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None of these are suburbs of Dallas. You weirdos in Dallas need to quit trying toninflate the size of Dallas. Frisco, Mckiney and prosper and Melissa aren’t even in Dallas county. lol. It’s Colin county.

London U.K. has a high clay subsurface after about 3 m deep. However we have deep tunnel underground tube tunnels that have been running for over 150 years. Also a lot of hnw individuals ( basically rich ppl) who can’t extend their central London houses the normal ways owing to lack of space will then opt to build a high end basement

Move to Texas 12 years ago and live on the Little Elm/Frisco line for the last 10 years. We have seen the area explode.

Moved from Boston area to Park Cities area of Dallas, Town of Highland and City oh University Park. Love it. So much better than the northern Suburbs. Top notch public and private schools. Amazing municipal services. Everything is at our fingertips.

These towns are too far from the airports.

This is my dream home

Interesting take on the area. We moved from Flower Mound after 25 years to Uptown. We are retired so schools and other things have fallen in priority. However, we have had an incredible rise in quality of life. Traffic in the suburbs is terrible. Main intersections are many cycles to get through. It took about 20-30 min to get anywhere. Uptown is sort of the eye of the storm with regard to traffic. We are surrounded by it but hardly affected. We are 5-10 min from everything. Medical, AA Center, Arts, Klyde Warren, restaurants. Plus, the McKinney trolley is amazing. We are not blighted by endless strip centers and franchises. Taxes are a little higher but expenses are a little less. In a Condo utilities are way less. No direct lawn car or pool upkeep. Property insurance is 1/4 what it was in Flower Mound. Maybe you could feature this Dallas living option in an upcoming show? For short trips we can Uber. Rarely have to drive long distances. Also, there has been a lot of new multifamily and we have a great mix of young and retired. We share everything in shifts. We take early and they take late.😊

$600K? So what’s the answer? I know Highland sure isn’t cheap.

I know there is an area in Texas where they are 3-D concrete printing homes. I know it’s not your normal concrete kind of curious how or if they were home which will crack or not and how their foundations are set up forgot exactly where in Texas I think around Austin, you being in the industry I’m sure you know exactly what I’m talking about and I’m not talking about the domes

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Wow. One of the best informative video about McKinney I’ve come across! The history and the facts. Thank you for this!

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Going to visit north of Dallas tomorrow from Massachusetts. Hoping to move there soon!

question why the rooms on 2nd floor have carpets instead laminate or something hard only rooms have carpet floors why don't they unite with 1 material?

Homes by J Anthony makes basements in North Texas

Really looking at Parks at Wilson Creek or the mosaic or anyother master planned community or even any new acre lot community

Turn the stupid ass music off

So the house is shaped like a U. For $1.8M+ , I need real wood floors. That is vinyl flooring. The half bath off of the foyer is the ONLY thing in this house that is probably real. The counter tops looks like travertine, which is cheap. Real tile, is thick, it's not thin. Mirrors aren't framed. With those tall ceilings in the masterbathroom it's going to always be cold. Heat rises. For luxury, we need jets in the tub, jets in the shower. Also, for $1.8M+ I NEED 20x20 plus a separate sitting area of 10x10 with a fire place, and private patio. I've lived in Frisco for 8 years and if u had $2.8M+ to spend for a home, I would never buy a new house because the cheap materials that are used is bad. The carpet is industrial carpet. For a home that your probably going to pay $10K+ a month for, if it's truly custom, your materials need to be real.

We moved to McKinney from San Antonio in 2018. We are very happy to have made that decision.

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Get on with it. Sorry but you talk to much.

Blah blah blah. On with it!!!

Isn't this in Prosper

You need to let your guest talk more. He’s giving good info and you keep intruding and cutting him off to fit your narrative.

Besides the fact that it floods every other year as well.

Wow, Texas sucks

It’s because Texas sucks.

I'm sure you know your business, but I've been living north Texas for 40 years and this is first I've ever heard of clay down there. I had always thought there's no basements because the ground is so hard, it's solid rock limestone and contractors think it's too expensive to bring in powerful digging machinery, just pour a cheap concrete slab on top

Some of the basement end up because in the north the frost line can be 3 ft deep so by going 3 ft more and foundations 2ft you end up with a full 8 ft basement

Because of cheap ass construction. Texas homes are pieces of shit just like Arizona homes. Unskilled migrant labor, the lowest bidders!

In the Houston area, basements would become indoor swimming pools at times and as he states our clay soil is a disaster.

Theres no basements on the West Coast .

Is there any part of texas where the soil is better to have a basement

Bullshit. Michigan has a TON of hard clay. I saw it. Lived it. In Texas, cheap homes are built. In Texas, cheapness is bigger. 20 years ago in Texas, homes were CHEAP & built cheap. NOW, you get cheaply built homes at California prices.

Some communities here in Pennsylvania are built on slabs. The reason is the clay soil. No where for the water to go but in a basement. My father was an industrial arts teacher. He told me what to buy. Others with basements get flooded out. Me? Dry as dry can be

in other words, builders duped everyone to believe their nonsense just to save $$$. if anything said about clay was remotely true those houses would not stand as is.

That's why you guys should have put in a proper footing and foundation possibly even a basement and then you could have solved all these problems in Texas they obviously do not know how to build a house

In ,Lubbock, Texas old homes have basements. Tornadoes.

Native Texan and I've wondered this myself.... but grew up knowing to water the foundation. I live a bit south of Houston; a few years ago we went 6 mos with no rain. I couldn't keep the foundation wet enough and the cracks and shifts began. Many hairline cracks and started sloping but then the rain finally floated me back to level. Many people leveled their houses during the driest time and when it floated back, it cracked and busted all the tile, woodwork, built-ins etc... mess for many. Is that because they leveled when the ground was driest?

No. Frost line. You're too cheap

This is super useful! I've been a homeowner in Texas for over two years now, but grew up in New England. This not only answered the question of why basements aren't a thing here, but also why the walls are textured. I honestly do not like the textured walls, but at least I understand them now. Anyway, aside from that, I'm very glad I watched this as it can help set my expectations appropriately.

Texas is huge state. The soil in the Dallas to Houston corridor will be much different that Nacogdoches or El Paso.

Yep, gumbo is the problem. Here in Houston we are sitting on 20,000 feet of it (see "Geology of the Gulf Coast and Central Texas" published by the Houston Geological Society). Of course the water table being close to the surface doesn't help either.

Never seen a slab poured like that. Must be building them cheap here in houston 😅

in east texas we live in a swamp

Great information thank you

Really excellent explanation! Thanks. I had always presumed that it was a combination but of high a high water table, and the bedrock layer being high.

Fields development and Universal Studio will include four 5 stars hotels + TaylorMade 7 star golf paradise hotel! Such a luxurious development with many unique things will not only make this community, near-by communities price up and up! Also, Frisco is surrouding by ther high-end areas of Allen, Plano, Mckinney and east colony! Except Stonebriar mall, you can also go to famous Allen outlet!

Slab foundation...the right way is drill piers down through the clay to the underlying bedrock. THEN pour your slab on the piers. No settling, no cracking. All it takes is money... every house in Texas was built this way before the 1960s. I've been involved in construction in Texas for over 40 years.

How do in-ground pools survive the expansion and contraction?