00:50 ya be cool u move furniture and sit on the couch fist than just 3d print around it ezy peezy. of course not for those that dont like cheap and easy
Your political takes seemed to be based on whether or not the area is old, like of course a newly built area doesn't have the problems of old areas that you mentioned. Also Texas actually builds new housing stock, whereas other older areas have nimbys putting a stop to it.
The story just keeps on repeating itself: nice places get invaded, prices go up, locals get priced out, liberal politics move in, and the once nice place gets destroyed...turned into dystopia...
Well, I'm not really impressed by some beauty and urbanization. There is much better. At the center of the event should be a person and not some buildings.
It's the federal government. Millions pouring in across the southern border. But it's not just the US. Canada, Australia, the nice places in Europe. Look anywhere there is prosperity in the western world, all the federal leaders are flooding it with refugees driving up demand for homes faster than they can be built.
I totally agree! I was born and raised in Texas and have lived in Colorado for over 25 years. We are escaping Colorado and never even looked at Texas as a place to go. It is not the Texas I grew up in.
It hurts to look at this. Soulless cookie cutter McMansions going on endlessly, empty sidewalks, no pedestrians. It's an eerie reminder of that dystopian planet in the book Wrinkle In Time.
@@bryantsteury8910 I saw a lot of this all over California in particular, huge suburban housing developments stuck in fields way out in the middle of nowhere.
@@AbandonedMaine yeah. California is a garbage state. Hence why this is an issue for Texas. I think we're agreeing on opposite sides of the same coin lol
Good observation. But where is it any different? Most houses are built far outside and you don't see people in the streets. You would have to go to Europe to see more life in the streets. And even there you wouldn't want to go to the outskirts of many cities.
I live in one of the slums in tx, prefer it over the middle class. have 2 neighbors that throw parties and blast music in thier backyard, I show up with a 12 pack and eat a buffet and get drunk. our shared fence was falling apart so we just removed it and never replaced, my dogs and their dogs hang out. Its super ghetto but theres a method to the madness.
Same way here in Michigan. I prefer the shady side of any town. Those folk in them neighborhoods file noise complaints. Call on arguments between men. Call on smoked weed. Nah, I'll take the hood
I'm so sick of all these expensive cheaply built suburbs going in all over Texas. They come in, cut down every single tree and then then these small towns like the one I live in cant support this many people. It's causing massive flooding and the crime rates keep rising. Even in these stepford wives neighborhoods. They just don't like that getting out to the public to ruin their perfect little images.
Yea, our taxes went from $700 to $5000 in just a couple of years. Because a developer flipped a property and sold it for 5x the price to some rich guy. Can't blame the appraisal district they're just doing their job. Our judge actually moved the tax rate DOWN a bunch, he did his part. Property tax is just a bad system, we need to get rid of it. Maybe the counties can bump up the sales tax 1-2% to cover the sheriff, roads, etc. The schools can get money from the state. They don't need that much money anyway.
I just love Nick. I don't know why, but his voice always makes me feel calm and his sense of humour is always great. And Mappy is amazing and has sometimes some great points. Nick should be a professional TV presenter with his own series!
We can ban non-citizens from owning land and make single-family homes exclusively for people and not corporations. That would solve the unaffordability crisis.
I’ve lived in Some great undiscovered towns . Soon as they get discovered they get ruined . First they start pumping up parking fees and fines. Taxes fees etc
Lived in this area since 2004. Even in 2010 I remember at school people complained how soulless it was. Now it's just more expensive with unhinged drivers.
I live in Tx, and I remember when Georgetown was a nice cozy blip in the road (as was Cedar Park, Pflugerville and Georgetown) now they're overcrowded and filled with folks that ain't from Texas. Here in the SE part of the state the sprawl is much slower and I'm okay with that.
Yep, and waco is going that route, too, with Magnolia bringing in the transplants. But also, pricing out locals whose families have lived here since the 1800s. Mighty depressing as a born n raised Texan.
We moved to Texas in ‘97 for work (jobs+money) from Oklahoma. First lived in Allen when it was just starting to pop. Our youngest son was born in McKinney. Have lived in The Colony, Little Elm, Flower Mound and now in Denton. North Texas is our home. Love it!
After living in north Houston for nearly 3 years, I’ll never say a bad thing again about Lewisville. Thought 😅it was bad when I lived in North Texas. Nope. Love North Texas!
You don't want to live in Frisco, Plano, Allen or McKinney - unless you have a GOOD PAYING JOB, kids in school, and you like TO DRIVE EVERYWHERE and sit in lots of traffic. And if you don't mind a cookie-cutter McMansion with zero full grown trees on your block.
Sounds like a California dreamland! The more you tell people not to come the more they come. That's what happened to the rest of the small towns in the country.
Lived in DFW 55 years. Fun to watch an outsider perspective. I've witnessed this metro grow non-stop since we moved here when I was a boy. They have added some mass transit but don't try to walk anywhere (except those little spots like the downtown of McKinney). Because nobody walks here because it is HOT AF 5 months out of the year. As long as you got A/C in the house and car, no problem. 95F and 70% humidity today.... tornadoes scheduled for later on.
Yeah Im in RR. Pretty much all of Williamson county is nice. But as soo n as you get near Austin in Travis county it's like a night and day difference lmao
Yes - Tx has been ruined. Between the illegals and the liberals, stick a fork in it. It done. People here used to be friendly and nice - towns were clean and kept up. It is not like that any more. These multi acre cheap home developments are a blight on the landscape. It is a travesty. Traffic is terrible, too. And AUSTIN AREA? Bums everywhere. People look crazy and the mind hive has taken over. It is a place real Texans are leaving as fast as possible. Dallas & Houston are just as bad. But guess it is the US as a whole.
If they are coming to Tennessee to escape the Californians, they're going to be extremely disappointed because we are crawling with the California locust now...
@@ScorpioBornIn69Texas is literally 105-110 with crazy humidity especially in dallas, with a hail storm and tornado mixed in every week for about 1/3 of the year. Then winter it’s bone chilling cold and windy. I swear dfw has the most extreme weather out of anywhere I’ve ever lived. People just can’t wrap there head around it until you experience it
Yeah, if you have a bit of money, can stand to sit in your car for a couple hours a day, can afford to pay skyrocketing insurance premiums, are willing to tolerate the overstressed electrical grid going blooey every time the weather gets a bit weird (which is happening more frequently these days), and don't mind living in a featureless flat sprawl with no identity or character, Texas burbs are great.
I spent three months in Dallas and Austin. That was all I needed to see to realize that I never wanted to live in Texas. Outside of a few charming small town centers and newer commercial districts, you can't walk anywhere in Texas. The only exceptions were wealthy enclaves that had no affordable homes (e.g., Lower Greenville in Dallas or South Congress in Austin). The rest of Texas was all boring car-centric sprawl. The same goes for Florida and Arizona.
I don’t think so. Recently escaped Austin. Could not be happier. Texas- weather- unbearable heat six months a year ,interspersed with flooding, tornadoes, hail, hurricanes, high insurance rates, homeowner association shakedowns, high property and sales taxes, high home prices, failing winter grid system, causing deaths, draught- water rationing, traffic, overcrowded, third world politics, lack of nature. 99 percent of state is private property. A few small state parks dot the state that is pretty much one big concrete strip mall. The few state parks there are become urban parking lots.
Same thing with Texas. Nothing but a bunch of crazed conservatives with anti-progressive agendas running the state into the ground! I warn everyone to find somewhere else!!!
Yes, what are they going to do about the heat? Oh well, many homes in other parts of the world are made out of cinderblock, so I guess there isn’t much difference.
Yup I've been an AC Tech in Central Florida for 36 years you got that right the Radiant sun heat filtrates through the concrete walls. Even all night long and continues to process every 24 hours non-stop process expect electric bills to double for the next 6 months.😂
I have lived in Central Texas now for 49 years. My dad was in the Army, and this is where we were stationed in 1975. Texas was rural; the major interstates were two lanes either side of the median and traffic was light. Big cars roamed the highways while gulping down 44 cent a gallon gasoline. Food was ultra cheap. Houses were really cheap and when it came time for me to go to a state college, it was $4.00 a credit hour in 1979. Minimum tuition charge was $250.00 per semester. Rent was cheap ($135 p/month), even then in a college town. A lot has changed in almost 50 years and Texas is losing the unique charm it once had. So now, I'm turning into one of those "old" people who remember the good times. But I still would not want to live anywhere else. I can still tell tasteless jokes in good company without being hissed at in the bank.
The little pockets of the "old Texas" are getting more rare. We own a piece of a 2000-acre ranch about 30 miles from Austin , that was subdivided around 1970. There are about 20 -25 land owners here. We're the only family with children though, the rest is all old people. I don't know what will happen when they die off.
I really love your videos Nick, because you show what real America is, I am mexican and live in my country but I work for a well known roadside assistance company and I spent my whole shift talking with people from all across the States, from California to Maine and Florida to Washington, Im in love with your country, the small towns in unknown states for "us" foreigners, and I really love what I've found through these months I've been working with y'all. American culture out of the big cities is amazing, and that's what I love the most about your country. Fun fact, today I had a customer from Mckinney I got home and read the notification about a new video and it is the same town I discovered today
If you have a family and kids? The state of Indiana is great 👍 very safe and lots of small towns good schools no crime It’s cheaper and money goes further Good luck my friend 👍
there is no american culture! is just stereotypes and marketing an ilusión were all the slaves been brainwashed to believe an idea of owning or being BUT there is no american culture or educated nor less civilized with their love for war debt and political propaganda.30 años aquí viendo este circo 🤡
I was raised in DFW, grew up in Arlington in the 90s. It's crazy how much this area has changed. When I was a teenager, Frisco was a little old town with a lot of open land. Now it's turned into a major city, surpassing Arlington in a lot of ways. I'll probably move a little bit East... This place is getting too crowded.
The end of so many little texas towns.. Texas hill country.. gone! I mean its still there, but its nothing but high priced designer boutiques and wine this and wine that and it just sucks now! High dollar Barbies with boots and skirts and bedazzled hand bags.. its a F nightmare!!!
I'm from a tiny hill country town and every time I visit my parents there's a new multi million dollar home being built. Our house we bought in 2013 is worth 3x the value than when we bought it.. at least the town itself is mostly the same, still just a gas station to drink and eat and watch live music and then a handful of small businesses.
In 2017, my wife and I bought a home in a burb juuuuust south of Phoenix, Maricopa. We aren't in Maricopa County. We saw trouble on the radar in 2018 when Arizona started going purple, and by 2024, blue. Maricopa itself has turned into a shit-show as, despite arguments at city council meetings, the politicians approved of more and more low-cost housing, high density bungalows, apartments, and other undesired housing options. Plus, they keep approving housing developments on every single available square inch of available space. It's all about the building permits and property taxes. They couldn't possibly care less about quality of life, the ENTIRE reason people moved to Maricopa in the first place. Great homes at great prices. That's over. I'm a heavy industry maintenance and repair electrician and I will occasionally go through the new homes under construction and just have my jaw hit the floor in shock by the POOR build quality and POOR materials used in the current spec homes and apartments. Of course, it all passes inspection as there are far too many of them for an inspector to properly check them all. The roads have literally fallen apart in the last 4 years due to the lack of funding Az suddenly has been experiencing for some reason as "social programs" get funded despite massive population and tax base growth. Texas WILL soon go through this. Roads WILL fall apart, school systems WILL fail, tent cities WILL and have gone up, crime WILL go up, drugs and crap WILL be in the streets, educational standards WILL be lowered in order to appear to maintain high levels of achievement, and the blue urban and suburban politicians WILL HAPPILY sit on their hands, defund police departments and know their reelection is reassured as more and more Californians move in. Stick a fork in Texas...it dun. And it's too bad because the rest of the state, outside of the panhandle and the burbs, is fantastic. The entire SW is finished, as California keeps excreting their capable young blue voting people into Az, Texas, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Colorado, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Florida (along with New Yorks excretions). For most of those low population states, it takes very very little to flip them blue and gain seats in the senate and the house. This is by design and sheeple are easily led around. The locals AND the rest of us are screwed.
What a weird life, always consumed with what’s “red or blue” I hope you get some therapy and heal up before having kids, and spreading this mindset. Bless your heart.
Multi-dwelling units are meant to pack in the illegals who will, in turn, be given the right to vote and approve more taxation. More Democrat voters means more electoral college votes and ultimately higher taxes via one-party rule.
I’ve heard that a big, unexpected negative of Texas is the lack of public lands for hiking, recreation etc. Apparently most of its vast acreage is private and fenced off.
Yep, I grew up in Dallas. I couldn’t comprehend the concept of public lands growing up. I thought that was only a thing in Mexico. We’ve got a couple lakes and whatnot but nowhere really to “get lost”.
Private property is what built America. So disappointing to hear people want less of it...and want govt to own more. "Because govt will let me use it." Ayup. Govt gives people stuff that used to belong to other people. Like other peoples money and land. "That's great, until you run out of other peoples money." - Margaret Thatcher.
Amen! Born and raised in Texas and lived in Colorado for over 25 years. We are escaping Colorado, but we're not even looking at Texas as a possibility to move to.
If they put a smooth flat layer of concrete OVER all those nooks and crannies, it might just work. Otherwise, all those indentations between the layers of concrete are going to be home for bugs, insects, and dripping rainwater.
We are FULL. Go somewhere else. 4th Generation Texan here, real tired of people moving here and then wanting to change Texas to be like California, or wherever they came from. MAGA!
Do you own Texas? No, you don't. This is still the United States of America 🇺🇸 stop being such a snob. The ones moving to Texas are MAGA loving folks, too.
Small, independant businesses are the heart of America . I'm 82 and my father is from Mckinney. When I was a teenager I came by train from SoCal to visit my grandparents. Such great times. Texas is a Republic and understands what America is all about.. Liberal encroachment is toxic to what Texas is all about .
My favorite area of Texas is the Hill Country with towns like Fredricksburg, Luckenbach, Stonewall. Cause those areas have a low risk of tornados unlike North Texas.
Love and miss San Diego, graduated from Mira Mesa High, been living in Burnet Texas for couple of years now. Summer here is brutal, hot and muggy with not much to do. All our families and friend are are still back home, hoping to move back someday.
@waynenguyen9457 I moved back to San Diego 2 years ago best decision I ever made. All the right wing press ever talk about is the numbers of people leaving California. They never talk about the people moving back here due to politics. I wasn't going to give Texas another penny of my tax dollars to enact their vision of America.
In many places, the property tax cost as much as the mortgage payment! Also, multi-families living in single size homes have become the norm because of expenses. This is what I saw happening to Seattle and it's suburbs in the 1990s.
Shh, don't let the Texans know. They believe it'll stay cheap forever. Florida is a prime example of Neo-Conservative developer agendas. Only the rich Conservatives are allowed to stay Red.
This absolutely true. I own a home in RR..been there 20+ years. Principle + interest = $898 Property tax/month = $750 So taxes are not equal to mortgage, but it’s close!
I LOVE living in Texas. I've lived all over the state and those suburban neighborhoods look very familiar from Dallas, to Austin to Houston. I decided to move to the beach, so I've lived in Corpus Christi (loved), Rockport (beautiful), Ingleside on the Bay and finally settled on S. Padre Island in a gated community. It's quiet, safe, I love all of the people here and the beach is right down the street. Because of SpaceX in Boca Chica (not too far from S. Padre), there are quite a few new houses being built in new neighborhoods and the appraised cost of our home has doubled. I just hope Texas doesn't turn purple...or blue.
I moved to Texas right before covid,. Texas is 1000% a utopia. However, it is extremely expensive and competitive. If you have like 2 or 3 college degrees and a couple decades of career experience, you will be fine. You will be in heaven. Wages are lower here but the pooulation is so high, companies get away with paying less since there is thousands of applicants per job. If you a looking for entry level work, you will find whatever job you want, but you need to bring like 5 roomates, or 5 family members that are also working full time that can live with you😂😂 North dallas is beautiful, bring your cash though lol😂$ I know many families that have left because of cost though. Property taxes have tripled so has rent.
He won't mention their insane property taxes. Or all those privatized roads. Talks about their "great schools". But Texas isn't even in the top 30 when it comes to public schools. Most real estate agents will tell you about private schools and there are loads of them. It's also super hot and humid at the same time. The temperatures can swing drastically. And the landscape is entirely flat in the majority of the state. And they have loads of ghettos and low paying jobs there. He is just not showing that to you
I live in Frisco. I moved here in 2005 from Southern California and LOVE it!!!! My entire family on both sides are born and raised Texans, including my parents. I’ve been coming to Texas nearly my entire life. It’s in my blood.
Do the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia and Northern Virginia. Our population has exploded so bad our schools,water,electricity grid and Hospitals are over maxed.
Texas isn't all its cracked up to be. Property taxes are 4th highest in the nation. And no, the fact that TX doesn't have income tax doesn't make up for it. And Georgetown property taxes are just as bad. Not to mention the horrendous weather, triple digits nine months out of the year, tornadoes, flooding. Its no picnic.
@@JonBainesNY I correct myself May thru September, because May is a MF too. And there's the freeze in the Winter months, and the Tornado and Flood season April and May.
Where do you get " triple digits 9 months a year"?? It's hot for 3 months (triple digits) and then real nice the remaining 9 months with no bitter winter
Originally moved to north Dallas burbs in 1995. There was so much opportunity, and I grew to love the area. Lots of stuff to do. Unlimited choice of restaurants. Every sports franchise. Unfortunately had to return back east in 2018. The Dallas area has become very expensive and crowded. Southern California without the beach basically. Crazy traffic. Housing prices quadrupled in my old neighborhood, and that also leads to higher property taxes. The weather is absolutely brutal in the summer. Just couldn't do it any more. I still miss Texas though...
One thing I have noticed is that no matter where you go, there are no kids playing in the neighborhoods. This one looks like a movie set. Looks nice but seems to have depressing quite to it.
yeah right. The reason all of those McMansions in Frisco are so cheap is because they are built by illegal immigrants. The right wing media doesn’t want you to know that though 🤫
Texas hasn't enforced the immigration laws for the last 150 years. The PR stunt by the Governor isn't gonna change the fact that Texas always used the cheap labor to their benefit.
Native Texan here, currently living in Austin Texas. Definitely is not what it's made out to be, horrible traffic, regressive policies, overpriced homes and apartments, none of the cool architecture or beaches to go to in the real bigger cities .
Hey Nick, love your channel. Thank you for doing this. I moved here to North Texas in 2013 from Illinois to escape that mess. Love it here, but yes it is growing way too fast now. Much of this expansion now needs a settling period to absorb what has expanded over the last 10 years. Also was your thumbnail photo taken in Melissa Texas? It looks like it's down the street from me. LOL.
I hear so many great things about Texas. Cost of living is cheap and jobs are good. However, it is SO HOT there in the summer. Coming from Florida, I would prefer to move to a place where it's not so hot in the summer, fall or winter. As a lifelong resident of FL, I'm getting tired of the heat and don't want anything to do with it anymore.
A home is where u have a nice garden to grow your own flowers, vegetables and rear some animals. And a backyard to park your car and store your tools. A house in a 10 storey apartment in the suburb is just a bird-cage.
What I see here, are basically real life liminal spaces. It looks nice a first glance. But there is no life at all. No kids playing in front of the house, nobody fixing the garden or just hanging out on the porch. No small shops in the neighbourhood. And that's the reason why nobody is on the sidewalk: everybody uses the car, even only for buying some groceries. Place some shops, cafes and abckeries on the front to the road and the block starts living. Downtown is nice - that's how the whole city should look like - and would, if it would have grown organically - and not planned by huge real estate development corporations. This shit reminds me ironically more to some soviet living areas, except they have chosen small houses instead of commie-blocks.
Texas is a great place clean peaceful family friendly and a lot of colleges I had some happy days in Texas I graduated from college in Texas good friends and all you need a car vehicle in Texas though Texas is a very good place good people and stuff Walmart’s everywhere that’s good might run back to Texas lol. Blessings and respect
I imagine with the amount of tornadoes we had this year in Texas some of the folks that moved here from the coast are probably thinking about migrating on to somewhere else. Just give em some days of 115 degrees with 78% humidity and it will help em on along their way
I would have told you that DFW was the best place to live in the country between 2010-2015. It changed for the worst, the cost of living got insane. I left and now I live in rural Tennessee.
Texas has always had , relative to other states , rather low wages and now native Texans find it difficult to afford housing while relatively richer folks move here , driving up housing cost . Hell , many newcomers are willing to pay asking price plus a bonus for a home in Texas , which is still cheaper than homes where they came from . pave paradise , put up a parking lot
When I was in high school about 40 miles E of McKinney, the population of McKinney was about 12-15K. You always knew it would grow but the degree has been a surprise. Frisco is even more dramatic. Was under 2K back in the day (late 60's) but is much bigger than McKinney now.
I was born in California. I have lived there for 30 years. At this point I have the choice to leave for a lower COL area, or become one of the homeless. But everyone’s saying Californians aren’t welcome. I wish I had the time or money to help fix my state’s problems. I have to look out for my family first, though. I’m getting out of here, probably to Eastern Oregon where my husband’s family lives.
I enjoy Texas and have a lot of family in Dallas and Houston. The big problem with Texas is that they have no open space like we have in the West. Unfortunately, when Texas was its own country, it was forced to sell off all of its land to fund its government and it simply hasn't invested in open space. So if you like to dirt bike, camp, off-road, explore, etc., there really isn't anywhere to do that. (yes, there are lakes and stuff but no true open space like we have in the West)
Nick, would love to see you tour Richardson, TX. It's Plano and Frisco without all the hoighty-toighty, and existed quietly and successfully in the shadows of the mega burbs to the north.
Until 6 months ago, I lived in Georgetown for a decade. The changes I saw were truly heartbreaking. Georgetown used to be a retirement town, full of grey-blue haired old folks who drove at a top speed of 30 mph. It's ruined now. Full of road raging lunatics from out of state. All the 200 year old oaks are being cut down, and the livestock and wildlife are all scrambling to find shelter. FIRST AUSTIN, NOW GTOWN. Feels like I've been violated. Sold and moved. MTGA. MAKE TEXAS GREAT AGAIN
@@denisemeans2024 that “jury” was about as unbiased as Trump’s jury in NYC. The DA in Travis County is a liberal hack that most people outside of the city HATE. He’s actually in the process of getting removed from office.
Nick, it's all Dallas now. Looks just like Frisco or Plano. McKInney, Texas is just an extension of North Dallas Metropolitan Area. It's a part of Dallas now. 30-40 years ago, it was nothing but open fields and countryside.
I fled California 30 years ago and never looked back. Come see the houses outside of Corpus Christi, along the Laguna Madre. My beach house on stilts about doubled in price in 15 years. Good to see your video complimenting our state.
Summers in DFW are brutally long, hot and humid. I'd be curious to know what the average monthly air conditioning bill comes to?. And what about those toll roads? They are absolutely everywhere you go. That's another monthly bill in the mail.
Hey Nick love all your videos. I know I’m in the minority, but I would also love to see you spend several months doing videos on Americas nicest suburbs that’d be cool
Moved from San Diego area to McKinney in 2021. We bought a huge home with a pool and paid off all our debt. It’s awesome. I HATE THE WEATHER and miss the beaches in San Diego but moved here to be close to my adult kids who are starting families so overall I’m so happy. I live inside or in the pool all summer long . Downtown McKinney is adorable and really a throw back to a quaint old city. The people here are SO NICE. No homeless until you get into Dallas proper. We bought season tickets for the Dallas Stars hockey and that is so much fun and may very well win the Stanley cup!! We can afford to do that thanks to the way cheaper cost of living out here.
I'm the opposite moved to Texas spent 8 miserable years there. Couldn't wait to leave when I saw my opportunity I left and moved back to San Diego. It's nice not sweating when sleeping. I make more money here than I ever did in Texas.
Isn’t it terrible? What our California government has done the cities like San Diego? One of the few places in America that actually has great weather year round, and they allow it to become an illegal alien filled, crime ridden, third world, yet somehow still outrageously expensive, cesspool!
Bought a house in G. Town in 2003 one street over from my in-laws. Don't ever do it! The #1 reason I don't live there anymore and they are ex-in-laws! I can't believe how congested that nice little town has become! Traffic is awful!
Another area Destroyed by over Development! It's basically the Boom/Bust Central Planned Economy that creates this Endless White Flight to find Mayberry's quaintness with now I reckon a $200K a year gig to stay somewhat Middle Class. Do folks ever stop and think about Culture, Ethnic and Family Roots? Things that last! I'm just saying it maybe the Economic Reality of America, but it isn't Sustainable in the Long Run IMHO!
I live in Central North Carolina and a brand new Toyota megaplant is being built 5 minutes outside town. The out of staters are flocking here as fast as they can and sucking up every available blade of grass. I've never seen anything like it in my 53 years of living here. All my siblings and cousins moved away to "bigger and better" places. Now I'm sitting on a goldmine that I plan on selling to these out of towners with deep pockets when I retire.
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00:50 ya be cool u move furniture and sit on the couch fist than just 3d print around it ezy peezy. of course not for those that dont like cheap and easy
you were in Georgetown a day ago?! thats cool man. God bless you
The dream is gone. But I do so love that 60s version like you. I got that same vibe when I visited Dallas.
Also saw one in Houston Texas
Your political takes seemed to be based on whether or not the area is old, like of course a newly built area doesn't have the problems of old areas that you mentioned. Also Texas actually builds new housing stock, whereas other older areas have nimbys putting a stop to it.
The story just keeps on repeating itself: nice places get invaded, prices go up, locals get priced out, liberal politics move in, and the once nice place gets destroyed...turned into dystopia...
That's texas,alright.
Well, I'm not really impressed by some beauty and urbanization. There is much better. At the center of the event should be a person and not some buildings.
Yep! Exactly!
Conservatives need to eventually make a stand. Cuz these dirt bags keep following us.
It's the federal government. Millions pouring in across the southern border. But it's not just the US. Canada, Australia, the nice places in Europe. Look anywhere there is prosperity in the western world, all the federal leaders are flooding it with refugees driving up demand for homes faster than they can be built.
Anyone who has told you that Dallas, Austin, and Houston are the best places to live in Texas is out of their ever-lovin' mind!
I totally agree! I was born and raised in Texas and have lived in Colorado for over 25 years. We are escaping Colorado and never even looked at Texas as a place to go. It is not the Texas I grew up in.
Amen to that ! I’m a Texan born and raised. Would not live in any of these cities
I always tell the incoming California people our cities are magnificent. 🎉 What I say to family is my business.
@@tracisawyer7681 Same. No way! 👍
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Californians shouldn’t be allowed to move to Texas, fix your own state first
''Texans do no wrong.''
Then who will fix Texas? They need lots of help.
Magas from TX should not be allowed to post on YT videos.
See how fun this game is? 🤡
@@shep68 Nick would lose all his comments then.🤣
@@NSgeg765😂😂😂😂
The quality of life in a city is determined by the quality of the character of the people who live there
Maybe
Now you sound anti-Semitc 😄
not necessarily but go off
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And wage to cost of living ratio.
It hurts to look at this. Soulless cookie cutter McMansions going on endlessly, empty sidewalks, no pedestrians. It's an eerie reminder of that dystopian planet in the book Wrinkle In Time.
Compared to where/what? "Well look at the variety of houses in downtown Chicago and dc!!"
@@bryantsteury8910 I saw a lot of this all over California in particular, huge suburban housing developments stuck in fields way out in the middle of nowhere.
@@AbandonedMaine yeah. California is a garbage state. Hence why this is an issue for Texas. I think we're agreeing on opposite sides of the same coin lol
oh god it gives me Illinois vibe back when it was booming or even Indiana
Good observation. But where is it any different? Most houses are built far outside and you don't see people in the streets. You would have to go to Europe to see more life in the streets. And even there you wouldn't want to go to the outskirts of many cities.
I live in one of the slums in tx, prefer it over the middle class. have 2 neighbors that throw parties and blast music in thier backyard, I show up with a 12 pack and eat a buffet and get drunk. our shared fence was falling apart so we just removed it and never replaced, my dogs and their dogs hang out. Its super ghetto but theres a method to the madness.
Corsicana TX right here
I live in the older part of Lewisville I wouldn’t call it slums but it’s not cookie cutter we have trees.
Same way here in Michigan. I prefer the shady side of any town. Those folk in them neighborhoods file noise complaints. Call on arguments between men. Call on smoked weed. Nah, I'll take the hood
Noise, thumping music and lose dogs are not good if you work and require 8hrs of sleep.
If crime is low, I would also prefer a poorer less arrogant area. Wealthy areas have entitled neighbors who like to backstab each other.
I'm so sick of all these expensive cheaply built suburbs going in all over Texas. They come in, cut down every single tree and then then these small towns like the one I live in cant support this many people. It's causing massive flooding and the crime rates keep rising. Even in these stepford wives neighborhoods. They just don't like that getting out to the public to ruin their perfect little images.
San Antonio is like this. 🤮
Well blame government. And building codes. And human natures herd mentality.
@@iskdude9922 oh I do.
Jealous much? Get your money up girl. 🤣
@@ultron-5600 This!
It hasn't done nothing but make my homestead taxes go up massively in the last 10 yrs.
Why’s that? How does that work? Non incorporated land ?
@@cosmicallyderived property values go up, property taxes go up, not complicated its a scam
Yea, our taxes went from $700 to $5000 in just a couple of years. Because a developer flipped a property and sold it for 5x the price to some rich guy. Can't blame the appraisal district they're just doing their job. Our judge actually moved the tax rate DOWN a bunch, he did his part. Property tax is just a bad system, we need to get rid of it. Maybe the counties can bump up the sales tax 1-2% to cover the sheriff, roads, etc. The schools can get money from the state. They don't need that much money anyway.
I just love Nick. I don't know why, but his voice always makes me feel calm and his sense of humour is always great. And Mappy is amazing and has sometimes some great points. Nick should be a professional TV presenter with his own series!
I think maybe he is?
I also get the feeling of safe when I hear him is because he is clear and confident he is genuine person
We can ban non-citizens from owning land and make single-family homes exclusively for people and not corporations. That would solve the unaffordability crisis.
That just makes too much sense 😂😂
Corporations only own 5 percent of single family homes
@@oladeebiazazi4538 Yet make up almost half of the purchases
Are you sure that’s correct?
Depends on the market. It may be 5% nationwide, but hot markets like phoenix, Miami, Atlanta and probably even Texas it's definitely higher.
I’ve lived in Some great undiscovered towns . Soon as they get discovered they get ruined . First they start pumping up parking fees and fines. Taxes fees etc
You are not kidding.
You can thank UA-cam channels.
I don't anyone has a real job anymore, everyone is a youtuber.
Yup, that's why if you like the place, only tell your family and no one else. These randoms that show up ruin everything with their presence.
Damn people
Lived in this area since 2004. Even in 2010 I remember at school people complained how soulless it was. Now it's just more expensive with unhinged drivers.
I live in Tx, and I remember when Georgetown was a nice cozy blip in the road (as was Cedar Park, Pflugerville and Georgetown) now they're overcrowded and filled with folks that ain't from Texas. Here in the SE part of the state the sprawl is much slower and I'm okay with that.
dont know why I said G-Town twice, I meant Round Rock.
Yep, and waco is going that route, too, with Magnolia bringing in the transplants. But also, pricing out locals whose families have lived here since the 1800s. Mighty depressing as a born n raised Texan.
@@VolcanixAquatix I was in Waco last year (TDLR towing safety class) and it felt different from the Waco I know from years past.
@@NTATchannelNickTaylor yeah, I do miss old waco, alot less traffic. Now it's like Indianapolis 500 on any paved roadway x.x
We moved to Texas in ‘97 for work (jobs+money) from Oklahoma. First lived in Allen when it was just starting to pop. Our youngest son was born in McKinney. Have lived in The Colony, Little Elm, Flower Mound and now in Denton. North Texas is our home. Love it!
Roanoke has the original Babe’s chicken. Just down the road from us. Downtown is good is nice for happy hour.
Dentonian❤ HELLO!!!😊
After living in north Houston for nearly 3 years, I’ll never say a bad thing again about Lewisville. Thought 😅it was bad when I lived in North Texas. Nope. Love North Texas!
Welcome home!! Wherever you're from.
Small town Texas rules! Bonham Forever.
You don't want to live in Frisco, Plano, Allen or McKinney - unless you have a GOOD PAYING JOB, kids in school, and you like TO DRIVE EVERYWHERE and sit in lots of traffic. And if you don't mind a cookie-cutter McMansion with zero full grown trees on your block.
Literally concrete cars dirty air = depression
Sounds like a California dreamland! The more you tell people not to come the more they come. That's what happened to the rest of the small towns in the country.
Lived in DFW 55 years. Fun to watch an outsider perspective. I've witnessed this metro grow non-stop since we moved here when I was a boy. They have added some mass transit but don't try to walk anywhere (except those little spots like the downtown of McKinney). Because nobody walks here because it is HOT AF 5 months out of the year. As long as you got A/C in the house and car, no problem. 95F and 70% humidity today.... tornadoes scheduled for later on.
Leaving the black hole of Austin and moving to law-abiding, clean, and friendly Georgetown July 1st.
Didn't Austin become really liberal because of liberals moving into Austin?
Yeehaw 🤠
Ya been hearing Austin went to shit. Bad leadership
Yeah Im in RR. Pretty much all of Williamson county is nice. But as soo n as you get near Austin in Travis county it's like a night and day difference lmao
Leaving this terrible place called Austin myself. This place has turned into an overpriced, dead, cesspool!
I see a lot of Texas plates in Tennessee.
I think they are coming this way to escape all the Calinflation.
Yes - Tx has been ruined. Between the illegals and the liberals, stick a fork in it. It done. People here used to be friendly and nice - towns were clean and kept up. It is not like that any more. These multi acre cheap home developments are a blight on the landscape. It is a travesty. Traffic is terrible, too. And AUSTIN AREA? Bums everywhere. People look crazy and the mind hive has taken over. It is a place real Texans are leaving as fast as possible. Dallas & Houston are just as bad. But guess it is the US as a whole.
Thanks for the tip, I'll take my Texas plates up to TN and check it out.
If they are coming to Tennessee to escape the Californians, they're going to be extremely disappointed because we are crawling with the California locust now...
Republicans from CA flee to red states, if you want to avoid republicans, get out of Texas and Tennessee
They're going to be extremely disappointed if they're trying to escape Californians because Tennessee is now crawling with them...
The heat is treacherous in Texas in the summer!
I live in Florida and the humidity here makes it feel 100-105 everyday.
@@ScorpioBornIn69Texas is literally 105-110 with crazy humidity especially in dallas, with a hail storm and tornado mixed in every week for about 1/3 of the year. Then winter it’s bone chilling cold and windy. I swear dfw has the most extreme weather out of anywhere I’ve ever lived.
People just can’t wrap there head around it until you experience it
Only if you're a wimpy snowflake.
@@Trifln214AGREE...we are always saying, " it is always something ". Weather is awful.
We also have tornado season so it’s definitely not a place for out of Staters
Yeah, if you have a bit of money, can stand to sit in your car for a couple hours a day, can afford to pay skyrocketing insurance premiums, are willing to tolerate the overstressed electrical grid going blooey every time the weather gets a bit weird (which is happening more frequently these days), and don't mind living in a featureless flat sprawl with no identity or character, Texas burbs are great.
I agree. Left TX a long time ago for those reasons.
@@OpinionatedGlobalCitizen Where'd you go to?
@@antonioiniguez1615 Chicago.
Normies love that sht
I spent three months in Dallas and Austin. That was all I needed to see to realize that I never wanted to live in Texas. Outside of a few charming small town centers and newer commercial districts, you can't walk anywhere in Texas. The only exceptions were wealthy enclaves that had no affordable homes (e.g., Lower Greenville in Dallas or South Congress in Austin). The rest of Texas was all boring car-centric sprawl. The same goes for Florida and Arizona.
Sad. So sad.
I don’t think so. Recently escaped Austin. Could not be happier. Texas- weather- unbearable heat six months a year ,interspersed with flooding, tornadoes, hail, hurricanes, high insurance rates, homeowner association shakedowns, high property and sales taxes, high home prices, failing winter grid system, causing deaths, draught- water rationing, traffic, overcrowded, third world politics, lack of nature. 99 percent of state is private property. A few small state parks dot the state that is pretty much one big concrete strip mall. The few state parks there are become urban parking lots.
No pedestrians, no public transportation system, like always. It all looks sad and abandoned.
Public transportation equals undesirables
@hopebrowning6300 -- Confirmation bias rules!
@@Kefoo_ By all means, stay in your colorful hellhole and ride the bus around next to junkies. The rest of us will live in nice places in peace.
@hopebrowning6300 what does “left policies” have to do with no public transportation system…? walkable cities are important and healthy.
Former city bus driver here. Keep public transit out of your community. It is an instant ingredient for decline.
I moved to Perth Australia 🇦🇺 never going back. Texas can’t compare.
I live in Upper Michigan, 100 miles away from a freeway. Please dont move here. it's awful.
Your winters suck
Lol. Good try
Ok im moving there now
Same thing with Texas. Nothing but a bunch of crazed conservatives with anti-progressive agendas running the state into the ground! I warn everyone to find somewhere else!!!
You’re right, shit jobs, low pay, crap weather, and residing in the same state as Detroit. You can have it
I read somewhere thst concrete absorbs heat in the daytime and releases it at night. Should make those 100+ degree Texas summers interesting. 😂
Yes, what are they going to do about the heat? Oh well, many homes in other parts of the world are made out of cinderblock, so I guess there isn’t much difference.
Yeah and your electric bill doubles easily during the summer. Mine went from 250 dollars to just under 500 the first week it was over 100.
Precast insulated Concrete Tornado Proof Homes are becoming popular. Rated to 250mph winds. They tested it with a cannon Lol so its legit.
Yup I've been an AC Tech in Central Florida for 36 years you got that right the Radiant sun heat filtrates through the concrete walls. Even all night long and continues to process every 24 hours non-stop process expect electric bills to double for the next 6 months.😂
@@timboc105 wow!
I have lived in Central Texas now for 49 years. My dad was in the Army, and this is where we were stationed in 1975. Texas was rural; the major interstates were two lanes either side of the median and traffic was light. Big cars roamed the highways while gulping down 44 cent a gallon gasoline. Food was ultra cheap. Houses were really cheap and when it came time for me to go to a state college, it was $4.00 a credit hour in 1979. Minimum tuition charge was $250.00 per semester. Rent was cheap ($135 p/month), even then in a college town. A lot has changed in almost 50 years and Texas is losing the unique charm it once had. So now, I'm turning into one of those "old" people who remember the good times. But I still would not want to live anywhere else. I can still tell tasteless jokes in good company without being hissed at in the bank.
The little pockets of the "old Texas" are getting more rare. We own a piece of a 2000-acre ranch about 30 miles from Austin , that was subdivided around 1970. There are about 20 -25 land owners here. We're the only family with children though, the rest is all old people. I don't know what will happen when they die off.
Housing prices aren't a problem for those that can afford them. In fact, it's a benefit. It keeps "undesirables" out. That is how they see it anyway
facts
How else do you keep crappy values away from high earners (and those who actually pay taxes)?
Even the upper middle class “desirables” are getting squeezed out and into mobile homes or rvs.
@shahrimoore then they aren't middle class. Working class yes.
It only works in places the government doesn’t encourage people to live and shit in your front yard while you pay all the taxes and amenities
I went to Texas for a week from Vancouver Canada in May, drove a 1000 miles around the state. Absolutely loved it, clean, safe and friendly.
I really love your videos Nick, because you show what real America is, I am mexican and live in my country but I work for a well known roadside assistance company and I spent my whole shift talking with people from all across the States, from California to Maine and Florida to Washington, Im in love with your country, the small towns in unknown states for "us" foreigners, and I really love what I've found through these months I've been working with y'all.
American culture out of the big cities is amazing, and that's what I love the most about your country.
Fun fact, today I had a customer from Mckinney I got home and read the notification about a new video and it is the same town I discovered today
If you have a family and kids? The state of Indiana is great 👍 very safe and lots of small towns good schools no crime
It’s cheaper and money goes further
Good luck my friend 👍
there is no american culture! is just stereotypes and marketing an ilusión were all the slaves been brainwashed to believe an idea of owning or being BUT there is no american culture or educated nor less civilized with their love for war debt and political propaganda.30 años aquí viendo este circo 🤡
I was raised in DFW, grew up in Arlington in the 90s. It's crazy how much this area has changed. When I was a teenager, Frisco was a little old town with a lot of open land. Now it's turned into a major city, surpassing Arlington in a lot of ways. I'll probably move a little bit East... This place is getting too crowded.
The end of so many little texas towns.. Texas hill country.. gone! I mean its still there, but its nothing but high priced designer boutiques and wine this and wine that and it just sucks now! High dollar Barbies with boots and skirts and bedazzled hand bags.. its a F nightmare!!!
Fredericksburg has been destroyed.
bingo
I'm from a tiny hill country town and every time I visit my parents there's a new multi million dollar home being built. Our house we bought in 2013 is worth 3x the value than when we bought it.. at least the town itself is mostly the same, still just a gas station to drink and eat and watch live music and then a handful of small businesses.
It makes me so sad to see what's happened to my state. Its ruined.
These places are actually little towns that have been around for a while, it's just that the sprawl engulfed them.
In 2017, my wife and I bought a home in a burb juuuuust south of Phoenix, Maricopa. We aren't in Maricopa County. We saw trouble on the radar in 2018 when Arizona started going purple, and by 2024, blue. Maricopa itself has turned into a shit-show as, despite arguments at city council meetings, the politicians approved of more and more low-cost housing, high density bungalows, apartments, and other undesired housing options. Plus, they keep approving housing developments on every single available square inch of available space. It's all about the building permits and property taxes. They couldn't possibly care less about quality of life, the ENTIRE reason people moved to Maricopa in the first place. Great homes at great prices. That's over.
I'm a heavy industry maintenance and repair electrician and I will occasionally go through the new homes under construction and just have my jaw hit the floor in shock by the POOR build quality and POOR materials used in the current spec homes and apartments. Of course, it all passes inspection as there are far too many of them for an inspector to properly check them all.
The roads have literally fallen apart in the last 4 years due to the lack of funding Az suddenly has been experiencing for some reason as "social programs" get funded despite massive population and tax base growth.
Texas WILL soon go through this. Roads WILL fall apart, school systems WILL fail, tent cities WILL and have gone up, crime WILL go up, drugs and crap WILL be in the streets, educational standards WILL be lowered in order to appear to maintain high levels of achievement, and the blue urban and suburban politicians WILL HAPPILY sit on their hands, defund police departments and know their reelection is reassured as more and more Californians move in. Stick a fork in Texas...it dun. And it's too bad because the rest of the state, outside of the panhandle and the burbs, is fantastic.
The entire SW is finished, as California keeps excreting their capable young blue voting people into Az, Texas, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Colorado, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Florida (along with New Yorks excretions). For most of those low population states, it takes very very little to flip them blue and gain seats in the senate and the house.
This is by design and sheeple are easily led around. The locals AND the rest of us are screwed.
What a weird life, always consumed with what’s “red or blue” I hope you get some therapy and heal up before having kids, and spreading this mindset. Bless your heart.
@@elizabethweston8000wth ?
Multi-dwelling units are meant to pack in the illegals who will, in turn, be given the right to vote and approve more taxation. More Democrat voters means more electoral college votes and ultimately higher taxes via one-party rule.
@@kaebelle3000You clearly vote blue otherwise you’d know how awful it is to see blue voters move in and destroy your lifestyle.
I lived in AZ in the 80s and 90s. Yes, right in the Maricopa county. The AZ you describe is not the one I knew back then. 😮
I’ve heard that a big, unexpected negative of Texas is the lack of public lands for hiking, recreation etc.
Apparently most of its vast acreage is private and fenced off.
😞
Yep, I grew up in Dallas. I couldn’t comprehend the concept of public lands growing up. I thought that was only a thing in Mexico.
We’ve got a couple lakes and whatnot but nowhere really to “get lost”.
Yes that is correct. They cut down some trees in my area to build stuff…I think it was cause those trees didn’t pay taxes! All about the money
True. I left the great free outdoors areas in San Diego, but have been disappointed how so much of Texas is private property 😔
Private property is what built America.
So disappointing to hear people want less of it...and want govt to own more. "Because govt will let me use it."
Ayup. Govt gives people stuff that used to belong to other people. Like other peoples money and land.
"That's great, until you run out of other peoples money." - Margaret Thatcher.
The internet got it wrong. I want to get out of IL but the last place I want to move to is another crowded suburb. I already live in one.
Amen! Born and raised in Texas and lived in Colorado for over 25 years. We are escaping Colorado, but we're not even looking at Texas as a possibility to move to.
Nashville is looking nice.
@@RobertFairweatherLuvMachine
Lol
Until IT becomes crowded as well!
No matter how long I look at it 3D printed concrete looks like shit piled up
@@maxsands3861 I thought the plan was to use it like the skeleton of the house then they just build around it.
@maxsands3861 duh. It's still covered with sheetrock and siding. LMAO do some research. 😊
If they put a smooth flat layer of concrete OVER all those nooks and crannies, it might just work.
Otherwise, all those indentations between the layers of concrete are going to be home for bugs,
insects, and dripping rainwater.
We are FULL. Go somewhere else. 4th Generation Texan here, real tired of people moving here and then wanting to change Texas to be like California, or wherever they came from. MAGA!
Agree thats why we left Calirado….those people are horrible! All the locals are gone, nothing will ever be the same…
Do you own Texas? No, you don't. This is still the United States of America 🇺🇸 stop being such a snob. The ones moving to Texas are MAGA loving folks, too.
Do you own Texas?
@@joellynmaggio2787 Yep, have the Title in hand. :)
Small, independant businesses are the heart of America . I'm 82 and my father is from Mckinney. When I was a teenager I came by train from SoCal to visit my grandparents. Such great times. Texas is a Republic and understands what America is all about.. Liberal encroachment is toxic to what Texas is all about .
Well said 🎉
My favorite area of Texas is the Hill Country with towns like Fredricksburg, Luckenbach, Stonewall. Cause those areas have a low risk of tornados unlike North Texas.
It's 70 in San Diego where I live. I was born and raised in Texas and escaped to the beautiful weather of Southern California.
Love and miss San Diego, graduated from Mira Mesa High, been living in Burnet Texas for couple of years now. Summer here is brutal, hot and muggy with not much to do. All our families and friend are are still back home, hoping to move back someday.
Libs have absolutely destroyed Cali, its such a shame because it was at one time such a wonderful beautiful state.
@waynenguyen9457 I moved back to San Diego 2 years ago best decision I ever made. All the right wing press ever talk about is the numbers of people leaving California. They never talk about the people moving back here due to politics. I wasn't going to give Texas another penny of my tax dollars to enact their vision of America.
@@Twitch760 wow, interesting. Must have been hectic.
Dude ,libs suck the jury is in. Conservatives aren't perfect but you can raise a family without law & order,& prosecuting criminals.
In many places, the property tax cost as much as the mortgage payment! Also, multi-families living in single size homes have become the norm because of expenses. This is what I saw happening to Seattle and it's suburbs in the 1990s.
Shh, don't let the Texans know. They believe it'll stay cheap forever. Florida is a prime example of Neo-Conservative developer agendas. Only the rich Conservatives are allowed to stay Red.
That's not even remotely accurate.
High Property tax helps keep the big corporate investors out. They won't buy a house if the taxes are too high.
This absolutely true. I own a home in RR..been there 20+ years.
Principle + interest = $898
Property tax/month = $750
So taxes are not equal to mortgage, but it’s close!
She nailed the public transport, its why i laugh when high speed rail is permanently stalled, it keeps people far away.
I LOVE living in Texas. I've lived all over the state and those suburban neighborhoods look very familiar from Dallas, to Austin to Houston.
I decided to move to the beach, so I've lived in Corpus Christi (loved), Rockport (beautiful), Ingleside on the Bay and finally settled on S. Padre Island in a gated community. It's quiet, safe, I love all of the people here and the beach is right down the street.
Because of SpaceX in Boca Chica (not too far from S. Padre), there are quite a few new houses being built in new neighborhoods and the appraised cost of our home has doubled. I just hope Texas doesn't turn purple...or blue.
I live in Frisco but too many Indian people who want to push out the natives. Still a safe and prosperous place to live tho. Socially it can be weird
LOL the Indians ain't hurting nobody!
The Indians can go right along with the Californians they are both terrible
Push out?????
I agree, MrNiceGuy500 ✌🏼
Indian as from India?
I moved to Texas right before covid,. Texas is 1000% a utopia. However, it is extremely expensive and competitive. If you have like 2 or 3 college degrees and a couple decades of career experience, you will be fine. You will be in heaven. Wages are lower here but the pooulation is so high, companies get away with paying less since there is thousands of applicants per job. If you a looking for entry level work, you will find whatever job you want, but you need to bring like 5 roomates, or 5 family members that are also working full time that can live with you😂😂 North dallas is beautiful, bring your cash though lol😂$ I know many families that have left because of cost though. Property taxes have tripled so has rent.
Yeah, it didn't used to be expensive until all you damn transplants cane here driving up costs.
@@jayalexander3356man I can say the same about my small town in ca. this is happening to everyone
@@AIRBORNE916nobody wants to move to Cali tho just visit, everybody and they grandmas wanna move to Texas
I lived in Texas for years. You're not going to like it as much as you think.
He won't mention their insane property taxes. Or all those privatized roads. Talks about their "great schools". But Texas isn't even in the top 30 when it comes to public schools. Most real estate agents will tell you about private schools and there are loads of them. It's also super hot and humid at the same time. The temperatures can swing drastically. And the landscape is entirely flat in the majority of the state. And they have loads of ghettos and low paying jobs there. He is just not showing that to you
I did basic training in Texas. And tech school. And I've been back a few times. I hate Texas.
There's good & bad to everywhere, except maybe Oakland,there is absolutely no good there that comes to mind.
@richardmorris7063 You a BRAVE man even going into Oakland, haha. That's Hot Dump Level 10.
Nowhere is perfect
I'm from New England and have always respected Texas...but that HEAT!!!
I live in Frisco. I moved here in 2005 from Southern California and LOVE it!!!! My entire family on both sides are born and raised Texans, including my parents. I’ve been coming to Texas nearly my entire life. It’s in my blood.
Do the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia and Northern Virginia. Our population has exploded so bad our schools,water,electricity grid and Hospitals are over maxed.
Texas isn't all its cracked up to be. Property taxes are 4th highest in the nation. And no, the fact that TX doesn't have income tax doesn't make up for it. And Georgetown property taxes are just as bad. Not to mention the horrendous weather, triple digits nine months out of the year, tornadoes, flooding. Its no picnic.
I approve this message ! Also can't forget the work laws suck in texas some of the worst
9 months out of the year is such a lie 🤣🤣 but June-September is a mf
@@JonBainesNY I correct myself May thru September, because May is a MF too. And there's the freeze in the Winter months, and the Tornado and Flood season April and May.
I heard they have the emissions test, Another money maker, and rip off.
Where do you get " triple digits 9 months a year"??
It's hot for 3 months (triple digits) and then real nice the remaining 9 months with no bitter winter
Originally moved to north Dallas burbs in 1995. There was so much opportunity, and I grew to love the area. Lots of stuff to do. Unlimited choice of restaurants. Every sports franchise. Unfortunately had to return back east in 2018. The Dallas area has become very expensive and crowded. Southern California without the beach basically. Crazy traffic. Housing prices quadrupled in my old neighborhood, and that also leads to higher property taxes. The weather is absolutely brutal in the summer. Just couldn't do it any more. I still miss Texas though...
Yea I always hear that DFW is becoming more like Greater Los Angeles
* you mean you miss the old Texas 😢
It wasn't all that even back then 😅🤣😂
@@OpinionatedGlobalCitizenit was alot different and better in past years. Born and raised Dallas suburbs.
The cool thing about Georgetown, TX is how many movies were filmed there.
All fun and games till the heat comes and add 80% humidity to that… 90 degrees feels like 110°
One thing I have noticed is that no matter where you go, there are no kids playing in the neighborhoods. This one looks like a movie set. Looks nice but seems to have depressing quite to it.
that's because it's 105 degrees outside. people are outside at sunrise til 10am. that's it, the rest of the day is spent inside.
Another possibility is, depending on when Nick was driving around, the kids were in school.
Its the heat
No kids playing in the neighborhoods is a PLUS for people.
The births rates these days are very low. There's probably very few kids even in these "family-oriented" neighborhoods.
If you got money you can live in those kind of places.
…….Lots of $$$
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It's not about the money. That's all irrelevant. People are important and nature is the strongest thing. Culture, traditions.
@@miroperinich2495Try telling that to those who set the real estate prices, and the local governments who decide their taxes.
I like how Texas actually enforces our immigration laws
Unless some other states
yeah right. The reason all of those McMansions in Frisco are so cheap is because they are built by illegal immigrants. The right wing media doesn’t want you to know that though 🤫
@@adamuser8246 Texas is doing whatever we can to keep illegals out. Unfortunately some federal people come in and help them cut razor wires, etc…
Texas hasn't enforced the immigration laws for the last 150 years. The PR stunt by the Governor isn't gonna change the fact that Texas always used the cheap labor to their benefit.
Second highest # and % if illegals in the country. They're doing a fantastic job.
Native Texan here, currently living in Austin Texas. Definitely is not what it's made out to be, horrible traffic, regressive policies, overpriced homes and apartments, none of the cool architecture or beaches to go to in the real bigger cities .
In the summer, Texas is almost uninhabitable because of the brutal heat that hits us every year.
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We’re all doomed kid 😔
Texas is not for me nor is suburban living but I understand why many people like both.
Suburbia is mind numbingly dystopian and ugly
Hey Nick, love your channel. Thank you for doing this. I moved here to North Texas in 2013 from Illinois to escape that mess. Love it here, but yes it is growing way too fast now. Much of this expansion now needs a settling period to absorb what has expanded over the last 10 years.
Also was your thumbnail photo taken in Melissa Texas? It looks like it's down the street from me. LOL.
I don't think I went to Melissa Rob
I hear so many great things about Texas. Cost of living is cheap and jobs are good. However, it is SO HOT there in the summer. Coming from Florida, I would prefer to move to a place where it's not so hot in the summer, fall or winter. As a lifelong resident of FL, I'm getting tired of the heat and don't want anything to do with it anymore.
A home is where u have a nice garden to grow your own flowers, vegetables and rear some animals. And a backyard to park your car and store your tools. A house in a 10 storey apartment in the suburb is just a bird-cage.
The staff doing the linedancing looked SO damn bored lol
Notice all the concrete streets?
Cost more, but way less maintenance. And they stay cooler, a plus in a place as hot as Texas.
What I see here, are basically real life liminal spaces. It looks nice a first glance. But there is no life at all. No kids playing in front of the house, nobody fixing the garden or just hanging out on the porch. No small shops in the neighbourhood. And that's the reason why nobody is on the sidewalk: everybody uses the car, even only for buying some groceries. Place some shops, cafes and abckeries on the front to the road and the block starts living.
Downtown is nice - that's how the whole city should look like - and would, if it would have grown organically - and not planned by huge real estate development corporations. This shit reminds me ironically more to some soviet living areas, except they have chosen small houses instead of commie-blocks.
Agreed
As a zoomer this seems to have been the trend for really the last couple decades. Not new lol.
By Far One of the Best Channels on UA-cam, Mappy and his Family is Classic and Hilarious, and the Music Sung off Key is Fun. 😂🤣
Off key???
@@NickJohnson In the Best Way Possible.
Having lived in Texas for 43 years, and now living in Maine. I can say definitively that Texas is not the worst place to live.
Fall asleep in a robo taxi?
I couldn't handle the cold. I live in Central Texas where we get a couple of inches of snow every 2 to 3 years and it melts off by the next day.
Having lived in Texas, I can assure you that there is no desirable places to live in the state. Some cities are just less bad than others.
Frisco and Plano are great
Texas is a great place clean peaceful family friendly and a lot of colleges I had some happy days in Texas I graduated from college in Texas good friends and all you need a car vehicle in Texas though Texas is a very good place good people and stuff Walmart’s everywhere that’s good might run back to Texas lol.
Blessings and respect
I imagine with the amount of tornadoes we had this year in Texas some of the folks that moved here from the coast are probably thinking about migrating on to somewhere else. Just give em some days of 115 degrees with 78% humidity and it will help em on along their way
I would have told you that DFW was the best place to live in the country between 2010-2015. It changed for the worst, the cost of living got insane. I left and now I live in rural Tennessee.
Texas has always had , relative to other states , rather low wages and now native Texans find it difficult to afford housing while relatively richer folks move here , driving up housing cost .
Hell , many newcomers are willing to pay asking price plus a bonus for a home in Texas , which is still cheaper than homes where they came from . pave paradise , put up a parking lot
I’ve never heard of a 3D printed house , good golly !
Ya I suppose you put ink in the printer. No materials and labor costs. Must be cheaper
Yeah, it prints in some special kind of concrete, and there's no labor or at least not much.
Wonder how you hang pictures on the wall.
We can pass laws disallowing corporations to buy single family homes. It should be done soon.
@@sherbear8286 I’m sure they’ll still add drywall, etc.
I don't like living in suburbs but I'll always love McKinney Texas
According to that one weather reporter, everyone in McKinney is dead though, right?
too hot and humid! getting worse!
@@mf-db6nm Yeah, I sometimes enjoy the heat though.
@@JoePCool14 Some of us were able to escape the 100000 degree heat😂
When I was in high school about 40 miles E of McKinney, the population of McKinney was about 12-15K. You always knew it would grow but the degree has been a surprise. Frisco is even more dramatic. Was under 2K back in the day (late 60's) but is much bigger than McKinney now.
I was born in California. I have lived there for 30 years. At this point I have the choice to leave for a lower COL area, or become one of the homeless. But everyone’s saying Californians aren’t welcome. I wish I had the time or money to help fix my state’s problems. I have to look out for my family first, though. I’m getting out of here, probably to Eastern Oregon where my husband’s family lives.
I enjoy Texas and have a lot of family in Dallas and Houston. The big problem with Texas is that they have no open space like we have in the West. Unfortunately, when Texas was its own country, it was forced to sell off all of its land to fund its government and it simply hasn't invested in open space. So if you like to dirt bike, camp, off-road, explore, etc., there really isn't anywhere to do that. (yes, there are lakes and stuff but no true open space like we have in the West)
Nick, would love to see you tour Richardson, TX. It's Plano and Frisco without all the hoighty-toighty, and existed quietly and successfully in the shadows of the mega burbs to the north.
Until 6 months ago, I lived in Georgetown for a decade. The changes I saw were truly heartbreaking. Georgetown used to be a retirement town, full of grey-blue haired old folks who drove at a top speed of 30 mph. It's ruined now. Full of road raging lunatics from out of state. All the 200 year old oaks are being cut down, and the livestock and wildlife are all scrambling to find shelter. FIRST AUSTIN, NOW GTOWN.
Feels like I've been violated.
Sold and moved.
MTGA.
MAKE TEXAS GREAT AGAIN
Maybe run for office 🤷🏻♂️
Imagine, crime is still a crime in Texas.
And criminals are still treated like criminals.
Nope. Abbott just pardoned a murderer.
@@SteveninTunenope, he pardoned an innocent man who acted in self defense.
@@ricdynastynot according to the jury which heard all the evidence and convicted him.
@@denisemeans2024 that “jury” was about as unbiased as Trump’s jury in NYC. The DA in Travis County is a liberal hack that most people outside of the city HATE. He’s actually in the process of getting removed from office.
Viewers from Vietnam, wish the channel always develop❤
I recently went back to Texas to visit, and it's going down fast.
Nick, it's all Dallas now. Looks just like Frisco or Plano. McKInney, Texas is just an extension of North Dallas Metropolitan Area. It's a part of Dallas now. 30-40 years ago, it was nothing but open fields and countryside.
It will soon become a shitbox with all those Californians moving there.
Yup just like Florida now
Actually they move to get out of their shit hole California. I know people from California who did that to leave that mess behinf
“Don’t mess with Texas, Mappy!”
M a p p y has a Six-Gun he's going to mess with whoever he wants and there's nothing Texas can do about it
Mappy reminds me of a piece of Cinnamon toast crunch lol.
I fled California 30 years ago and never looked back. Come see the houses outside of Corpus Christi, along the Laguna Madre. My beach house on stilts about doubled in price in 15 years. Good to see your video complimenting our state.
Let me know if you have a reasonably priced Mother-in-law suite lol. Will be moving out there for work of a couple of years. I love Corpus!
If you think Texas is the American Dream, you'll just love Mississippi. Same people just without cowboy hats and no oil.
😂😂😂
Fun fact! Most Texans come from the southeast Gulf States like Mississippi. Lol
Oil is where the money is at 💰
Summers in DFW are brutally long, hot and humid. I'd be curious to know what the average monthly air conditioning bill comes to?.
And what about those toll roads? They are absolutely everywhere you go. That's another monthly bill in the mail.
Former Chicagoan now living in TX. I'll gladly take 7 months of 80+ Temps than the POS 2 month long summers we have up north!!!!
this month my electricity bill is $240. ac is set to 76 to 78.
We are starting to consider moving from Texas to California to get away from Californians!
Sounds like vegas :(
I'm moving to Seattle to avoid bad weather.
I'm moving to Canada to avoid the cold weather!
Love the content Nick! Keep us informed on how America really looks and feels!
Hey Nick love all your videos. I know I’m in the minority, but I would also love to see you spend several months doing videos on Americas nicest suburbs that’d be cool
Moved from San Diego area to McKinney in 2021. We bought a huge home with a pool and paid off all our debt. It’s awesome. I HATE THE WEATHER and miss the beaches in San Diego but moved here to be close to my adult kids who are starting families so overall I’m so happy. I live inside or in the pool all summer long . Downtown McKinney is adorable and really a throw back to a quaint old city. The people here are SO NICE. No homeless until you get into Dallas proper. We bought season tickets for the Dallas Stars hockey and that is so much fun and may very well win the Stanley cup!! We can afford to do that thanks to the way cheaper cost of living out here.
Don’t ruin it by voting the way of most Californians
@@sambulthuis287 I am a Trump voter so… yeah. So happy to be out of California
I'm the opposite moved to Texas spent 8 miserable years there. Couldn't wait to leave when I saw my opportunity I left and moved back to San Diego. It's nice not sweating when sleeping. I make more money here than I ever did in Texas.
@@Twitch760buh bye
Isn’t it terrible? What our California government has done the cities like San Diego? One of the few places in America that actually has great weather year round, and they allow it to become an illegal alien filled, crime ridden, third world, yet somehow still outrageously expensive, cesspool!
Those are the 15min cities 😢
Bought a house in G. Town in 2003 one street over from my in-laws. Don't ever do it! The #1 reason I don't live there anymore and they are ex-in-laws! I can't believe how congested that nice little town has become! Traffic is awful!
Another area Destroyed by over Development! It's basically the Boom/Bust Central Planned Economy that creates this Endless White Flight to find Mayberry's quaintness with now I reckon a $200K a year gig to stay somewhat Middle Class. Do folks ever stop and think about Culture, Ethnic and Family Roots? Things that last! I'm just saying it maybe the Economic Reality of America, but it isn't Sustainable in the Long Run IMHO!
I knew I like you for a reason, you are on the right side!
The one thing I hate is the way developer's built house so close to each other. The lots are next to nothing.
I live in Central North Carolina and a brand new Toyota megaplant is being built 5 minutes outside town. The out of staters are flocking here as fast as they can and sucking up every available blade of grass. I've never seen anything like it in my 53 years of living here. All my siblings and cousins moved away to "bigger and better" places. Now I'm sitting on a goldmine that I plan on selling to these out of towners with deep pockets when I retire.