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…

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

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...

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.

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!

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

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 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.

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?

We can ban non-citizens from owning land and make single-family homes exclusively for people and not corporations. That would solve the unaffordability crisis.

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

You don't want to live in Frisco, Plano, Allen or McKinney - unless you have a GOOD PAYING JOB, kids in school, and you like TO DRIVE EVERYWHERE and sit in lots of traffic. And if you don't mind a cookie-cutter McMansion with zero full grown trees on your block.

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

Leaving the black hole of Austin and moving to law-abiding, clean, and friendly Georgetown July 1st.

The heat is treacherous in Texas in the summer!

Texas isn't all its cracked up to be. Property taxes are 4th highest in the nation. And no, the fact that TX doesn't have income tax doesn't make up for it. And Georgetown property taxes are just as bad. Not to mention the horrendous weather, triple digits nine months out of the year, tornadoes, flooding. Its no picnic.

No matter how long I look at it 3D printed concrete looks like shit piled up

I live in Upper Michigan, 100 miles away from a freeway. Please dont move here. it's awful.

It will soon become a shitbox with all those Californians moving there.