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Originally Posted by Trae
A/C bill will depend on a lot of things (shade, how much of the house youre cooling, etc.) so that's hard to say. Crime is at modern day lows sure but there are still levels to it meaning there will still be plenty of high crime areas relative to the low crime suburbs (and yes there's plenty of crime stats to back this up).
For schools, the big city districts typically have a handful of token very good schools and/or magnet programs but you're either buying in a high priced neighborhood or a higher crime/gentrifying neighborhood to get into those. This versus buying in a typical suburban neighborhood where everyone in your neighborhood goes to the school you're zoned to, which is typically higher performing than the same house in the inner city going to its zoned school.
Kind of separate but this is often why in gentryfying neighborhoods the elementary school will be highly rated but it drops significantly once you get into upper levels (parents sending their kids across town to better schools because they have the money). It hurts the community when a good bull of the kids don't go to the neighborhood schools
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I believe many of the newcomers to TX (I don't live there) are prime working age and/or middle class immigrants, especially from India. So I think they would prefer those big suburban homes with large yards because that means they have made it in America. They don't want to live in old inner city house.
I saw the demographics of those areas and many of them now have large Asian-American populations. Someone from Katy, suburban Houston told me years ago that his neighborhood was like 40% Asian-American, and I think those new Collin County suburbs outside of Dallas are 20-30% Indian-American. In other cities, like DC, the expensive suburbs like Fairfax, VA and Montgomery, MD also have larger Asian-American populations that average. They also have high quality schools, which I am guessing the new TX suburbs will have.