Texas

[7acres]

I have lived in 3 states. Many cities and towns. While living in populated areas has its benefits, I enjoyed the solitude of the fields on the east coast and the time on a ranch in west Texas best. I guess that is why I live in the middle of the woods now. I guess it is what suits you that counts. Daughter lives in Prosper area and tries to get us to move there. Just as soon move in a fire ant colony.

 

[007Sean]

Trust me brother that is why I reupped again to take my little girl to Germany, and away from the idiot Walmart employees who would scold us for allowing a miner. Soft drinking cap there is 15, and after 16 it pretty much is anything goes.

Yeah, Europeans have always had a different perspective on alcohol use! I think if your allowed to drink at a young age, you won't be as prone to abuse it....but then again, there's plenty of drunks overseas too!

 

[AllenK RGV]

Yeah, Europeans have always had a different perspective on alcohol use! I think if your allowed to drink at a young age, you won't be as prone to abuse it....but then again, there's plenty of drunks overseas too!

Well it worked out so well for our daughter, she had to supervise her guests, lay out the rules, and enforce them(so she developed a great skill set there). Seems to have no substance abuse issue. Chose to remain in Germany, even though wife and I had already left the country, currently she is married to her childhood sweetie who lived with us for a year(they returned the favor), and Graduated HS from her DOD school. She is just a blessing!

 

[007Sean]

I have lived in 3 states. Many cities and towns. While living in populated areas has its benefits, I enjoyed the solitude of the fields on the east coast and the time on a ranch in west Texas best. I guess that is why I live in the middle of the woods now. I guess it is what suits you that counts. Daughter lives in Prosper area and tries to get us to move there. Just as soon move in a fire ant colony.

Yeah, that area has grown so fast...not at all like it was when I grew up. I use to date a girl from Prosper. Her family were longtime farmers in Prosper, they owned and farmed about half the county! I doubt I would recognize any of that area nowdays.
I have a brother who still lives up in the 'North' counrty... Celeste, TX.

 

[Katonk]

Welcome to the Texas thread!

Check out the learning center articles the link is across the top bar of this page (Articles)whenever you have questions that aren't covered there there are loads of knowledgeable folk here who are more than willing to help. I spent 3 years(only full time the rest was part time house sitting while I worked in Irvine weekend option)-8 years of my life stuck out there in that area and finally escaped Sherman High after 11th grade. I mean uprooting a kid from Plano, Tx and sending them to a location where the only places you had to hang out was at the now closed Mall, DQ, or movie theaters should be classified as child abuse!

Lol yeah I've heard some things about Sherman schools... We're in a smaller school district but I've got to say sometimes the small town feel isn't as friendly to my kiddos as I'd like. We're really private people though, and I've still got family in Las Vegas and California, so the kids will summer for the most part in those areas for a bit. Nothing like grandma's house for a load of loving and some casino bowling lol! I miss the desert for that, the movie theaters and skating rinks were awesomeness man.
Anyhoo I don't socialize too well and I was really looking forward to just being away from everyone. I love church but we chose one a few towns away so we can get in worship and get the heck out before anyone gets too comfortable.
I'm pretty proud of myself- 3ish years with this many sons (5 at home now) and I'm still not in the PTA or a mommy group.
That stuff is cool and all but I was born with my foot in my mouth and heck if it's been there that long why change things now, I like to be consistent

 

[Katonk]

As much as I hated country life, and still do hate being unable to order out for delivery, it suits me fine now. As a matter of fact there is 20 acres out back that recently sold, I'm going to contact them in around two years time. To see if I can purchase 5'ish or so with street side access so I can go TVLB on that. I'm just waiting on this 4 year note on the Wrangler to run its course.

I just hope it was not purchased by a developer.

We bought our home in an area that has a few older places but we could pee out the back door and no one could see... Then a crook of a developer bought everything up all around us and set down pretty homes on cruddy foundations with cheap septics and played fast and loose with promises to veterans looking to purchase retirement places.
It's been a little heart breaking.
Good folk who won't listen to a Californian accent trying to tell them they got taken: 150k for a double wide on a single acre unfenced?? Man....
I looked up the developer and I felt such deep shame- he's from my part of California. No way he's old school Cali none of us in my town, even the nastiest, would take a veteran. It's like kicking a friendly old dog or slapping a book out of the hands of some sun bather minding their own business, just wrong man.
I wish they'd listen.
Anyhoo I overpaid too but not so bad as all that: 95k 2.34 acre tiny little spring, double wide. We figured it was the out of town fee and man alive was it stiff business closing... But they had never dealt with a Nevadan. Husband said just don't quit and pretend it's all normal serious business.
He's so much more even keeled than I am. As it it I'm still grateful we found a place outside city limits so I can have the flock I want

 

[AllenK RGV]

We bought our home in an area that has a few older places but we could pee out the back door and no one could see... Then a crook of a developer bought everything up all around us and set down pretty homes on cruddy foundations with cheap septics and played fast and loose with promises to veterans looking to purchase retirement places.
It's been a little heart breaking.
Good folk who won't listen to a Californian accent trying to tell them they got taken: 150k for a double wide on a single acre unfenced?? Man....
I looked up the developer and I felt such deep shame- he's from my part of California. No way he's old school Cali none of us in my town, even the nastiest, would take a veteran. It's like kicking a friendly old dog or slapping a book out of the hands of some sun bather minding their own business, just wrong man.
I wish they'd listen.
Anyhoo I overpaid too but not so bad as all that: 95k 2.34 acre tiny little spring, double wide. We figured it was the out of town fee and man alive was it stiff business closing... But they had never dealt with a Nevadan. Husband said just don't quit and pretend it's all normal serious business.
He's so much more even keeled than I am. As it it I'm still grateful we found a place outside city limits so I can have the flock I want

We got lucky with our property paid 90 for an assessed 100k home. No water feature and it is on 1.13 acre that is why I am hoping it is not going into development. Around 60-100 acres are all set to be sold in the Colonias here around me, but those properties are selling very slowly over the last two years.

 

[AllenK RGV]

Yeah, that area has grown so fast...not at all like it was when I grew up. I use to date a girl from Prosper. Her family were longtime farmers in Prosper, they owned and farmed about half the county! I doubt I would recognize any of that area nowdays.
I have a brother who still lives up in the 'North' counrty... Celeste, TX.

Yes, today I couldn't even get anywhere in Plano(without a GPS) and those are the streets I would ride to get to the roller-rink. Way back in the dark ages when people wouldn't lock their doors and children were forbidden to come home if the sun hadn't set yet.

 

[Celticdragonfly]

Hey y'all - I posted here a year ago, when I heard chickens were legal in our town. We're in Saginaw, TX, just north of Fort Worth. I've been reading and researching and such and my daughter's been getting more excited (she wants to be a vet tech and is an animal whisperer) - and we're finally doing it. We have the brooder box about 2/3rd set up, our 3 special order chicks show up at the Russell feed and supply the week after Easter, and Saturday we're going up to Little Coop on the Prairie to look at the coops and arrange them to build us one. Coming back to this thread, and wow, so many of you have such big flocks and so many other animals! We're only allowed the 3 hens We have 3 indoor cats, two teen kids, and three of us adults. Getting excited, and looking forward to meeting and taming chicks.

 

[7acres]

Hey y'all - I posted here a year ago, when I heard chickens were legal in our town. We're in Saginaw, TX, just north of Fort Worth. I've been reading and researching and such and my daughter's been getting more excited (she wants to be a vet tech and is an animal whisperer) - and we're finally doing it. We have the brooder box about 2/3rd set up, our 3 special order chicks show up at the Russell feed and supply the week after Easter, and Saturday we're going up to Little Coop on the Prairie to look at the coops and arrange them to build us one. Coming back to this thread, and wow, so many of you have such big flocks and so many other animals! We're only allowed the 3 hens We have 3 indoor cats, two teen kids, and three of us adults. Getting excited, and looking forward to meeting and taming chicks.

Good luck with your chicks! Just a small group of chickens here. 5 to be exact. Had larger in past. Know Saginaw well. Been there many times. Have relatives that live near there and a cousin that teaches there. When I lived in Fort Worth it was just a wide spot in road. Used to fish and watch boat races on Marine Creek Lake.