and so on and so on. So know what type of environments your spirit like and go from there. The types of styles of buildings matter too. You as a person like a certain style of things.
How. Dallas is one of those cities where you have a car for everything. The enitre city is subrubs and freeways.
This comment was needed 🖤 thank you . I’m living in fl but been contemplating between the two . I see similarities but I feel like I can get more house for my $ there
About to move out of Dallas to go far, far north. Goodbye 105 degree summers that I can't handle, hello the kind of extreme weather that I can handle
Hi Briggs. I like it. You get to see a lot of nice places and it makes sense on why they're moving there. Thanks for the video and have a great weekend.
Glad you enjoyed it
I’ve been a realtor in the Dallas area for 30 years. Happy to talk to you about the differences of all the cities in find the right home for you. I specialize in Frisco and Plano , Carrollton, Prosper.
That street scene with the homes, palms and saguaros was here in the Phoenix area not DFW.
I don't know about the Gulf Coast part of Texas, but El Paso has those palm trees everywhere. Saguaro cacti are farther west, like in AZ, indeed.
I don’t knock people who like the suburbs but I moved into the center of Dallas and it’s an amazing place to be.
I lived in Irving in the DFW metro, and I LOVED it! I rarely made it into Dallas and never had to. It was the right balance of chill and active.
That's awesome. I'm relocating to Irving in a few weeks. That's the kind of vibe I'm hoping for, chill and active.
Yup in Las Colinas , you really don’t have to go into Dallas . But with the proximity to it, I always find my way into the city
I want to move to Dallas but I'm legitimately looking at Frisco. I have a friend there and visit frequently. I really feel at home in Frisco. This video is right on time!
I lived in Frisco for a year. I loved it.
@@Vinegarissweet I love it there!
I don't currently live in Dallas but I'm from there, I have a lot of family still there, and I'm there 4-5 times a year. Family is almost entirely in Plano, so I'm in neighboring Frisco quite a bit. The biggest negative I have about the area is that Frisco is just a newer version of the same old you'll find all over DFW. It's all the same place.
@@johnmininger7472 I can understand that. I spent most of last summer in Frisco 😅
Frisco is awesome and has great amenities, just be prepared to pay up!
The silent seconds at the beginnings are weird. Honest feedback.
I moved San Antonio Texas a year from New York and i end up moving back to New York, don’t get me wrong I loved Texas but it started to get to crowded. I think a lot of people are going start leaving San Antonio soon because the rent is stated to get expensive there now too
I remember back in 2010 when a nice 1 bedroom apt in San Antonio was $800 a month
@@corrosivedevourer I remember that too because my son uncle moved to San Antonio over 8 years ago after he got out of the military and his rent was so cheap, when I move to San San Antonio of November 2021 the rent started to rise. Now for a 2 bedroom in certain areas can go for about 1700 to 1800 in a good neighborhood and Anything really cheap wasn’t in a good neighborhood
Rent is getting expensive literally everywhere. Our financial institutions have artificially inflated the cost of real estate to drive up both rent and home prices. The goal is to leave more and more people unable to save or have any hope of upward mobility. Property values increase, thereby increasing property taxes they can charge that have to come out of the owner or landlords' incomes that don't increase at the same rate as the property value. They want people spending every last dollar on things the government or investment firms own, slowly forcing people to sell what little they still own so they aren't able save, build wealth, or help their children build wealth. They are eradicating the middle class and private ownership. It's modern feudalism, and we just allow it.
@@haroldfarquad6886 Financial institutions have nothing to do with inflating the cost of real estate. It's simply supply and demand. We have a lot of well-paying high-tech jobs in the area now and a lot of people moving in, with very few homes being built under $400K. This is causing the older housing stock to appreciate significantly. Not to mention the rehabbers "adding value" to the old stock and almost getting new build prices of close to $300/sqft.
Inflation has also not helped as the money supply that has been pumped into the economy, with lower interest rates, has been funneled into real estate investments. If you bought rental property at the rate of 1 per year since 2008, you'll be ready to retire soon.
I’ve lived in Flower Mound for the last seven years and love it. It’s a great town to live in.
As Dallas congestion spread to surrounding areas, escaping it involved driving farther and farther. And until recently municipal services like water and phone were somewhat spotty in some outlying communities. My plotting to live away from congestion soon revealed that my better choice was to find a quiet street in Dallas itself. Doing so has minimized driving and keeps me close to necessary services. As I age, this becomes more significant. But my neighborhood now boasts million-dollar properties that in 1980 went for seventy thousand.
All of the people in those smaller towns you mentioned are now violently cursing you for mentioning them! Doesn’t matter though because the way DFW is growing, in the next ten years it’s going to be solid urban sprawl from just south of the Red River all the way to at least Waco - maybe even farther!
Lol I get your point but to Waco?? That’s 90 more miles of sprawl going south . I commute from Waco to Addison
@@FeR-kt1jt I think so! I worked in Gainesville for a couple of years in 2010-12 and I enjoyed it and going to Denton. No more! Nothing but solid traffic from the Red River to well south of Dallas. And that in barely ten years. Give it another ten! I have friends in Pilot Point. They told me there are 2,000 houses planned there to build and their roads are laid out for about 900 people! It’s gonna be a nightmare.
I'm thankful he didn't mention my area and only the next town over.
@@juleswins3My mother lives in Krugerville & traffic is nightmare!
I'm from Dallas/Ft Worth and you have confirmed what I've been thinking, that Fayetteville is our escape city! I know it's mainly because of University of Arkansas and it has Whataburger and Fuzzy Tacos! I'm sorry if my Texas natives crowding it up there!
You should do these for all the major cities briggs, I LOVE this. If people wanna move to these areas and not have to deal with all the bull, talk about why people are moving to the communities nearby. You will help a lot of people with this, as well as the city and towns
Yes, except much of the drone footage displayed has no relation to the community being highlighted. Case in point, in this video much of the drone footage was from California/Arizona/Utah/Nevada (I am not exactly sure which one) and of other places with more dense hardwoods and a higher canopy (taller trees.) The DFW metroplex and all of the towns he mentions do not look like the drone footage in this video.
We moved to Plano in 1976 when it as a small town of about 31,000 residents. Both my boys graduated from Plano East HS and both went to Ivy League colleges. Before we moved out of Plano in 1993, Plano ISD was ranked on top 2% of the nation. One of our children still lives in Dallas, and we may move back there soon as we are growing older each year.
Top 2 percent in the nation??? So what were schools in a state like Massachusetts ranked?
I live in Dallas, it's not just a city it's a metroplex. Most major cities are shrinking while the suburbs are growing. Dallas has never been one of the best cities to live in. The growth rate of the Dallas area is off the charts.
Property taxes are sky high. And new community’s add MUD or PID yearly fees. Many schools are adding school bonds on top of the school isd property taxes. Then you have HOA. Some people are paying 20k total on property taxes for a house that’s worth 500k.
Vote differently
Agreed that Celina will definitely grow to the size of Frisco in a couple of decades. Lots of new homes going in.
Crazy thing is we moved to Frisco in 2002 with 35k population. When we left in 2007, it jumped to 100k. I can’t wrap my head around Celina becoming a Frisco.
I moved to Plano in the earlier 90s when it was about half the population it is today. In 2004 I moved to Frisco and it has gone from 60k to over 200 in 20 years. Celina will be next in the march to near 300k.
Dallas has too many 4wheelers(cars) on the roads and traffic is always a problem except for 3am in the morning before everyone wakes up
Sound like a true Trucker. 🙏🏾
Son just moved from Socal directly to Forney...transferred to a job. He likes it, but thinks Dallas traffic is bad. Prefers Fort Worth.
I hope outsiders understand that living in DFW or N. Texas is not for the faint at heart. The summers are brutal, the winters can be very cold because of the humidity that goes right to the bones and the spring storms are down right scary. I have lived all over the state of Texas since I was 2 years old. The only place I have not lived is El Paso and I am blessed to not have to live there. LOL My favorite area is the South Plains as I graduated from Texas Tech and love the arid weather and the people are soooo friendly.
May I also recommend Seagoville, just southeast of Dallas, if you want a small-town experience that's conveniently close to the main city. My uncle lived there for about ten years. He now lives in Terrell, having also tried living in Mississippi for a few years in the 2010s but ultimately deciding that he liked Texas better.
If you want a more upscale suburban experience, Coppell on the northwest side of the city is the way to go. My aunt lived there in the 1990s and 2000s before moving to Mississippi, then Louisiana, then back to Mississippi. Her daughter (my cousin) lived in Frisco for a while before recently relocating to Mississippi herself to be closer to her aging mother.
Lived in dallas for 10 years , bad weather(extremely hot , will be roasted in July , august ) , not much greenery, positive is cheap , huge homes for the buck and best bbq you will ever find. Recent years has been a tech hub , but if you like mild weather this is not the place for you .
these cities need to update and improve their urban cores, better city planning, added rail lines, and added greenery would help.
Chicago, New York, Seattle, and Portland got that unfortunately two out of the four are losing Population but they are better plan for an American city. Obviously still need improvements.
@@hectorvega621 people are leaving those cities because they’re growingly unaffordable for the middle class and exuberant housing prices. texan cities are great at keeping prices down because we keep building new housing, unlike cities like LA or san francisco who refuse to take action on solving the housing crisis because of nimby’s.
@@lolomar I fucking hate NYMBY'S, but with what Texas is doing is not good planning. We need to build more than single house families. While, also creating Public Transportation to negate the negatives of single house families.
@@hectorvega621 yeah, densifying is what we need in our urban areas, if you’ve been around houston you’ll see that investors are finally starting to build homes in communities that were blighted years ago, townhomes are popping up everywhere in the city.
@@hectorvega621 added security to rail lines is what’s truly needed as well, most people don’t use the rail because they don’t feel safe with people harassing/consuming dr!gs right outside of the stops.
Tarrant County suburbs...Grapevine, Colleyville, Haslet, and Keller are excellent places to live in the Metroplex.
I lived in Dallas area for many years and have family still there. Home prices are substantially higher than this video indicated, especially in Flower Mound, Frisco, and Plano. And property taxes are horrendous! Do your own research.
I’m glad you went west to Weatherford. There’s also Alido closer to Fort Worth and we live in the wonderful community of Stephenville to the southwest of Fort Worth. Also to the southwest is the very popular Granbury
My Mom lived in Aledo for years! She sold her house back in 21. She lives in Benbrook now
I lived in Plano for 20 years of my life. Now in retrospect, overall it was great in terms of general lifestyle and values. Today, my daughter lives in Allen, just a street away from the Plano City limit. It is basically the same. I grew up in Dallas and Michigan. My only regret about moving to Plano is it was not good at that time (80's and 90"s) to raise my daughter. I say that because the teenagers were a bunch of ingrate spoiled brats that tormented each other. So, in a way it was the worst decision I ever made to live in Plano. My daughter was bullied by children who the day before were her best friend. It is a very competitive city. She was devastated and made the entire family miserable. So, if you have children keep this in mind before moving there, this may have been an isolated incident, but I don't think so. I do hope it is better. Today I live in a rural area east of Dallas closer to Bonham.
We moved to Plano in 1976 when it as a small town of about 31,000 residents. Both my boys graduated from Plano East HS and both went to Ivy League colleges. Before we moved out of Plano in 1993, Plano ISD was ranked on top 2% of the nation. One of our children still lives in Dallas, and we may move back there soon as we are growing older each year.
I can second that, Plano was horrible in high school. Lots of euphoria esque spoiled teens
Plano used to be a snobcastle city, now it is just another woke nightmare.
@@pastoryau2237 I was living in Dallas in the early 70's close to the hospital district. I recall that back then Plano might have been Montana for how far it was from anything. I wish it were still like that. But yeah, there were many positives about it.
@@douglaspage2398 You are kidding? Woke? Not that long ago, Collin county was the most conservative county in Texas. That changed fast. But yes, there was the snobby part, very materialistic, and competitiveness. I still go back to my old doctors tho.
Flower mound is pricey too but one of the best places if not the best (bias cuz it is my favorite) really great clean safe and nice suburb
LOL. I love your B-roll of the towns you mention that all look suspiciously like Las Vegas and Phoenix, complete with desert mountains in the background.
I love love love your videos, we are in the process of selling our home to move somewhere in Texas. This is right on time
DFW. You wanna black suburb Desoto, cedarHill and Duncanville are great and not far from the city center.
Dallas has great burbs to move to
@@KingAsa5 We will be living with my brother in law for a bit until we find a place. He lives in Fort Worth.
The downtown freeway "mixmaster" of dallas, tx is an amazing & scary place to be driving in between 7am-7pm, monday-friday!! On the weekends, it's kinda chill!! The "mixmaster' freeway system consists of, at some point: I-45, US 75, I-30, I-35E & TX 366. And US 67, US 175, TX 183 & DALLAS NORTH TOLLWAY are close to the downtown dallas, tx "mixmaster" as well, contributing to the traffic delays!! Quite an amazing setup for a multiple freeways junction!!
Alright, bonus points for pronouncing Waxahachie correctly.
I live in Bedford tx, it’s a great area to be located. Right in between Fort Worth and Dallas and the TRE metro runs through the area, so I can get to any American Airlines event easily! The mid cities are suburban but busy, and located right next to dfw airport. Not much new construction here however, due to a lack of new lots available. We just lack healthy restaurants due to the demographic in the area, hopefully it changes some time but our next home will be in southlake/colleyville
I live in Euless I definitely think the H.E.B. area is the best place to live in Tarrant County
“Overcrowding”…interesting. Dallas is massive in terms of land area and doesn’t even crack top 20 densest large cities in US. When I lived in DFW (Arlington), I personally considered the City of Dallas as largely suburban; I only felt the “city vibes” when I was in the urban core. The great thing about TX is that it definitely gives you a range of options in terms of community size/lifestyle preferences. When I left in 2022, DFW housing cost was steadily increasing; not slowing down anytime soon.
The reason Dallas is less dense in total when compared to other cities is because of the Trinity river bottoms and other areas that are below flood planes. if you take those areas out of the equation, it is up there with everywhere but NYC, LA, DC and San Transcisco.,
@@douglaspage2398 lol no it is not. Not even close. Even without the Trinity river bottoms, Dallas would be nowhere near as dense as Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, or even Los Angeles and Seattle. To many suburban style densities throughout the city. I don't think they have a census tract over 20,000.
@@StylistecS As I pointed out, the Trinity river bottoms are not the only flood plane areas, that's why i specifically added, and flood plane areas. there is a reason there is so much undeveloped space between Dallas and Pleasant Grove, Dallas and Mesquite Dallas and Grand Prairie, Dallas and Irving, Around White Rock, Much of Dallas is simply not as suitable for development, which is why in the other cities houses have basements, but in North Texas, they do not, in spite of the fact that houses with basements would provide more escape from the heat in the summer.
@@StylistecS You would be right about NYC, Philly and NYC, not Chicago, Boston, or Philly. I have been to these Cities, and you are forgetting that no one said that Dallas was more densely populated, the Term was almost. Sheldon.
@@themack74 if you don’t consider 339 sq mi in land area “large” for an urbanized city…well, we agree to disagree.
Watching Forney grow is one of the best parts of living there.
Dallas area was our home from 1977 - 2021. It was a great place to build our careers, raise kids and make great friends.
Sadly, today it’s become a massive concrete jungle with constant road construction and crazy traffic.
Recently we moved to the Texas Hill Country and we love it!
Nice job on this topic and "Thank You" - My husband and I are big fans of all your videos.
I would like to add that one of the reasons people, specifically families, leave Dallas proper is that their school system is very poor. Since so many families are moving from Dallas city limits, the tax base is rapidly shrinking, which affects of course funding for their school district, infrastructure and parks system. One thing I definitely like about the Dallas area is the availability of national stores and eating establishments. I actually live southwest from the city limits of Fort Worth now and for us, Dallas is just too far to go without dedicating an entire day to it. We often only do this for the Christmas shopping experience, which is great! For context though, most of our counties are about 900 square miles. The time spent in traffic to get to Dallas, is no longer worth the trip. This brings me to a helpful fact I'd like to see in your research - the square miles of the city and it's county that your research encompasses.
Again, Thanks for all you offer us!
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Great job
Living in Garland has it's perks, but yeah, definitely looking to get out east to a more quiet life.
Great job
Having lived in Tyler for about eight years, I know a thing or two about Dallas... but not a whole lot more. We used to go to Dallas several times a year (about 1-1/2 hours or so). Big D is a great shopping and restaurant city. But the D/FW area is just too big, and the traffic is a nightmare. Honestly, it's a pretty good city otherwise. Texas property prices throughout urban East Texas are now way too expensive, in my opinion. Terrell is a good choice, although kids might get easily bored living there. Tanger outlet stores are in Terrell, and there's also a Russell Stover outlet store! Also, Terrell has an interesting old cemetery. (Yes, I like that sort of thing!) I now live in a small North Mississippi city, where I see quite a few cars with Texas plates. I'm hoping our state doesn't become a net recipient for the hoards leaving other states.
good if you didnt have to live here, honestly its the worst. crackheads are everywhere
moving from desoto co ms to forney
My wife and I started our family in Dallas proper South of 635) in 1997. We moved to the NW DFW burbs in 2000 when my first son was born as I didn't want to raise my family in Dallas proper. Reasons: bad Dallas public schools for top ranked suburb public schools / costs associated with potential future private schools if we stayed in Dallas, potholes/terrible streets, salvage titled cars on the roads, city politics not aligned with ours, city council infighting, crime, not feeling comfortable with my young kids being able to safely ride their bikes. Many great folks and hard working families in Dallas proper... but it wasn't for us. Downsides to DFW metroplex: Traffic, constant new home/apartment/condo/strip mall/warehouse construction taking away green open space, oppressive June-Sept heat, high property taxes and home/auto insurance policies (hail). With all this in mind the best decision we met was moving to north DFW burbs. The incredible school system prepared them for college, careers and life...are now well adjusted, balanced, capable men that loved living here with friends for life. Thank you Lord.
Much appreciated video. I'm from Dallas and I'm looking at other cities to move to that are more affordable and less crowded. I'm even looking at Vegas or it's surrounding areas from some reason lol.
People aren’t leaving DFW they’re leaving the city for the suburbs
Traffic in Vegas is nowhere near as bad as Dallas. Maybe some slow downs during rush hour but it's manageable. I moved here from Denver and couldn't be happier! Denver is getting over crowded now too.
I live on the far west side. Hiking trails, quiet, even rock climbing and Jeep trails into the mountains.
@@TheBandit7613 Traffic in E. Dallas is about to get worse once the I-30 project from Jim Miller to Downtown is kicked off. At least 3 years of traffic headaches are in store for E. Dallas as TxDOT moves the highway below street level.
that map zoom in in the intro was absolutely beautiful
Please do this for the Austin area. Homes prices here are OUTRAGEOUS! What are the housing bargains near Austin?
People aren’t leaving Austin though, it’s still growing
I started coming to the DFW area in the late 1970's. I've seen it grow into what it is today.
Flower Mound was the only one I agreed with. People should have bought in Frisco 20 years ago. Plano, even longer.
Weatherford? If your goal is to work in Dallas and live in Weatherford, you can expect to spend your days sitting in freeway traffic, driving from the westside of Ft. Worth to get to Dallas. Consider this, Ft. Worth tends to be more business friendly than Dallas, so maybe get a job in Ft. Worth instead. Then, Weatherford doesn't sound so bad. It's actually quite nice.
I work in Addison, and travel daily between there and Frisco, Plano, Richardson and Uptown and Downtown Dallas, but I live in Fort Worth.
I moved here in 2017 and bought my 4 bedroom house in Central Meadowbrook, on Ft.Worth's eastside, at the end of 2018. I'm about 25 minutes to downtown Dallas on I-30 and under 10 minutes to downtown Ft. Worth. I'm 45 minutes from Addison via PGB tollway. I'm about 25 minutes to the airport.
I characterize Dallas as Partytown and Ft. Worth is Sleepytown. I don't really need to live in Partytown to enjoy it. But I do need to live in Sleepytown if I want to sloop easy.
I'm 2 blocks from a City course and half a mile from Woodhaven CC and the massive nature preserve donated by Amon Carter over 100 years ago. I'm next to little treasure neighborhoods like Eastern Hills, White Lake Hills, Chimneywood and Woodhaven. I have beautiful mature trees as do all my neighbors. They're mostly older homes, but they were really nice homes winding around the beautiful rolling hills on Ft. Worth's eastside.
All four of my bedrooms are huge. All the houses on my cul de sac are different and all custom built.
I have the best of the DFW area right here. Ft. Worth is exploding too and Tarrant County is projected to eclipse Dallas County in population before the end of the decade. New construction is going up on every vacant space. Chimneywood is building on it's vacant lots for the first time in well over a decade.
Ft. Worth's property taxes are much lower too.
I love it here in Ft. Worth.
Actual name for this video: "reasons people are leaving every big city"
The traffic is bad for the entire DFW metroplex. It's been a nightmare since we all came back from Covid. Like already mentioned, the weather here is pretty brutal. Other than Plano, Frisco, McKinny and other northern suburbs are known to be safe. In the Metroplex, it's hard to see where one place ends and the next begins. Forney, Terrell, and Waxahachie, three places mentioned, seem a little on the outskirts, but I wonder for how long?
I remember going to Dallas International Airport. The Worst Airport I have ever been to and I was 7 at the time. My mother, sister, & I got lost here. We had to take a train to our next flight inside the airport.
Remember this is 1995. I can only imagine what DIA is now.
@@AJ42KI ABSOLUTELY HATE THAT AIRPORT AS WELL. Whoever the architect was must've been on mind-altering drugs! I only fly out of Dallas Love Field.
I agree with the small town feel but being close to the city. Sometimes it's best to be outside the city limits. There's about 23,000 people here in Lutz FL, but we're only 20 minutes from downtown Tampa. It's quite and safe and we have great neighbors, great schools, we love it.
Interesting episode.
My family moved from N.C. to Dallas in 1965. I was eleven years old.
Dallas has been “My City” for all these years.
We live in an inner city historic district, Junius Heights. It is an awesome neighborhood, and we love it here.
We are close to everything that is “cool” about Dallas: Deep Ellum, Lower Greenville Ave., White Rock Lake, the Dallas Arboretum, downtown, the Arts District, etc. If I never had to leave my neighborhood, I’d be perfectly happy here. Unfortunately, I do have to go to work, which means driving to DFW Airport five days a week. Speaking of DFW Airport, it is the second busiest airport in the world, right after ATL, and is a tremendous growth and revenue generator for the whole Dallas/Fort Worth area.
I would never live in any “suburb”, even here in Dallas.
We are retiring soon, and do plan on leaving Dallas.
We’ll be relocating to an undisclosed location, mainly because of the brutal summer weather and oppressive right wing politics here in Texas.
If anyone wants to buy my house in Junius Heights Historic District, let me know. I’m putting it on the market for $400,000.
Great, just don't move to a red city and bring your poisonous politics along with you, destroying the very essence that made you gravitate to you're potential new location in the first place.
Regards, every potential red landing spot you speak of.
Big bonus points, you pronounced Waxahachie correctly :-)
Awesome, thank you. I was looking at Texas this past weekend for my next home.
The public transit will be a challenge for the Dallas suburbs. If a suburb city wants to be part of Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), they have to dedicate 1% of the available 2% sales tax revenue to DART. (The State of Texas sales tax is 6.25%, and allows cities to change an additional 2% for sales tax). The growth along US-75 north of the George Bush Turnpike is exploding, but the light rail route ends at Plano. The immediate north city of Allen is not a participant preferring to spend that 1% on economic development. Likewise, while the Texas Ranger and Dallas Cowboys play in Arlington, there is ZERO public transit options. This is going to be a challenge when the 2026 FIFA World Cup comes to town.
As for Frisco and Celina, Texas, they will be taking the Dallas North Tollway to get to downtown Dallas. South of I-635, and it's a very narrow tollway with no expansion options. As for Rockwall, besides being the smallest county in Texas, also had that congestion point over Lake Ray Hubbard on I-30. There is a construction project to expand that crossing, but it won't be completed until 2027.
The cities without DART aren't missing anything, except muggings, bullying, sexual harassment of women by local thugs, and constant harassment by panhandlers, I used to take the dart to school (El Centro College), after about a year the free pass just wasn't worth it, after having to risk my life to stop a sexual assault on the train. I wasn't big enough to physically stop him, but just letting him see that I was on the phone was enough to get his full attention. I don't think he was caught because despite several of us tracking him until the dart police arrived, he slipped away into one of the high crime areas along the line.
We survived the World Cup in the Cotton Bowl in 1994. I think we will survive this one as well. There is nothing different about the traffic between that event and the Cowboys' or Rangers' games in Arlington. It will be hell on visitors who don't get hotels in the Arlington area, though. Uber drivers and Airbnb hosts will make a killing!
I Was born and raised in Dallas and have lived in Dallas county also live in Garland and Urban float worth Richardson around all Dallas counties. i’m 63 now and was surprisingly is that I always meet people that I don’t know.
I live in the rockwall/rowlett area. Wanted to get closer to the lake and away from all the BS in the downtown Dallas area. Lakeray Hubbard is a sexy lake.
Lake Hubbard smells awful and is filled with run off.
If you think any of the cesspool reservoirs in the Dallas area are nice, then you have never seen a real lake. You need to travel more and see what real lakes look like.
The older I get the more I prefer my small cities/big towns with small healthy growth. I love living an hour south of NWA where I do not got to deal with rapid growth, sky rocketing rent/housing prices, and constant road work.
Anyone looking for a small town in Dallas will have to move to Oklahoma. Celina for instance will have 400,000 people.
“BIG ‘D’!” Excellent video! I’m 300 miles east in La. and spent over 20 years making weekly/bi-weekly runs to the west side of Dallas to pick up materials in pickup trucks; half the time with a tandem axle trailer. The majority of the people are great; and the left lanes of the 635 Loop are fantastic! But I wouldn’t want to live there. The summer heat is always a few degrees hotter and winters -a few degrees colder; it’s just a nice place to visit. Downtown traffic during rush hour is terrible but if you manage to breakout on a ramp and find a cafe/restaurant to wait it out, the food is good and meals are ‘Texas-style’ BIG! I often wondered how people could live like that spending 45 minutes in both the mornings and evenings in gridlock, -and wondering who’s number is going to be up today on the highway; what a waste. Despite it’s enormous size, they still retain a lot of good, small town attitude.
As far as ‘big cities’ go, Dallas is the BEST!
My daughter just sold her house in one of those newer $250+ subdivisions in Forney. What they didn’t tell her when they bought this brand new home 3 years ago is the subdivision allows section 8 so this 3-4 yr old subdivision has drug dealing, home break ins , and my son in law came home from work to find a car blocking the driveway with a man and Pregnant woman inside alive but both shot multiple times by a 16 yr old over drugs a few houses down. This isn’t the only Forney hood with these issues. Forney is becoming the new Fair Park.
how many more years would you give it?
what about summer haven ?
Born and Raised here, in Dallas. I hate how the Gentrification and Environmental Racism has permeated . I ran for office to stop it...! Won and just sworn in , too😠
Environmental Racism?
I've been living here for ten years when I saw the title of this video I couldn't help but laugh😂. People leaving going on vacation but trust me they're coming right back😂😂😂
The problem with cities in texas is how car dependent they are. If you don't have a car, you will struggle getting around. Had to find that out the hard way.
I’m from Fayetteville, Arkansas and there’s a lot of people here from Dallas. So much so that now we have an overcrowding problem and probably half of the people here now are from Dallas alone.
😂😂😂you do know that’s not even remotely true right?
Nobody’s leaving Dallas like that especially to Fayetteville. I’ve been, and hardly witnessed any Texas license plates.
@@KingAsa5 That’s not true at all. I see Texas plates everywhere here. Some of the most craziest drivers I’ve seen on the interstate that runs through here have Texas plates.
@@cameronadkins you’ll see Texan plates everywhere. But most aren’t from Dallas because nobody’s fleeing Dallas for a rural state like Arkansas. They’re fleeing for the suburbs
@@KingAsa5 You’d be surprised. A lot of them have been going to college up here. Also, northwest Arkansas is not really rural. It’s growing very fast.