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NcongrunNT. What an awful story! I've heard so many things like this. A girl that was at a friend of mine's party one night was abducted on the way to her car and raped by a crackhead for three days as he drove her around making her take money out of her ATM so he could buy more crack. This was in the Fair Park area of Dallas. The only reason she's alive is because my friends all put a possee together to look for her car and saw it driving around. They actually called the cops and they got him.

Things like that make me want to start hunting people down. I wouldn't shoot someone that did something like that. That's way too fast...

govnor

jbenat wrote:We are planning to move to East Texas as soon as possible because of the traffic in and around Frisco. My wife is still tied to a very good job here, and that's the only reason we are still here.
When you live in the northern part of Frisco you just don't plan to go anywhere during the rush hour traffic unless you plan on sitting in a lot of traffic to get there. Growing up in Dallas, I remember when the evening rush hour was just one hour. It started at about 5PM and lasted until about 6PM, now it starts about 4PM and lasts until about 7PM.
It seems that law enforcement is mostly interested in seat belt violators when drivers are constantly tail gating ( my pet peave), speeding ( I don't poke but some people think they are in a race), running stop signs ( I don't think anyone ever stops anymore), and running red lights (the amber light only means 4 or 5 cars can still go through). If they don't see a cop car they ignore nearly all traffic rules. A fleet of unmarked police cars would pay for themselves in about a month.
I haven't even gotten around to the extreme rudeness but that would take too much hunting and pecking! All I hear in the advertized public announcements is to buckle up. If they are to stupid to buckle up in this traffic let nature take it's course!

I've been to Frisco during rush hour. GEEZ. The only place as bad in the metroplex would be Flower Mound. I think they've finally gotten better since expanding their roads. These small towns develop so quickly that the roads can't take all of the cars and it's worse than living in downtown Dallas. I know from experience! Believe it or not, I rarely dealt with traffic when I lived on the M streets because the traffic is usually going the opposite way during the rush hours.

The trap we're in is that we have to stay in the city to make money. You'll never make as much in the country. Country land is also getting expensive now because a lot of baby boomer types are moving back out of the cities. I can't think of an answer other than saving up money and waiting until you retire. A friend of mine's parents did that recently. They bought 25 acres somewhere around the Lindale area. They moved from Desoto after watching it crumble into a ghetto right before their eyes. They love it out there. His mom still commutes to Dallas every day too...

govnor

KBCraig wrote:
govnor wrote:
So, my "conversion experience" has nothing to do with handguns, since I was carrying the entire time. No, I'm a new convert: next time I'm forced to drive in D/FW rush hour traffic, I will insist on an M1A1 Abrams. Or at the very least, a HMMWV with a turret gunner!
I drive in this traffic every day. Usually 100 miles a day or so. I hate it, but you almost get used to people being idiots. I generally narrowly avoid at least two accidents a day. Sometimes more.
It used to not bother me when I would visit Dallas. Fifteen years ago, I was there monthly, if not more. Back then, I could stop in that quiet rural town of Rockwall for a cold drink, before putting on my "Dallas face" and heading across Ray Hubbard. The really bad traffic didn't start until 635, and inside that loop.

Today, Rockwall is just "East Dallas", and the 'burbs extend all the way to Greenville.

It's insane. I don't see how anyone puts up with it on a daily basis. The cost/benefit analysis has to be screaming in your ear to "Move! ANYWHERE ELSE!"

The daily stress has to take years off your life. Seriously: get out!

Kevin

Man, I am so with you on this. I own a business here that cannot be moved, though. So I'm pretty much stuck. I'd love to get out into the country, but then I hear about all the meth labs and stuff. I don't know where to go to get away. My family has country land that I can escape to from time to time, however. We have a parcel on lake Whitney and a farm in NW Texas.

One thing about traffic...I generally can avoid most of it. I don't leave the house until rush hour is over and most of the time stay out until it's over or come home before it. I have to sit in traffic sometimes, but not as much as you might think. Plus, I know ever side street and back alley in the DFW area. If it weren't for the airport, I'd never have to get on the freeway. I also stick to the tollways a lot.

Rockwall, the small town! Ha! I would like to have seen that. When I grew up in Mansfield, south of Arlington, we had a wal-mart and a whataburger. I remember when they put in the Mcdonalds! Now it's just a suburb of Fort Worth/Arlington and is quickly turning into a ghetto from what I hear. It's a shame. I remember people riding horses to school sometimes when I was in High school. That was the 80's too, so not all that long ago.

govnor

So, my "conversion experience" has nothing to do with handguns, since I was carrying the entire time. No, I'm a new convert: next time I'm forced to drive in D/FW rush hour traffic, I will insist on an M1A1 Abrams. Or at the very least, a HMMWV with a turret gunner!

I drive in this traffic every day. Usually 100 miles a day or so. I hate it, but you almost get used to people being idiots. I generally narrowly avoid at least two accidents a day. Sometimes more.

govnor

So I purchased my xd40 two weeks later and am currently in the waiting room for my chl. I hope to never again be so helpless.

Good for you. The reason I finally took the CHL class is because of neighbor problems. After having my last next door neighbor threaten to kill me for calling the police on their loud tejano music, and currently have some that blast hip hop so loud that I have to call the cops on them, I feel safer packing heat.

govnor

I'm betting I'm the most left-leaning person on this board

It's always nice to see a left leaning person that's on board with defending themselves.

govnor

I like the idea of a "conversion" since I have a lot of liberal anti-gun friends (yeah, who'd have thought!). I'd like to convert a few of them, and I take my time with them and don't try to force anything.

I've always been pro gun, because I grew up that way. I was a shrimp in school, so I was picked on a lot and had to fight whether I wanted to or not. I even won my fair share of them. I think it was that, that put me on edge ever since I was a child. I've ALWAYS been aware of my surroundings and of any potential threat. Luckily, I've avoided a few dangerous situations because of this awareness.

One of my friends was robbed at gunpoint in front of his apartment in Dallas last year. He always thought I was paranoid but has since changed his mind. I'd say having that happen to you would be a conversion worthy thing. The world is a bad place and it sucks that something bad has to happen to most people to get them to come around. I'd say being aware of your surroundings is more valuable than a CHL in most instances.

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