I live in Plano and where I currently stay the rent is around $800-$1200 a month for a three bedroom house. Decent area and low crime rates. Where my mom used to live although the area was nicer, the rent was almost tripled. She was in the Carrollton area. I would live like a king on $75k and that is even after child care and college payments. If you move closer towards McKinney I know of places where the rent is even lower, usually in the $500-$800 to OWN a house.
This. Try to establish boundaries sometime, when someone starts stepping on your toes, and watch what happens. People flip their shit. They have no idea how to handle being told "Hey. I don't like that. Please stop."
You can find homes in Arlington for the McKinney price range as well. Mansfield is a great area, and is super cheap also.
People really going to judge a man after blowing a couple of rails? I want to see this crack video. Like pipe to lips, bitch set me up, video.
Chick-Fil-A started as a small business. It only got big because they did things right, as opposed to your neighbor. Last year when my dad had heart surgery he tested positive for MRSA from a nasal swab. We had to wear gowns and gloves in his room and take them off whenever we came out. It was to protect other patients in the hospital who were susceptible to infection, not for anyone healthy. And... I hear they're practically giving away houses in Detroit, so you budget-minded people might consider that.
There are times when I want to buy an entire street in Detroit, but I'd have no idea what I'd do with it. I wouldn't live there, but if that city ever makes a turn around, someone is going to make a fucking killing by buying up city blocks of land.
Seriously, you could become a slumlord extraordinaire. Or just level the place to the dirt and build whatever the fuck you want there.
Just got a free ticket to a Duck's Unlimited banquet tonight. I'm not even that much of a hunter type, but this looks like its going to be real fun. Top shelf open bar? Raffle for a boat? I'm in. Even have a half day off work tomorrow.
All it will take is a bunch of hipsters that like good beer. Anywhere that is blighted, thus cheap, a hipster with nut crushingly tight pants will be there to open up a brew pub. He can't afford rent over $200 a month, but he can scrounge up cash for a business. Buy the land, drop in a bunch of those stinky, scraggly pseudo-gypsies with enough PBR to last them a couple weeks, then reap the whirlwind.
You know what I just realized? People bitching about the young folks these days get younger every year. It won't be long before we have first graders complaining about how those upstart kindergartners just don't eat paste the way they should.
This is already happening in some parts of Detroit, although the crime rates are still so high that it's keeping people from buying. If I still lived back in Michigan it would be tempting but worrying about your home/car getting broken into all the time would be a bitch.
I may have to stop watching football. Pro football players are complaining about being bullied? Seriously? Holy fucking shit.
I went to visit a friend in the hospital today. He's been in there for a few days recovering from surgery and is going absolutely stir crazy. When I asked if there was anything I could bring to help, his only request was scotch (not allowed) and porn mags "because the wifi fucking sucks in here." As a good friend, I tried to fulfill his wish. You know what I learned today? Nobody sells Playboy and Penthouse anymore. I went to no less than six grocery stores and about a dozen gas stations before I finally found one measly Playboy in a Barnes and Noble. The hipster girl behind the counter was mortified when I bought it. Oddly enough, I couldn't find Wired or Rolling Stone at half the places either.
Put a bunch of movies--porn and otherwise--on a memory card (or if he has his laptop instead of just a phone/tablet, a flash drive or external hard drive). I have about 2 TB of movies from my two deployments to Afghanistan, roughly half of which in terms of file size are of the pornographic variety.