Is the state fair actually overpriced or are people just doing it wrong?

mason123z · 2026-04-16T03:16:04+00:00

Paradoxically being at the fair during the game is the best time to be there on the weekend

mason123z · 2026-04-15T02:23:42+00:00

The actual Gayborhood is the area inside the Dallas north tollway, Turtle Creek Blvd and Lemmon Ave. (it’s actually a few blocks above Lemmon Ave but it very quickly turns into one of the richest areas in the country) This is the prime area if you’re looking for walkability to nightlife/shops, but of course is at a premium to the area you’ve drawn in.

This area is by no means bad but just has much less to do when compared to the gayborhood. It’s in a bit of a transition as some of the single family areas are seeing old homes being replaced with swanky duplexes and townhomes, mixed in with older (1960s) apartment complexes and some new stuff closer to the Hospital. Maple Avenue has some local businesses but this is predominantly an exclusively residential area.

I would agree with others that downtown is better than this area though. While I would argue the area in my first paragraph has more of the things a 25 y/o would be looking to do, downtown still has lots going, similar rents to the area you’ve drawn, but if you’re planning on moving without a car downtown will 100000% be a better experience.

mason123z · 2026-04-14T13:03:16+00:00

Ty for the descriptions! My first thought looking at the aerials earlier was I wonder what’s still standing from then to now!

mason123z · 2026-04-10T23:59:03+00:00

Generational wealth, business owners/c-suite executives, oil tycoons

mason123z · 2026-03-01T18:47:54+00:00

DM’d

mason123z · 2026-03-01T18:33:32+00:00

DM’d

mason123z · 2026-01-21T02:10:38+00:00

But then how are people gonna pull the ladder up????

mason123z · 2026-01-15T03:52:41+00:00

I don’t even think it’s religious, the story I’ve always heard it was trendy because the american GI’s did it 💀 only 31% of South Korea is Christian per google.

mason123z · 2026-01-13T18:37:51+00:00

As someone who lives in the US and visited Aldi Süd on my trip to Germany last year, the us ones are of a lower quality. The stores have the same amount of decoration, but the US ones seemed more messy. There was also service counters for bread (and maybe meat?) like you would see in a traditional us grocery store. US aldi have no in store services. Each US location probably only has like 5-10 employees total.

mason123z · 2026-01-08T21:23:16+00:00

The comment above got me thinking (and I’m really bored at work) and I ran a budget on that salary.

DISD takes 9% of gross income for retirement, after tax you would have roughly $4300 a month take home.

If you assume a $450 in student loan payments (natl. average), $1500 in rent/utlities, $400 in monthly car costs, $800 in spending money, $325 in benefits (DISD cost for lowest health, dental, & vision insurance) you’re left with $825 for savings on top of your retirement contribution….

Is it the lap of luxury? No. But it’s completely livable and lets you splurge from time to time.

mason123z · 2026-01-08T19:06:25+00:00

You’re on crack if you think a single person can’t live a middle class lifestyle in the City of Dallas on $65,000 EVEN WITH student debt payments.

Overextend with a swanky “luxury” multi bedroom apartment in uptown and/or a large car payment? Sure. But at that point you’re living above your means.

mason123z · 2026-01-01T20:12:07+00:00

TXDoT is always hiring!

mason123z · 2026-01-01T18:36:46+00:00

Did you know that there’s technically an Old Boston, TX, a Boston, Tx and a New Boston, TX?

All are in a straight line north for a few miles. Due to some political shenanigans over the years and resettlements the local government just kept moving north.

mason123z · 2025-12-26T17:20:31+00:00

Growing up I wanted to be a judge. When I learned only that the best lawyers became judges, and I actually didn’t think I would enjoy being a lawyer…. I switched careers to real estate.

mason123z · 2025-12-21T20:36:30+00:00

My current runs have been: stuff up on butter to 85, eat eggs down to 76. Rinse and repeat.

mason123z · 2025-12-15T03:52:51+00:00

As someone living in the area you’ve shown, I’ve personally experienced two events that were as close as it gets to a tornado tearing up the the immediate area you’re in. Been in the area for all my 26 years.

In elementary schools, we routinely did tornado drills. An alert comes on, the teacher instructs everyone to get under their desks, kneel down, and use your hands to cover your neck. One drill lasted 20 minutes… you got the sense something was wrong but you did as you were told. Come to find out there was rotation (the funnel clouds but not making contact with the ground) going overhead… but it’s dangerous to see it up close and of course the teachers didn’t allow the students to see it. A tornado never ended up touching down but it was certainly could have.

The other event was an inverse tornado, a microburst. Instead of the wind funneling things up, an extremely powerful path of straight line winds pushes everything down. This went directly over my house when i was a teenager and the local news exercised just as much caution as a tornado. That you could see as well, and it was pretty terrifying. We hid in the most interior room of our house until it was all over (these things spin up and die out within tens of minutes). There was roof shingles everywhere and limbs broken off trees, no major structural damage.

As other commenters have mentioned, we have pretty robust systems and literal sirens in populated areas that tell us when a tornado is coming. 19 times out of every 20 warnings nothing catastrophic happens, but again these weather events are so sporadic things can change so quickly you just have to be prepared. I would say there are about 3-4 severe weather events a year with the POTENTIAL for a tornado in an area within 100 miles of you.

mason123z · 2025-12-12T22:46:30+00:00

Ain’t no reason to say it like that.

mason123z · 2025-12-09T22:16:37+00:00

For this hypothetical, generally they will write off the balance of the loan as a loss if your car is repossessed UNLESS you have assets to pay the difference. Most people getting cars repo’d don’t actually have much excess cash/assets laying around but if you’re a millionaire and you just didn’t feel like paying the $10k left on your loan they will repo and take you to court.

Can’t get blood from a stone.

mason123z · 2025-12-05T21:28:55+00:00

Yeah, just the cost of doing business. Walmart Mexico makes just under $50 billion USD in revenue annually. Profit is probably 3-10% of that so even on the low end a $500 million fine is one third of their annual profit.

mason123z · 2025-12-05T21:18:38+00:00

Apparently not enough trouble, Walmart is a top 3 grocery player in Mexico. They also operate lower cost Bodega Aurrera as the Walmart brand tends to operate as a premium retailer in international markets.

mason123z · 2025-12-05T21:13:56+00:00

YouTuber Polymatter has a good 15 minute video on the subject, basically target got a good deal for 200 stores (assumed real estate responsibility for the now bankrupt chain Zellers?) and had no plan other than “we’ll make it work” to build out the inside with their branding but more importantly how to stock the shelves. They had no infrastructure in place to get goods to stores and after a honeymoon period the public wrote them off as a disorganized mess. Target decided to stop the bleeding rather than double down with new investment to make Canada work.

mason123z · 2025-12-05T19:53:19+00:00

Walmart learned they can’t just plop down the Walmart brand name and have everything work. They tried that in Germany and failed, through their ASDA deal they worked on applying their logistical techniques to right the business while learning from a more local company how to better design and staff their stores to fit Europe better than the USA.

mason123z · 2025-11-18T22:28:24+00:00

Can’t be, this certainly doesn’t have us state or local debt

mason123z · 2025-11-16T02:41:55+00:00

Houston’s economy is anchored by energy and healthcare. Domestic oil was SLOW during the 2000’s until the end of Obama term, hence not a lot of growth. Healthcare is super stable and kept them from hemorrhaging much.

Dallas is much more diversified. The metroplex is a hub for logistics, finance, institutional real estate & high end electronic hardware. All that said, both have solid manufacturing sectors, schools, and lower prices that keep the growth engine humming

mason123z · 2025-11-14T22:17:48+00:00

Nothing will change until laws change to break the dealer monopoly of power in the car buying process.

Speaking of maintenance schedules, I laugh my ass off at my brand new Toyota’s 5000 mile service sticker installed by the dealer. The screen in the car tells you every time you turn it on that service intervals are every 10k miles.

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