Moving from CA to Irving - Looking for Indian community

[unexpected]

Originally Posted by smuninja

Not anymore labor in India is also getting expensive,i am not sure where you got the build of quality of houses is poor,now if its built by a builder yes,but if people are building individual houses there will be some one supervising it everyday.

Right - no one trusts the builder homes! and for good reason!

[BigDGeek]

Originally Posted by unexpected

Your overall attitude and tone "Older houses don't have issues - HAHAHAHA!" as well as your other posts that have since been removed, are frankly quite condescending.

You won't see it that way, but that's the impression that you are giving off.

Not on my radar, bigger things on my mind right now.

Even your claim that "Indians by and large don't buy older houses" - is not an indisputable one. Indians prefer newer builds, but you're not getting a brand new build in Plano anymore. There are many Indians living Central and West Plano that bought older builds.

Indians are moving to Frisco/Irving out of sheer affordability and not necessarily new houses. New houses is a plus, but schools are the deciding factor. Given a new house in a frisco, or a 97 build in Plano, if price is the same, they would prefer to be in Plano.

I've worked in IT my entire adult life and I've known more people from India than I can count. The overwhelming majority of my Indian coworkers have expressed a strong preference for new builds, have had houses built specifically for them, or have bought houses built within the last 5 years...even if it meant that they had to drive an extra 5-10 miles to and from work.

And yes, school quality is important to them. It's important to almost every middle class/upper middle class parent. However, my experience has told me that school quality sometimes takes a backseat to the new house...especially if the parents feel that a slightly lower-quality school will give their kid(s) a better shot at a top 10% class rank. I have a former co-worker whose family moved to a different school district for that specific reason. (It worked, by the way.) That goes for parents of all nationalities and ethnicities, by the way. That sort of jostling is by no means unique to (or universal among) Indian parents.

[NoClueWho]

Even just looking at this forum, one would think the only people moving to DFW these days are Indians/South Asians and Californians. It sure feels like it.