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> In the wealthy suburbs of Texas with houses averaging 4000sqft with swimming pools @ $1+M you can find, right next to them, trailer parks where you can see mo
by cbozeman 5y ago
> In the wealthy suburbs of Texas with houses averaging 4000sqft with swimming pools @ $1+M you can find, right next to them, trailer parks where you can see mobile homes of $50k.
You literally described where I live - Keller, Texas.
I bought my home January of this year for $319,000. It's now appraised for about $400,000. Literally across the street from the exit of my subdivision is a trailer park. It's a damn nice trailer park, but it's still a trailer park.
Charles Schwab, TD Ameritrade, and Fidelity moving near here and establishing their enormous campuses has been a godsend for property values, but there's already additional massive housing developments being built to support all the people that are moving into this area, which is obviously great, as you point out.
- whatever1 5y agoAnother benefit of zoning absence is that Schools in Texas are less divided between poor peoples schools and rich peoples schools. In this day that our society fabric seems much broken, I think that using schools as equalizers is super important. Rich kids get reality checks early on, so that they don’t get things for granted. Poor kids get a high bar to compete with, and avoid the poverty spiral.