So I’ve lived here all my life. I’m currently actively looking for a house. All I’m seeing is Price cuts everywhere because stuff is sitting on the market for way too long. When you look closely at these properties, a lot of times I am finding that they are flipper properties that somebody bought in 2021 way over asking price and put in some money to fix it up and then marked it up even higher. Some of the prices that they’re asking for are ridiculous and people are not lining up in droves to pay them anymore. Who cares if the house has been beautifully remodeled if a block away, the neighborhood is a cesspool and there are crack houses everywhere? Gradually at first, grudgingly and slowly, but, eventually, the prices just have to come down. I am seeing it again and again in the suburbs and even in new construction inside the city where they’re trying to reclaim neighborhoods. So, I really would take that with a massive grain of salt. The city has a lot of issues. The pay here sucks compared to other states. Companies love it, workers don’t. The cost of living which used to be affordable is no longer affordable. Property taxes are through the roof and so is insurance. For a 2200 square-foot house that will run you 290,000 or 310,000, you can expect to pay six to $8000 a year in property taxes and you can expect to pay four to $6000 a year in homeowners insurance. The public transportation here sucks. Dart is a complete and utter mess. Most of the suburbs don’t have it. More of them don’t have it then do. Those that don’t have dart have something called star transit which links up with Kaufman County and is not really that reliable either. Traffic is insane here. The roads need the Massive amounts of TLC. And then there’s the weather. Maybe there’s quite a few people still moving here but, I’ve also noticed a lot of people moving away. At my job, about 12 or 13 people that I know of personally we’re moving back to California. At the upscale hair salon that I frequent Which attracts a lot of corporate types I’ve also encountered people moving back to other states. They hate the weather and they hate some of the policies here.
Yeah, I think you make some good points here. There’s clear reasons for people to move to Dallas, but there are also reasons some people don’t like it. Dallas is certainly not for everyone, and some people do leave after they move here. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, and giving viewers an alternative perspective!
So I’ve lived here all my life. I’m currently actively looking for a house. All I’m seeing is Price cuts everywhere because stuff is sitting on the market for way too long. When you look closely at these properties, a lot of times I am finding that they are flipper properties that somebody bought in 2021 way over asking price and put in some money to fix it up and then marked it up even higher. Some of the prices that they’re asking for are ridiculous and people are not lining up in droves to pay them anymore. Who cares if the house has been beautifully remodeled if a block away, the neighborhood is a cesspool and there are crack houses everywhere? Gradually at first, grudgingly and slowly, but, eventually, the prices just have to come down. I am seeing it again and again in the suburbs and even in new construction inside the city where they’re trying to reclaim neighborhoods. So, I really would take that with a massive grain of salt. The city has a lot of issues. The pay here sucks compared to other states. Companies love it, workers don’t. The cost of living which used to be affordable is no longer affordable. Property taxes are through the roof and so is insurance. For a 2200 square-foot house that will run you 290,000 or 310,000, you can expect to pay six to $8000 a year in property taxes and you can expect to pay four to $6000 a year in homeowners insurance. The public transportation here sucks. Dart is a complete and utter mess. Most of the suburbs don’t have it. More of them don’t have it then do. Those that don’t have dart have something called star transit which links up with Kaufman County and is not really that reliable either. Traffic is insane here. The roads need the Massive amounts of TLC. And then there’s the weather. Maybe there’s quite a few people still moving here but, I’ve also noticed a lot of people moving away. At my job, about 12 or 13 people that I know of personally we’re moving back to California. At the upscale hair salon that I frequent Which attracts a lot of corporate types I’ve also encountered people moving back to other states. They hate the weather and they hate some of the policies here.
Yeah, I think you make some good points here. There’s clear reasons for people to move to Dallas, but there are also reasons some people don’t like it. Dallas is certainly not for everyone, and some people do leave after they move here. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, and giving viewers an alternative perspective!