what about the elementary school? if that district has a good elementary school then it could get ppl to move in there for a few years, then jump to another hood when the kids are reaching middle school or hoping that it'll improve and up it to the point that it'll be good in a few years.
What did you do with all the money you saved by not getting married and not having kids until mid-30's or later? That is your house money.
Back during the building boom of the 2000's S Florida builders were actually building their own schools just for their sub-divisions and gifting them to the county to make sure they got top dollar for the houses.
Tmac
for not saving aggressively during those years unless he comes back and tells us that his parents and family hounded him to do it and he ignored them. I say this coming from a lower-middle class (half the time upper-lower class) family/neighborhood where exactly 0 of the parents discussed money with their kids. I get the feeling that most of our parents were embarrassed about how poorly they managed their own lives that they might have thought it better to let school teach us that. The folly was thinking that schools teach financial discipline (really financial anything) at all. It is honestly the biggest failing of our school system that there are no required financial classes starting at 6th grade and until high school graduation.
is the rent that high just b/c of the districting? if you haven't even pooped out any kids yet, youre not even gonna take advantage of the schools yet anyway
Starter houses in the north texas burbs are 20 year old 2 bed 2 bath 1700 sqft houses listed at $400k.
Pretty much. I got a similar house a 3bd/2bath 1450 SQFT but no basement because its Texas. I never considered mine a starter home. But it was what I could afford at the time.
Maybe I’m wrong in my assessment, but I view the north texas burbs as the quintessential uninteresting suburbia. It’s not like Dallas is a super cool town so proximity to other cool cities isn’t there. So the current prices just seem wacky. Maybe it’s just being here for a decade plus skews the perspective.
10 years ago they already had a lesbian mayor and its the 4th biggest city in US
Sanrith Descartes
you would probably want to look at The Woodlands or Cinco Ranch (Katy) as your destinations. Both are nice but it really comes down to what types of things you are looking to do or not do.
