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  1. 10 minutes ago, Texas Jeff said:

    Last year, Lake Travis ISD had a bond proposal to build $93.8 million in athletic facilities.  They are opening a new school and want to revamp their old stadium at the original high school, plus build a new stadium for the new school.  They lost the vote with about 63% against.  At the same election, they did approve $609 million for schools, just not for stadiums.

    So hey, now it's 2023.  And Lake Travis ISD has a bond proposal to build the same stuff, but a year later it's $143 million.  Inflation is rough...  Also they are sick of losing to Westlake.

    Lake Travis is about 1/5th the size of Austin ISD, and in about 10 years they will be between 1/5th and 1/4th the size.  If you scale up the LT proposal to Austin ISD, this would be like Austin ISD proposing a $600-$750 million bond just for athletics facilities, mostly for high schools.

     

    So are you saying they should have done it when it was 45% cheaper?

  2. Weird. How are the BoSox eliminated from playoffs before the Detroit Tigers (according to ESPN)?

    BoSox 75 wins, 78 loses, .490 winning %, 20 games back in the East 9.5 games back in the WC

    Detroit 71 and 81, 9.5 games back in division and 13.5 in WC

    Oh I see it-- their division leader is still technically able to be caught for another day or so. I figured it out mid-sentence but will finish the post in case anyone saw that and it jumped out as weird to them at first.

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  3. 30 minutes ago, TexPx said:


    Nah. They’ve had enough property to build a couple of stadiums they just decided to go this route. They also have use of the new PGA facilities and the Comerica center, which is The Stars facility. Not sure what else.

    City of Frisco, FEDC and FISD partner with the private entities.

    I was at Dallas Startup week last week at UNT Frisco…surprised how small and quant it is

  4. 41 minutes ago, TexPx said:


    What’s interesting is that Frisco built Memorial Stadium in 1986 when there was one high school.
    There are now 12( I think) 5A high schools. Guess how many new football stadiums FISD has built since?

    Zero. They entered public/private deals with the Cowboys and FC Dallas to use their facilities for athletics, graduations and a bunch of other FISD events.

    I wonder if this is because there is no room! Where are they gonna build it? Up North of Panther Creek? That's Universal Studios now anyways. 

    I think those deals with The Star and FDC Dallas is better for everyone involved.

  5. 56 minutes ago, irishtexan said:

    Fuck. I just realized I'm less than 10 years away from qualifying for this community. Would shotgunning beers and blasting Slayer shirtless in the front yard be frowned upon in this sexy swinging seniors scene? Because I still do that from time to time. 

    Mental image of Irishtexan:

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  6. 1 minute ago, Jameslaw121 said:

    16:1  (Plano is 14, Frisco is 17) so about the same as other districts close by.

    I get why some people wouldn't care for such a large school. It's going to be pretty hard for most kids to make varsity. But they also are able to offer a bunch of classes that smaller schools couldn't.  I mean, they have an Archery and a Hockey team.

    Yea, I just read this part about Allen which I think could be pretty cool for the right students who care about this stuff:

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    Given the gargantuan size of the high school, there are plenty of niches for students to find their community, from its national-champion competitive shooting club to its cinema appreciation club, from its 700-plus member band, the Escadrille, to the paintball club.

    And just like with its athletics programs, the school district doesn't shy away from putting resources behind its other extracurricular activities.

    In the same 2009 school bond that funded the construction of its elaborate football stadium, Allen also built a 1,500-seat performing arts center. Two years later, it opened an expansive career and technology center addition, with its own student-run restaurant and retail store.

     

     

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  7. 10 minutes ago, Jameslaw121 said:

    Yeah. That's the one. I don't know if it's a law or anything. I don't think it was specifically to be a football powerhouse though. As far as I know, their football is set up like most schools. Varsity, Non varsity and 9th grade

    The decision on being a 1 HS town predates me, but from the olds I know, I think they just wanted to keep it that way. Part of it was that Allen ISD was pretty much fully build out about a decade ago, so starting about 2 years ago, the student population is getting lower.

    This just doesn't seem like a very healthy way to educate kids, more like a cattle call. I wonder what the Student:Teacher ratio is, maybe Allen just employs a third of the teachers in North Texas:

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    Sophomores streamed into the doors of the Performing Arts Center, greeted by a cadre of upperclassmen. Once in, the new students were briskly walked through the intricacies of their school.

    What's unique is the size of the sophomore class: 1,850 students -- which, standing alone, would be larger than two-thirds of the high schools in Texas.

    "If you see the halls when everyone's here, it's packed -- wall to wall," sophomore Callie Heeb said. "I don't know how I'm going to get to my classes in five minutes, because there's so many people in here."

    Allen is massive by design.

     

     

  8. 19 minutes ago, Jameslaw121 said:

    I live in Allen and they seem to do pretty good. I go to about 150 different school campuses so I see a pretty broad range, but Allen is the only one where I go to the elementary schools. From what I've seen of McKinney, they do a pretty good job as well.

    Isn't Allen the city that wrote into it's laws to only have 1 highschool (for football prowess purposes) and now it's so large it has Freshman A, B, C and D teams and a Marching Band that's larger than most smaller towns highschools with an 8 figure commercial kitchen for home-ec?

    This is from 2018. I'm sure it's just gotten larger. All in the service of being a juggernaut in high school football:

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    Allen has nearly 6,700 students from 9th to 12th grade -- the largest high school in the state by 1,000 students -- and one of the largest in the nation.

     

  9. 2 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

    Que? There are plenty of cities that have both from as big a city as Houston on down to El Campo (is that small Buccee's still there?).

    Yep, I'm sorry I'm wrong. I misread. "North Texas" not "Texas". From the Dallas Morning News:

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    Melissa Mayor Jay Northcut said residents “are more than ready for more opportunities to stay local when shopping.” The population has grown to 24,500 from 9,600 in 2016 when Northcut said he was first on the city council.

    The addition of H-E-B gives Melissa the distinction of having the only H-E-B and Buc-ee’s — two Texas homegrown brands — across from each other in North Texas, he said. “It’s clear that they are the type of partner that we want in our town.”

    H-E-B owns 43 acres — most of it on the east side of U.S. 75 just north of Highway 121 and next to Buc-ee’s. A developer is building apartments behind the store. H-E-B also owns a 4-acre strip on the west side of U.S. 75. Kroger just started construction on a store in Melissa on the north side of State Highway 121 between Liberty Way and Washington Drive. It’s expected to open before H-E-B in late 2024.

     

     

  10. 12 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Prime’s prep academy they got shut down was in prosper. 
     

    and, prosper isn’t far from Melissa so not sure why there’s a 3x price tag for a similar structure at a similar time in a similar location. 
     

    other than the obvious no-bid brother’s company type reason. 

    Have a family member who is renting out new builds in Melissa and making a killing. Apparently it's so far north that even 5 years ago nobody was considering it but he was prescient. You would be shocked how much it is to rent a single family home in Melissa. It's almost Plano prices and it's in South Oklahoma dang near.

    I read yesterday Melissa will have the unique distinction of being the only city in Texas with two Texas-based, cult-brands: Buccee's and H-E-B (coming).

  11. North of 380 is growing like crazy-- Prosper and Celina is where all the early movers to Frisco in the late 90s and 2000's are going to a) sell their houses they bought $300k  for $1-2mm to the upwardly mobile minority community because of the past reputation of great public schools (you can see the tons of Indian food and Teslas in Frisco these days) and b) get a ton of land, acre, house for the comparative cheap. 

    Coach Prime was an early investor of a ton of land in Prosper back when it was all horse pasture, I wonder if he held or made out well. Dude Perfect lives up there and Dak Prescott's mansion is up there.

    Oh and their cafeterias look baller:

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  12. 54 minutes ago, Nuge said:

    Thank you all for sharing.  I've shed a few tears reading these tales of woe but feel like I know and appreciate y'all more.  

    This.

    But there is also some really fantastic encouragement from reading what some of you guys have lived through and came out from.

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  13. 35 minutes ago, CHIEF said:

    I was thinking about this thread last night. We have a Wednesday night Bible study, afterwards I go to the 19th Hole for drinks, each week, ironically. You can tell who the lonely people are. After reading about 4-5 scriptures, the widows and the single people have to stop the reading to go down a rabbit hole about how the scripture relates to a certain thing or situation that happened in their life. You know what? The 19th Hole was the same way. They are so eager to tell their story. Their loneliness has obliterated their social and conversation skills. No one knows how to be good listeners. Whats worse is that no one really has empathy, they are too caught up in their own situations. So I spent last night concentrating on being a good listener. I sat there in silence as six people tried talking over each other and realized it was just nerve wracking. A buddy, Marcus and some guys at the next table were playing 42, you know who was having a good conversation? Those guys. My solution is that everyone should have a box of dominoes on them at all times, so they have to stop talking long enough to think.

    I've also learned that it is best to greet someone with "its nice to see you," never "how are you?"

    CHIEF

    I don't know why but your post reminds me of the Banshees of Inshirin. Sometimes being alone is better than being with others, if they are just blathering fools and victim mentality igornants:

     

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  14. 9 hours ago, UTGrad98 said:

    Having lived the accumulation phase and now the semi Re phase, I can say it definitely helps to have dual income earners and be upper middle class. In fact i think that is who FIRE is designed for and where you hear of most success stories. 

    FIRE is not designed for the poor unfortunately. It's not for the wealthy/rich. They don't need it. It's really not for the middle class although it could work. This is where you see the extremes of FIRE and where I could see the most regret. It's really for the upper middle class.  And really all it takes is living below your means for a certain amount of years.  For me, I've lived in one of the best suburbs not only in Texas but in the US,  flower mound.  I pay 2k a month for mortgage and another 500 for bills and live in a great neighborhood. We go on 2-4 trips per year to mexico,  both resorts and family and had no cares in the world for money while saving. It honestly wasn't hard at all to do this. All it took was saving excess cash diligently each month for 7 years and avoiding lifestyle creep. I never cared to keep up with the jones. The accumulation phase was actually quite painless. As for the FIRE phase,  so far I am loving every second of it and am so proud of what I did and am now reaping the benefits. 5 days off a week is glorious and my off days are filled to the brim. 

    I think dual incomes of 100k or more each can easily achieve fire in 10 years while living a comfortable mostly upper middle class life.  The dual incomes also imo relieve the stresses of money. It did for us. Our standard of living was set to 1 income. That way if one of us lost our job it wouldn't affect us. I think being the only earner could cause someone who wants to achieve fire quite a lot of pain and suffering. And all it takes is one person saving. My lovely wife spent her excess money and saved about 5k a year. It didn't make a shit. Just be sure to invest in the market. Nothing fancy. SPY or VOO will get you there.

    I think you are right. We looked into FIRE and it didn't work for us, but I love reading the experiences here. Maybe it can be for us one day, but to your point, we are a big family and a single income. Now granted my single income is basically what two upper middle class incomes would be to equal the same household income, but between having a big family and a single income, to retire early would mean to be a bit more austere than I'm comfortable with. 

    Also, you bought your house at a time when it's only $2k. That same house in that same area is easily a $5-6k mortgage the past 5 years.

  15. 1 hour ago, crash_davis said:

    HOLY SHIT.

    Which Surly member is this?

     

    "You think I'm mentally ill?!"

    I love how they NOPE'd out immediately and the golf carts fired up. 

    In this day it's like road rage, just assume the other person is mentally ill and avoid the conflict and drama before something unnecessarily tragic happens when the person really is a wackadoodle.

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    And hell, the strong social trend to champion "work from home" one of the big reasons I don't like it is because it makes us even further isolated, and is bad for us as a society and species.

    @Brisketexan this is a whole 'nother conversation and ball of wax; complex, multidimensional issue for society. Not saying you are wrong, but there is equality and privilege and other considerations to weigh.

  17. 2 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

    I'm a lawyer, which makes me an expert on every subject matter.  Just ask me.

    I think your read on the rise of Erdogan is dead right.  The hope of admission into the EU kept Turkiye close to the Ataturk vision.  Once that was gone, the secularists became very demoralized.  Coupled with the fundamentalists' infiltration into the army, and the AK Party was able to seize and hold on to power.

    And I'm not calling India "Bharat" anymore than I am calling it "Burma."  Calling the country "Myanmar" indicates a tacit acceptance of the illegitimate military dictatorship governing that country.  And calling India "Bharat" would adopt the BJP's vision of India as a Hindu ethno-state.

    I ain't doin' it.

    Thanks for the insight, again.

    And fair enough on India, but it's coming. Modi is a 56 inch chest leader who is assassinating people half the world away-- he's gonna go the distance. But that's the other India geopolitical thread talk.

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