ArlingtonAg2015 said:
Anyone live there? Would you recommend as a good place to live for a family with a 4 year old daughter? Schools? Parks?
We currently live in Arlington. I work from home, wife splits time between Arlington and Fort Worth. We want to get into a smaller town with smaller, and hopefully better schools than what Arlington is.
Thanks for any recommendations or thoughts.
I don't live there but have friends that do and it's grown so fast in the last ten years, I'm afraid that you would be in the same situation as you are in Arlington by the time your kids are in junior high to high school. Midlothian High already has 2100+ and the second high school and 1100+ (both grades 9-12). That area is exploding.
If you want something that you believe would stay steady for 10-20 years, then my opinion is to find an area that's built out and send your kids to private school. I would find nice enclaves of decent areas like in Hurst, NRH, Euless, Pantego, pay less for your house and use the extra money for private schools. You still have easy access to Fort Worth and Arlington without the dynamic nature of choosing suburban life. Because over time suburban areas will change and become more congested and schools more crowded. Midlothian is nowhere near built out.
I lived in NRH for 9 years and just moved to Colleyville recently and even though both have good school districts, my kids go to private school. We just buy less house then we normally would. There are really nice areas with lots of parks in the whole mid cities, good churches (if that's your thing) and downtown Fort Worth is 20 minutes away while downtown Dallas is 35 minutes away and the train runs through there so you can take it to the airport. There's not much space for it to grow so what you see is what you're going to get for years to come.
