The BEST areas to Move to in Texas (From a Native Texan)
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- Thinking about moving to Texas? Today a Texas native reviews the different regions of Texas and their cities based off different criteria.
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Texas can be hell in the summer with the temperature, mosquitos and humidity.
Wanna move to the panhandle when I retire.. Pampa Texas... Houses dirt cheap but I hear it's boring... I like boring!!
Definitely is cheaper than most places- but there is enough to do!
Get you a Motorcycle and it wont be boring anymore, there is a lot of communities around here that do Poker Runs and Charity Rides. I have been a part of them since I was a child and now I ride in them myself. They are amazing and fun, The ones I participate in are all based within a 100 mile range. Though they do have shorter and longer runs.
Not only boring but also dangerous.
@@sharpmind4887 💯
Lubbock? Amarillo? You want these people to hate you?!
Hey andrew my name is joe and I just recently moved to Fort Worth with my family from NY love Texas so far
Just don't vote like a New Yorker.
I was going to say the same thing. All too often, people move to escape their crappy communities/states but they don't stop to do some deep thinking as to why their old lives had deteriorated to the point they couldn't stand living there any longer and had to move. Immediately, they continue to voice the same-ol' liberal, idioticly cult-like democrat policies and vote in like-minded shit-for-brains politicians that make laws based on soy-fueled emotions and a lack of basic research rather than truth, sound reasoning that may not always be popular with the loudmouth minority and THE CONSTITUTION OF THE USA. Thus, another one bites the dust and a once thriving community/state that people flocked too becomes another Commifornia or The People's Republic of Washingstan.
***WHEN YOU MOVE TO A NEW AND BETTER COMMUNITY, IT'S BETTER THAT YOU CONFORM TO YOUR NEW SURROUNDINGS, AND LET YOUR NEIGHBORS THINK YOU'VE GOT A GOOD HEAD ON YOUR SHOULDERS. RATHER THAN SHOW YOUR PROGRESSIVE SIDE, AND NOT BE INVITED TO LOCAL BBQs, BE THOUGHT OF AS A POMPOUS ASS-HAT AND A HATED CONTRIBUTER TO THE DESTRUCTION OF ANOTHER GREAT AMERICAN COMMUNITY AND/OR STATE!!!!!
- If you're in the Lubbock area and are progressive wanting to move to a place you might consider a utopia for liberal ass-hats, I'll trade you. You come to The People's Republic of Washingstan State with your family and mine will come to Texas and PROUDLY assimilate, attend church, umpire little league, join or add to the local business community, clean guns in our spare time (because practice makes perfect...sense) and hopefully leave Texas a cleaner, freer and friendlier state with each passing generation. As the memory of once being a native Washingtonian fades and is replaced with growing Texan pride, you and yours can enjoy the (truly BEAUTIFUL) Pacific Northwest, ban all the guns you can, enjoy paying some of the highest gas prices in the country, embrace the outlawing of new combustion engine vehicles in 2030, genderless public school bathrooms, NAMBLA lobbyist, Subarus, birkenstocks, proud women with hairy legs and armpits and public recreation areas that limit you to berry picking and tree hugging. Better leave your ORVs in Texas and I'll take good care of them for you. P.S. I recommend practicing being a helicopter parent and resisting any urge you may have to develope masculinity and a sense of individualism in your sons. They'll be hated by the education system. @randykelso4079
I am retiring to Rockport, TX, just north of Corpus Christi, we have a waterfront condo, and absolutely love this area.
I visited my sister in Lubbock last year and I was surprised how many restaurants there were and how big the university was compared to other campuses in the country. Overall I enjoyed visiting . One more thing Pinkies bbq was absolutely delicious 🍻🔥🍻
Thank you for the video
thank you for this video
Dude! This video is soooo good! Seriously one of the best I’ve seen on an overview of Texas. And not just saying this because I know you 😉
bruh 😍😍😍😍
Great informative video Andrew! Lots of work! ❤
Hi!! First time stumbling into your channel. Nice to meet ya'!! 10:11
Great video! It's been awhile since we've seen el fuego ☹️
Oh he'll be back soon enough.
I also live in Lubbock. I have lived in maybe 15 different places, and I love Lubbock best of all, hands down.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: There is a ton of potential in Lubbock and Midland and Amarillo. In the last ten years, Lubbock has had more significant growth than it's had in its entire history (and 80,000 new residents since 2000), and more businesses are interested in looking at that city. West Texas needs to get aggressive now. There's lots of room.
That's what we've been sayin' Case!!!
Texas is filling up with Californians, it won't be long till it's " New California "
Lol, yes west tx the dry weather and even dryer personalities. Midland looks like a run down mess, homeless people on every corner, no work but oil field. Rampant crime. Worst city I’ve ever stayed in. Y’all stay over in west tx while we enjoy etx lol.
Amarillo has been growing like crazy since COVID
Lubbock is just okay if you want dirt and desert.
I live an hour from Lubbock, everything is so true lol! 😂 there’ll be a dust storm with dry heat and then it’ll snow for example 😂😂 a word of advice for y’all tho, the tumbleweeds are no joke they’re everywhere, especially in a dust storm 😂
Been in Waxahachie for years now and love it! Has that small town feel but everything you need. Great people, good schools and pretty conservative. Only 20 minutes from Dallas. Although building boom is going on and traffic down 77 through town getting a bit heavier it's still a great place in Ellis Country.
Wild how much everything has grown.
That was actually a great video. You’re a talented guy ⭐️
I'm a McKinney resident with kids in the Frisco school system because we're on an arm of McKinney that borders Frisco near Coit and El Dorado. The school systems are the reason we live here. I was born in Kansas and after that lived all over the country, mainly because of the conditions of my family and after I was an adult due to job opportunities that I was chasing. So I only lived in Kansas for the first year of my life, and as a baby was moved to Connecticut. I was then moved to Colorado for 2nd - 6th grade, Wyoming for 7th grade - Senior high school, Texas for my first undergraduate degree at UNT in Denton, then Florida (where I started a company at Universal Studios Florida in Orlando), New York (where I fell backward into the internet business), Massachusetts (where I was mostly broke), Pennsylvania (which bounced me around) and finally back to Texas on a job relocation. I am saying all this because the Plano / Frisco area is the greatest shopping spot of anywhere I ever lived, and has BY FAR the best school system. There are a few bad schools to be sure, mainly caused by bad management, but in general, the public schools will TEACH kids, not indoctrinate them. Even before I moved here, everyone I spoke to in the Northeast, even foreigners, had heard of "Plano, TX" as having one of the best school systems in the country, and Frisco is the new Plano, and McKinney & Prosper are the new Friscos. If you like shopping, there is no better place than the Stonebriar district of Frisco. Literally nowhere. There are more stores here than anywhere I've ever seen, and that includes places like King of Prussia Mall where I used to go, which boasts being the 2nd biggest mall in the US, but you need a heart pacemaker to access it on their ridiculous highway system there. Stonebriar is nestled in the intersections of the Dallas Tollway (a major artery into Dallas that forms a "V" with 75) and 121 or the "George W. Bush" tollway which connects McKinney to the DFW airport. Incidentally, the Frisco area is only about 30 minutes drive to the DFW airport and also to Love Field, so you have lots of choices to fly from here, and you don't hear much air traffic. (I used to though, before COVID, but nowadays the air traffic patterns changed after the lockdowns.) Anyway that's my two-cent amendment from a humble local (but non-native) resident of Texas!
I live in Texas my whole life, Right over in Arlington for about 5 years on base, ON Base it was not so bad but in the city.. *I hated it!!!!!!! But I am by FAR not a City boy so I had to get back towards my hometown of Vernon. I have also lived in an super small town called Olney but I will be honest it was dead there, nothing happens and nothing goes on haha. Vernon is not that bad is growing but it a medium sized town of about 15k I think last time I seen the sign it was a lil over 13k. I have several family members in Lubbock, It has been about a year since I been through there. Loved the Video hope to see some more GOOD people around.
Air Tractor is built in Olney!
@@robertreznik9330 Yep
I'm from Dallas, went to high school in Tyler and live in Abilene. My personal preference as far as reigons is the pineywoods
64% isn't diversity.... it's mexico
It's not Mexico. It's still Texas, which a big part of used to actually be Mexico. Also, would say that a 64% white population is Europe?
try the rgv its 90%+ hispanic
I have been all thru TX. and I chose Austin to retire in. I live in a high rise downtown. There is so much to do and so diverse. I came from 50 years in Boulder, CO. and has similarities.
Great choice!
I live in Amarillo, and I absolutely love it here.
I love Texas!
We do too!!
Right after you talk about sandstorm and Durango. There are people on horse back. One is carrying the California flag. Was that caused by a sandstorm? They where just blown in to Texas? 🤠 . . Waco, Texas
Hey guys, your videos have been awesome and informative. I plan on enrolling in TEXAS TECH for my masters program and I’m planning a 3 day visit to Lubbock in February to get a feel of the place and the university.
How do I contact you guys for more information on moving to lubbock?
Thanks so much for watching our videos Abdulmatin, feel free to give me a ring at (806)464-9380
@@LubbockLiving I’m currently outside the United States so international calls might be too expensive, can I reach you via mail or any other platform?
@@abdulmatintemitayo3789 of course- email at andrew.baxter@trustprogressive.com
You did a fairly good job man, been in dallas for 31 years and agree with most statements. What you missed dallas' service industry and the trash drivers in Houston lol but all of texas is great lib right and all in the middle great people. Shout out to spankys in Lubbock
Question: For someone who’s never been to the heart of Texas, (drove through stayed in Amarillo) Im tired of the city life) what is a small town where I can have an acre, (or 3) no crime and affordable, with access to a big city within 30 minutes? Thank you! This was a great video!
Temple or Belton, which are both north of Austin by 40 minutes, sometimes longer on Friday afternoon/evening. It's boring here, but you can be where there's more adventures in 30-40 minutes. I am leasing my house out here in two weeks, we're moving back to Benbrook (Ft. Worth suburb).
What about El Paso, Texas?
NOPE!!
Crime city.
I see a lot of videos of people saying "Native Texan". I was born in Oak Cliff in 1961, lived in North Dallas, Carrollton, Irving and many places in between. In 2000 I built a house on 8 acres , 10 miles west of Denton. To anyone wanting to come to DFW, be aware of the places you want to avoid. Fair Park, Oak Cliff, Pleasant Grove, are extreme with Crime. Garland, Richardson Arlington and even Plano have went down hill as well. Just keep in mind, many of these people are trying to sell you a house. You're not getting the whole story, trust me.
Forgot to mention El Paso in the West Texas portion of the video! Very significant city. But solid video otherwise.
Thank you very much for watching!!
We will for sure mention in the next one
I'm sayin doe
@@LubbockLivingtalk about the black ares like northeast el paso and talk bout east side San jaun/Southside then u got the west side and downtown and west central and central and fort bliss the biggest military base in the country
@@user-hk9ve1mi3vDidn’t know El Paso even had a sizable black population
Ummm... I have family in El Paso and it is currently being invaded from an open Southern border. It's not a major plus when it comes to safety. FACT.
Interested in everything west taxas. But im not even an American. Im originally from the Caribbean but i plan to move to anywhere west taxas PERMANENTLY since i heard and read it's the best for my lifestyle in all ways... can you help on that matter? If so, I'd love the help!
You cannot claim to be a native Texan if you weren't born here. No matter how tuned you think you are with the culture etc. However good video.
Totally agree….. I actually think we should add that people need to be at least 2nd-3rd generation Texan to be considered “native”. I like to think someone is not just born here but RAISED Texan by 2 generations! Just a thought 😊
Does that mean if I move to Texas I can be forgiven for choosing not to wear a cowboy hat and boots?
@@chrisbrass8930 How you dress in Texas is not nearly as important as how you vote. If the place you came from is a hotbed of communism, you need to leave all that behind you and vote for America First.
Hi Andrew. I'm from Bangladesh, a tiny county in South Asia. Intending to apply for Texas universities. Hence this video helped me a lot. Planning on going for Denton-Dallas-Arlington. Best of luck. Great content.
Thanks so much for watching all the way from Bangladesh Sam... Glad we could help :)
Great job in talking around the areas that cost lower than $400k. I
I would like to have more info about southern Texas. The suburbs of Houston caught my eye but you helped me to realize i should reconsider due to flooding.
I’d move to Tulsa instead of the Houston area.
Both are hotbeds of crime.@@frankedgar6694
Can you guys possible do a video on Tarrant County, my girlfriend and I are planning on buying a home in Fort Worth and would like to know the great zip codes to buy in Forth Worth at a affordable price
Great idea. As always give me a call to discuss moving options :) hopefully we can get you guys here quick! (806)-464-9380
Are you coming from out of state?
Benbrook, by a long shot!
West Texas will be a future gas and oil field drilling area and I want part of that
Future? They’ve drilled every crevice of that place since the 1930s…
I am not from Texas and have family all over Texas including Dallas and Austin. I will tell you, Houston is my favorite place to live and yes Harvey happed and we flooded but that was in 2017 and have not flooded like that again. Houston has the best opportunity for growing business and getting a Job that pays 3 figures without needing a degree I can assure you that. Not to mention the great hospitals around and great schools… also out of Dallas and Austin… Houston win as the one with the most affordable homes.
The Texas panhandle is nice if you do not like lots of people around. With the exception of Borger. Borger stinks of oil refineries.
I have yet to be to Borger- but I believe you!
Yes, I want to move to Texas and I am looking for place with rivers and mountain and great school for kids
I live in Washington and wanted to move to Texas. How’s the real estate 🏡 and best places to get a decent home. ?
I live in deep east Texas sort of in the middle of Dallas and Houston but more east.
I want to move to west texas! ❤
I'm contemplating Lubbock or Amarillo, specifically for their more affordable home prices. But I keep hearing Lubbock is supposedly in the top 5 most dangerous cities in America. How accurate is this information? Should I be concerned about raising a family there.
It’s accurate. West tx and south tx are full of illegals and homeless which is where most of the crime comes from.
I'm a lifelong resident of Lubbock (I'm in my 50s) and it's MUCH safer and nicer in every way than Amarillo. Do not listen to the hype about Lubbock being crime ridden. I 40 running through Amarillo makes it much rougher, and it's more desolate up there.
@@catblack4091That’s a lie. 💀
you have nothing to worry about, i've heard that too and it's absolute nonsense. listen to the people who actually live in lubbock and their day to day experience, not some random statistics.
I’m from out of the country and want to live in the east side. It’s my kind of living !
It's a great place!
What do think about willis, Tx?
What about Corpus Christi. Is that a diverse community
Can you comment on cities like San Marcos, Tx?
Me my wife are planning on moving our family of 6 to either the Fort Worth area or Huntsville Alabama area. Could you tell me how the property taxes are and home owners insurance rates are in Fort Worth I will be working with a VA loan And I'm concerned about the property. Taxes and insurance rates in texas have heard good and bad things .
Huntsville by a long shot! Real estate property taxes and insurance and the FB headquarters are relocating there, it will be safe. It's booming and it's a great area. Otherwise, Benbrook Fort Worth area. Our property taxes and insurance are through the roof now. Outrageous. I have a 2100 SF home on 6600 SF lot and the best deal on homeowners' insurance I could get was $3800 per year. Our taxes are $10K with a homestead exemption!
@@user-uo4rf4ez8c thanks for the info We really like northern alabama !
Can you give me more info on amarillo? Is it Lubbock 2.0?
Amarillo has a large medical complex. It is more conservative and not dependent on a college. A & M has a nearby school. Not as dusty but cooler than Lubbock. A better airport. About 1/4 million people live around Amarillo. About the lowest unemployment rate in the US.
What happened to Arlington?
Hi personally being from W. University Pl. in Houston, Texas would not consider Lubbock West Texas at all lol I left East Texas to move to West Texas so far west not quite El Paso West, because El Paso is got awful, but to the mountains near Fort Davis called the Davis mountain, very similar to the northern regions of Arizona tons of Ponderosa pine trees at the top of the mountain. It’s 8500+ feet above sea level Fort Davis itself along with Alpine are above 4500 feet above sea level making them the coolest summer destinations in Texas. I personally live in the mountains above Fort Davis at 6800 feet, which is very similar to my old home in Arizona. They got plugged by California people and because my horses and everything else, the California made my life miserable so I sold my home and made $400,000 profit off of it and moved to a less expensive place of only $80,000 with 10 acres in the Davis mountain range, my home In Strawberry Arizona originally paid 200,000 for it five years ago so I will say one thing when California people move into your area the only bright side is they make or jack up the prices of homes because they come like locus and buy everything up a little bit too liberal for me but Marfa and Fort Davis are so awesome. You can’t find a better western Texas place to live. Yes it snows. Yes it gets cold but I like that kind of environment.
Great video! Thanks a lot for the info. I just got a job offer in Midland, TX, so I'm looking up information about the town/city. Does anybody have any heads up about it?
Dry. Out in the middle of the Sahara Desert. Oil & jackpumps.
It's getting less expensive as oil markets are slower with our current administration. I was a previous Business Services Officer for the entire region from Wichita Falls down to the border. My personal opinion is try renting before just running out to buy there. Our R/E is going through turbulence, just like our economy. You will probably pick up an REO/defaulted property pretty easily in the next 12 months. It's a total boom-bust town.
Bakes in the sunner. Freezing in the winter. Try someplace a bit nicer, with trees.
@@boethius1812 Like the East Texas Piney Woods.
Frisco/The Colony is not affordable lol new housing development just popped up with houses over $600K.
I'm interested in El Paso. Do you know a good realtor for that area?
I could definitely find one! Give me a ring :)
(806)-434-9380
Fort Worth is where the west begins.
Dallas is where the east peters out.
Lubbock vs amarillo? what's your pick?
Lubbock!
I grew up 90 miles south of Lubbock. We got all their topsoil during the spring. It’s hot as hell in the summer. If there’s a tornado, that’s where it comes from. Winter is wicked but it only lasts a day or two. Don’t let that fool you. There is an autumn season. I remember it showed up on a Thursday.
My comments are the fact that Lubbock is not in west Texas but you left out a hold lot of west Texas
Woodlands- might as well live in Dallas. Food scene in Houston is the best in Texas.
Get a life what do you do just live to eat that is just pathetic!
Sir which city is very safe in texas
How is McAllen Texas? Anyone?
What about Sherman. I heard some good things about that place. I love the Woodlands but the humidity is killing me.
Sherman is a good growing area as well!!
I grew up in Sherman in the 50s and 60s and have lived in Allen for the past 25 years. Sherman has changed with manufacturing but is now getting ready to explode with high technology manufacturing, aerospace industry and education. Rapid development has started and population will soar as Dallas expands North to the Red River.
I wouldn’t put a lot of stock in someone who has a tag line Lubbock living 🤣
You forgot deep east texas and far west texas
You've sold me on Lubbock someday but then you say you want to go back to DFW?
If Lubbock is so great, why plan your exit.
Great question Bud. Always plan on being in Lubbock in one way or another as we own properties here and I manage them!
You forgot about El Paso TX?!
I know the best city .... like extremely good... he didn't mention it.. dfw sucks if you like food or traffic planning....
You said you've been living here 25 years, and also called yourself a native Texan. Are you 25 years old?
Please move to California, Oregon, and Washington State!
You can have 'em. I'm staying in Texas.
Best city and area in Texas is College Station/Bryan and surrounding counties
Amarillo isn’t west Texas.. it’s the panhandle, which is it’s own region, and it’s the only “big city” there
No love for El Paso? :p
East texas?
Can’t believe he didn’t mention East Texas
tiny home rentals?
Houston is part of East Texas. Amarillo and Lubbock, Texas is not west but in the panhandle
avoid Houston, Galveston, east TX along I -10
My home away from home!
Yessir !! 😤😤
You forgot El Paso
El Paso needs to be forgotten. Slug politicians there increased prooerty taxes to 64% plus! Stinky corrupt EL Crapo
Im from Houston and I’m offended. I mean we don’t suck at all 3 sports. 😂 The baseball team still has hope they’ve won the world series 2x in recent history 😂
Hello fellow Lubbockite.
I’d say here in East Texas is the best place to live!
Giant thumbnail saying “don’t move here” then doesn’t give any reasons why. I’m confused.
I like the Panhandle. Not much there. That’s great.
Did You move back to Dallas?
Nope!
Collin County is very nice.
As a Texas native, I beg of you to find another state to invade. We're full.
I guess El Paso is part of Mexico to you. Amarillo and Lubbock are NOT West Texas. Amarillo is in the Panhandle & Lubbock is the South Plains. Midland/Odessa to El Paso is West Texas.
false. a big chunk of the panhandle is widely recognized as west texas. Midland/Odessa, Lubbock, Amarillo all fall into that category.
Agreed. You can't say West TX and not mention El Paso. It's the most west there is!
Damn it , don’t mention Austin , we’re already full from a bunch of Californians as is. No offense to any Californians but thanks to the influx of Californians moving there it increased rent and made it hard for the locals to afford rent , thus increasing the homeless population and increased traffic, Houston’s traffic is even worse . After the Army my family and I will have to move elsewhere because it’s gotten so crowded. The further south Austin you go the more expensive it gets , just a heads up .
Didn't the Astros win the World Series last year?
Yeah, this guy talks out his ass a bit; typical salesman.
What's wrong with east texas. It's beautiful and has pine trees. Lufkin, Nacogdoches and Tyler are wonderful towns. Is it too conservative for you? Or have you ever been here?
Houston Astros World Champions, Houston Rockets World Champions!
I had to go back and see if I heard him right. smh
Dallas , Austin , San Antonio and Houston all are primarily liberal . Don’t live anywhere on the border of Mexico . Marfa is charming but not much to do . Texas is trending left as Biden is pushing open border . Fort Worth is charming and has a different vibe than Dallas
El Paso is a great, friendly, safe city. Not going to lie, it trends blue, but people are great and it's perfect for raising a family w/o spending a fortune.
For one Amarillo isn't in west texas it's in the panhandle and how u gonna talk bout west Texas and no mention El Paso were the biggest city in west texas tf😂😂
Muleshoe!
Good job, what little you get kinda wrong or didn't cover, no one will correct you on, lol!
Tootles😊
East Texas????
Austin the big liberal area. Dallas, not so much. The east DFW area is a good place to live..
The gulf of texas