Posted on 05/14/2024 2:43:39 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
Every year, former Republican congressional candidate Paul Chabot hosts a welcoming ceremony at a barn in North Texas that draws hundreds of people.
There, barbecue vendors, military recruiters and line dance instructors indoctrinate their new neighbors, teaching them about their new home and the Southern lifestyle. After the festivities, the county sheriff hands them a red, white and blue certificate declaring them honorary Texas citizens. When these families sign their names and recite their oaths, they must not only “swear loyalty” to the Lone Star State, but profess that “there is no finer, greater or better place on the planet.”
For Conservative Move — Chabot’s company dedicated to “helping patriots escape liberal states” — this is all part of the plan to relocate Orange County residents to the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, a sprawling region in North Texas that’s home to more than 8 million people. Real estate agents in the area told SFGATE that two cities in particular, though, have attracted a number of self-described “political refugees” who fled liberal California during the height of the pandemic.
Since their arrival, home prices in the area have nearly doubled, and agents said that despite local pushback, so many Californians are moving to the region that they’re creating a new subculture entirely.
Californians are moving to ‘New Texas’ in droves
Frisco and Plano, two wealthy enclaves in Collin County, have become hot spots for coastal Californians. In 2019, the median sale price of a single-family home in Frisco was just $400,000, but it’s since risen to about $700,000 as of March 2024, Redfin data shows — a 75% increase. Most people who recently searched for Frisco-area homes on the platform hail from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and New York.
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***The Frisco/Plano area is huge.***
My wife was born in Plano back in 1951. It was just a small town in the middle of nowhere. Now, a part of the Ft Worth-Dallas metroplex, I drive through it, and before I can turn around and leave, it has so changed I can’t find my way out!
So true. They're easily spotted by the "Please Be Patient - STUDENT DRIVER" bumper stickers. As if it wasn't already obvious that their prior driving experience was mostly in a Mumbai tuktuk.
It’s getting harder to find home insurance in states with a high frequency of disasters and increasing prices. The insurance companies aren’t writing new policies for anyplace near fire, flood, earthquake, hurricane, etc.
If you can’t get basic home insurance, you won’t be able to finance the home.
:-)
He’s in Texas ... already used to all of those factors!
Not to worry. I’ve got too many roots here. The mosquitos in east Alaska will eat your butterflies for breakfast.
Plano is southern?
They do it in Yerp? Well, it must be good for here! /sarc
In any event, those brick pads around the centers of the rounabouts and along some of the corners are truck aprons, where trucks can pass if they need to. It’s an implicit acknowledgement that these things aren’t so good for large vehicles.
I’ll move to the state of Jefferson if anywhere.
Howdy neighbor! I’m on a chainsaw disaster relief team based in Bartlesville. Just moved down from WY start of last year. Spent a couple days in Barnsdall after the first twister hit it. Just had my longest day yet chainsawing... this is one heck of an exercise plan I’m on... disaster relief is the one time you don’t want to be the “home town team”...
Thanks for what you do!
Condos are taking a beating, people house poor are taking a beating, mobile home parks are being bought up and rents are going up by 2x or 3x.
There a waiting list for single family homes.
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