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Originally Posted by The Rock 07
Coincidentally, we're looking into moving to McKinney, Tucker Hill actually. Any thoughts, reccomendations on the area? Things that we must see up there that would help convince us to move there?
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McKinney is an odd combination of a city for being a Dallas suburb. It is one of the older cities in the area but also one of the fastest growing in the country for the last 3-5 years. My family moved to Stonebridge in 1994 and McKinney was only ~30,000 people, it is now well over 100,000 people. I've been away at school for a few years so I'll have to give you my impression of things when I left. Despite growing so much it still has a small community quality to it. If you are going to be checking out McKinney make sure you get to the square, it is a historic downtown that you can get to by going east at the Virginia/Louisiana exit. Just follow that for 1-2 miles and it will lead you right into downtown. From what I recall McKinney has more homes on the historic registry than any other town in Texas.
I wasn't familiar offhand with the Tucker Hill area, but when I googled it and saw the "trademark" frontporch homes I knew exactly where it was
That is still an area that is growing quite a bit so it may feel a bit isolated now but rest assured the town will grow out to it. If you are into this sort of thing there are miles of hike/bike trails and stocked lakes in Stonebridge which is just a relatively short jot from where Tucker Hill is on 380. There is also townlake which is just off 75 infront of the High School and it has ~1 mile jog path.
I don't know if you have children or not but the schools in McKinney are excellent, at least the ones where your child would attend, some of the east McKinney schools are a tad shady. I graduated from McKinney High School and thoroughly enjoyed my time there. I got a great education ( I would recommend AP classes to get the best teachers), was in music, played 3 sports. There is ample opportunity to be involved in whatever their interests are.
I know it sounds hokey but McKinney really is divided into an eastside/westside. Highway 5 is the dividing line. Eastside McKinney is not really somewhere I would want to go alone truth be told and in all the time I've lived in McKinney there have only been a few times I've been on the eastside.
The biggest downside I say that McKinney has is the infrastructure. Because it has grown so fast not all of the roads have caught up to the growth of people. If you going to be working relatively close to where you live than it shouldn't be a problem, but if you have a significant commute to Dallas/Richardson traffic is terrible.
