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So...I ####### MOVED to... Dallas? NOW ALSO THE ALL THINGS DALLAS THREAD. Review, ##### and compliment in here. (1 Viewer)
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Koya
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Ft Worth rocks! Love the downtown.
Plus, I may need a couch to crash on when my wife and I get into a kurfuffle and I've overrated my welcome at my college bud's pad in flower mound.
Koya
Footballguy
1. #### NO. How bout them (one and done, AGAIN) Cowboys!
2. Si. But that's about it. No bueno.
3. Wha?
Koya
Footballguy
What happened to this plan! PS, I generally hate strip clubs, but Texas women do know how to treat a guy.
Koya
Footballguy
It's a done deal. Was offered nearly as much as I had been paid prior to my illness two years back, a fair and sizeable ownership piece in the new company we are creating and lease docs are being sent tonight as we were approved by the apartment.
Our place is just outside of West Village, backing onto the KATY trail. My commute wlll less than a ten min walk down the Katy trail, wife will be a 12-15 min bike ride downtown if he job comes through - trolley stops in front of the building so that's an option if she's downtown also. With me so close our move down to one car is set regardless where she ends up (we are a 5-7 min walk to the DART also).
Pretty pumped. 2 bedroom place with an awesome kitchen and a private gated patio that is large enough to put a lil two chair table for coffee and also my Weber-Q grill. From our research (online, random people and folks who know people who live there), it's a quiet pool area which is in front of us along with some gardening and there's a really nice and pretty large set of lounging decks with all weather couches and chairs along with two kick ### huge grills for when we have a little party to throw. Mostly a professional building with only a few SMU students and was in really good shape, very well maintained overall. Being a couple blocks from McKinney and a couple blocks from West Village and on the trail is perfect for me... close to a couple nodes of action but won't have too much noise or drink walking where we are, moreso since it's an interior unit.
Im picking up keys next Tuesday, no idea what I'm sleeping on as my wife and stuff is likely to get there a week or so later.
All aboard the train to Dallas!
Our place is just outside of West Village, backing onto the KATY trail. My commute wlll less than a ten min walk down the Katy trail, wife will be a 12-15 min bike ride downtown if he job comes through - trolley stops in front of the building so that's an option if she's downtown also. With me so close our move down to one car is set regardless where she ends up (we are a 5-7 min walk to the DART also).
Pretty pumped. 2 bedroom place with an awesome kitchen and a private gated patio that is large enough to put a lil two chair table for coffee and also my Weber-Q grill. From our research (online, random people and folks who know people who live there), it's a quiet pool area which is in front of us along with some gardening and there's a really nice and pretty large set of lounging decks with all weather couches and chairs along with two kick ### huge grills for when we have a little party to throw. Mostly a professional building with only a few SMU students and was in really good shape, very well maintained overall. Being a couple blocks from McKinney and a couple blocks from West Village and on the trail is perfect for me... close to a couple nodes of action but won't have too much noise or drink walking where we are, moreso since it's an interior unit.
Im picking up keys next Tuesday, no idea what I'm sleeping on as my wife and stuff is likely to get there a week or so later.
All aboard the train to Dallas!
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BowieMercs
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Only place in TX I'd move is Austin. Great town for music & non-native Texans are welcomed.
Also, I hear they don't automatically kill Redskins fans there.
Good luck to you.
Koya
Footballguy
1. Everyone in Dallas has been amazingly welcoming. It's a far more wordly and comsopolitan city than I had realized. The economy has grown so much there are a huge number of transplants, already.
2. Giants fan here. Maybe some of the same animosity, but at least we win.
Thanks for the kind wishes!
culdeus
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culdeus
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In The Zone
Footballguy
Good luck Koya. I'll be following along in the adventure. Especially the strip club adventure.
Koya
Footballguy
I'm honestly not a big strip club guy, but the lodge had some nice talent IIRC.
If I go, wifey will probably be with me... hell, I could see my business partner and HIS wife ALSO going. Possibly my other business partner (millennial female). Her husband probably wouldn't join.
so buckle up buttercup, could be a wild night.
Otis
Footballguy
F The Big D.
Most of the people I know there royally suck. It's a city with a chip on its shoulder, desperately wanting to be NY and LA but resenting both because it thinks we look at it like it's Arkansas.
At least we here on LI know what we are, we accept it and are comfortable in our own skin with nothing to prove.
Setting all that aside, on a personal level, good luck GB!! Sounds kind of exciting. I mean, other than the part about leaving an awesome place for a terrible place. GL!!!!1
Most of the people I know there royally suck. It's a city with a chip on its shoulder, desperately wanting to be NY and LA but resenting both because it thinks we look at it like it's Arkansas.
At least we here on LI know what we are, we accept it and are comfortable in our own skin with nothing to prove.
Setting all that aside, on a personal level, good luck GB!! Sounds kind of exciting. I mean, other than the part about leaving an awesome place for a terrible place. GL!!!!1
In The Zone
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Koya
Footballguy
Dude, when is the last time you've been to Dallas, and which parts? Because I pretty much thought the same as you prior to this past October and subsequent half dozen visits.F The Big D.
Most of the people I know there royally suck. It's a city with a chip on its shoulder, desperately wanting to be NY and LA but resenting both because it thinks we look at it like it's Arkansas.
At least we here on LI know what we are, we accept it and are comfortable in our own skin with nothing to prove.
Setting all that aside, on a personal level, good luck GB!! Sounds kind of exciting. I mean, other than the part about leaving an awesome place for a terrible place. GL!!!!1
Plus, it's a nice hub for "talented" flight attendants. So, they have that going for them. ####, they have talent, period - and in the area I'm in, it's not JUST hot blonds with big #### and great legs. SMU students, tons of young pros. Oh, I mean young professionals. :achem:
Appreciate the thoughts though... drinks on me if you ever find yourself there (try to avoid june-august!). Hell, they are half the price!
Koya
Footballguy
Heading to the MD shore actually! Normally it would just be a miserable week with the fam and my 5+ nieces and nephews under the age of 5. Now I'll actually look forward to it. A little.
The lake thing I am NOT excited about.
Flat place. No beach. SAD!
DocHolliday
Footballguy
Was in Houston last week and Dallas a couple of weeks before that. I love both cities and TX in general. Good people. Lots of fun, pretty women. This guy is making a great decision leaving the NE for TX. I'm sure that he will miss gray skies, cold, and snow storms but he will get used to nice weather.
Otis
Footballguy
Oh, the chicks are smoking hot. They have that part worked out.
I'll definitely pester you for drinks next time I'm there.
Psychopav
Help us, Joebi-Wan Brynobi, you're our only ho
Don't worry, we're not.
I mean, I am. But not all of us.
Psychopav
Help us, Joebi-Wan Brynobi, you're our only ho
This is the exact opposite of my experience.F The Big D.
Most of the people I know there royally suck. It's a city with a chip on its shoulder, desperately wanting to be NY and LA but resenting both because it thinks we look at it like it's Arkansas.
At least we here on LI know what we are, we accept it and are comfortable in our own skin with nothing to prove.
Setting all that aside, on a personal level, good luck GB!! Sounds kind of exciting. I mean, other than the part about leaving an awesome place for a terrible place. GL!!!!1
Then again I'm a married suburbanite with 4 kids ranging from 3rd Grade to high school senior. ymmv
Koya
Footballguy
I definitely am a wazer when it's the best option (in NYC, Waze's lack of flexibility can REALLY screw you... it's way slow to adjust if you made a wrong turn, and here that means you are about to go on a bridge or in a tunnel and end up on an entirely different land mass). A couple of my business partners down there swear by it.Psychopav said:
Luckily, I'll be carless more often than not with a walk to work, 5 min from Dart and that's a good enough excuse to make my colleagues drive me during work hours as my wife likely will have the car!
Bogart
Footballguy
Koya
Footballguy
Got it. I'm not down there quite yet - in and out but solidly there as of March. And how much to go to a RANGERS game? The not evil rangers, that is.
Bogart
Footballguy
First ticket on me. A welcome to Texas present. And I'm sure we can talk @Disco Stu and @UniAlias among others to join.
culdeus
Footballguy
Stars games are a lot of fun. Its all displaced Midwesterners that know their hockey. Its a surreal and really good experience
Koya
Footballguy
I'd totally be down. Gotta be some inexpensive stubhub seats for the Mavs too with their suckitude this year, ya? I can walk to the arena.
Koya
Footballguy
HELLOOOOOO DALLAS!
Got my apt keys yesterday. Back and forth next few weeks before realty settling in after 10 days on the road for client meetings and conferences at the end of this month.
Nice to wake up to this as my porch/patio!
Got my apt keys yesterday. Back and forth next few weeks before realty settling in after 10 days on the road for client meetings and conferences at the end of this month.
Nice to wake up to this as my porch/patio!
El Floppo
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Koya
Footballguy
And circled is my Apartment which I can apparently see from my office window.
About 3/4 mile - both my apt building and office enter directly into the Katy Trail.
About 3/4 mile - both my apt building and office enter directly into the Katy Trail.
Koya
Footballguy
I'll be up in NY this coming weekend packing. Then back here for a night next week and fly down "for good" on the 11th with my three #######. Wife and two cats.
Keerock
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Koya
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Because... Texas?
It's actually quite pretty from the ground level walking down the trail and a long linear park. Surprisingly so.
But yeah, totally looks like the middle east in this photo. And more Abu Dhabi than Dubai (although if we looked from the other direction, it may be more of the latter, looking at the newer glass uber-lux towers going up closer to downtown)
Joe T
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oso diablo
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Keerock
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oso diablo
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Keerock
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Koya
Footballguy
I wish! The exterior units on my building have a range... some downtown views but not near the skyline you show, some really nice views over the park and trail. Some meh views of roads/streets and a few awful views of a substation for a few unlucky units.
That said, I love me my pool and interior garden view from my patio, and the view of talent (SMU students and young pros... err professionals) walking around my hood is exceptional.
culdeus
Footballguy
The part of Dallas he lives in wasn't ever really supposed to happen. Up until maybe 1995 that part of Dallas was for the most part low end condos and apartments for low paying office worker types going downtown.
Starting about that point a few REITs moved in spearheaded by Post Properties and other similar ventures and bought out a lot of the apartments and condo blocks and rebuilt them into mid-scale stuff. rents went from 60c a foot to $1 a foot in a short time.
So much of that area, and specifically that exact area that the photo was taken, still shows it's age as a lower-middle class area that just turned up the knob just enough to attract Millennial types.
