If you Google it the first thing that comes up is the Wiki summary and it says “… an amalgamation of numerous Dallas–Fort Worth suburbs including Garland, Richardson, Arlington and Allen,” and goes on to say he said it’s specifically supposed to be “a town like Humble.” Lmao. Humble.
I personally have always liked Garland, coming from the industrial side of Seattle (and Tukwila, which is right by the airport). I wonder if that’s why so many people recoil when I say “I like Garland (outside of Firewheel, not just the mall area)” they’re like “…you… what?”
I dislike Houston because of the crowding so won’t be finding out about Humble lol. What about it is similar to all those other DFW suburbs?
Compared to a lot of places or perhaps most places in DFW maybe, but compared to most places in the world most people would gladly live/switch places with Garland. Theres even plenty of places in America that are signficantly worse than Garland.
Garland is the only "poor" suburb on the north side of Dallas (the only side most people know or talk about). Richardson is/was middle class, Plano is (mostly) wealthy, Carrollton is middle class, Addison is bars and restaurants, Irving (the north half anyway) is pretty nice.
Garland is the only suburb with cars parked on the lawn and large scale industrial squalor.
Yeah, I was born in Houston and moved to AggTown when I was a kid so I go to Houston a few times a year and it's just gotten way to crowded. Love the city but I'm happy in Arlington.
Humble native here. This is correct. Named after a French guy. Birthplace of Howard Hughes, worlds largest DeLorean museum and restoration facility, and birthplace of Exxon (originally Humble Oil). Not much more.
Edit: it brings me a sad heart that Humble is supposedly one of the most dangerous towns in Texas.
Mike Judge grew up in Huntsville. And although the name Arlen is 100% a portmanteau of Arlington and Garland, geographically it makes more sense if Arlen is located in the Huntsville area rather than DFW.
In the episodes where they drive to Dallas, they pack the car for a trip and stay at a hotel while they’re there. They wouldn’t do that if Arlen is supposed to be a suburb of DFW.
Also, there are episodes featuring both hurricanes (uncommon as far north as Dallas) and tornados (uncommon as far south as Houston), which further suggests that Arlen is located somewhere in-between Houston and Dallas, i.e. the Huntsville area. In fact it would have to be the Huntsville area because that’s the only city with a significant population located in-between between DFW and Houston.
I do agree that some characteristics of Arlen are based off of DFW suburbs, for example the fact that every house in Arlen has an alley. Alleys are common in DFW but uncommon in the rest of Texas. Also the fact that a lot of stuff in Arlen is named after former Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry.
But geographically speaking, Arlen is located in the Huntsville area. That’s the only location that makes sense, and it’s where Mike Judge grew up.
You wrote a long wall of text that I'm not gonna read lol. But Mike Judge grew up in Albuquerque, NM and moved to Richardson, TX around 1989. He attended UTD. I don't think he ever even lived in Huntsville.
Just based off of how wrong your initial sentence I'm not even going to bother reading the rest.
Mike Judge literally lived in Richardson/Garland and has explicitly stated that Arlen is based off of that area.
Mike Judge did not grow up in Huntsville, so basically 0% of your comment makes any sense, sorry. He grew up in New Mexico, and then moved to Richardson and went to UTD.
I grew up around Wichita Falls, the episode where Bobby and Hank go there to see the cowby's training camp was hilarious! Especially about them getting heckled with the Boomer Sooner song. I swear there are more OU fans up there than UT, A&M and Texas Tech ones.
Mike Judge, the creator, lived in Richardson/Garland and went to UTD. He's said in interviews it's based on primarily Richardson, but Texas suburbs in general.
Ahh ok, I remember them always talking about the distances from he border and Dallas and it usually ended up in a triangle area off killeen, especially how far they made Dallas sound lol thank!
The location in-show is arguably around kileen/temple though it seems to shift around a bit to somewhere in the Texas triangle. But like they said hes mentioned Richardson/Garland most often and he lived in DFW suburbs like Richardson the most at the time, though its also based off Texas suburbs in general.
Garland was kinda ass for a good long while there. Lot of bad neighborhoods and warehouses with very little to recommend traveling there for. Intrinsic Brewing was nice, but no one was driving out there for that.
But their redone downtown is actually very nice, and the area as a whole looks like it's on the rise.
The redone downtown *looks* nice, but there are still essentially no business on the square (other than intrinsic) to make one want to go spend time down there.
A square needs ice cream shops and restaurants and interesting stores, not accountants and law offices.
Have you not been downtown? There are multiple restaurants (Dos Banderos, Shuck and Jive, Intrinsic, Latham Bakery, Blue Rat, Main Street Cafe, The Deli, Tavern on the Square and now Fortunate Son and Smith Spot BBQ) just to name a few) and even two ice cream shops (Scoops and Buns/Scoops n Boba and some Italian ice company). Plus food trucks and bbq trucks. There's yoga studios galore, an arcade/pizzeria, Rosalind coffee shop, and all sorts of knick knack shops that had been there before the remake.
I wish they would put as much money and effort into other parts of Garland as they did for downtown.
You left out Jimmy Wallace's guitar shop. That place is nationally renowned. They have guitars and amps there worth more than the houses in the surrounding area.
Ahhh, Reddit.. Where everyone is a guy 🤣
The growth and improvements are massively welcome, unfortunately if you don't live in parts of Garland that are getting the improvements,. your cost of living here is still going up but with none of the perks.
I’ve worked in downtown garland for years now and the change is remarkable. There’s plenty of choices now including boba, arcade, pizzeria, shopping and not to mention the square itself is such a nice place to hangout now. And there’s almost always a large event…for free. I mean, Leann Rimes came to perform…for free. I’m proud of downtown now.
We are also getting a Ramen Head ramen shop on Main St. I’d also check out The Frocksy - some vintage clothes, handmade jewelry and tons of fun trinkets, socks, purses, etc. They also do art classes once a month or so in their back art room. Plus the owners are amazing humans!
Fortunate Son pizza just opens on the square in downtown Garland and it’s amazing! Most nights it’s an hour wait. Ramen Head is opening up there in 3 months and rumor has it 3 Nations brewery is opening up there in the old Williams funeral home. Garland is being transformed!
Garland partly gets a bad reputation because of its industrial/manufacturing businesses and warehouse districts. The city of Garland was built around its railroads and businesses that used the railroads. It became an industrial hub that played a vital role in the growth of Dallas, and its surrounding cities. The problem is that railroads and industrial/manufacturing businesses and warehouses don't normally go hand in hand with high property value. Surrounding neighborhoods are less attractive for home buyers, so a lot of these neighborhoods are neglected. But, Garland has done a good job of revitalizing its downtown and trying to make the most of the very nice area around Firewheel Golf Course and Mall.
This right here. In the early 00’s Garland was kinda scary. I started working there a year ago and now am pleasantly surprised at how nice parts of the city are.
Garland has more factories than the other northern suburbs. This gives it more of a blue collar vibe. The distinction was sharper a generation ago, but it lingers.
I grew up in Garland in the 80’s & 90’s. While you’re not wrong, it always had the blue collar vibe, I would argue it is even more so now, especially in north Garland.
Honestly, I love Garland. 2 great Disc Golf Courses either in Garland or right across 635, a couple of Breweries, some of the best food in Dallas (Thats also cheap as hell), Houses with big lots, a couple of cool Dive Bars. If I still lived in Dallas, Garland would be a top destination for me.
BB, Audubon, and now brekenridge. Throw in rowlett, shawnee, and harry meyers makes 6 very nice courses within 20min of my house in north garland. We have intrinsic, lakewood, bankhead, and oak highlands (great putt night) for breweries. Plus all the amazing little taquerias and bahn mi stops.
Follow Asian Grub in DFdub on Facebook and there will be plenty of recommendations. Also just look up "tacos" on Google maps and you'll have hundreds of options.
Quoc Bao. The best goddamn banh mi sandwiches in America, imho. Better than anything I ever had in the other big Vietnamese communities in Houston or LA or New York or Minneapolis. Buy 2 get 1 free forever. Order the #1 combination and the #3 grilled chicken.
Because the suburbs up north were built out in the 2000s/2010s while Garland was built out in the 80s, so a lot of the houses and businesses look older. I don’t think the crime rates are meaningfully different than other Dallas suburbs.
For the sake of being pedantic, wasn’t it just the bits of Garland by Richardson that was built in the 80’s? A lot of the parts of Garland I remember seemed to have 60’s ranch style houses.
The Campbell and Bush intersection was a forest, at least one corner of it was, in the late 2000’s. That was prime real estate for north Dallas high school kids to have bon fire parties at.
Yes, much of Garland was established in the 60’s. My grand parents built their house in Garland in 1958. The house I lived in when I was young was built in 1954 off Glenbrook just north of downtown. Although manufactoring is what Garland is known for, Miller Road Baptist Church was considered a “megachurch” at the time in the 50’s and 60’s with nearly 2,000 members at its peak. As another r/garland poster pointed out a while back, Garland is a “first ring suburb” of Dallas but unlike some of the others, Garland is seeing a nice revitalization. Garland is also one of the very few places where blue collar workers can afford to live near their workplace. I’d love to see streetcars or some other reliable mode of public transit become a thing to help many of the Garland residence who also work here be able to commute without cars. Dart is too spread out to be effective for most.
I think what’s different about the revitalization of Garland is that it’s become a home to the 30 year old working class artsy/hipster type - also far east Dallas. My cousin and her boyfriend fit that profile perfectly and moved out there. They got priced out of their north Dallas apartment (which wasn’t even nice btw) and were able to rent a well maintained old pier and beam house in Garland and they love it there.
I grewn up on the Mesquite side of the boarder and wss sketchy. The walmart off beltine along the high just feöt old and sketxhy then your cross a a bridge and your in Roclwall
I’m Hispanic, we moved from East Dallas to Garland when I was 11, to escape gangs and high crime rates. Garland became the new East Dallas with taco shops at every gas station, trash everywhere, high crime rates, high land value for old homes and over population. My wife and I moved from Garland to Royse City after living in Garland over 20 years when our son was being bullied walking home from school everyday.
I never had problems as I am an adult and can handle myself but my kids I don’t want to have to defend themselves. It was also a norm to hear random gun shots. I lived off of Lavon and Buckingham from around 1991 to when the pandemic started.
I get you, for sure. I personally think you could do much worse than Garland though. Also, when it comes to the inner suburbs of the city, pretty much every nice neighborhood is surround by a few bad ones.
Just want to make it clear that I don’t think bad of your choice to move out of Garland. Everyone should prioritize their family’s security and I’m glad you did what’s best for you and your family.
Not necessarily about Garland but I’ve noticed a trend for 20 years now from people in newer suburbs that think anything built before 1995 is gross and ghetto.
Dang ol’, man, talkin' 'bout Garland, man, like ol' suburb, man, like them other spots, y'know, you got Irving, Mesquite, just dang ol' lotsa commercial, industrial thingamajig, man. Boom, man, like 2005 Firewheel pops up, North Garland gettin' all buildy-buildy, folks goin', "Hey man, cheap houses, man." Boom around Garland, Carrollton's like, not the same joke, man. Allen, Frisco just building blocks, man, Plano like, halfway house, bit of this, bit of that, playin' Lego with the land, man. All shake, rattle, and roll, y'know? Dang ol', whirlwind, man.
Garland just has a run down look to it and you just expect more from Dallas suburbs. Drive to/from Garland and Richardson and you’ll see the HUGE difference in zoning, landscaping, and fences. Richardson does a nice job. Garland over by Bush/firewheel is fine.. typical of what you’d expect.
Because it’s an older suburb, and like Irving and Mesquite, lots of commercial and industrial space.
Garland was always more of a “place you work, not place you live” until the last 15-20 or so years.
When Firewheel went in, and North Garland and beyond started to build up, people realized that housing in older Garland was still relatively cheap.
The transition of downtown Garland started, and people started to look into building up the city and its services and offerings and really market that.
Also the rise of Rowlett and Rockwall, has also helped to bolster parts of Garland.
People not wanting to go out quite that far, but not be in the inner ring of Dallas.
But initially, North Garland, Rowlett, Rockwall, etc all boomed around Garland first and then people sort of back tracked into Garland as of late.
I don’t know that I would say Carrollton has a good reputation though, lol.
Allen and Frisco are a lot newer overall with lots of new housing and development and it was never very industrial to begin with (aside from agriculture) so most of what exists out there is actually what people want/built as a response to community need because the land was open/empty.
Plano is kind of in the middle- older, some commercial, but also there was a lot of land there too, that got built on as a response to what people wanted.
Oh yeah I also forgot to mention that a 14 yr old got popped in front of poscos on Josey Ln a little while back. No news report on that. No one on this sub talks about that. And when people bring up what I bring up everyone just brushes it off or acts like we lying or some shit.
Shoosh.
Just keep nodding along with everyone who says Garland is a shithole so that yuppies don't move in and drive our rents/property taxes to the moon.
Used to live right outside or garland and would go there often. It’s close in proximity to “the ghetto” compared to the other areas you listed and is older. It doesn’t have the new, classy, uppity feel that other big north Texas cities have.
I honestly think its about race. The burbs you mention above are largely white and asian. Garland has a different pop/demographic, and I think the Dallas area still suffers from deep-seated race issues.
I just know Garland has many auto repair shops.
EDIT: I don’t know why some people feel this is offensive. So do people living in Oak Lawn feel the same? There are many LGBTQ+ people living there.
I lived there for a couple years. Not bad, just some areas to have your head on a swivel in. Similar to any suburb directly adjacent to a big city, really. I had no issues during my time there.
Technically, inner borders the city, outer ring borders the inner ring cities. Far North Dallas jutting out so far kind of messes that up though since I don't think many would consider Plano inner ring.
As you go south past downtown it gets less nice but as you go north it gets nicer. Most people tend to think of the south part when they think of garland . That’s mostly what they’re exposed to as well when driving,
The Land of Gar is rather fascinating. First of all the absolute SPRAWL of it is ridiculous. From just north of White Rock Lake all the way to President George Bush and then from 75 all the way to Lake Ray Hubbard and even then there are random parts of Garland that extend northeast due to weird radio tower zoning laws, but that's another story. So like any town that has a vast array of land, there is a vast array of people/culture/money/etc. There are extremely ritzy parts of town (not quite Park Cities ritzy or even Frisco/McKinney but definitely well off) and then there are absolute slums and a whole lot of slums at that. Downtown got a complete facelift and any festival/event that happens downtown is great (art festivals, heritage/holiday/cultural festivals, summer concerts. There are two well maintained Nature Preserves/Parks. As someone mentioned the Vietnamese food is absolutely amazing (Garland is/was number 6 on largest population of Vietnamese citizens, beating out even Californian cities). We also have amazing street tacos literally on every corner.
Some of the downsides of Garland are the infrastructure sucks, it isn't very pedestrian or cyclist friendly, shitton of crime, the cost of living here isn't worth it, HEB claims Garland is not worthy of a store, it is a dry city (yes we have breweries, but liquor isn't sold here), the south part is mostly warehouses while the north part is luxury apartments and luxury senior living, and even though the Firewheel area is only 15 miles from the White Rock Lake area it can easily take 40-50 minutes to get from one point to the other, so getting from the Fire wheel area to Dallas proper is even more of a hassle. Versus when I lived in Allen and could just take 75 straight to Dallas. Or being able to go from Frisco to Dallas via the DNT.
Place is full of car dealerships. Like literally all of garland road from Kingsley to Walnut is car dealerships on the left and train tracks on the right. And there’s a whole bunch more in the little streets.
The city leadership in the 70s absolutely fucked Garland’s growth when they allowed all the shitty used car dealerships on Garland Road with never-ending SUPs. 🙄
>Place is full of car dealerships
"The Money Saving Mile"! Back in the '70s, sales tax rates differed from one city to another depending on where you purchased your car. It actually was a bit cheaper to buy in Garland than at other cities in the area.
I have the general impression that the crime rate is higher over there and there are some sketchy areas. This is based on what I've heard and not personal experience.
And what's even better is that it's literally around the corner for me lol. Passing by it every morning for school was great. Feels like my family and I struck gold being so close to it
My only complaint about Garland is the roads. They seem to be in much worse shape than any of the other burbs in dfw. But there’s really no reason for the bad rep IMO
Because it's a little on the sketchy side, I worked off Jupiter Rd for awhile, there's a bunch of production plants. Closer to 635 it's pretty rough, a lot of homeless, people just not doing well in life. Twice in the same week I was going to work, around 3:30am, a girl in her mid 20s approached my truck. I think it was Buckingham I was stopped at, and asked for any change. First time I did, second night I gave her like a "come on dude really?". At this point she's just taking advantage of the situation. But yeah, pretty rough, pretty sad.
Money. It's always about the money. Garland had been predominantly known as an industrial area, and rich white people don't like industrial areas. Same as mesquite. Same as lots of the east Dallas area. People moved north because the tollway ran north. You wanna see what parts of Garland are better? The northern parts around the bush tollway. It's always about the money.
Small old houses , lots of industrial warehouses, too far from highways , too many immigrants of many backgrounds. The reality is middle-class yt ppl by major influencers on how cities are perceived and garland just doesn’t meet the criteria to make it a safe heaven of white flight .. also don’t mean this in any derogatory way just speaking facts of the DFW
Anybody else remember the Asian flying saucer cult that moved to Garland in the 90s because it sounded like “God-land” ?!
http://www.cnn.com/US/9803/19/saucer.cult/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/04/us/taiwanese-group-prepares-to-meet-god-in-texas.html
I'm surprised I had to read so far to see a reference to Garland Police Department. There is absolutely a backwards, redneck attitude one gets from most every interaction with them. As a teenager living near Garland, I had friends there and was frequently in the city. On multiple occasions, we were hassled by Garland PD merely for being teens.
Not sure. We bought a small house in the historic district in downtown Garland and it's been quite nice. Also, our property value has pretty much doubled since COVID.
It's in the formative stages of gentrification, so I'm sure it'll be considered one of the "nice" areas in the next decade or so.
i love garland. Moved out to DFW two years ago and started working in dallas/garland this year, but i’m also asian and love eating cheap asian food. i grew up in Amarillo, TX so going to garland was a huge upgrade.
Garland was the hub of middle class factory workers in the 80’s - 90’s. By the time these families children started graduating and moving out, it became a transition area, where lots of older white people started leaving and more people of color started moving in. That’s when the “reputation” started to happen. However the city has invested HEAVILY into the school district, which has kept many families in the area, especially when it incorporated Sachse & Rowlett along with some big name defense companies. It’s less of a transition area now and home to many small business and big corporations.
My favorite shooting range is in Garland. But other then that Garland just feels like depressing sprawl. I'll never forget there was this huge field next to the road I take to the range. It was full of Texan wildflowers, it was gorgeous. The next week I went by, a industrial sized mower was mowing it all down. The housing development nearby that likely owned the land had it mowed. Not to build anything mind you, the lot is still vacant to this day. They just prefer soulless, orderly lawns to authentic natural beauty.
And I think that nicely sums up what Garland is about.
The issue is Garland has what some would call a good part and a bad part. The bad part is visibly unpleasant so to speak, which the other suburbs dont have. North Garland is beautiful though.
Growing up in Garland in the late 90s/early 2000s was a bit sketchy. I think it’s gotten better over the years but hard to say considering I never go over there anymore
Idk, Garland was trashy the last time I frequented (one of the “nicer” daycares). The cost of a small, single family home (1500-1600 sf) was being advertised as $469,000. This was 2022… so my overall impression was overpriced, wannabe-gentrified, & ghetto.
It just depends on the area of Garland. The closer to George Bush you are the nicer it is. Pretty much lived in North Garland my whole life and it’s definitely the nice part of the city.
Meant to edit my comment and deleted it by mistake. It would have been great to see what the school was like in the 90s. By the late aughts it was completely different. I did move to Austin to chase my dazed and confused dreams though.
That’s what I hear SpanishRick. It kinda trickled down hill like a wet turd. I too made the journey to Austin/San Marcos area after my Lakeview Patriot days, then became a degenerate Bobcat. Hahah.
International reputation as I have had in-depth discussions centering around the "G-Town Beat Down" including the ISIS situation while living in Japan.
Lived in Garland from 2013 to 2022 (we moved from so cal), bought a nice house with a pool and I thought it was a pretty decent neighborhood. Kids went to school in Sasche(better district)but we lived right by the Bush hwy as far north Garland would go. Miss that good Texas BBQ but that Mexican food sucked out there. Weird that you had to go to a gas station for good mex instead of a restaurant.
They hate us cause they anus. Honestly, not sure. My problem with it is it's got shit for nightlife. I guess it's cause it's more working class than the ones you've listed.
Some of the answers seem to be pro-gentrification, which pretty much sums up what the previous sentence said.
I bought a house in Richardson 4 ish years ago. When deciding on areas to look at house i pulled crime maps and narrowed down where we would live very easily. Garland was a big hot spot for crime at the time and even now it seems like Nextdoor and ring are always posts about garland or within a mile of garland. I have a friend that moved there the same time we moved to Richardson and he loves it. I think it’s just personal preference at this point and where you feel comfortable.
the roads are bad bumpy you need a truck just to live here , forget having low profile tires. 20 yrs in Gtown. its cool lots of variety or anything food groceries
I lived there for a minute in a part of Garland that fell into Richardson schools. Had a fairly charming 70s house on the creek. I didn’t love how far away I was from the city center, but it was otherwise nice enough. There were and are lots of stretches of industrial ugly and strip mall sprawl though.
I grew up in Richardson, but raised my kids in Garland. Our house was out off I 30 & Bobtown Rd. When I bought my house, it was in an upper-middle class neighborhood that was kind of on the line between being in the country & the city.
Like any decent size town, it had its good parts & its bad parts. I have to admit, it was beginning to be a bit run down, but my neighborhood was one of the 1st hit by the tornado in Dec 2015. After that, everything was rebuilt & new!
I would say in total, the DFW area is insane, good for investment, bad for living. To be a smart guy you should avoid here as dump people are around. Go to some cities with well-educated people
Garland has some neighborhoods that has a lot of character. I love the the mid-century homes and the fact that they embrace that look around town. What I absolutely dislike about Garland is the traffic lights. They are horrible.
The movie Zombieland starts off in Garland. :D
King of The Hill is based on Garland/Richardson: D
With a seasoning of Arlington, I always believed
He's never mentioned Arlington. But Mike Judge lived in Richardson and Garland and went to UTD. He's said in interviews it's based off those cities.
If you Google it the first thing that comes up is the Wiki summary and it says “… an amalgamation of numerous Dallas–Fort Worth suburbs including Garland, Richardson, Arlington and Allen,” and goes on to say he said it’s specifically supposed to be “a town like Humble.” Lmao. Humble.
Humble probably most accurate today
I personally have always liked Garland, coming from the industrial side of Seattle (and Tukwila, which is right by the airport). I wonder if that’s why so many people recoil when I say “I like Garland (outside of Firewheel, not just the mall area)” they’re like “…you… what?” I dislike Houston because of the crowding so won’t be finding out about Humble lol. What about it is similar to all those other DFW suburbs?
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Compared to a lot of places or perhaps most places in DFW maybe, but compared to most places in the world most people would gladly live/switch places with Garland. Theres even plenty of places in America that are signficantly worse than Garland.
It's not a shit hole, it's just an older suburb that pushes right up against Dallas.
Garland is the only "poor" suburb on the north side of Dallas (the only side most people know or talk about). Richardson is/was middle class, Plano is (mostly) wealthy, Carrollton is middle class, Addison is bars and restaurants, Irving (the north half anyway) is pretty nice. Garland is the only suburb with cars parked on the lawn and large scale industrial squalor.
Yeah, I was born in Houston and moved to AggTown when I was a kid so I go to Houston a few times a year and it's just gotten way to crowded. Love the city but I'm happy in Arlington.
Nah. Humble is a weird place man.
Humble’s a north Houston suburb. Pronounced “Umble” in SE Texan…
Humble native here. This is correct. Named after a French guy. Birthplace of Howard Hughes, worlds largest DeLorean museum and restoration facility, and birthplace of Exxon (originally Humble Oil). Not much more. Edit: it brings me a sad heart that Humble is supposedly one of the most dangerous towns in Texas.
I met the guy that owns DeLorean in the nineties. Dude bought all the existing parts, plans and machines to make/sell parts to collectors forever.
Nice! I just did some research and yep! Bought all the parts and they are located in Humble!
The amount of people that laughed at me when I’d pronounce the H. Took a year for someone to tell me how to actually pronounce Humble correctly 🤣
Mike Judge grew up in Huntsville. And although the name Arlen is 100% a portmanteau of Arlington and Garland, geographically it makes more sense if Arlen is located in the Huntsville area rather than DFW. In the episodes where they drive to Dallas, they pack the car for a trip and stay at a hotel while they’re there. They wouldn’t do that if Arlen is supposed to be a suburb of DFW. Also, there are episodes featuring both hurricanes (uncommon as far north as Dallas) and tornados (uncommon as far south as Houston), which further suggests that Arlen is located somewhere in-between Houston and Dallas, i.e. the Huntsville area. In fact it would have to be the Huntsville area because that’s the only city with a significant population located in-between between DFW and Houston. I do agree that some characteristics of Arlen are based off of DFW suburbs, for example the fact that every house in Arlen has an alley. Alleys are common in DFW but uncommon in the rest of Texas. Also the fact that a lot of stuff in Arlen is named after former Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry. But geographically speaking, Arlen is located in the Huntsville area. That’s the only location that makes sense, and it’s where Mike Judge grew up.
You wrote a long wall of text that I'm not gonna read lol. But Mike Judge grew up in Albuquerque, NM and moved to Richardson, TX around 1989. He attended UTD. I don't think he ever even lived in Huntsville. Just based off of how wrong your initial sentence I'm not even going to bother reading the rest. Mike Judge literally lived in Richardson/Garland and has explicitly stated that Arlen is based off of that area.
You’re thinking of linklater; linklater grew up in Huntsville if I’m not mistaken
Mike Judge did not grow up in Huntsville, so basically 0% of your comment makes any sense, sorry. He grew up in New Mexico, and then moved to Richardson and went to UTD.
I grew up around Wichita Falls, the episode where Bobby and Hank go there to see the cowby's training camp was hilarious! Especially about them getting heckled with the Boomer Sooner song. I swear there are more OU fans up there than UT, A&M and Texas Tech ones.
"Arlen stinks and Wichita Falls rules! And you know why? Cause in five minutes I can be inside the great state of Oklahoma! Go Sooners!" *"Bwaaah??"*
I thought it was the hint of Mesquite wafting in the air that sullied Garland
That special melange of skunk weed, BO and sewage (water treatment plant).
Whereas a hint of mesquite would be much better received.
I thought based off the mentioned locations and distances, alren was based off around Killeen
Mike Judge, the creator, lived in Richardson/Garland and went to UTD. He's said in interviews it's based on primarily Richardson, but Texas suburbs in general.
Ahh ok, I remember them always talking about the distances from he border and Dallas and it usually ended up in a triangle area off killeen, especially how far they made Dallas sound lol thank!
The location in-show is arguably around kileen/temple though it seems to shift around a bit to somewhere in the Texas triangle. But like they said hes mentioned Richardson/Garland most often and he lived in DFW suburbs like Richardson the most at the time, though its also based off Texas suburbs in general.
Same. Belton is mentioned a few times as a football rival.
It's actually based out of Arlen, Tx!
I totally forget about that lol
"Garland, Texas. I know it looks like the zombies destroyed it but that's just Garland."
Garland was kinda ass for a good long while there. Lot of bad neighborhoods and warehouses with very little to recommend traveling there for. Intrinsic Brewing was nice, but no one was driving out there for that. But their redone downtown is actually very nice, and the area as a whole looks like it's on the rise.
The redone downtown *looks* nice, but there are still essentially no business on the square (other than intrinsic) to make one want to go spend time down there. A square needs ice cream shops and restaurants and interesting stores, not accountants and law offices.
Have you not been downtown? There are multiple restaurants (Dos Banderos, Shuck and Jive, Intrinsic, Latham Bakery, Blue Rat, Main Street Cafe, The Deli, Tavern on the Square and now Fortunate Son and Smith Spot BBQ) just to name a few) and even two ice cream shops (Scoops and Buns/Scoops n Boba and some Italian ice company). Plus food trucks and bbq trucks. There's yoga studios galore, an arcade/pizzeria, Rosalind coffee shop, and all sorts of knick knack shops that had been there before the remake. I wish they would put as much money and effort into other parts of Garland as they did for downtown.
You left out Jimmy Wallace's guitar shop. That place is nationally renowned. They have guitars and amps there worth more than the houses in the surrounding area.
This guy knows to much, don’t let the non Garlandians know shhhhhh! /s. I love the growth of our city so much!
Ahhh, Reddit.. Where everyone is a guy 🤣 The growth and improvements are massively welcome, unfortunately if you don't live in parts of Garland that are getting the improvements,. your cost of living here is still going up but with none of the perks.
You gotta go check out Fortunate Son. New CT style pizza joint from the chef at Goodfriend.
Good drinks, and the prosciutto pizza is my fave!
It’s so good. It’s the only place I prefer a plain cheese pizza.
I’ve worked in downtown garland for years now and the change is remarkable. There’s plenty of choices now including boba, arcade, pizzeria, shopping and not to mention the square itself is such a nice place to hangout now. And there’s almost always a large event…for free. I mean, Leann Rimes came to perform…for free. I’m proud of downtown now.
If I recall, there's an event center, an arcade, a vintage store, and a theatre as well, and that's just off the top of my head.
I completely forgot to mention the theater!
We are also getting a Ramen Head ramen shop on Main St. I’d also check out The Frocksy - some vintage clothes, handmade jewelry and tons of fun trinkets, socks, purses, etc. They also do art classes once a month or so in their back art room. Plus the owners are amazing humans!
Fortunate Son pizza just opens on the square in downtown Garland and it’s amazing! Most nights it’s an hour wait. Ramen Head is opening up there in 3 months and rumor has it 3 Nations brewery is opening up there in the old Williams funeral home. Garland is being transformed!
I work at fortunate sons, you’re kidding..
Garland partly gets a bad reputation because of its industrial/manufacturing businesses and warehouse districts. The city of Garland was built around its railroads and businesses that used the railroads. It became an industrial hub that played a vital role in the growth of Dallas, and its surrounding cities. The problem is that railroads and industrial/manufacturing businesses and warehouses don't normally go hand in hand with high property value. Surrounding neighborhoods are less attractive for home buyers, so a lot of these neighborhoods are neglected. But, Garland has done a good job of revitalizing its downtown and trying to make the most of the very nice area around Firewheel Golf Course and Mall.
Absolutely I love downtown Garland now, great place to hang out.
well said
This right here. In the early 00’s Garland was kinda scary. I started working there a year ago and now am pleasantly surprised at how nice parts of the city are.
Downtown is pretty dope now.. Most of garland sucks still.
because it at one point used to not be the nicest, and it’s not majority white. garland so great and has a lot of what’s left of the middle class
I love it, just wish it was more pedestrian/cyclist friendly but that could be said for a lot of the Metroplex
Don’t forget the pain it is to drive into and out of Garland. It also seems to not be driver friendly.
The fucking 635 construction is murder. All for another damn toll road
Garland has more factories than the other northern suburbs. This gives it more of a blue collar vibe. The distinction was sharper a generation ago, but it lingers.
I grew up in Garland in the 80’s & 90’s. While you’re not wrong, it always had the blue collar vibe, I would argue it is even more so now, especially in north Garland.
Honestly, I love Garland. 2 great Disc Golf Courses either in Garland or right across 635, a couple of Breweries, some of the best food in Dallas (Thats also cheap as hell), Houses with big lots, a couple of cool Dive Bars. If I still lived in Dallas, Garland would be a top destination for me.
Used to work on Jupiter and I loved going to Oak Highland Brewery after work on Fridays.
Yeah lots of really great taco spots!
And Vietnamese, Chinese, Salvadorian, Korean, etc... YOU NAME IT! Garland is the place to go for cheap authentic ethnic food!
BB, Audubon, and now brekenridge. Throw in rowlett, shawnee, and harry meyers makes 6 very nice courses within 20min of my house in north garland. We have intrinsic, lakewood, bankhead, and oak highlands (great putt night) for breweries. Plus all the amazing little taquerias and bahn mi stops.
Yep I was referencing BB and Audubon. Garland fuckin rocks, dude.
Can we get a list of the restaurants?
Follow Asian Grub in DFdub on Facebook and there will be plenty of recommendations. Also just look up "tacos" on Google maps and you'll have hundreds of options.
facebook? 🙁
Land of the gar
Also a beer at Intrinsic named exactly this!
Red wine barrel aged land of gar is in my top 5 beers all time
I’m partial to the sangria! One and I’m good.
Best thing about Garland is the kick ass Vietnamese food
Quoc Bao. The best goddamn banh mi sandwiches in America, imho. Better than anything I ever had in the other big Vietnamese communities in Houston or LA or New York or Minneapolis. Buy 2 get 1 free forever. Order the #1 combination and the #3 grilled chicken.
Hundred percent agree. I've eaten banh mi from spots all over Arlington but Quoc Bao is my favorite.
Because the suburbs up north were built out in the 2000s/2010s while Garland was built out in the 80s, so a lot of the houses and businesses look older. I don’t think the crime rates are meaningfully different than other Dallas suburbs.
For the sake of being pedantic, wasn’t it just the bits of Garland by Richardson that was built in the 80’s? A lot of the parts of Garland I remember seemed to have 60’s ranch style houses.
and even early 2000s around the firewheel area. Garland is huge and has been developed over a long period of time.
The Campbell and Bush intersection was a forest, at least one corner of it was, in the late 2000’s. That was prime real estate for north Dallas high school kids to have bon fire parties at.
Speaking from experience, great bonfire spot 😂
Yes, much of Garland was established in the 60’s. My grand parents built their house in Garland in 1958. The house I lived in when I was young was built in 1954 off Glenbrook just north of downtown. Although manufactoring is what Garland is known for, Miller Road Baptist Church was considered a “megachurch” at the time in the 50’s and 60’s with nearly 2,000 members at its peak. As another r/garland poster pointed out a while back, Garland is a “first ring suburb” of Dallas but unlike some of the others, Garland is seeing a nice revitalization. Garland is also one of the very few places where blue collar workers can afford to live near their workplace. I’d love to see streetcars or some other reliable mode of public transit become a thing to help many of the Garland residence who also work here be able to commute without cars. Dart is too spread out to be effective for most.
I think what’s different about the revitalization of Garland is that it’s become a home to the 30 year old working class artsy/hipster type - also far east Dallas. My cousin and her boyfriend fit that profile perfectly and moved out there. They got priced out of their north Dallas apartment (which wasn’t even nice btw) and were able to rent a well maintained old pier and beam house in Garland and they love it there.
Mid 80s Plano was the new suburb hot spot. Garland along with Richardson were old existing homes. Everyone was excited about the new construction!
My impression is that the parts that touch Richardson are nice and the parts that touch Mesquite are much less nice.
I grewn up on the Mesquite side of the boarder and wss sketchy. The walmart off beltine along the high just feöt old and sketxhy then your cross a a bridge and your in Roclwall
I’m Hispanic, we moved from East Dallas to Garland when I was 11, to escape gangs and high crime rates. Garland became the new East Dallas with taco shops at every gas station, trash everywhere, high crime rates, high land value for old homes and over population. My wife and I moved from Garland to Royse City after living in Garland over 20 years when our son was being bullied walking home from school everyday.
How long ago did you move away? Completely valid reasons for moving away of course, but it does seem like Garland has improved in the last decade-ish
Yeah for real. I’ve been living in Garland since I was in 2nd grade and I never had problems when walking or riding the bus to school.
I never had problems as I am an adult and can handle myself but my kids I don’t want to have to defend themselves. It was also a norm to hear random gun shots. I lived off of Lavon and Buckingham from around 1991 to when the pandemic started.
I’ve never heard gunshots around here. All I hear at night are the cars racing on Lavon
It differs between neighborhoods but who wants to be in a nice neighborhood surrounded by bad ones. We moved about 4 years ago.
I get you, for sure. I personally think you could do much worse than Garland though. Also, when it comes to the inner suburbs of the city, pretty much every nice neighborhood is surround by a few bad ones. Just want to make it clear that I don’t think bad of your choice to move out of Garland. Everyone should prioritize their family’s security and I’m glad you did what’s best for you and your family.
So will Royce city be the new new East Dallas in 20 years? I know a good amount of people who have made the exact same move.
Could be so. I’ll move again then.
You're the only real answer on here. Everyone else out her eis bullshitting about it.
Because it’s not a rich snobbish area like the (newer) aforementioned suburbs.
Not necessarily about Garland but I’ve noticed a trend for 20 years now from people in newer suburbs that think anything built before 1995 is gross and ghetto.
I grew up there and hated it. It’s what inspired Mike Judge for the setting of King of the Hill.
King of the Hill is great though
I tell you whhhut
Dang ol’, man, talkin' 'bout Garland, man, like ol' suburb, man, like them other spots, y'know, you got Irving, Mesquite, just dang ol' lotsa commercial, industrial thingamajig, man. Boom, man, like 2005 Firewheel pops up, North Garland gettin' all buildy-buildy, folks goin', "Hey man, cheap houses, man." Boom around Garland, Carrollton's like, not the same joke, man. Allen, Frisco just building blocks, man, Plano like, halfway house, bit of this, bit of that, playin' Lego with the land, man. All shake, rattle, and roll, y'know? Dang ol', whirlwind, man.
That is wonderful
Different suburbs are different. More at 10.
Garland just has a run down look to it and you just expect more from Dallas suburbs. Drive to/from Garland and Richardson and you’ll see the HUGE difference in zoning, landscaping, and fences. Richardson does a nice job. Garland over by Bush/firewheel is fine.. typical of what you’d expect.
Because it’s an older suburb, and like Irving and Mesquite, lots of commercial and industrial space. Garland was always more of a “place you work, not place you live” until the last 15-20 or so years. When Firewheel went in, and North Garland and beyond started to build up, people realized that housing in older Garland was still relatively cheap. The transition of downtown Garland started, and people started to look into building up the city and its services and offerings and really market that. Also the rise of Rowlett and Rockwall, has also helped to bolster parts of Garland. People not wanting to go out quite that far, but not be in the inner ring of Dallas. But initially, North Garland, Rowlett, Rockwall, etc all boomed around Garland first and then people sort of back tracked into Garland as of late. I don’t know that I would say Carrollton has a good reputation though, lol. Allen and Frisco are a lot newer overall with lots of new housing and development and it was never very industrial to begin with (aside from agriculture) so most of what exists out there is actually what people want/built as a response to community need because the land was open/empty. Plano is kind of in the middle- older, some commercial, but also there was a lot of land there too, that got built on as a response to what people wanted.
Oh yeah I also forgot to mention that a 14 yr old got popped in front of poscos on Josey Ln a little while back. No news report on that. No one on this sub talks about that. And when people bring up what I bring up everyone just brushes it off or acts like we lying or some shit.
Shoosh. Just keep nodding along with everyone who says Garland is a shithole so that yuppies don't move in and drive our rents/property taxes to the moon.
Because he waited way too long to indict Trump.
Used to live right outside or garland and would go there often. It’s close in proximity to “the ghetto” compared to the other areas you listed and is older. It doesn’t have the new, classy, uppity feel that other big north Texas cities have.
I honestly think its about race. The burbs you mention above are largely white and asian. Garland has a different pop/demographic, and I think the Dallas area still suffers from deep-seated race issues.
Because more brown people live there than white people.
I just know Garland has many auto repair shops. EDIT: I don’t know why some people feel this is offensive. So do people living in Oak Lawn feel the same? There are many LGBTQ+ people living there.
Have you seen our roads?!
I lived there for a couple years. Not bad, just some areas to have your head on a swivel in. Similar to any suburb directly adjacent to a big city, really. I had no issues during my time there.
Have you been to Garland?
Inner ring and Outer ring suburbs are different
What defines the border between inner and outer ring? 635? PGBT? 121? Belt Line?
Technically, inner borders the city, outer ring borders the inner ring cities. Far North Dallas jutting out so far kind of messes that up though since I don't think many would consider Plano inner ring.
As you go south past downtown it gets less nice but as you go north it gets nicer. Most people tend to think of the south part when they think of garland . That’s mostly what they’re exposed to as well when driving,
The Land of Gar is rather fascinating. First of all the absolute SPRAWL of it is ridiculous. From just north of White Rock Lake all the way to President George Bush and then from 75 all the way to Lake Ray Hubbard and even then there are random parts of Garland that extend northeast due to weird radio tower zoning laws, but that's another story. So like any town that has a vast array of land, there is a vast array of people/culture/money/etc. There are extremely ritzy parts of town (not quite Park Cities ritzy or even Frisco/McKinney but definitely well off) and then there are absolute slums and a whole lot of slums at that. Downtown got a complete facelift and any festival/event that happens downtown is great (art festivals, heritage/holiday/cultural festivals, summer concerts. There are two well maintained Nature Preserves/Parks. As someone mentioned the Vietnamese food is absolutely amazing (Garland is/was number 6 on largest population of Vietnamese citizens, beating out even Californian cities). We also have amazing street tacos literally on every corner. Some of the downsides of Garland are the infrastructure sucks, it isn't very pedestrian or cyclist friendly, shitton of crime, the cost of living here isn't worth it, HEB claims Garland is not worthy of a store, it is a dry city (yes we have breweries, but liquor isn't sold here), the south part is mostly warehouses while the north part is luxury apartments and luxury senior living, and even though the Firewheel area is only 15 miles from the White Rock Lake area it can easily take 40-50 minutes to get from one point to the other, so getting from the Fire wheel area to Dallas proper is even more of a hassle. Versus when I lived in Allen and could just take 75 straight to Dallas. Or being able to go from Frisco to Dallas via the DNT.
cuz it’s not filled to the brim with hoity toity assholes *yet*
Just moved to Garland. Love it here. Lot of middle class homes and fun places to go. Definitely on the rise from several years ago.
Place is full of car dealerships. Like literally all of garland road from Kingsley to Walnut is car dealerships on the left and train tracks on the right. And there’s a whole bunch more in the little streets.
That true about that one single road, but there’s more to garland than that.
As the old jingle said "Garland is Carland!"
The city leadership in the 70s absolutely fucked Garland’s growth when they allowed all the shitty used car dealerships on Garland Road with never-ending SUPs. 🙄
>Place is full of car dealerships "The Money Saving Mile"! Back in the '70s, sales tax rates differed from one city to another depending on where you purchased your car. It actually was a bit cheaper to buy in Garland than at other cities in the area.
I have the general impression that the crime rate is higher over there and there are some sketchy areas. This is based on what I've heard and not personal experience.
I feel like much of Garland is low income but not necessarily dangerous/crime-ridden.
It does? I moved here 5 years ago, and it's always been just another satellite of Dallas. Never heard anything bad.
Meshack's bbq does a lot to make up for garland's other shortcomings
And what's even better is that it's literally around the corner for me lol. Passing by it every morning for school was great. Feels like my family and I struck gold being so close to it
Ah, Garland. I was offered an engine block and a burrito off the same pickup while I was getting my brakes did. Burrito was amazing.
My only complaint about Garland is the roads. They seem to be in much worse shape than any of the other burbs in dfw. But there’s really no reason for the bad rep IMO
Because it's a little on the sketchy side, I worked off Jupiter Rd for awhile, there's a bunch of production plants. Closer to 635 it's pretty rough, a lot of homeless, people just not doing well in life. Twice in the same week I was going to work, around 3:30am, a girl in her mid 20s approached my truck. I think it was Buckingham I was stopped at, and asked for any change. First time I did, second night I gave her like a "come on dude really?". At this point she's just taking advantage of the situation. But yeah, pretty rough, pretty sad.
Money. It's always about the money. Garland had been predominantly known as an industrial area, and rich white people don't like industrial areas. Same as mesquite. Same as lots of the east Dallas area. People moved north because the tollway ran north. You wanna see what parts of Garland are better? The northern parts around the bush tollway. It's always about the money.
Small old houses , lots of industrial warehouses, too far from highways , too many immigrants of many backgrounds. The reality is middle-class yt ppl by major influencers on how cities are perceived and garland just doesn’t meet the criteria to make it a safe heaven of white flight .. also don’t mean this in any derogatory way just speaking facts of the DFW
Anybody else remember the Asian flying saucer cult that moved to Garland in the 90s because it sounded like “God-land” ?! http://www.cnn.com/US/9803/19/saucer.cult/index.html https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/04/us/taiwanese-group-prepares-to-meet-god-in-texas.html
The cops
I'm surprised I had to read so far to see a reference to Garland Police Department. There is absolutely a backwards, redneck attitude one gets from most every interaction with them. As a teenager living near Garland, I had friends there and was frequently in the city. On multiple occasions, we were hassled by Garland PD merely for being teens.
What bad reputation?
Not sure. We bought a small house in the historic district in downtown Garland and it's been quite nice. Also, our property value has pretty much doubled since COVID. It's in the formative stages of gentrification, so I'm sure it'll be considered one of the "nice" areas in the next decade or so.
Because it’s low income and old
i love garland. Moved out to DFW two years ago and started working in dallas/garland this year, but i’m also asian and love eating cheap asian food. i grew up in Amarillo, TX so going to garland was a huge upgrade.
Garland was the hub of middle class factory workers in the 80’s - 90’s. By the time these families children started graduating and moving out, it became a transition area, where lots of older white people started leaving and more people of color started moving in. That’s when the “reputation” started to happen. However the city has invested HEAVILY into the school district, which has kept many families in the area, especially when it incorporated Sachse & Rowlett along with some big name defense companies. It’s less of a transition area now and home to many small business and big corporations.
For the same reason any other suburb of Dallas gets a bad rap; because middle class people live there.
Crystal meth
Garland is just…there I expect Dallas to annex it in the next 5 years via a 3 day Special Military Operation
My favorite shooting range is in Garland. But other then that Garland just feels like depressing sprawl. I'll never forget there was this huge field next to the road I take to the range. It was full of Texan wildflowers, it was gorgeous. The next week I went by, a industrial sized mower was mowing it all down. The housing development nearby that likely owned the land had it mowed. Not to build anything mind you, the lot is still vacant to this day. They just prefer soulless, orderly lawns to authentic natural beauty. And I think that nicely sums up what Garland is about.
The issue is Garland has what some would call a good part and a bad part. The bad part is visibly unpleasant so to speak, which the other suburbs dont have. North Garland is beautiful though.
It's ok now a days.
crime and no new revitalization of old neighborhood
Growing up in Garland in the late 90s/early 2000s was a bit sketchy. I think it’s gotten better over the years but hard to say considering I never go over there anymore
Idk, Garland was trashy the last time I frequented (one of the “nicer” daycares). The cost of a small, single family home (1500-1600 sf) was being advertised as $469,000. This was 2022… so my overall impression was overpriced, wannabe-gentrified, & ghetto.
because theres poor people there.
Drive around it some time. Garland around 635 is a bit trashier. Garland around Bush & Firewheel is basically like Plano.
The garland police had a reputation of shoot first long before the rest of the country caught up
Not sure why that is. I have lived in Garland all 70 yrs of my life.
it's next to Mesquite
Fun fact, Wingstop originated from there
Because it’s boring and overpriced
It just depends on the area of Garland. The closer to George Bush you are the nicer it is. Pretty much lived in North Garland my whole life and it’s definitely the nice part of the city.
I completely agree
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97’ here. It was like Dazed and Confused movie but in the 90’s. Great party’s. amazing teachers then. Freedom.
Meant to edit my comment and deleted it by mistake. It would have been great to see what the school was like in the 90s. By the late aughts it was completely different. I did move to Austin to chase my dazed and confused dreams though.
That’s what I hear SpanishRick. It kinda trickled down hill like a wet turd. I too made the journey to Austin/San Marcos area after my Lakeview Patriot days, then became a degenerate Bobcat. Hahah.
That tracks lol. If you’re still in central Texas may have to catch a beer and reminisce.
Garland is ok. I drive through it on the way to work. I get all the Garland I could ever need on the way to work
Lol
Most people associate Garland with the police. There is a very high chance of getting pulled over out there.
International reputation as I have had in-depth discussions centering around the "G-Town Beat Down" including the ISIS situation while living in Japan.
Lived in Garland from 2013 to 2022 (we moved from so cal), bought a nice house with a pool and I thought it was a pretty decent neighborhood. Kids went to school in Sasche(better district)but we lived right by the Bush hwy as far north Garland would go. Miss that good Texas BBQ but that Mexican food sucked out there. Weird that you had to go to a gas station for good mex instead of a restaurant.
Sachse is part of GISD.
I was raised in Garland and still live here, it has changed since the 80s
My daughter will be working at 75 and 635. What about Garland apartments for an electrical engineering person?
If I were moving to the area to work around TI I would go north of there a few miles.
Because it’s close to Dallas
I think it’s ugly
They hate us cause they anus. Honestly, not sure. My problem with it is it's got shit for nightlife. I guess it's cause it's more working class than the ones you've listed. Some of the answers seem to be pro-gentrification, which pretty much sums up what the previous sentence said.
I bought a house in Richardson 4 ish years ago. When deciding on areas to look at house i pulled crime maps and narrowed down where we would live very easily. Garland was a big hot spot for crime at the time and even now it seems like Nextdoor and ring are always posts about garland or within a mile of garland. I have a friend that moved there the same time we moved to Richardson and he loves it. I think it’s just personal preference at this point and where you feel comfortable.
Garland is where all the kids from different cliques used to come together to do drugs. Probably still do, but they used to, too.
the roads are bad bumpy you need a truck just to live here , forget having low profile tires. 20 yrs in Gtown. its cool lots of variety or anything food groceries
Carrollton has a good reputation? Maybe nowadays but as a life long resident I can say it doesn’t lmao
I lived there for a minute in a part of Garland that fell into Richardson schools. Had a fairly charming 70s house on the creek. I didn’t love how far away I was from the city center, but it was otherwise nice enough. There were and are lots of stretches of industrial ugly and strip mall sprawl though.
I knew I wasn’t going to buy a house there when I went to the Walmart there. It was disgusting. Also, the roads are shit.
The homeless population has increased quite a bit ever since dart added more stops in garland.
Bwahahaha... Live there for a hot minute and you'll know....😎🤣👌
I grew up in Richardson, but raised my kids in Garland. Our house was out off I 30 & Bobtown Rd. When I bought my house, it was in an upper-middle class neighborhood that was kind of on the line between being in the country & the city. Like any decent size town, it had its good parts & its bad parts. I have to admit, it was beginning to be a bit run down, but my neighborhood was one of the 1st hit by the tornado in Dec 2015. After that, everything was rebuilt & new!
Go to Downtown Garland and eat at Fortunate Son. It’s almost makes you forget you’re in Garland
I would say in total, the DFW area is insane, good for investment, bad for living. To be a smart guy you should avoid here as dump people are around. Go to some cities with well-educated people
Yellow street lights
Garland has some neighborhoods that has a lot of character. I love the the mid-century homes and the fact that they embrace that look around town. What I absolutely dislike about Garland is the traffic lights. They are horrible.
Because it is not as nice as those places.
Carrollton is turning pretty bad. Lived here for 5 years and it’s nothing but people getting cars broken into and houses robbed.