Moving Advice | TheaterFire

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bluebonnethtx@reddit

I don't know your budget and this is exactly on the other side of DNT but I lived in 4110 Fairmount in one of the Townhomes for years and loved it.

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I lived at magnolia lemmon and what used to be called the lure on kings rd in this area for years. What kind of insight do you need? It’s ghetto along parts of maple but nice across lemmon where there’s highland park. I’m obsessed with the ivy bar. You’re right in the gayborhood and a good distance from everything in Dallas. I loved living here!

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Suspicious_Prior_808@reddit

I wanted to check out ivy, what about hidden door?

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mrbocbox@reddit

The hidden sore…

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texaskittyqueen@reddit

Those bartenders pour like they got a brick tied the their hand. It’s mostly a bear bar. Super fun! I used to work for an HIV clinic that hosted fundraisers there.

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Puzzleheaded-Taste-7@reddit (OP)

ghetto like unsafe, or ghetto like just lock your car?

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texaskittyqueen@reddit

Certain parts of maple both. I’d say lock your car more so, and don’t be alone at night per se but you’re a dude, so you’re probably safer than me as a small woman.

Cedar springs is pretty safe though, and just on the other side. I lived at magnolia on maple which is along Cedarplaza and also on kings which is along maple, and worked at parkland in the medical district for reference.

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Enreekay@reddit

Yes.

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Mindless_Necessary42@reddit

great area! my wife and I lived in the Griffis Oaklawn apartments for two years before we bought our house. We love our house and the general area we currently live in (walnut and 75) but do miss the Oaklawn neighborhoo.

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masonjar014@reddit

This area has some decent spots as well as blocks and blocks of lower income housing. Depending on your budget, I’d recommend being closer to Cedar Springs (The Lucas, The Dylan, or some houses close by) while avoiding any housing off or south of Maple completely. If you’re working downtown, do you NEED to be in this area? Uptown is close by and imo has options with a lower homeless population.

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SadAdministration438@reddit

There are a lot of new build townhomes for sale south of Maple and always wondered why they weren’t being sold yet given the good location.

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lovelylotuseater@reddit

Broadly speaking; a lot of those are priced like they’re nice homes in nice neighborhoods, but they are contractor grade houses built in that McMansion tradition of taking up every square inch of an itty bitty bitty lot so there is no room for a dog and your enormous house blocks the light falling on your bald dirt patch, and they stick out like sore thumbs in the neighborhood as they’re obvious attempts to gentrify the community by force.

If someone is budgeting ~1mil on a home in Dallas, they usually want a better build quality, more space, a cute neighborhood with similar aesthetics, and to not look out their third story window to see the rusted out cars moldering in their neighbor’s back yard (this is not hyperbole, you can check satellite images of the immediate surrounds of the hulking cubist monstrosities sprinkling up around Wycliff and Sylvester)

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SadAdministration438@reddit

Don’t know why I am getting downvoted, but yeah a lot of it is just tall townhomes or very boxy new builds next to older homes. Thx for the insight.

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lovelylotuseater@reddit

Don’t stress too much about downvotes. They don’t really influence anything beyond taking you to the point a specific post will only give you 0 karma. Karma’s not good for much nor are any other reddit credentials. If anything it’s very embarrassing having this albatross around your neck of “Top 1% Commenter” showcasing to everyone that you’re on Reddit too damn much.

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SadAdministration438@reddit

Oh yeah totally understand you haha. 👍

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DejaBlonde@reddit

Perfect spot for you. I lived in 5225 Maple for 5 years, I really liked them. I can't speak to their current rates, but they were low for the area when I moved in in 2019, and they barely raised them over the 5 years.

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versusChou@reddit

I lived in the area of Oak Lawn near Reverchon in 2018. It's actually quite nice. It's the gayborhood. Reverchon is connected to Katy Trail so you can walk or drive over (you can park behind the baseball fields last time I checked) and then get right on Katy Trail. It's also not a long walk from AAC from there.

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Pumpnethyl@reddit

You’re okay

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lurker-rama@reddit

I lived in an apartment on Hawthorne and I loved it.

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Appropriate-Big-3250@reddit

Lived on Bradford Dr for years while in my 20s and 30s. I loved it. If not for a growing family, I’d still be there today. The location is very convenient to night life, restaurants, and downtown. Beware though, within the red lines you drew you have a wide variety of folks; from upper middle class households to homeless encampments.

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Significant-Act-8990@reddit

Unless you wanna be able to walk nightly.... for hot gay action ... there are fine neighborhoods just a few blocks away.

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jumpbump@reddit

Are you trying to be close to the DART train station? Or why are you looking in that specific area?

I’d say anything in that west side of the tollway you have circled isn’t as nice as the east side. I’d try to live on the east side of the toll way for walkability reasons as well.

-Gay 30’s male in corporate

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qolace@reddit

When I was moving to the gayborhood I was told to stay away from the tollway or anything west of it. Chose to live 10min walking distance from Cedar Springs and stayed there for six fun years in my 20s

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Human_Emotion_654@reddit

I think you’ll want to be on the east side of the Tollway (DNT). Within the triangle formed by The Tollway, Lemmon Ave, and Turtle Creek Blvd. It is a nicer area. What is your budget?

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pradafever@reddit

I’d prefer living in Uptown over Oaklawn personally, especially as someone in their 20s. I can answer any questions you have about the area!

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qolace@reddit

? Oak Lawn is the perfect place to move to in your 20s. Uptown was full of materialistic assholes who wouldn't stop talking about themselves.

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Wizzmer@reddit

Lived there in the 80s. Saw people get shot in the housing project across from King's Quarters which we renamed to Queen's Quarters. Love seeing these reviews.

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Affectionate-Act6127@reddit

Do you have kids?

A highly correlated source for lead poisoning in children is living within the approach/departure of airport runways. Which is pretty much the entire area.

If you want to go car free and don’t mind DART, you can’t quite pull it off but close.

Parts that of the area on the north side share the parkland grid, and you’ll almost always be the last to lose power.

The Gayborhood isn’t the right knit community it used to be.

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JoyfulCor313@reddit

Yeah, so if you can extend your range to include down Oak Lawn and Lemmon and even over to McKinney Ave, you’d be getting more of the Oak Lawn gayborhood and some of Uptown as well.

Can’t say all of it is safer than the current area marked, but if I were looking, I’d definitely want to compare the two.

The majority of my friends that lived in this area would fit in my “triangle” of our shared imagined box, and they ranged from scary, old and cheap apartment to brand new build townhome so it really is just about what you find and what’s within the 2-3 blocks on either side.

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detoro@reddit

You would be ok to expand search a few blocks on the other side of the tollway.

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Shellstr@reddit

Maple can be a very tough street. We lived on medical district drive years ago before new Parkland was built up in the apartments right next to the greenline stop. We lived there the day they opened the line and rode it all the way to Carrollton just for fun.

It’s not dangerous, but I wouldn’t want to walk that street at night. There were/are some good restaurants on maple, but you aren’t walking to them like you are in uptown.

Elliot’s hardware is now a kroger, so that probably makes it more convenient, but also probably attracts some homeless from off the street.

This might be a bit dated, but I’ve driven down maple recently, and it didn’t seem like much had changed.

You are super close to downtown, love field, DART access, i35 and the DNT, so I really did like the proximity the area provided, with a much lower price point than uptown.

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SadAdministration438@reddit

It never fails to amaze me just how different a mile difference can make between from say Maple Ave to Westside Drive, even on the Dallas side. Although I know the area is gentrifying a lot, it’s still fascinating to me how areas can vary sm.

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dfwfoodcritic@reddit

I lived at Parkford Oaks apartments for 4.5 years; it's right next to the RaceTrac logo on your map. This was before covid, so grain of salt, but it was a really good place for me. The complex was all one bedroom apartments so it was all flight attendants, nurses, and older gay guys. Maintenance was OK, w/d included, I moved out because I met someone at a social event they put on (and then that someone bought a house).

Good bars in your circle: Ivy Tavern, Celestial Beerworks

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SadAdministration438@reddit

Seconding Ivy Tavern.

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BashfulRain@reddit

There is always uptown

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Lost_Condition_9562@reddit

Right in the Gayborhood. Most of the bars are over on the other side of the Tollway, but you couldn’t have picked a much better place to be in Dallas as a gay man. Have fun, bro!

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SadAdministration438@reddit

Don’t live there, but have driven around the area a lot. It’s a solid location within Dallas and that area is gentrifying heavily, but there are still some rough pockets. Lots of townhomes and apartment complexes so pretty residential in nature. Maple Ave, close to the DNT, has a few LGBTQ clubs. And institutions, such as resource centers and the Cathedral of Hope, along Inwood Rd. The closer you are to Lemmon, the better generally. Tons of restaurants and bars along Lemmon. Very safe north of it with West Highland Park, a high-price suburb, snaking along Westside Drive.

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AbueloOdin@reddit

That's the gayborhood.

I'd recommend checking out DART routes, bus and train. It'll be the easiest for your commute.

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