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I grew up in Dallas and we used to call Red Bird Mall "Blackbird Mall".

God bless him he's probably spinning there
too with all the crap going on around him

Take a drive down historic Congo Street.

It hasn't
The really sad part is that the better part of the
state is getting more like it by the day
Many just don't see it

I've yet to be in a large city I want to spend long in.

May God help us.

Well there are some very nice topless bars. I left Dallas in 1974 right about the time they started forced busing. Immediate crime wave.

Yes, some very nice T Bars. Best was Baby Doll's on the Fort Worth-Arlington line however.

I stand corrected.

Dallas has pretty much been a liberal mecca for decades but Ft Worth wasn't so much but has grown that way as well. Republican RINO Betsey Price was mayor for a decade or so and under her it has grown more and more liberal. They did the Sundance Square project and banned powder and primers from the Will Rogers Gun Show. They charge $10 to get in and another $10 to park. The Seminary South Shopping center was a pretty good mall years ago but has become little Mexico. Eastern Hills was sort of an upper middle class neighborhood now it's just The Hood. 820 is dilapidated and lord help if you ever wake up on SH360. You're in for a surprise in toll fees.
Enco and MSC used to have stores in Arlington and Dallas but they evacuated long ago.

LOL. We called it the same thing, that was in the 80’s

I grew up in north Atlanta in the fifties and sixties. Back then, it was whites in north Atlanta, and blacks in the south. In 1957 they built Lenox Square, one of the biggest and best malls in America. It was built in Buckhead, a suburb in north Atlanta for the rich white folks.

I lived 5 miles from Lenox and went there all the time. Great movie theatre and a great toy and hobby store. There was no crime at Lenox except for an occasional shoplifting. Also, never saw a negro there, unless it was a cook at the restaurant, or else a janitor.

These days the negros have taken over Lenox. My brother lives in Buckhead and he is afraid to shop at Lenox. Just four days ago, a 15 year old black girl went up to the security guard at Lenox and shot him twice in the chest. The nigs have moved in all over Buckhead and the City of Atlanta won't arrest them if they can help it, it is so bad that Buckhead is trying to secede from Atlanta and become their own city with their own police force.

I always knew that south Atlanta was a crime ridden cesspool, NBN you know, but now, they are infesting Buckhead? Unreal.
I got out of Atlanta 40 years ago and now I am where I want to be, a long way FROM Atlanta, I am in the wilderness in the NC mountains.

Well, the idea is to get the heck out of El Paso, which I don't care for and be close enough to Dallas to be able to help out my folks. Callahan County would be good - not too far, but property values have exploded there (and everywhere else for that matter). In Callahan County, property values have increased 3-5 fold from where they were 10 years ago. I saw some jackass asking $5,100.00/acre out there, but most property in that area is in the $2,200.00 - $3,000.00/acre range, which is still too high in my opinion.

Wow. This country needs to lots and lots more of that. Should be billboards everywhere.

But are they willing to PAY FOR their own police force?

It’s happened 3 times in the greater Baton Rouge area with a 4th in progress.

The answer is yes.

That’s from all the Abilene folks moving over there.
They’ve got meth and dope problems in Callahan County nowadays. Lotsa White Trash and dopers.
Friend of mine was the Sheriff there 20 ago. It’s really gone to schitt since he left. Murder, constant break ins, and lots of dope.
You might take a look at Shackelford or Throckmorton County’s. Land is higher, though.

Thanks for the heads up. How's Weatherford and slightly west of there?

I stopped at the Conoco station at exit 307 and I-20 not too long ago, which I believe is in Callahan county or real close (Baird, TX) just west of Putnam and there was a chick inside working the counter. You could easily tell she was a meth/crack abuser, otherwise she would have been a pretty danged good-lookin' woman. Damn shame. Land prices are getting too high around around Albany, + I hear it's very clickish and not overly welcoming to new folks.

Just wait "til President Harris appoints your new sheriff.

Not my county, LT. My Great Aunt used to have a Ranch their that we leased to run cattle on and for hunting, though.
Lots of poachers too.

Fugg The Ho. She ain’t gonna be my President. 🇨🇱