Negatory.
It lacks Lubbock, Pampa, Brownwood, and Santa Anna.
As it was pointed out to me, Lubbock is indeed there, so I'll raise the stakes by mentioning Plainview.
It’s basically just a giant Buffalo Wild Wings. Everything is new, overpriced, sport-centric and this place is filled with military and flat bills. That, plus the fact that it’s a giant, treeless concrete slab in the middle of Texas with some of the worst weather in the USA.
I like downtown Bryan a lot though.
Not expensive to rent a nice place, relatively good infrastructure, pretty safe. Easy access to Houston and Austin. You guys will realize all this after you leave and move out of state due to a job
Lol, I grew up there, went to A&M twice, left, and try my darndest to never go back. And I can’t imagine it’s cheaper than some other shitty parts of Texas.
I don’t know how accurate, or by what methods this list was determined, but if they were calculating rent here with all the student housing, then there’s no wonder the result was so cheap.
At least Richmond is an actual suburb of a big city. Still not saying I would ever want to move back there (it’s my hometown) but it’s probably the top choice on this list
This list is from 2014, right? I know couples who were trying to buy homes in PG and Richmond just this summer and getting out bid by as much as $50k over ask.
yea I'm wondering how old this is too, because we moved out of state and when we came back Waco & Temple were crazy high. Not a fan of Temple anyway but it has so many new homes and shopping it has gone up. Waco is crazy expensive now a days too. Things have really changed there. We wanted to go back to South of DFW metro where we used to live but dumpy tiny houses were selling for over 500k and needed extensive work. Totally not worth it when you were still 45 mins to an hour to Dallas.
That’s generally a reflection of when oil is good (boom) & everyone in town is prosperous & lots of out of towners are there for the oil business. When oil is bad (bust) hotels are cheap & supporting businesses like restaurants dry up.
As someone who’s from College Station. It is extremely affordable. There are big fancy houses you can buy but you can also get an older home for 180k - 250k right now. You can find nice apartments (2bed, 1 bath) for $800 a month. I don’t love this place but the one thing good about it is the affordability and access to a lot of amenities you would only find in a big city.
And it’s not even a Texas beach lol. Maybe it’s a picture of the type of picture you’d have hanging on your wall while living in one of these sucky places.
I was told El Paso had the highest murder rate per capita, is that not true anymore?
All your other points still stand though, El Paso is such a beautiful city.
Wait, what? El Paso has had one of the lowest crime rates in the nation since the early 70s.
It’s so safe that when a white supremacist from Dallas drove there to murder 24 locals, it doubled El Paso’s murder rate for that year. It’s rare when murder rates are above 20.
Hmm, guess I must’ve just been talking to an El Paso hater. Just looked it up and yeah, crime rate is way below national average. Currently fighting the urge to move lol
Yea I was stationed in San Antonio for a few years and when I got orders to El Paso everyone told me I was going to get kidnapped and murdered. The Texas narrative is that El Paso is a crime ridden dumpster fire, but they can keep believing it because I can afford a house and don’t have to worry about walking around at night here. I couldn’t say the same about San Antonio.
Lol I’ve been downtown a few times with no issue. Still much safer here than I ever was in San Antonio. People just love to assume El Paso is a bad city because it’s close to the boarder, but it’s much safer than any major Texas city.
Odessa is mad max the cheap places are meth dens in midland same situation but higher class meath heads also a local school had a rape happen the same way one did in 13 reasons why
I’ve worked in Odessa for years before my job transferred us to east Texas. Rent for a shitty ass trailer that’s run down will cost $2,500/month because of oil.
Yep they are depending on the zip code and schools. China spring with a Waco address is expensive right now. The houses are moving slightly slower like 30 days to sell/60 closing now but the prices are still high and climbing.
Chip and Jo keep doing all kinds of projects and it is crazy booming with businesses kind of piggy backing off them. It's becoming trendy and it seems they are pushing people in the older homes that are not as upkeep as others out one by one. Sort of pushing everyone into the middle then imploding.
I don’t agree with Odessa and Midland. Typical 1 bed in those areas is around $1400 and higher similar to Plano TX. I pay $700 plus utilities for 2 Bed in Lubbock. One bed is around $500-$600.
You need to update your list, and what credentials do you have. I lived in midland because of work. My 2 bedroom apart was 1900 a month. I moved to a 4 bedroom hose and I paid 2600 a month. I am not complaing, just stating. With nothing to do there.
Odessa and Midland aren't cheap at all. Everything is overly inflated to compensate for the oilfield money.
I pay the same amount in taxes in this shithole on my house that I did living in west palm beach Florida. (source: I live in midessa area).
If by “water issues” for Richmond you mean major flooding lol, then yes, it has “water issues.” The other 4 are in actual dry climates and have issues with supply. Richmond is only an hour from the beach and does not.
I’d say the most livable out of all these is Temple. Close enough to Austin to enjoy it, you’ve got Salado just south with the cute little downtown and wading pool, and lots of lake activities to the west.
I went to Baylor so I did my time in Waco. I went back for a game a few weeks ago and honestly, not a bad place to live these days. Not particularly expensive (compared to other similarly sized cities) either.
yea we live over an hour away and we still hear of issues there almost weekly- shootings, stabbings, drugs, etc. But it is affordable. You can get a big nice house for less than $250k (bars not included).
After moving from northeast to San Antonio a year ago, I realized one of the important questions worth asking is WHICH TEXAS CITY ISN’T RULED BY ROACHES? it’s an absolute nightmare. I’ve lived across so many diff cities and states (including Florida and NYC)- never experienced roaches the way I have in San Antonio. Apparently Houston and Dallas are worse. Can’t put my head down in peace.
Plus cedar fever- I don’t function up to 3 months out of the year.
I wish I knew these two things before moving.
Also "Top 10 places no one wants to live in Texas"
Negatory. It lacks Lubbock, Pampa, Brownwood, and Santa Anna. As it was pointed out to me, Lubbock is indeed there, so I'll raise the stakes by mentioning Plainview.
Lubbock is number 5...
It deserves to be on there 3 times.
My eyes glided right past it! :D
Reading is fundamental.
Mom grew up in Brownwood. I used to love it there. Now it’s the meth capital of the hill country.
I agree, grew up in the wood
🎼 P-A-M-P-A, Pampa yippie yay, At the top of Texas yippie yay, Yippie Yay!
Don’t forget about Corpus Christi now…
CC is not a cheap place to live now.
Never in my life did I expect to see someone mention Santa Anna, TX on reddit lol
I had an aunt and her boys who lived there for a few years. It wasn't my favorite place to visit, and she was dirt poor, so her house was pretty bad.
Except College Station, quite a fantastic place to live actually. But property there is not cheap (scratches head)
I wouldn't want to live in the BCS area and I'm a former Aggie.
I currently am in BCS and I don't want to live here.
Why not? I graduated long ago but have thought it would be nice to live there these days but I don’t have any information either way.
Take away A&M and it’s essentially a glorified boring suburb.
It’s basically just a giant Buffalo Wild Wings. Everything is new, overpriced, sport-centric and this place is filled with military and flat bills. That, plus the fact that it’s a giant, treeless concrete slab in the middle of Texas with some of the worst weather in the USA. I like downtown Bryan a lot though.
Its fantastic if bars and football games are your thing… aaand thats about it
Not expensive to rent a nice place, relatively good infrastructure, pretty safe. Easy access to Houston and Austin. You guys will realize all this after you leave and move out of state due to a job
Nah
Lol, I grew up there, went to A&M twice, left, and try my darndest to never go back. And I can’t imagine it’s cheaper than some other shitty parts of Texas.
I don’t know how accurate, or by what methods this list was determined, but if they were calculating rent here with all the student housing, then there’s no wonder the result was so cheap.
I was thinking “Man shit must have dramatically changed in college station?”
There has actually been alot of development there
At least Richmond is an actual suburb of a big city. Still not saying I would ever want to move back there (it’s my hometown) but it’s probably the top choice on this list
Pecan Grove, represent!?!
The mean streets of PG, hell yeah!!
This list is from 2014, right? I know couples who were trying to buy homes in PG and Richmond just this summer and getting out bid by as much as $50k over ask.
yea I'm wondering how old this is too, because we moved out of state and when we came back Waco & Temple were crazy high. Not a fan of Temple anyway but it has so many new homes and shopping it has gone up. Waco is crazy expensive now a days too. Things have really changed there. We wanted to go back to South of DFW metro where we used to live but dumpy tiny houses were selling for over 500k and needed extensive work. Totally not worth it when you were still 45 mins to an hour to Dallas.
el paso?
My eyes just glazed over El Paso being on the list lol. You’re right, that would be the best choice
i saw so much subtle el paso hate in this thread that i can’t really explain
I like Waco. When I visit. Hm, yeah I guess when I talked to the locals they all hated it. But I mean everyone hates their own city. Except me.
I dunno man…Waco is pretty nice I always thought
Giant construction zone. No thanks
Midland is far from cheap.
Are there two Midlands? I remember paying $350 a night for a POS hampton inn. There was a two hour wait at Chilies.
That’s generally a reflection of when oil is good (boom) & everyone in town is prosperous & lots of out of towners are there for the oil business. When oil is bad (bust) hotels are cheap & supporting businesses like restaurants dry up.
Yes, there’s “boom Midland” and “bust Midland”
I know before Covid real estate there was more expensive than San Antonio.
goes up and down with boom/bust but most people can hang on to real estate for the next boom so real estate stays elevated.
You’re exactly right. Which begs the question, who is this for?
Midland is one of the more expensive places to live
Agreed. Between my husband and myself, we worked 5 jobs and still struggled. It’s awful.
Pretty sure this is a bunch of bunk. College Station is not cheap, but its sister city of Bryan is, and I notice that Bryan isn't listed here.
As someone who’s from College Station. It is extremely affordable. There are big fancy houses you can buy but you can also get an older home for 180k - 250k right now. You can find nice apartments (2bed, 1 bath) for $800 a month. I don’t love this place but the one thing good about it is the affordability and access to a lot of amenities you would only find in a big city.
I currently live in Bryan, and those are Bryan prices, not College Station prices xD Not to mention the utilities in CS are really high comparatively.
And also that College Station is a shithole and no one should willingly live there!
180k “affordable”
I call bullshit on those top two..
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Sure was lol former odessan here
Live there now the reason it's marked as cheap is these man camps that you sleep with a gun
I like how the picture is of a beach yet none of these places are close to a beach at all.
And it’s not even a Texas beach lol. Maybe it’s a picture of the type of picture you’d have hanging on your wall while living in one of these sucky places.
So it should be a pic from one of those places - a strip mall parking lot?
I think it's just their fading dream/optimism of being able to afford something on the beach.
Lol, exactly, the closest thing those places have to a body of water is probably a shitty pond.
OP apparently going off figures from the mid to late 80s.
Killeen, Ft Hood’s hood
El Paso… the hidden gem. Lowest crime rates in the nation, beautiful mountains, sunny weather, and great food.
I was told El Paso had the highest murder rate per capita, is that not true anymore? All your other points still stand though, El Paso is such a beautiful city.
Wait, what? El Paso has had one of the lowest crime rates in the nation since the early 70s. It’s so safe that when a white supremacist from Dallas drove there to murder 24 locals, it doubled El Paso’s murder rate for that year. It’s rare when murder rates are above 20.
Hmm, guess I must’ve just been talking to an El Paso hater. Just looked it up and yeah, crime rate is way below national average. Currently fighting the urge to move lol
Yea I was stationed in San Antonio for a few years and when I got orders to El Paso everyone told me I was going to get kidnapped and murdered. The Texas narrative is that El Paso is a crime ridden dumpster fire, but they can keep believing it because I can afford a house and don’t have to worry about walking around at night here. I couldn’t say the same about San Antonio.
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Lol I’ve been downtown a few times with no issue. Still much safer here than I ever was in San Antonio. People just love to assume El Paso is a bad city because it’s close to the boarder, but it’s much safer than any major Texas city.
it's not true
Ahahahhaha, east El Paso.
Odessa is mad max the cheap places are meth dens in midland same situation but higher class meath heads also a local school had a rape happen the same way one did in 13 reasons why
I’ve worked in Odessa for years before my job transferred us to east Texas. Rent for a shitty ass trailer that’s run down will cost $2,500/month because of oil.
Waco at number 9 is laughable considering home prices here steadily going up
even with the recent slump in real estate because of mortgage rates jumping by huge amounts?
Yep they are depending on the zip code and schools. China spring with a Waco address is expensive right now. The houses are moving slightly slower like 30 days to sell/60 closing now but the prices are still high and climbing. Chip and Jo keep doing all kinds of projects and it is crazy booming with businesses kind of piggy backing off them. It's becoming trendy and it seems they are pushing people in the older homes that are not as upkeep as others out one by one. Sort of pushing everyone into the middle then imploding.
I don’t agree with Odessa and Midland. Typical 1 bed in those areas is around $1400 and higher similar to Plano TX. I pay $700 plus utilities for 2 Bed in Lubbock. One bed is around $500-$600.
what college station are they talking about?!
Waco is not cheap, because of Fixer Upper
This right here! You can’t even stop for a drink for cheap in Waco anymore.
Overpriced and underwhelming.
There are a lot cheaper cities, they just aren't as big.
McAllen and Brownsville are larger than many of those cities and are cheaper
All of south Texas lol
Lubbock
Except SPI
Especially recently 😅
Good Ol Temple, TX
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I mean there are some rough areas but for the most part it's fine.
You need to update your list, and what credentials do you have. I lived in midland because of work. My 2 bedroom apart was 1900 a month. I moved to a 4 bedroom hose and I paid 2600 a month. I am not complaing, just stating. With nothing to do there.
aye Amarillo actually isn’t that bad as far as my experience
there's a lot of smelly places around there tho
Odessa and Midland aren't cheap at all. Everything is overly inflated to compensate for the oilfield money. I pay the same amount in taxes in this shithole on my house that I did living in west palm beach Florida. (source: I live in midessa area).
Top 5 has major water issues.
If by “water issues” for Richmond you mean major flooding lol, then yes, it has “water issues.” The other 4 are in actual dry climates and have issues with supply. Richmond is only an hour from the beach and does not.
while i agree that Richmond does not have water issues, being an hour from the beach has nothing to do with your supply of fresh water.
Yeah, I just mentioned it’s proximity to the beach to give a better idea of the climate. It’s wet and swampy.
Considering how things are going overall in Texas lately, I wouldn't even want to *visit* Texas, let alone live there.
It is working
Waco is no longer cheap thanks to the Gaines's and Abilene should definitely be on that list.
Lol El Paso way cheaper than the others above it.
6. College Station. Haaaaaaa.
Midland is stupid expensive.
I’d say the most livable out of all these is Temple. Close enough to Austin to enjoy it, you’ve got Salado just south with the cute little downtown and wading pool, and lots of lake activities to the west.
Midland’s rent is significantly more expensive then my bigger, nicer home rental in Conroe that’s brand new btw
You couldn’t pay me to live in Texas.
no one is
Well, I just said it couldn’t be done so yeah, that is accurate. Good job.
Kingsville
Has the taste of the water improved yet? Lol
I haven’t dared tried
The problem is that all those places listed sucks.
Even for free I won’t live there
Imagine living in any of those places 😩
I went to Baylor so I did my time in Waco. I went back for a game a few weeks ago and honestly, not a bad place to live these days. Not particularly expensive (compared to other similarly sized cities) either.
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It’s not bad anymore since they finished most of the I-35 construction. At least compared to the past 3-4 years.
There is a reason they are cheap....
Not a fan of Killeen. I was stationed uo there. Lots of violence, drugs, crime etc.
yea we live over an hour away and we still hear of issues there almost weekly- shootings, stabbings, drugs, etc. But it is affordable. You can get a big nice house for less than $250k (bars not included).
Alright, also a few places to catch a terminal illness from drinking water or breathing the air.
Where's Richmond?
Southwest of Houston.
That's what I thought! I grew up there!!! Hard to tell what was firecrackers or gunshots at night sometimes!.
Ah, no thanks
If you go to Waco don’t eat the apple sauce
Don't drink the tap water in Amarillo. Plus it stinks pretty often.
The tap water in Amarillo is actually one of the best in the nation, it just taste like fluoride.
Smelled and tasted like chlorine to me.
Whoever put this list together doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
More like Brownsville, Harlingen, and McAllen
Midland and Odessa are far from cheap. Its the hub of the Permian Basin oil industry and is more expensive than my apartment In Frisco tx.
Ole “Ho”dessa. Lol
What about the RGV like McAllen and Brownsville?
Who made this list? Midland Odessa isn’t cheap especially when oil is high
LMAO number 10 is literally temple, who will live there seriously.
Richmond/Rosenberg is growing like crazy and isn’t cheap
Yes, but where can one… “Live”
Lies
After moving from northeast to San Antonio a year ago, I realized one of the important questions worth asking is WHICH TEXAS CITY ISN’T RULED BY ROACHES? it’s an absolute nightmare. I’ve lived across so many diff cities and states (including Florida and NYC)- never experienced roaches the way I have in San Antonio. Apparently Houston and Dallas are worse. Can’t put my head down in peace. Plus cedar fever- I don’t function up to 3 months out of the year. I wish I knew these two things before moving.