re: Best Fort Worth neighborhoods

I'm seeing a lot of Keller responses. We're trying to keep it under $325k, because the kids will be in private school. It sucks that we could easily afford more if not for that.

If you listen to the folks telling you to live in Keller, just make sure you don't have to commute to Fort Worth for work for at least 2-3 years (if that stretch of 35 is done on time). It will take you an hour to get home from work trying to go North on 35 from the downtown area.

Your price range puts you in benbrook, white settlement, saginaw type areas and those will be DR Horton (not bad at all, but no character and no yard) cookie cutter subdivision houses. That's if you are looking for immediate surrounding Fort Worth suburbs. Outside of that, Burleson, Mansfield, Colleyville, Keller, Aledo become options.

It may be worth looking in the hospital district. Lots of gentrification going on between Baylor and JPS. It would be an older home that probably needs some updates, but it will increase in value and being within walking distance from that part of Magnolia St. would be awesome.

Fort Worth itself is weird in that there isn't any one area with a bunch of nice houses (near Colonial and TCU is probably the biggest/most consistent?), there are small pockets of very nice houses scattered throughout the city. Because of this the public schools aren't great anywhere in town. Folks with money in town send their kids to trinity valley, country day, etc.

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I'm seeing a lot of Keller responses. We're trying to keep it under $325k, because the kids will be in private school. It sucks that we could easily afford more if not for that.

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Unless you are living in Fort Worth or certain parts of Dallas, why are you sending your kid to private school in DFW?

Wonder why, too. Pretty darn good ISD.

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Meadowbrook is slowly behind

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I lived in Meadowbrook the first 9 years of my life. When my parents moved there it was a top tier Fort Worth neighborhood. Lots of upper class whites. When we moved away it was basically the ghetto. When a drive by shooting happened in our neighborhood that is when my parents decided it was time to move

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I'm seeing a lot of Keller responses. We're trying to keep it under $325k, because the kids will be in private school. It sucks that we could easily afford more if not for that.

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Never understood the need for private schools in the area unless you are zoned to a ghetto school which would mainly be inner city Fort Worth and Dallas

There are some excellent public schools and districts in the area. Hurst Euless Bedford is one of the top ranked districts in the country and it's not far from Fort Worth. Birdville ISD is good too. So is Saginaw ISD.

Save your money. Public schools in the area are great

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I lived in Meadowbrook the first 9 years of my life

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I went to Eastern Hills .

Unfortunately, Woodhaven killed Meadowbrook. In the 80's, Meadowbrook was the University Park of Tarrant County. I laugh at the citizens patrol and their fancy magnet signs. . Meadowbrook is long gone.

We live in Keller and love it but it is definitely a cookie cutter suburb, you can find exactly what you are looking for up around eagle mountain lake. Easy to get to downtown FW, big, charming 50 year old lots that will be in your price range.

Fairmount --character, can be kinda dicey but overall cool scene and close to cool stuff

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I went to Eastern Hills .

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I went to Meadowbrook Elementary for kindergarten and 1st grade until I started the magnet program in 2nd grade

I went to Meadowbrook United Methodist Church until I was 12. Still go there for Christmas Eve service