I Found The Last Piece Of The American Dream. It's In Texas. 

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Californians shouldn’t be allowed to move to Texas, fix your own state first

The story just keeps on repeating itself: nice places get invaded, prices go up, locals get priced out, liberal politics move in, and the once nice place gets destroyed...turned into dystopia...

Anyone who has told you that Dallas, Austin, and Houston are the best places to live in Texas is out of their ever-lovin' mind!

The quality of life in a city is determined by the quality of the character of the people who live there

I'm so sick of all these expensive cheaply built suburbs going in all over Texas. They come in, cut down every single tree and then then these small towns like the one I live in cant support this many people. It's causing massive flooding and the crime rates keep rising. Even in these stepford wives neighborhoods. They just don't like that getting out to the public to ruin their perfect little images.

I live in one of the slums in tx, prefer it over the middle class. have 2 neighbors that throw parties and blast music in thier backyard, I show up with a 12 pack and eat a buffet and get drunk. our shared fence was falling apart so we just removed it and never replaced, my dogs and their dogs hang out. Its super ghetto but theres a method to the madness.

It hurts to look at this. Soulless cookie cutter McMansions going on endlessly, empty sidewalks, no pedestrians. It's an eerie reminder of that dystopian planet in the book Wrinkle In Time.

It hasn't done nothing but make my homestead taxes go up massively in the last 10 yrs.

I was born in Austin in 1963. I deer hunted with my grandparents west of Leander where there are houses now. I graduated High school in Burnet Texas. In 1963 the population in Texas was just over 10 Million. I live in Allen Texas now and the DFW population is just over 8 Million people, almost more than the entire state population when I was born. It is projected the DFW metroplex area will have 33.91 Million people by 2100. Texas by 2100 will be about 87 Million. I am definitely glad I will be long dead by then. Texas is projected to build about ten more water reservoirs to take care of the population going into 2100. Texas approved Prop 7 which will help with expansion of the ERCOT power grid. Texas has 340 power plants, 3% of Americas power plants. There are plans under Prop 7 to build peaker plants that will operate not more than 100 hours per year at peak demand times. Texas is vast with most of the population living in the triangle from San Antonio to Houston to DFW. West Texas is huge and will be a long long time before growth moves in that direction if ever. Concrete, glass, cars, pollution, high property taxes, high pollen count, heat heat and more heat from the end of May to the end of October. Six months out of the year our high during the days will range from 90-110 plus. The skies here are mostly smoggy in the DFW area. When we get strong northern cold fronts it cleans the air until the southerly winds kick back in. If you have issues with allergies your allergies will kill you here. If you love driving fast Texas is your place. No one drives the speed limit but me I think. The rest go 30-50 MPH over the posted limited then they slam on their breaks at the next light. I’ve lived here my whole life, Houston, the hill country, the DFW area and I can hardly wait to retire and leave. There are to damn many people here. The whole world’s gotten to crowded and much more evil and rude. It will take every bit of $6,000-$7,000 net to get by on in the northern suburbs where I live. We have zero debt. Our home is paid for. We pay cash for everything including new cars when we need them. Our property taxes are $7,000 a year currently in Allen Texas on our $586,000 $2965 sq foot home. Some of the bigger mansions over a million bucks plus I have seen the tax bills at $65,000 per year. It all depends on the value. Imagine just your tax bill at $65,000 per year for your mansion. Insurance on our two new 2024 Toyotas here are $1500 a piece per year. Our grocery bill here for three people runs about $1500-$2,000 depending on how many times we eat out per month. Maid service is about $1200 a year. The lawn service is about $800 a year. In the bigger mansions here they spend $1,200 plus a day for cleaning. Our homes electrical bill runs from $100 in the winter to $500 plus in the summer. Water bill runs from $100-$400 a month. Nothing in the northern suburbs in the DFW area is cheap. I posted this for people thinking of moving here. Again if you’re upper middle class you better have zero debt, pay cash for your house and be bringing home net at the very least $6,000-$7,200 per month cash to live here in a house. Next year with inflation it will be $7200-$8500….and more each year as hyperinflation gets much much worse. The US government is not going to slow down spending money they don’t have and the American voter will keep voting in the big government spenders. When will it all blow up? Who knows?

We moved to Texas in ‘97 for work (jobs+money) from Oklahoma. First lived in Allen when it was just starting to pop. Our youngest son was born in McKinney. Have lived in The Colony, Little Elm, Flower Mound and now in Denton. North Texas is our home. Love it!

I’ve lived in Some great undiscovered towns . Soon as they get discovered they get ruined . First they start pumping up parking fees and fines. Taxes fees etc

No pedestrians, no public transportation system, like always. It all looks sad and abandoned.

Leaving the black hole of Austin and moving to law-abiding, clean, and friendly Georgetown July 1st.

The heat is treacherous in Texas in the summer!

I live in Tx, and I remember when Georgetown was a nice cozy blip in the road (as was Cedar Park, Pflugerville and Georgetown) now they're overcrowded and filled with folks that ain't from Texas. Here in the SE part of the state the sprawl is much slower and I'm okay with that.

Lived in this area since 2004. Even in 2010 I remember at school people complained how soulless it was. Now it's just more expensive with unhinged drivers.

Lived in DFW 55 years. Fun to watch an outsider perspective. I've witnessed this metro grow non-stop since we moved here when I was a boy. They have added some mass transit but don't try to walk anywhere (except those little spots like the downtown of McKinney). Because nobody walks here because it is HOT AF 5 months out of the year. As long as you got A/C in the house and car, no problem. 95F and 70% humidity today.... tornadoes scheduled for later on.

I read somewhere thst concrete absorbs heat in the daytime and releases it at night. Should make those 100+ degree Texas summers interesting. 😂

I see a lot of Texas plates in Tennessee. I think they are coming this way to escape all the Calinflation.

I just love Nick. I don't know why, but his voice always makes me feel calm and his sense of humour is always great. And Mappy is amazing and has sometimes some great points. Nick should be a professional TV presenter with his own series!

These places are actually little towns that have been around for a while, it's just that the sprawl engulfed them.

I spent three months in Dallas and Austin. That was all I needed to see to realize that I never wanted to live in Texas. Outside of a few charming small town centers and newer commercial districts, you can't walk anywhere in Texas. The only exceptions were wealthy enclaves that had no affordable homes (e.g., Lower Greenville in Dallas or South Congress in Austin). The rest of Texas was all boring car-centric sprawl. The same goes for Florida and Arizona.

You don't want to live in Frisco, Plano, Allen or McKinney - unless you have a GOOD PAYING JOB, kids in school, and you like TO DRIVE EVERYWHERE and sit in lots of traffic. And if you don't mind a cookie-cutter McMansion with zero full grown trees on your block.

I don’t think so. Recently escaped Austin. Could not be happier. Texas- weather- unbearable heat six months a year ,interspersed with flooding, tornadoes, hail, hurricanes, high insurance rates, homeowner association shakedowns, high property and sales taxes, high home prices, failing winter grid system, causing deaths, draught- water rationing, traffic, overcrowded, third world politics, lack of nature. 99 percent of state is private property. A few small state parks dot the state that is pretty much one big concrete strip mall. The few state parks there are become urban parking lots.

I was raised in DFW, grew up in Arlington in the 90s. It's crazy how much this area has changed. When I was a teenager, Frisco was a little old town with a lot of open land. Now it's turned into a major city, surpassing Arlington in a lot of ways. I'll probably move a little bit East... This place is getting too crowded.

Yeah, if you have a bit of money, can stand to sit in your car for a couple hours a day, can afford to pay skyrocketing insurance premiums, are willing to tolerate the overstressed electrical grid going blooey every time the weather gets a bit weird (which is happening more frequently these days), and don't mind living in a featureless flat sprawl with no identity or character, Texas burbs are great.

I have lived in Central Texas now for 49 years. My dad was in the Army, and this is where we were stationed in 1975. Texas was rural; the major interstates were two lanes either side of the median and traffic was light. Big cars roamed the highways while gulping down 44 cent a gallon gasoline. Food was ultra cheap. Houses were really cheap and when it came time for me to go to a state college, it was $4.00 a credit hour in 1979. Minimum tuition charge was $250.00 per semester. Rent was cheap ($135 p/month), even then in a college town. A lot has changed in almost 50 years and Texas is losing the unique charm it once had. So now, I'm turning into one of those "old" people who remember the good times. But I still would not want to live anywhere else. I can still tell tasteless jokes in good company without being hissed at in the bank.

I live in Upper Michigan, 100 miles away from a freeway. Please dont move here. it's awful.

No matter how long I look at it 3D printed concrete looks like shit piled up

The end of so many little texas towns.. Texas hill country.. gone! I mean its still there, but its nothing but high priced designer boutiques and wine this and wine that and it just sucks now! High dollar Barbies with boots and skirts and bedazzled hand bags.. its a F nightmare!!!

Great video, Nick. Keep up the good work!

My favorite area of Texas is the Hill Country with towns like Fredricksburg, Luckenbach, Stonewall. Cause those areas have a low risk of tornados unlike North Texas.

We can ban non-citizens from owning land and make single-family homes exclusively for people and not corporations. That would solve the unaffordability crisis.

Love the content Nick! Keep us informed on how America really looks and feels!

When I was in high school about 40 miles E of McKinney, the population of McKinney was about 12-15K. You always knew it would grow but the degree has been a surprise. Frisco is even more dramatic. Was under 2K back in the day (late 60's) but is much bigger than McKinney now.

Hey Nick, love your channel. Thank you for doing this. I moved here to North Texas in 2013 from Illinois to escape that mess. Love it here, but yes it is growing way too fast now. Much of this expansion now needs a settling period to absorb what has expanded over the last 10 years. Also was your thumbnail photo taken in Melissa Texas? It looks like it's down the street from me. LOL.

Summers in DFW are brutally long, hot and humid. I'd be curious to know what the average monthly air conditioning bill comes to?. And what about those toll roads? They are absolutely everywhere you go. That's another monthly bill in the mail.

I have been binge-watching your channel. Thanks for the very interesting shit, mister.

I really love your videos Nick, because you show what real America is, I am mexican and live in my country but I work for a well known roadside assistance company and I spent my whole shift talking with people from all across the States, from California to Maine and Florida to Washington, Im in love with your country, the small towns in unknown states for "us" foreigners, and I really love what I've found through these months I've been working with y'all. American culture out of the big cities is amazing, and that's what I love the most about your country. Fun fact, today I had a customer from Mckinney I got home and read the notification about a new video and it is the same town I discovered today

Nick, would love to see you tour Richardson, TX. It's Plano and Frisco without all the hoighty-toighty, and existed quietly and successfully in the shadows of the mega burbs to the north.

The internet got it wrong. I want to get out of IL but the last place I want to move to is another crowded suburb. I already live in one.

Thanks for these videos Nick! They are so very helpful!🌟💯 God bless.

I moved to Perth Australia 🇦🇺 never going back. Texas can’t compare.

All fun and games till the heat comes and add 80% humidity to that… 90 degrees feels like 110°

Those are the 15min cities 😢

I hear so many great things about Texas. Cost of living is cheap and jobs are good. However, it is SO HOT there in the summer. Coming from Florida, I would prefer to move to a place where it's not so hot in the summer, fall or winter. As a lifelong resident of FL, I'm getting tired of the heat and don't want anything to do with it anymore.

I went to Texas for a week from Vancouver Canada in May, drove a 1000 miles around the state. Absolutely loved it, clean, safe and friendly.

I’ve heard that a big, unexpected negative of Texas is the lack of public lands for hiking, recreation etc. Apparently most of its vast acreage is private and fenced off.

If you got money you can live in those kind of places.

Thank you so much for sharing your content. Much appreciated 👍 Sending virtual Granny hug's and prayers to everyone ☺️💕

Viewers from Vietnam, wish the channel always develop❤

Texas is a great place clean peaceful family friendly and a lot of colleges I had some happy days in Texas I graduated from college in Texas good friends and all you need a car vehicle in Texas though Texas is a very good place good people and stuff Walmart’s everywhere that’s good might run back to Texas lol. Blessings and respect

I lived in Texas for years. You're not going to like it as much as you think.

I'm from New England and have always respected Texas...but that HEAT!!!

Another fantastic video, thank you so much for what you do.

It's 70 in San Diego where I live. I was born and raised in Texas and escaped to the beautiful weather of Southern California.

Notice all the concrete streets? Cost more, but way less maintenance. And they stay cooler, a plus in a place as hot as Texas.

I live in Frisco. I moved here in 2005 from Southern California and LOVE it!!!! My entire family on both sides are born and raised Texans, including my parents. I’ve been coming to Texas nearly my entire life. It’s in my blood.

I fled California 30 years ago and never looked back. Come see the houses outside of Corpus Christi, along the Laguna Madre. My beach house on stilts about doubled in price in 15 years. Good to see your video complimenting our state.

I live in McKinney, TX and I grew up in Arkansas. It's funny to see the comments about tornadoes because the odds of a tornado actually hitting your house in your lifetime are very low.

Texas has always had , relative to other states , rather low wages and now native Texans find it difficult to afford housing while relatively richer folks move here , driving up housing cost . Hell , many newcomers are willing to pay asking price plus a bonus for a home in Texas , which is still cheaper than homes where they came from . pave paradise , put up a parking lot

LOL @ "no Oldsmobiles". Especially in the Dallas suburbs-it's Mercedes SUV's and big ass trucks. The suburbs and the master-planned communities around Dallas and Houston are SUPER nice. But if you are owning, be prepared to pay updwards of 3% in property taxes.

In 2017, my wife and I bought a home in a burb juuuuust south of Phoenix, Maricopa. We aren't in Maricopa County. We saw trouble on the radar in 2018 when Arizona started going purple, and by 2024, blue. Maricopa itself has turned into a shit-show as, despite arguments at city council meetings, the politicians approved of more and more low-cost housing, high density bungalows, apartments, and other undesired housing options. Plus, they keep approving housing developments on every single available square inch of available space. It's all about the building permits and property taxes. They couldn't possibly care less about quality of life, the ENTIRE reason people moved to Maricopa in the first place. Great homes at great prices. That's over. I'm a heavy industry maintenance and repair electrician and I will occasionally go through the new homes under construction and just have my jaw hit the floor in shock by the POOR build quality and POOR materials used in the current spec homes and apartments. Of course, it all passes inspection as there are far too many of them for an inspector to properly check them all. The roads have literally fallen apart in the last 4 years due to the lack of funding Az suddenly has been experiencing for some reason as "social programs" get funded despite massive population and tax base growth. Texas WILL soon go through this. Roads WILL fall apart, school systems WILL fail, tent cities WILL and have gone up, crime WILL go up, drugs and crap WILL be in the streets, educational standards WILL be lowered in order to appear to maintain high levels of achievement, and the blue urban and suburban politicians WILL HAPPILY sit on their hands, defund police departments and know their reelection is reassured as more and more Californians move in. Stick a fork in Texas...it dun. And it's too bad because the rest of the state, outside of the panhandle and the burbs, is fantastic. The entire SW is finished, as California keeps excreting their capable young blue voting people into Az, Texas, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Colorado, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Florida (along with New Yorks excretions). For most of those low population states, it takes very very little to flip them blue and gain seats in the senate and the house. This is by design and sheeple are easily led around. The locals AND the rest of us are screwed.

She nailed the public transport, its why i laugh when high speed rail is permanently stalled, it keeps people far away.

I've lived in Plano, just south of McKinney, since 1979. Christmas in downtown McKinney Square is really neat. It's getting expensive to live here but we love the overall community.

I had an apartment in far north Dallas in 2008. Lived in between frisco and Carrollton. Big ass houses but it was like Edward scissor hand vibes

Do the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia and Northern Virginia. Our population has exploded so bad our schools,water,electricity grid and Hospitals are over maxed.

Originally moved to north Dallas burbs in 1995. There was so much opportunity, and I grew to love the area. Lots of stuff to do. Unlimited choice of restaurants. Every sports franchise. Unfortunately had to return back east in 2018. The Dallas area has become very expensive and crowded. Southern California without the beach basically. Crazy traffic. Housing prices quadrupled in my old neighborhood, and that also leads to higher property taxes. The weather is absolutely brutal in the summer. Just couldn't do it any more. I still miss Texas though...

Hi from Texas, Nick. I love watching your videos, especially the ones on the off-beaten paths. As I'm watching this video, it reminds me that I've been wanting to point this out for a while. You call these places suburbs, and that's what they've become to the large cities like Houston, Dallas, etc. However, please remember that these "suburbs" started out as towns of their own accord. McKinney, Frisco, and Georgetown are all their own towns with their old or historic downtown areas, courthouses and more. While I know YOU know this, viewers don't necessarily know it. So, it would be great if you spoke about the origins of these towns before the cities sprawled out towards them and made them "suburbs". There are also towns that began as suburbs and grew to become their own city, like The Woodlands, TX. There are some like that in the DFW area, too. Thanks!

By Far One of the Best Channels on RU-vid, Mappy and his Family is Classic and Hilarious, and the Music Sung off Key is Fun. 😂🤣

Housing prices aren't a problem for those that can afford them. In fact, it's a benefit. It keeps "undesirables" out. That is how they see it anyway

The bums are on their way after seeing this video.

I LOVE living in Texas. I've lived all over the state and those suburban neighborhoods look very familiar from Dallas, to Austin to Houston. I decided to move to the beach, so I've lived in Corpus Christi (loved), Rockport (beautiful), Ingleside on the Bay and finally settled on S. Padre Island in a gated community. It's quiet, safe, I love all of the people here and the beach is right down the street. Because of SpaceX in Boca Chica (not too far from S. Padre), there are quite a few new houses being built in new neighborhoods and the appraised cost of our home has doubled. I just hope Texas doesn't turn purple...or blue.

Woohoo the best reward ever giving us those slums 😂, They look kinda Nice aye, Your regular houses in your new Sub divisions are huge I mean we have kinda big houses in New Zealand but you're regular homes looks so spacious and are cheaper then something that Size here. Round rock seems like a fun little town unlike the town I've been house sitting in this last 5 days. Funny fact I heard some Guy arguing nearby yesterday and was literally lost as to what it was then I realized it was a neighbor cause I'm in a city 😂, Don't get that in my little offgrid camp. One thing we all have in common Nick is our kitset looking houses they build in new Sub divisions we just have different styles of houses but still all plain Jane same designs as the neighbor. The Ink artist at the end had some really nice work done, gotta be hard running a business but not really getting anywhere easy. Appreciate you mate have a beautifully blessed week ahead.

We’re all doomed kid 😔

Having lived in Texas, I can assure you that there is no desirable places to live in the state. Some cities are just less bad than others.

A+ video! Awesome tour and overview, really have an understanding and a feel to the place now!

I moved to Texas right before covid,. Texas is 1000% a utopia. However, it is extremely expensive and competitive. If you have like 2 or 3 college degrees and a couple decades of career experience, you will be fine. You will be in heaven. Wages are lower here but the pooulation is so high, companies get away with paying less since there is thousands of applicants per job. If you a looking for entry level work, you will find whatever job you want, but you need to bring like 5 roomates, or 5 family members that are also working full time that can live with you😂😂 North dallas is beautiful, bring your cash though lol😂$ I know many families that have left because of cost though. Property taxes have tripled so has rent.

Even though there's no income property tax in TX, the property taxes there still suck.

As someone who live in Austin 2022-2024, it’s not that great. I missed having a real city, sweet home Chicago. Where life isn’t all about the car. Great bbq though. Glad to be back in Chicago.

@Nick - love how you have explored America especially the parts that are dangerous and rundown - you give attention where no one wants to look but what is a daily reality for many Americans.

In many places, the property tax cost as much as the mortgage payment! Also, multi-families living in single size homes have become the norm because of expenses. This is what I saw happening to Seattle and it's suburbs in the 1990s.

I imagine with the amount of tornadoes we had this year in Texas some of the folks that moved here from the coast are probably thinking about migrating on to somewhere else. Just give em some days of 115 degrees with 78% humidity and it will help em on along their way

Une très belle vidéo. Merci pour le partage.

I knew I like you for a reason, you are on the right side!

It will soon become a shitbox with all those Californians moving there.

The staff doing the linedancing looked SO damn bored lol

Hi Nick I enjoy your mini docs. I've been subscribed for a couple years. I think. Come up to New England again. I really enjoyed the ones you did here. And you know you love it

You are nearing 1 Mil! Your narratives always make me smile. Keep up the great work. See you at AMILLI! Maybe you can do New Orleans when you hit and license Lil Wayne’s track on the intro. AMILLI AMILLI!

I live in Frisco but too many Indian people who want to push out the natives. Still a safe and prosperous place to live tho. Socially it can be weird

One thing I have noticed is that no matter where you go, there are no kids playing in the neighborhoods. This one looks like a movie set. Looks nice but seems to have depressing quite to it.

26:13 is the comfy doom content. Thanks for goin out there and finding the slums, Nick.

Moved to Cedar Park, Texas from the Four Corners area in New Mexico about 15 years ago. No regret, best life decision.

I remember when the cowboys used to come to thousand oaks California for spring Training

I don't like living in suburbs but I'll always love McKinney Texas

Love your content - KEEP IT COMING!!!!

I like that Texas video where you met the local radio station hosts was also the mayor of the town!

Texas isn't all its cracked up to be. Property taxes are 4th highest in the nation. And no, the fact that TX doesn't have income tax doesn't make up for it. And Georgetown property taxes are just as bad. Not to mention the horrendous weather, triple digits nine months out of the year, tornadoes, flooding. Its no picnic.

We are starting to consider moving from Texas to California to get away from Californians!