Moving to Iowa...

[goldmom]

My son’s best friend from high school is LEAVING Dallas and moving to Iowa because he and his wife say Dallas is becoming unlivable!
Her relatives are from Iowa so they are familiar with the area already. Son says it’s a small town about a half hour out of Iowa City.
Sorry...they’re conservatives.

 

[lonestar50]

My son’s best friend from high school is LEAVING Dallas and moving to Iowa because he and his wife say Dallas is becoming unlivable!
Her relatives are from Iowa so they are familiar with the area already. Son says it’s a small town about a half hour out of Iowa City.
Sorry...they’re conservatives.

Conservatives in small town Iowa. Yep. Checks out

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

Is he college educated? He’ll be like the only one in Iowa I heard….

 

[RagnarLothbrok]

My son’s best friend from high school is LEAVING Dallas and moving to Iowa because he and his wife say Dallas is becoming unlivable!
Her relatives are from Iowa so they are familiar with the area already. Son says it’s a small town about a half hour out of Iowa City.
Sorry...they’re conservatives.

Tell them to bundle up.

Iowa is actually a really nice place to raise a family.

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

How can an entire metro area be “unlivable”? That just sounds so silly.

 

[The Tradition]

How can an entire metro area be “unlivable”? That just sounds so silly.

Housing costs could be unaffordable based on your income, or the commute to work is unbearable, or the schools suck... there could be lots of reasons.

 

[Rudedolph]

How can an entire metro area be “unlivable”? That just sounds so silly.

Exactly.

 

[SSG T]

Well, leaving Dallas for Mississippi North checks out. But I'd think just moving to Mississippi would make more sense, weather wise.

 

[Rudedolph]

Housing costs could be unaffordable based on your income, or the commute to work is unbearable, or the schools suck... there could be lots of reasons.

Could just be hyperbole, too. Like, if you moved in next door, I might hyperbolically make statements like, “my city/town/neighborhood has become unlivable.”

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

Housing costs could be unaffordable based on your income, or the commute to work is unbearable, or the schools suck... there could be lots of reasons.

There was no mention of affordability.

Just say you are moving for a different lifestyle or change of pace.

 

[goldmom]

How can an entire metro area be “unlivable”? That just sounds so silly.

Traffic. Crowds. He and his wife live in an area that literally was the country when they moved there. Now it’s a 24/7 traffic jam. They are glad to relocate and they both were born and raised in TX.
They’re selling their house for almost triple their purchase price and are getting a new build in Iowa and paying cash. Kids are in college. He was in City Management with a suburban city and gets full retirement after 20 years so he can get a part time job up there in Iowa and they’ll be fine. Maybe he’ll be a corn tasseler 😏

 

[goldmom]

How can an entire metro area be “unlivable”? That just sounds so silly.

If you have lived someplace your entire life and it’s become unrecognizable it isn’t silly. We all have our own unique experience.

 

[The Tradition]

If you have lived someplace your entire life and it’s become unrecognizable it isn’t silly. We all have our own unique experience.

I was born and raised in Jacksonville and had tons of relatives there when I was kid. Everyone has moved away or died, and there's no one for me there now. And it's a completely different place than it was back then, too.

 

[HawkeyeHitman]

We’s ain’t need none of them educaded peeple heer in Iowa.

 

[win4jj]

Corn. Corn. Corn. Hogs. Corn. Corn. Hogs.
Go Hawks.

 

[goldmom]

Well, leaving Dallas for Mississippi North checks out. But I'd think just moving to Mississippi would make more sense, weather wise.

Dallas weather is weird. I recall sitting outside by the pool one day around noon in January and it was 80. By the time I picked up the kids at 3:15 it was cloudy and 45 and by 5:30 there was an ice storm. Schools were closed for the next two days.
Texans are used to weird weather. The only adjustment will be not seeing sunlight for two weeks in the winter.

 

[goldmom]

I was born and raised in Jacksonville and had tons of relatives there when I was kid. Everyone has moved away or died, and there's no one for me there now. And it's a completely different place than it was back then, too.

I’d move out if my grandkids weren’t here.
Traffic here is a joke.

 

[Hawki97]

Traffic. Crowds. He and his wife live in an area that literally was the country when they moved there. Now it’s a 24/7 traffic jam. They are glad to relocate and they both were born and raised in TX.
They’re selling their house for almost triple their purchase price and are getting a new build in Iowa and paying cash. Kids are in college. He was in City Management with a suburban city and gets full retirement after 20 years so he can get a part time job up there in Iowa and they’ll be fine. Maybe he’ll be a corn tasseler 😏

Denton? Frisco? Plano? I hadn’t been to the Dallas area for probably 10 years and went back last year. Couldn’t believe how those areas had exploded.

Supposedly Iowa was ranked 7th in US News…I heard that somewhere. If they want to live in the middle of nowhere and surrounded by fellow conservatives - small town Iowa will be perfect for them.

 

[gojojo]

What town are they moving to? Cedar Rapids is a half hour from IC. I wouldn't recommend it, but if that's the area I'd stick north of town in Marion or Hiawatha. Better options south of CR would be ELY, Solon, North Liberty, Tiffin.

 

[Quarts]

Would the last name start with a W?

 

[The Tradition]

I’d move out if my grandkids weren’t here.
Traffic here is a joke.

Oh, you don't have to tell me. When returning home from NC I try to get through town before 3 p.m., otherwise, the traffic will add at least 30 minutes to my trip. Savannah is a bad bottleneck, too.

 

[Menace Sockeyes]

My son’s best friend from high school is LEAVING Dallas and moving to Iowa because he and his wife say Dallas is becoming unlivable!
Her relatives are from Iowa so they are familiar with the area already. Son says it’s a small town about a half hour out of Iowa City.
Sorry...they’re conservatives.

Traffic. Crowds. He and his wife live in an area that literally was the country when they moved there. Now it’s a 24/7 traffic jam. They are glad to relocate and they both were born and raised in TX.
They’re selling their house for almost triple their purchase price and are getting a new build in Iowa and paying cash. Kids are in college. He was in City Management with a suburban city and gets full retirement after 20 years so he can get a part time job up there in Iowa and they’ll be fine. Maybe he’ll be a corn tasseler 😏

Made a living off those evil taxes and social programs that the party he votes for wants to squeeze out of existence. Checks out.

 

[RollingBallofButcherKnives]

There is a little more to it. Not much, but I definitely prefer it to bumper to bumper traffic and endless crowds.

 

[IAHawk2011]

Dallas weather is weird. I recall sitting outside by the pool one day around noon in January and it was 80. By the time I picked up the kids at 3:15 it was cloudy and 45 and by 5:30 there was an ice storm. Schools were closed for the next two days.
Texans are used to weird weather. The only adjustment will be not seeing sunlight for two weeks in the winter.

The winters will be a massive adjustment. It is one thing to live somewhere that gets ice storms and snow on occasion, but nothing can prepare you for those four or five day stretches where the temperatures never get higher than single digits.

 

[goldmom]

Denton? Frisco? Plano? I hadn’t been to the Dallas area for probably 10 years and went back last year. Couldn’t believe how those areas had exploded.

Supposedly Iowa was ranked 7th in US News…I heard that somewhere. If they want to live in the middle of nowhere and surrounded by fellow conservatives - small town Iowa will be perfect for them.

Yes we used to call it the FFND bubble - Far Far North Dallas. Wylie area.
Crazy. When the kids were little we’d take them on car rides north up Preston Road cause there was a ranch where they had a herd of longhorns in one huge pasture and next to it a huge pasture of buffaloes. Bluebonnets everywhere in the springtime. All long gone but damn they got TJ Maxx and Target everywhere!

 

[The Tradition]

The winters will be a massive adjustment. It is one thing to live somewhere that gets ice storms and snow on occasion, but nothing can prepare you for those four or five day stretches where the temperatures never get higher than single digits.

Yeah... y'all can keep that for yourselves.

 

[goldmom]

The winters will be a massive adjustment. It is one thing to live somewhere that gets ice storms and snow on occasion, but nothing can prepare you for those four or five day stretches where the temperatures never get higher than single digits.

Believe me I know - it’s why I cried everyday when we moved from Tampa to Madison Wisconsin. 🥶😢

 

[Quarts]

Pretty sure this might be my cousin. She recently lost her dad and her mom moved back to Iowa a few years back

 

[goldmom]

Would the last name start with a W?

I’ll try to find out. He was always a good kid (I’ll call my children’s friends kids forever)

 

[goldmom]

Pretty sure this might be my cousin. She recently lost her dad and her mom moved back to Iowa a few years back

Wow, that would be wild!

 

[Rudedolph]

Traffic. Crowds. He and his wife live in an area that literally was the country when they moved there. Now it’s a 24/7 traffic jam. They are glad to relocate and they both were born and raised in TX.
They’re selling their house for almost triple their purchase price and are getting a new build in Iowa and paying cash. Kids are in college. He was in City Management with a suburban city and gets full retirement after 20 years so he can get a part time job up there in Iowa and they’ll be fine. Maybe he’ll be a corn tasseler 😏

So… not unlivable. Just no longer fits their personal preferences. But expressed by them (or you) in terms suggesting their preferences are somehow determinative.

 

[BlIIlken2]

“<insert big city> is no longer recognizable” is code…

 

[Doodads and Hoohah]

Mount Vernon would be the only small town within 30 minutes of IC I'd live in.

 

[goldmom]

Oh, you don't have to tell me. When returning home from NC I try to get through town before 3 p.m., otherwise, the traffic will add at least 30 minutes to my trip. Savannah is a bad bottleneck, too.

I’d get off 295 and on to US1 or even A1A all the way down to at least Flagler Beach. You can at least have a scenic drive on A1A.

 

[goldmom]

“<insert big city> is no longer recognizable” is code…

Not where they live but your vapid throwaway remark is predictable.

 

[goldmom]

So… not unlivable. Just no longer fits their personal preferences. But expressed by them (or you) in terms suggesting their preferences are somehow determinative.

Definitely not out of the question.

 

[Rudedolph]

“<insert big city> is no longer recognizable” is code…

Words like "unlivable", too.

 

[Rudedolph]

Not where they live but your vapid throwaway remark is predictable.

Lol. Whenever you are challenged this is the type of "pushback" bullshit you defensively wield. You know what "vapid" means? Girl, you are so unbelievably defensive. Pushback!!!

 

[Rudedolph]

Definitely not out of the question.

Exactly. But the determinative language is interestingly chosen. Language like that is the language of a supremacist mindset. Like to be "unlivable" for them is to suggest only some lower form of humanity would choose to remain.

Vapid!!!

 

[Funky Bunch]

If you have lived someplace your entire life and it’s become unrecognizable it isn’t silly. We all have our own unique experience.

I think the opposite is actually true. My old neighborhood is unrecognizable to me after being away for many years. But the people that lived there the whole time wouldn't notice because there's really no change from day to day. Kind of like seeing someone's kids after a few years while the parents see them every day.