re: Plano vs Dallas

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If I was moving to the burbs it would be...

1. McKinney
2. Frisco

In that order.

There nothing wrong with Plano, but it's oversaturated.

Richardson is another option possibly.

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Definitely this.

Commuting from McKinney would be awful but it's a ton better than Plano IMO.

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Commuting from McKinney would be awful but it's a ton better than Plano IMO

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I couldn't imagine even contemplating moving 40 miles radius from the city center. Seems crazy to me. To each their own

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Commuting from McKinney would be awful but it's a ton better than Plano IMO.

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Agree, quite a drive everyday.

We bought in Lake Highlands. The location is great. We are 15 mins from downtown, get the comforts of a suburb, but with all the better restaurants/ entertainment offered by Uptown, Deep Ellum, Lower Greenville, etc.

No way we could commute downtown every day from Plano, McKinney, Frisco. To each their own though.

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I know LH prices are on the rise (like everywhere else)

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I'd love to live in Lakewood or M Streets. We bought in Lake Highlands early 2015 and were able to get a single story remodeled 3000sft home for about $99/sqft. More and more buyers are realizing what the locals have figured out. The immediate fringes of some areas with older apartments can scare away some new people to DFW.

Lake Highlands has some ugly areas and obviously the apartments are a put off. If you're not from the area (or aren't close to people who are), you might not pick up on the lack of overlap between those apartments and the nearby neighborhoods. As I suspect you can attest, the neighborhoods feel pretty insulated.

Same thing for LHHS, where the demographics tell a different story than people who go/attended.

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Not to get off topic but I wasn't aware that there is big mumbo jumbo about folks not wanting 380 to be upgraded to a freeway, because they want to retain their country lifestyle.

These people are delusional.

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1. It's happening either way.

2. The last thing I'd want is to keep 380 as is.

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if you must live in the city/suburbs just live in Highland Park, University Park,

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Collegedropout

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College dropout, huh? Are you Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates?

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