So you would NEVER live in Texas?

[warthog]

My buddy from college just sold this house.

Holy shit, $84 a sq ft- 6600 sq ft with indoor pool, 4 car garage, lakefront, 4 bedroom, 4 bath.

Put this house anywhere else, and it is easily over $1mm.


http://www.virginiacook.com/homes-fo...s13079317.html

[basinbeater]

Is it so cheap because Texas sucks?

[digitaldeath]

Texas is for fags

[Jesse]

$84 Sq/ft in my dreams. Here's a nice little house under 1000 Sq ft for $1.3 mill in my neighborhood.

Makes you want to consider Texas...

[IVplay]

Texas is for fags

quoted for irony and truth

[KQ]

Hey -

[iscariot]

You couldn't pay me enough to buy that or any other house in Texas.

[smartyiak]

Last week I was in Houston. This week: Beaumont and Jasper.

The correct answer is: NO...FUCK NO!!!!

[Grape_Ape]

I would never, ever live in that state. Fuck Texas.

It's not the geography (everything but the west sucks though)...it's the populace and political climate.

[bornincolorado]

The most important factors in real estate are location, location, location. Take away all 3 and you're left with Texas.

[liv2ski]

I would never, ever live in that state. Fuck Texas.

It's not the geography (everything but the west sucks though)...it's the populace and political climate.

All this is true, but there are a lot of hot looking women in Texas. I don't understand how a bunch of morons can make such good looking women.

[AdironRider]

I don't know, the 100 buck annual HOA fee doesn't get you very much.

[that dude who did that thing]

I agree, Fuck Texas, but I just got back from some meetings where one of the topics (very briefly discussed) was the reality that Texas, politically, is turning purple, and may soon turn blue. I still wouldn't live there, but changing the politics would remove at least one of th ereasons many ratoinal people wouldn't live there.

[Name Redacted]

All this is true, but there are a lot of hot looking women in Texas. I don't understand how a bunch of morons can make such good looking women.

They have a short shelf life.

House was cheap because all the neighbors were Texans.

[El Chupacabra]

Dallas is a great place to live and work, if you measure it solely by relative salaries vs. cost of living (i.e. housing). Get paid like a big city, but can spend like a small town.

Unfortunately, everything else sucks.

[GeezerSteve]

Dallas? Fuck no

Hill country, maybe, if I had no other options

[KQ]

Last week I was in Houston. This week: Beaumont and Jasper.

The correct answer is: NO...FUCK NO!!!!

Hey now don't knock till you try it. I've got family in both Beaumont and Jasper that wouldn't live anywhere else. You stop on by and give them a big "Hi Y'all!"

[Garth Bimble]

My neighbors just got transferred to Houston. Made a tidy profit on the house they sold (Denver area) and bought one of those "McMansions" in the Houston area for less than what they paid for the house they had here. More sq. footage, pool, etc. No state income tax but property tax is ridiculous.

And it's Texas.

[Cruiser]

Mrs Cruiser often shows me facebook "friends" homes in Texas and it never ceases to amaze me what you can get for the $$$ down there if you're willing to live outside of the center of town. But then her sister / bro-n-law just bought a place in University Park in Dallas and spent nearly $1mm for a 2k sqft place built in the 40's. The house is, no shit, 100' from hwy 75 and shares a fence with a large church. I was floored when I saw the listing for the place.

[ncskier]

You know reading these posts sounds similar to what folks say to me about living in North Carolina. However, I never understood what exactly in "politics" folks find so offensive. Although there was a black mark for the whole gay marriage amendment thing, for the most part I find everyone pretty much sticks to their own damn business. I find Texas to be the same way. It may have a reputation as right wing, guns etc. all of which I'm personally fine with but many parts of texas I go to, have diversity on all levels. I have worked in "liberal" cities and for the most part if you are just a working stiff most shit is the same. I for one like my big city wages without the expenses of coastal towns, but I see the merits of both.
However, pretending shit is any different anywhere in america is a joke.
This week there was google racist map and guess what, the northeast was deemed as racist as the southeast. Rednecks in Maine and Idaho give a texas redneck and appalachian redneck a run for their money also.
I guess if you want state sponsored methadone and needles like Portland, Dallas isnt your town. But if you want to make good wages and not pay out the ass for a small house and have money to save to retirement, there are worse places to live.

[old goat]

My buddy from college just sold this house.

Holy shit, $84 a sq ft- 6600 sq ft with indoor pool, 4 car garage, lakefront, 4 bedroom, 4 bath.

Put this house anywhere else, and it is easily over $1mm.
http://www.virginiacook.com/homes-fo...s13079317.html

Reason it's so cheap is that no one in Texas wants a house that small

All this is true, but there are a lot of hot looking women in Texas. I don't understand how a bunch of morons can make such good looking women.

Plastic surgery.

[XXX-er]

A gay person told me everything but Austin sucks ...uh culture wise that is, any mountains or skiing?

[The AD]

Wow, that's not a pool, that's a natatorium!

[TahoeJ]

There are plenty of nicer places with real estate just as cheap.

[::: :::]

Put this house anywhere else, and it is easily over $1mm.

put this house anywhere else, and it's still a style-less, soul-less pile of poorly conceived spaces and materials...but you're right, in the right location, it will be more expensive