{"id":36647,"date":"2019-04-20T02:45:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T02:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36647"},"modified":"2019-04-20T02:45:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T02:45:16","slug":"we-arent-alone-in-moving-to-the-metroplex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36647","title":{"rendered":"We aren&#8217;t alone in moving to the Metroplex!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=DFWMetroplex%20%23CensusBureau%20%23TexasTribune&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dallas_Skyline_TT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36648\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dallas_Skyline_TT-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dallas_Skyline_TT-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dallas_Skyline_TT-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Dallas_Skyline_TT.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This just in: My wife and I were part of a trend of those moving to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex in 2018!<\/p>\n<p>Who knew?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2019\/04\/18\/dallas-fort-worth-metro-area-saw-biggest-2018-texas-population-growth\/\">According to the Texas Tribune<\/a>, the U.S. Census Bureau said more than 131,000 people moved to the D\/FW area in 2017-18. The Metroplex remains the fastest-growing region in Texas, which is among the fastest-growing states in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2018, my wife and I picked up our belongings and moved them to Fairview, a community tucked between Allen and McKinney in Collin County. Not satisfied with our living arrangement there, we then looked for a home to buy. We found one in Princeton, which also is in Collin County.<\/p>\n<p>We have since learned a couple of things about Princeton. It is the fastest-growing community in Collin County and our investment here is going to accelerate rapidly over the next decade or so.<\/p>\n<p>I have made no secret about why we moved from the Texas Panhandle to the Metroplex.<\/p>\n<p>Is it at all possible that those other recent transplants to D\/FW also have grandchildren they want to watch grow into adulthood?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=DFWMetroplex%20%23CensusBureau%20%23TexasTribune&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just in: My wife and I were part of a trend of those moving to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex in 2018! Who knew? According to the Texas Tribune, the U.S. Census Bureau said more than 131,000 people moved to the D\/FW area in 2017-18. The Metroplex remains the fastest-growing region in Texas, which is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36647\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We aren&#8217;t alone in moving to the Metroplex!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8026,3920,4728],"class_list":["post-36647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-d-fw-metroplex","tag-retirement","tag-texas-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36649,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36647\/revisions\/36649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}