I Found The Last Piece Of The American Dream. It's In Texas.
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- Опубліковано 26 тра 2024
- You're kidding right? These places in Texas are REALLY the best places to live in the country now?
I spent three days driving around Dallas, Austin and Houston burbs to show you what people say is the most desirable places for people to live these days. What do you think?
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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
How is Texas desirable when it has awful electric infrastructure, high rates of gun violence, restrictive abortion laws, awful public schools, low wages, high rates of people with no health insurance etc.
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 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.
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
Internet ar it's best@@donmarek7001
And wage to cost of living ratio.
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!
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! 👍
@@brad9092 👍🤣🤣🤣🤣
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.
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
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.
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.
I was born in Austin in 1963. I deer hunted with my grandparents west of Leander where there are houses now. I graduated High school in Burnet Texas. In 1963 the population in Texas was just over 10 Million. I live in Allen Texas now and the DFW population is just over 8 Million people, almost more than the entire state population when I was born. It is projected the DFW metroplex area will have 33.91 Million people by 2100. Texas by 2100 will be about 87 Million. I am definitely glad I will be long dead by then.
Texas is projected to build about ten more water reservoirs to take care of the population going into 2100. Texas approved Prop 7 which will help with expansion of the ERCOT power grid. Texas has 340 power plants, 3% of Americas power plants. There are plans under Prop 7 to build peaker plants that will operate not more than 100 hours per year at peak demand times.
Texas is vast with most of the population living in the triangle from San Antonio to Houston to DFW. West Texas is huge and will be a long long time before growth moves in that direction if ever. Concrete, glass, cars, pollution, high property taxes, high pollen count, heat heat and more heat from the end of May to the end of October. Six months out of the year our high during the days will range from 90-110 plus. The skies here are mostly smoggy in the DFW area. When we get strong northern cold fronts it cleans the air until the southerly winds kick back in. If you have issues with allergies your allergies will kill you here. If you love driving fast Texas is your place. No one drives the speed limit but me I think. The rest go 30-50 MPH over the posted limited then they slam on their breaks at the next light.
I’ve lived here my whole life, Houston, the hill country, the DFW area and I can hardly wait to retire and leave. There are to damn many people here. The whole world’s gotten to crowded and much more evil and rude.
It will take every bit of $6,000-$7,000 net to get by on in the northern suburbs where I live. We have zero debt. Our home is paid for. We pay cash for everything including new cars when we need them. Our property taxes are $7,000 a year currently in Allen Texas on our $586,000 $2965 sq foot home. Some of the bigger mansions over a million bucks plus I have seen the tax bills at $65,000 per year. It all depends on the value. Imagine just your tax bill at $65,000 per year for your mansion. Insurance on our two new 2024 Toyotas here are $1500 a piece per year. Our grocery bill here for three people runs about $1500-$2,000 depending on how many times we eat out per month. Maid service is about $1200 a year. The lawn service is about $800 a year.
In the bigger mansions here they spend $1,200 plus a day for cleaning. Our homes electrical bill runs from $100 in the winter to $500 plus in the summer. Water bill runs from $100-$400 a month. Nothing in the northern suburbs in the DFW area is cheap.
I posted this for people thinking of moving here. Again if you’re upper middle class you better have zero debt, pay cash for your house and be bringing home net at the very least $6,000-$7,200 per month cash to live here in a house. Next year with inflation it will be $7200-$8500….and more each year as hyperinflation gets much much worse. The US government is not going to slow down spending money they don’t have and the American voter will keep voting in the big government spenders.
When will it all blow up? Who knows?
Yep they say the DFW metroplex area is on target to become larger than Los Angeles.
It saddens me to see someone so eager to leave their home after all this time... my sincerest condolences, really.
@@chasedudek3136 I left that home 16 years ago and never looked back. I never liked it when I was there. Just visited dfw. It’s worse than I remember. It was sooo hazy, I got mosquito bites I’m still healing from. There was bugs everywhere at night, so can’t even sit and chill outside at night. Everyone drives like a maniac. And it’s like an hour drive to get ANYWHERE! No proper functioning public transportation between Fort Worth or Dallas still. But everything is a toll. This way EVERYONE can pay to get around. The mid cities and communities popping up around dfw are just made up of one strip mall after another of all the same corporate stores and restaurants. And like that’s it, there’s nothing else going on except sports events that are overpriced and just hella boring imo. I moved somewhere tropical, not cali but similar to SoCal. Almost same cost of living, maybe less than cali. But tbh, after visiting dfw recently, you guys aren’t too far behind the cali cost of living. Only thing cheaper is housing and that gap is getting closer and closer. I live in affordable housing where I’m at but, in a high rise, oceanfront, with million dollar views in every side of my apt. And it’s still cheaper for me to just stay here, than to move back to Texas to rent or buy one of these Home Depot homes. I even went to an open house while I was there and was aghast. It was called a “luxury” home, they were asking $785k. The house was anything but “luxury”. It had all these “modern” fixtures that just look like it’s from some industrial warehouse, and there was nothing else really going on with the interior. Extremely bland and basic. Not the least bit of creativity was put into the house. It angered me lol. You guys need to demand more of builders for these prices in Texas. Or demand lower prices! Because the “luxury” homes out there are NOT luxury and should only be on the market for half of what they are asking for. The audacity of these builders out there smh.
You wouldn't recognize north Leander and Liberty Hill area now, so much building in the last 5 years
@@MikeBarbarossa No I wouldn’t Mike. In the 1960s I spent summers with my grandpa who dug stock tanks, built dams and fences etc for the ranchers from Llano to east of Georgetown and from Lampasas to just north of Austin. In those days there was lots of country, wild country. I remember when a lot of the county roads were just limestone, no pavement. I remember picking wild blue berries on the side of the roads and grandma would make fresh jelly. I remember deer hunting at the base of Enchanted Rock on both sides of the hiway. I remember graduating from Burnet High School 1981. I remember trot lining and fishing in all the area lakes especially Buchanan Lake and fishing on the Colorado River……….I remember a very very great time. My grandparents lived in Bertram Texas.
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
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
No pedestrians, no public transportation system, like always. It all looks sad and abandoned.
That's why folks love it .simple , not crowded, no left policies to ruin it and make it dangerous with crime and homeless and despite open borders, not many illegal bad folks , they do there best to keep there folks safe and free
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.
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.
Thanks to people like this guy, who made this video.
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.
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.
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 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.
These places are actually little towns that have been around for a while, it's just that the sprawl engulfed them.
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 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.
Good walk around the great cities of cali....la bakersfield sacramento ..lol...
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...
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.
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.
@@LetsTravellChannel Where'd you go to?
@@antonioiniguez1615 Chicago.
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.
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.
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.
Great video, Nick. Keep up the good work!
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.
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 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.
I moved to Perth Australia 🇦🇺 never going back. Texas can’t compare.
We’re all doomed kid 😔
The bums are on their way after seeing this video.
I have been binge-watching your channel. Thanks for the very interesting shit, mister.
Love the content Nick! Keep us informed on how America really looks and feels!
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.
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
That s.u.v that passed you up had a busted out window was perfect intro to the slumbs homeboy 😂😂
Thanks for these videos Nick!
They are so very helpful!🌟💯
God bless.
All fun and games till the heat comes and add 80% humidity to that… 90 degrees feels like 110°
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.
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
Those are the 15min cities 😢
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?
The staff doing the linedancing looked SO damn bored lol
Viewers from Vietnam, wish the channel always develop❤
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.
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 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
She nailed the public transport, its why i laugh when high speed rail is permanently stalled, it keeps people far away.
Another fantastic video, thank you so much for what you do.
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
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!
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
As someone who live in Austin 2022-2024, it’s not that great. I missed having a real city, sweet home Chicago. Where life isn’t all about the car. Great bbq though. Glad to be back in Chicago.
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.
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!
Woohoo the best reward ever giving us those slums 😂,
They look kinda Nice aye,
Your regular houses in your new Sub divisions are huge I mean we have kinda big houses in New Zealand but you're regular homes looks so spacious and are cheaper then something that Size here.
Round rock seems like a fun little town unlike the town I've been house sitting in this last 5 days.
Funny fact I heard some Guy arguing nearby yesterday and was literally lost as to what it was then I realized it was a neighbor cause I'm in a city 😂,
Don't get that in my little offgrid camp.
One thing we all have in common Nick is our kitset looking houses they build in new Sub divisions we just have different styles of houses but still all plain Jane same designs as the neighbor.
The Ink artist at the end had some really nice work done, gotta be hard running a business but not really getting anywhere easy.
Appreciate you mate have a beautifully blessed week ahead.
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
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.
I’ve been a life long Republican and i was born and Raised in Orange County California in a Christian republican family! I left California in 2008 and moved to South Carolina for 5 years and it was ok, I moved to NW San Antonio in 2013. I have been very happy here except for the excessive heat and Freezes in the winter, and as of the past 4 years the horrible traffic. I loved the conservative politics here, but in my line of work I see a lot of north eastern people moving here that are democrats not Californians. The Californians who are escaping are escaping the liberal politics
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.
I’ve been a life long Republican and i was born and Raised in Orange County California in a Christian republican family! I left California in 2008 and moved to South Carolina for 5 years and it was ok. I moved to NW San Antonio in 2013. I have been very happy here except for the excessive heat and Freezes in the winter, and as of the past 4 years the horrible traffic. I loved the conservative politics here, but in my line of work I notice a lot of north eastern people moving here that are democrats not Californians. The Californians who are escaping are escaping the liberal politics and ridiculous inflation. My Republican daughter and her ex husband moved to Maricopa around 9 years ago and it was cheap and there was barely anything there. She loves it but I’m more a fan of Chandler myself. Closer access to the freeway and better restaurants and shopping options. Sad Arizona turned blue.
@@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.
I'm from New England and have always respected Texas...but that HEAT!!!
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.
drug dealers will move in n spoil this place
Youths?
I live in Frisco. The DEA and ATF did a raid one day 2 doors down from me at the rental house! It was intense flashbangs and they had a MRAP tank thing. The city police don’t even know it was gonna happen, all federal. That was rare tho. They were renting a million dollar house!
Texas is not where we want to go. So wealthy Liberals will destroy Texas as they did to California. We will stay in the rolling hills of Kentucky where other Republicans Christians ✝️ live.
There already here.
Already happening
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 🤡
Thank you so much for sharing your content. Much appreciated 👍 Sending virtual Granny hug's and prayers to everyone ☺️💕
Ok Renee!
I had an apartment in far north Dallas in 2008. Lived in between frisco and Carrollton. Big ass houses but it was like Edward scissor hand vibes
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.
Even though there's no income property tax in TX, the property taxes there still suck.
What's the sales tax there?
Yes, you actually end up spending more in taxes overall.
@@ScorpioBornIn698.25%
@@sunnydaze1185 It's 6.5 - 7% depending on what county here in central Florida.
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.
Une très belle vidéo.
Merci pour le partage.
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.
Notice all the concrete streets?
Cost more, but way less maintenance. And they stay cooler, a plus in a place as hot as Texas.
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!
In 1993 I was doing work on a new house. Frisco had a Dairy Queen at on the corner of Preston Td. and some road that I don't remember, and that was pretty much it. Then a couple years latter it kinda started with the construction of Stone Briar Mall.
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.
Texas is not for me nor is suburban living but I understand why many people like both.
Suburbia is mind numbingly dystopian and ugly
looks good! dont see any bad things
Interesting video!
The reason there are no state income taxes is because the property tax is outrageous in Texas. Plus, the tollways will nickel and dime you out of your money. The old "bait and switch" routine...
Is not because of that. It is because Texans have allowed Dem politicians in government. Dems leech off taxes.
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
The thing about California is that housing costs are so high that a family could sell their home and buy the same size home here in Texas for half of what they sold their house for. They stick the rest in the bank and they are instantly rich. The people who live here get kind of screwed.
The one thing I hate is the way developer's built house so close to each other. The lots are next to nothing.
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 🤷🏻♂️
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.
26:13 is the comfy doom content.
Thanks for goin out there and finding the slums, Nick.
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.
Concrete sucks the moisture out of the air.
That's a good thing in Texas
Concrete sucks period.
Untouched by bum hood LOL😂
And trailer trash panhandlers
Hi from Texas, Nick. I love watching your videos, especially the ones on the off-beaten paths. As I'm watching this video, it reminds me that I've been wanting to point this out for a while. You call these places suburbs, and that's what they've become to the large cities like Houston, Dallas, etc. However, please remember that these "suburbs" started out as towns of their own accord. McKinney, Frisco, and Georgetown are all their own towns with their old or historic downtown areas, courthouses and more. While I know YOU know this, viewers don't necessarily know it. So, it would be great if you spoke about the origins of these towns before the cities sprawled out towards them and made them "suburbs". There are also towns that began as suburbs and grew to become their own city, like The Woodlands, TX. There are some like that in the DFW area, too. Thanks!
Ok Stacey!
Another Gem Nick
Willis!! 🤙🏻🤙🏻
@@NickJohnson The Dead were amazing Nick, Vegas is insane and the Sphere is otherworldly
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 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 watch on you tube. Interesting and informative.
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.