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  • supermilano

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    Undoubtedly your income will go further when it comes to purchasing real estate in Oklahoma AND no doubt, paying property taxes (basic law of ‘supply & demand’). However you will also get to pay 5.25% state income tax (verses Texas = 0% state income tax). You’re lucky in that you have a job that will {mostly} allow you to ‘telecommute’... many people are not so fortunate.

    Watch the day after I move the company restructures and I can't work remote anymore lol
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    ed308

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    I moved to Frisco in 2013. Think I paid around $100 sq ft. Value has gone up close to 50%. I couldn't afford my neighborhood at today's prices. My house may be going up for sale this summer after my daughter graduates from HS. Time to move further out.
     

    supermilano

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    I moved to Frisco in 2013. Think I paid around $100 sq ft. Value has gone up close to 50%. I couldn't afford my neighborhood at today's prices. My house may be going up for sale this summer since when my daughter graduates from HS. Time to move further out.

    Shoot if I was you I'd hold out to Summer of 2019 and sell then.
     

    ed308

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    Why 2019? Is that when Amazon may relocate to the area? The property taxes are getting ridiculous.
     

    busykngt

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    I agree with supermilano; at least let the new U.S. Toyota Headquarters get fully populated - AND maybe, the new Amazon HQ located here in the area! Frisco ain’t gona do nuthin’ but make ya money on a home investment (for the foreseeable future).

    I live in McKinney, and am in the same situation. I was one of those “cash buyers” of a few years ago and was lucky enough to catch a ‘short sell’ on a very nice home. No way I’d be willing to pay the going rate on homes in my neighborhood, now. My only regret nowadays, is that I live in a community of stupid people - voters who actually voted to approve building an $85M high school football stadium (incl land acquisition cost)! Like Ron White says, “You can’t fix stupid”...
     

    ed308

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    Yeah that gives them time to release a final answer and where their going. Last I heard it was between Dallas and Denver. Correct me if I'm wrong though.

    Hadn't heard it was down to Dallas or Denver. Dallas makes a lot more sense based on location and the area.
     

    Lunyfringe

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    Hadn't heard it was down to Dallas or Denver. Dallas makes a lot more sense based on location and the area.
    It was Lone Tree, CO on the South side of Denver metro area.
    but I've heard Lone Tree is a longshot now...

    At one point Atlanta and Austin were leading, And now Atlanta is the odds-on favorite:
    The retailer registered a lobbyist, Jacob Oster, on December 7 with the Georgia State Ethics Commission, ahead of the start of Georgia's legislative session in January, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
     

    F350-6

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    Yeah that gives them time to release a final answer and where their going. Last I heard it was between Dallas and Denver. Correct me if I'm wrong though.

    If you think Amazon is coming to Big D, then you better go buy something in Oklahoma now. The population has exploded so far up 75 already. If Amazon comes, the boom might stretch to the border.

    Anyone remember when North Plano was the semi-rural area on the outskirts of town? Allen and Frisco were small country towns. McKinney was the big country town because it had the highway. Places like Celina didn't even register on the map
     

    Vaquero

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    If you think Amazon is coming to Big D, then you better go buy something in Oklahoma now. The population has exploded so far up 75 already. If Amazon comes, the boom might stretch to the border.

    Anyone remember when North Plano was the semi-rural area on the outskirts of town? Allen and Frisco were small country towns. McKinney was the big country town because it had the highway. Places like Celina didn't even register on the map

    Nope.


    My aunt and uncle (uncle worked at GM and Bell helicopter)
    Lived in Irving, Hurst, Arlington, etc.......
    back in the 70s. Looked like a lot of the same to me then.
    "Neighbors " was a foreign concept to me then.
    I can't even imagine those neighborhoods now.
    Shudder
     

    busykngt

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    Every now-and -then, I’ll get a burger at McDonalds on Stacy Road in Allen - right where cattle used to graze and enjoy a small pond during the heat of the Summer. Now they’re the menu at that location!
     

    ed308

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    When I bought my home 4 years ago, my house backed up to pasture in north Frisco in Prosper ISD. In the last couple of months the cattle were moved out, 1000 homes are starting to be built plus a middle school and high school are going up. Doesn't take long around here. In a couple of years, the Hwy 380 and Preston intersection will be like Preston/121 intersection.
     

    RevolverGuy

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    It’s going on as far out as Weatherford.

    I have friends who were tickled pink at how fast their house sold, until they tried to find another one.

    I think they’re still in a rental with everything in storage.
     

    pronstar

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    I tried to close the door behind me once I arrived...I'm doing my best to tell other would-be transplants that Texas is closed.


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    busykngt

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    I’ve been saying, “No Vacancy” for a few years now but it doesn’t seem to have done much good!

    I did have the pleasure of meeting one couple (& their two kids) who moved to Texas - by virtue of his job - I say pleasure because they didn’t last long. Here, I think, less than two years before they moved back to Pennsylvania. She (the wife) couldn’t handle the little field mice that move into the attic during the winter! I wished them the best: Adios!
     

    mgchrono

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    We will be in town in March for house hunting. Have been keeping lists of favorite homes on some of the real estate websites. Amazing how fast some of them go contingent! One thing that would be helpful is a source of sales price data (ie the price that recently sold homes actually sold for) which is available in many other parts of the country, but not TX because it's a non-disclosure state, meaning the sales data is not made public.
     
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