I Found The Last Piece Of The American Dream. It's In Texas.

Here is my entire Texas Road Trip Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq-_cmf3H6yo9g5TSfY7ySf…

The story just keeps on repeating itself: nice places get invaded, prices go up, locals get priced out, liberal politics move in, and the once nice place gets destroyed...turned into dystopia...

The quality of life in a city is determined by the quality of the character of the people who live there

Anyone who has told you that Dallas, Austin, and Houston are the best places to live in Texas is out of their ever-lovin' mind!

I'm so sick of all these expensive cheaply built suburbs going in all over Texas. They come in, cut down every single tree and then then these small towns like the one I live in cant support this many people. It's causing massive flooding and the crime rates keep rising. Even in these stepford wives neighborhoods. They just don't like that getting out to the public to ruin their perfect little images.

I live in one of the slums in tx, prefer it over the middle class. have 2 neighbors that throw parties and blast music in thier backyard, I show up with a 12 pack and eat a buffet and get drunk. our shared fence was falling apart so we just removed it and never replaced, my dogs and their dogs hang out. Its super ghetto but theres a method to the madness.

It hasn't done nothing but make my homestead taxes go up massively in the last 10 yrs.

Californians shouldn’t be allowed to move to Texas, fix your own state first

It hurts to look at this. Soulless cookie cutter McMansions going on endlessly, empty sidewalks, no pedestrians. It's an eerie reminder of that dystopian planet in the book Wrinkle In Time.

We moved to Texas in ‘97 for work (jobs+money) from Oklahoma. First lived in Allen when it was just starting to pop. Our youngest son was born in McKinney. Have lived in The Colony, Little Elm, Flower Mound and now in Denton. North Texas is our home. Love it!

I’ve lived in Some great undiscovered towns . Soon as they get discovered they get ruined . First they start pumping up parking fees and fines. Taxes fees etc

I was born in Austin in 1963. I deer hunted with my grandparents west of Leander where there are houses now. I graduated High school in Burnet Texas. In 1963 the population in Texas was just over 10 Million. I live in Allen Texas now and the DFW population is just over 8 Million people, almost more than the entire state population when I was born. It is projected the DFW metroplex area will have 33.91 Million people by 2100. Texas by 2100 will be about 87 Million. I am definitely glad I will be long dead by then. Texas is projected to build about ten more water reservoirs to take care of the population going into 2100. Texas approved Prop 7 which will help with expansion of the ERCOT power grid. Texas has 340 power plants, 3% of Americas power plants. There are plans under Prop 7 to build peaker plants that will operate not more than 100 hours per year at peak demand times. Texas is vast with most of the population living in the triangle from San Antonio to Houston to DFW. West Texas is huge and will be a long long time before growth moves in that direction if ever. Concrete, glass, cars, pollution, high property taxes, high pollen count, heat heat and more heat from the end of May to the end of October. Six months out of the year our high during the days will range from 90-110 plus. The skies here are mostly smoggy in the DFW area. When we get strong northern cold fronts it cleans the air until the southerly winds kick back in. If you have issues with allergies your allergies will kill you here. If you love driving fast Texas is your place. No one drives the speed limit but me I think. The rest go 30-50 MPH over the posted limited then they slam on their breaks at the next light. I’ve lived here my whole life, Houston, the hill country, the DFW area and I can hardly wait to retire and leave. There are to damn many people here. The whole world’s gotten to crowded and much more evil and rude. It will take every bit of $6,000-$7,000 net to get by on in the northern suburbs where I live. We have zero debt. Our home is paid for. We pay cash for everything including new cars when we need them. Our property taxes are $7,000 a year currently in Allen Texas on our $586,000 $2965 sq foot home. Some of the bigger mansions over a million bucks plus I have seen the tax bills at $65,000 per year. It all depends on the value. Imagine just your tax bill at $65,000 per year for your mansion. Insurance on our two new 2024 Toyotas here are $1500 a piece per year. Our grocery bill here for three people runs about $1500-$2,000 depending on how many times we eat out per month. Maid service is about $1200 a year. The lawn service is about $800 a year. In the bigger mansions here they spend $1,200 plus a day for cleaning. Our homes electrical bill runs from $100 in the winter to $500 plus in the summer. Water bill runs from $100-$400 a month. Nothing in the northern suburbs in the DFW area is cheap. I posted this for people thinking of moving here. Again if you’re upper middle class you better have zero debt, pay cash for your house and be bringing home net at the very least $6,000-$7,200 per month cash to live here in a house. Next year with inflation it will be $7200-$8500….and more each year as hyperinflation gets much much worse. The US government is not going to slow down spending money they don’t have and the American voter will keep voting in the big government spenders. When will it all blow up? Who knows?

Lived in this area since 2004. Even in 2010 I remember at school people complained how soulless it was. Now it's just more expensive with unhinged drivers.

The heat is treacherous in Texas in the summer!

I live in Tx, and I remember when Georgetown was a nice cozy blip in the road (as was Cedar Park, Pflugerville and Georgetown) now they're overcrowded and filled with folks that ain't from Texas. Here in the SE part of the state the sprawl is much slower and I'm okay with that.

I just love Nick. I don't know why, but his voice always makes me feel calm and his sense of humour is always great. And Mappy is amazing and has sometimes some great points. Nick should be a professional TV presenter with his own series!

Lived in DFW 55 years. Fun to watch an outsider perspective. I've witnessed this metro grow non-stop since we moved here when I was a boy. They have added some mass transit but don't try to walk anywhere (except those little spots like the downtown of McKinney). Because nobody walks here because it is HOT AF 5 months out of the year. As long as you got A/C in the house and car, no problem. 95F and 70% humidity today.... tornadoes scheduled for later on.

These places are actually little towns that have been around for a while, it's just that the sprawl engulfed them.

No pedestrians, no public transportation system, like always. It all looks sad and abandoned.

I spent three months in Dallas and Austin. That was all I needed to see to realize that I never wanted to live in Texas. Outside of a few charming small town centers and newer commercial districts, you can't walk anywhere in Texas. The only exceptions were wealthy enclaves that had no affordable homes (e.g., Lower Greenville in Dallas or South Congress in Austin). The rest of Texas was all boring car-centric sprawl. The same goes for Florida and Arizona.