People in my current state are in a complete hysteria over COVID-19 and with how much the powers that be are demonizing those that don't take their experimental jab, I rather not be stuck surrounded by their COVID cult when shit inevitably hits the fan soon.
I have decided to move to Texas since it is a lower cost of living red state where hopefully there will be atleast some decent employers who won't mandate the jab and where hopefully most people are still relatively sane.
I am looking at suburban areas near Dallas/Fort Worth.
I am currently looking at suburbs in places like:
Keller
Azle
Watauga
Northlake
Denton
Anyone have any info about any of these areas and if they are safe and if they have sane right-leaning people?
I really don't want to be surrounded by Branch-Covidian leftists. I already know to stay clear of Austin.
I am also kinda concerned about frequency of tornadoes in these areas since based on what I researched, northern Texas seems to have a lot of tornadoes.
Any thoughts anyone can offer would be appreciated greatly.
Thanks in advance!
Know the area well, lived there for a bit, and drove all over it for work. Still have friends there. If you need to be in town for work commute purposes, I'd stay to the Northwest. Northlake/Argyle is fine, Azle isn't bad but Jacksboro Highway can be brutal at rush hours and if you were commuting into Dallas county it's really far. In theory you could go east along I-30 and be fine if beyond Rockwall I just never liked that area much. I don't trust Keller or the Frisco area because that's where a huge number of the people moving in go and I think they trend lefty quicker. If you really want to be closer to middle of town I'd go to Hurst, Bedford, Euless, or Colleyville, they aren't as nice seeming but there's a lot more locals. Don't even think about anything in Dallas county.
If I were working from home, I'd get out of town more myself. I've thought about moving a bit closer to DFW as I have friends there since I WFH now, but I'm thinking a place like Stephenville or Paris. A little out of town but still big enough not have basic shopping and good utilities. Tyler is nice last time I was there too.
I've lived in Tornado land all my life. If you're worried about it get a shelter. The news does a good job tracking them, they rarely sneak up on you if you're paying attention. Hail like someone else mentions sucks, less lethal but it can total a car and cause big house damage. Ice is so rare only the transplants whine about it. The rest of us go out and sled in the streets.
Another suggestion if you want a metro and aren't set in Texas, northwest OKC/Edmond area is super nice, a bit cheaper, and OK is very red on politics. I don't think they ever even had a mask mandate statewide. Avoid Tulsa.
Paris is the center of Meth Texas. Used to be nicer, just depressing now...
OK has a state income tax and crappier roads than Texas. It's universities are going full commie... But it might be cheaper than North Texas if you can find a good place.
Yeah I like that northwest OKC area for a metro but that's about it for OK. I wouldn't move anywhere else in OK for sure.
Shame that Paris has gone to shit, I haven't been up there since I moved further away but when I spent a ton of time up there when I did field work and always liked that area.
Stephenville is still dry isn't it? Crappiest college town ever.
I was just there six months ago, but I'm not much of a drinker so I don't remember. It very well could be still. I just like that size town myself, I don't want to be so remote it's a big deal when I need to get groceries or go to a hardware store. Tons of highways go through there too.
But yeah, good thing to bring up if someone is looking to move the concept of dry cities and counties map be totally foreign to them.
Thanks for all this information!
Do you by any chance know anything about the Watauga area?
From what I researched it looks like a nice quiet area with some blue collar people who I hope will be less likely to go full blown COVID hysteria when the powers that be ramp up the fearporn during this upcoming flu season.
Watauga is just south of Keller. I've driven through there. It's not a huge area so you kinda miss it between Keller and North Richland Hills. I wouldn't give it a much different personality than the Keller area except it's already built up and if I had to guess not as attracting of the "my work relocated me here crowd."
There's a lot of cities like that in DFW especially on the west side just scattered in with no real personality of their own. Not that it's necessarily bad. I wouldn't have any specific problem with Watauga itself.