The way Fort Worth is growing you should find somewhere that is built out and won't change. Tanglewood, Mira Vista area, Ridglea, etc. all the new housing editions popping up out north and west are just going to be oceans of builder homes. But if that's your thing, cool.

I'm out in ftw basically Benbrook. Look in the Walsh ranch new development going in on 20 west

How would you guys say the work commute would be from the Roanoke/Argyle/Justin to places like Lewisville/Denton/Coppell?

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Solid points. I've never looked at those areas of Arlington, I'll have to do some digging.

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SW Arlington is where I live and yeah it's very different from the city you likely are familiar with. If you go far enough south, it's City of Arlington and Mansfield schools, which is really good too.

That map is fun to play with

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How would you guys say the work commute would be from the Roanoke/Argyle/Justin to places like Lewisville/Denton/Coppell?

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Roanoke/Argyle/Justin is a wide region. I live in Northlake and it takes 10 mins to get to Justin, 10 to Denton, 15-20 to Roanoke (because infrastructure sucks there). Once the bridge goes in at 377 and 114 in Roanoke then I expect the commutes to Coppell/Lewisville will decrease by about 10 minutes so it would be about 30 or so. That area right now is so slow. That bridge should have been put in 10 years ago. The problem with commuting from Justin and Argyle is they aren't close to highways so you have to add time to get to a highway as well.

Just collecting my thoughts on everyone's responses, and it seems like there are definitely pros and cons to most areas. There is a general consensus that the Keller-Northlake region is still probably a no-go with the traffic situations.

Obviously, a HUGE factor will be housing and availability when we start looking here in the next 6-8 months. That could completely alter any plans we may have, unfortunately.

Thank you to everyone who has responded! If anyone has any other tidbits they want to share, I'm all ears! I'm going to let the wife read the thread tonight and see what she thinks.

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Obviously, a HUGE factor will be housing and availability when we start looking here in the next 6-8 months. That could completely alter any plans we may have, unfortunately.

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Man who knows what the market will look like in 6-8 months. We could be in recession with a bunch of people being foreclosed on at that point. No clue what interest rates will be like then either. My buddy heads up sales for all of DFW for a major home builder and he says there's still people putting down 2-3% on their $700K house and he thinks any hiccup in the market is going to spur a lot of problems. You might be able to find a deal by that time.

As bad as it may sound, that is something I've considered. I've told my wife that I wouldn't be surprised if the market gets a shake-up and people start realizing how upside down they are and try to get out of the house for whatever they can get. All of these people doing like you said - 2-3% down on these massive mortgages, or putting stupid amounts over the asking price might begin to regret their decisions.

Don't bank on housing prices (at least locally) majorly contracting. Aside from low interest rates, we're still significantly under housing costs in other metro areas (housing cost relative to income), and we still have some ways to go if you believe in mean-reversion. Admittedly just one example, but I'm sure others in tangential industries have countless similar stories.

A client of mine is a realtor, mostly does single families in built-out/established West Fort Worth areas. She's found a vein of folks retiring/relocating from Northern California who all want to retire/work remotely Granbury. Not even the Bay Area, but between Oakland & Sacramento.

She referred one to me yesterday. He's looking at a house (sight unseen) listed for $675k. Realtor said take out out of state buyers, and this would be a $500k house. We're putting a plan together to get him liquidity to make a $775k cash offer.

She's warned him about overpaying, but his response is along the lines of "I'll be selling a $3mm house when I move, so what if I end up selling this one a year later and lose $100k?" He doesn't want to lose this one, and would gladly pay $200k over asking for a house 45 minutes from "town".

Well, that just gives me all the warm and fuzzies

This is why the market isn't making any sense. Just to compete with these fools you have to do something completely insane. It's not until that pipeline dries up will this change. People are transforming the TX real estate market into CA by their ability to work remotely and it is destroying our ability to compete. They come here with "who cares" money and we all pay the price…...because when you sell your 4/3.5 in Tanglewood for $1mm+…..then what?!

Yup with you on that one. Have a friend that basically had this same scenario happen for her. She's set.

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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Colleyville. I just moved here from Dallas about 7 months ago and really enjoy it. I realize it's pretty sleepy and quiet, but are there reasons to avoid it that I'm not aware of?

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Depends on what part of colleyville. If you're commuting then you'd need to be close to 121 or it's going to add quite a bit of time just to get to a highway. Similar to Keller in that regard. Colleyville was the **** when I was growing up in the 80's/90's.

Lots of tanglewood kids go on to McLean and then pascal. I'd say well more than half.

Would highly recommend it.

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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Colleyville. I just moved here from Dallas about 7 months ago and really enjoy it. I realize it's pretty sleepy and quiet, but are there reasons to avoid it that I'm not aware of?

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Just looked up homes for sale in Colleyville. Maybe nobody mentioned it because the only houses listed are millions of dollars. There is also a 1 acre lot listed for half a mil. You must be set up nicely.

I wish, but that is definitely not the case. I guess none of the older, mid sized homes like I moved into are for sale right now. I searched after reading your post, and those types of homes that are listed aren't what I had in mind…wouldn't have been anywhere close to my price range.

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I wish, but that is definitely not the case. I guess none of the older, mid sized homes like I moved into are for sale right now. I searched after reading your post, and those types of homes that are listed aren't what I had in mind…wouldn't have been anywhere close to my price range.

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I guess I don't know much about that area, but I never imagined those types of homes/properties existed there. Being so centrally located, seems like a hidden gem. Only if you have enough gems to afford it I guess.

Some areas of grapevine are more affordable and it's a great community. Also if you go a little further south from colleyville into Bedford or north Richland hills there are some nice areas and still centrally located.

That's a lot of room for her and her 4 cats that she calls her babies.

I would second that the inventory is probably low in Colleyville right now. There is a lot of variety here, and if you are looking for a normal suburban style house, it's cheaper than Southlake, and probably on par with Grapevine.

There are some exclusive master planned neighborhoods where it is $$$$. There are some nice, normal family type neighborhoods with 1/3 acre lots and 2k-4k sq ft houses, and then there are mixed in 1970s ranchettes on 1-3 acres where people have bought them and knocked them down and built million dollar houses, or the original 1970s 2 bedroom ranch style house is still there.

OP I think you mentioned your wife works at Cook's Children's? As I was driving west of Proper on 380 I saw they're finishing up a large new CC's along there as well. Wondered if it is an option for your wife to work at that one instead and yall live up this way instead of Ft Worth area?

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OP I think you mentioned your wife works at Cook's Children's? As I was driving west of Proper on 380 I saw they're finishing up a large new CC's along there as well. Wondered if it is an option for your wife to work at that one instead and yall live up this way instead of Ft Worth area?

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That is scenario 2. They just started posting job openings for the new Prosper campus, only director and high manager levels so far. She hasn't seen anything she is qualified for yet.

It's probably what I would prefer. Her grandparents are in Aubrey, and has an aunt and uncle in Flower Mound. But she's a little hesitant to leave the Fort Worth campus where she has some seniority built up and is already in one of the best units.

I just HATE 380. Probably the worst stretch of road in the metroplex in my opinion. So if we go that way, I'll do my best to avoid it.

Gotcha. My wife and girls and I are recent McKinnely transplants. I teach at Prosper High and my wife teaches at one of the Prosper elementaries. We have a house we have a contract to buy here in a few weeks, fingers crossed. I think you'd eventually have better schools for your kiddos up this way if your wife can land a job here.

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BoomGoesThe said:

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I wish, but that is definitely not the case. I guess none of the older, mid sized homes like I moved into are for sale right now. I searched after reading your post, and those types of homes that are listed aren't what I had in mind…wouldn't have been anywhere close to my price range.

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I guess I don't know much about that area, but I never imagined those types of homes/properties existed there. Being so centrally located, seems like a hidden gem. Only if you have enough gems to afford it I guess.

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We moved from Brandon, Florida to Colleyville in 1991. We paid $225,000 for our house which is walking distance to Colleyville Elementary and Middle School. It is 4 bedrooms 3 baths 3 car garage on .60 acres with a pool. We just completed a major remodel two years ago. My eye doctor is near Hulen in South Forth Worth and it take between 25 to 40 minutes to get there depending on traffic. My husband commuted to the Dallas VA when he worked and I commuted to Las Colinas.. We are both happy we don't have to do that now but at the time both commutes were much shorter than our commutes in Florida. We really love the area.

Probably a good choice. One big negative against South Arlington where I live is they're getting ready to re-build the whole US 287/I-20/I-820 exchange in far southeast Fort Worth. Getting through there to downtown Fort Worth is gonna be a nightmare for years.

Thank God I'm retiring soon!

Welcome to the area!

Matsui said:

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Welcome to the area!

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Appreciate it! We are looking at an early December close, and we don't have to be out of our current apartment until the end of February, so we can take our time moving and getting things set up at the new house.

My wife has an aunt and uncle that live in Aledo, so we are excited to be near them and have a potential built-in babysitter down the road. The HEB down the road was a big factor for her as well.

And a shoutout to HomeFinderCody for helping these first-time homebuyers through all of this!

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A bit of an update to this - we have started the process of buying a new build in Aledo, just north of 30. It had pretty much everything we wanted and felt too good to pass up. I like that it is Aledo without being south of 30 Aledo, so getting back into Fort Worth won't take 10-15 minutes just to get to 30 out of Aledo.

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So you're either in Walsh or Morningstar

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rally-cap said:

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A bit of an update to this - we have started the process of buying a new build in Aledo, just north of 30. It had pretty much everything we wanted and felt too good to pass up. I like that it is Aledo without being south of 30 Aledo, so getting back into Fort Worth won't take 10-15 minutes just to get to 30 out of Aledo.

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So you're either in Walsh or Morningstar

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Morningstar.

wbt5845 said:

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Probably a good choice. One big negative against South Arlington where I live is they're getting ready to re-build the whole US 287/I-20/I-820 exchange in far southeast Fort Worth. Getting through there to downtown Fort Worth is gonna be a nightmare for years.

Thank God I'm retiring soon!

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I live half a mile from the collection of materials they have built up for this project. Sure glad I don't have to mess with it on a daily basis...absolute nightmare.