Dallas fishes: considering Frisco, Tx to buy a home as I have heard it is all new/nice and to raise a family. I have not lived in Texas. How is traffic to DFW and to downtown? Overall do you recommend

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Come!!! I live in Frisco, it’s awesome. Give me a ring or drop an email, will share details.

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Frisco is a great choice, especially now. They are really building up the area including Legacy West in Plano which is ~10 mins away. Seems like they’re trying to build a second downtown area up there

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Don't live there but was there for work a bunch last year, it's very suburban and like everywhere in Texas things are incredibly spread out for no reason. Would not recommend but plenty of people love it

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RD- no need to share a burner. Reported your post so your pii is removed.

Frisco is nice. I’ve lived there for 11 years. Don’t do it if you need to commute to Dallas. My SO did it on a local project and she almost quit. Great for families

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Frisco is a great place for families! Getting to DFW airport is rather easy if you take the Toll road. However if you are commuting into Dallas you can take the other toll road but it can get pretty messy.

Legacy West and The Star are kickass. I live in West Plano and love it. The Tollway sucks but whatever, you’ll get used to it

Traffic is awful getting up there and back during peak hours (something about paying road tolls to sit in stop-and-go traffic), I personally wouldn’t do it if I had a regular commute downtown. You may also look at north Carrollton (close to Parker Rd/75010 ZIP) or Allen

Thanks for all the input.

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