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Frisco, Texas
Sports City USA
Downtown Frisco, Credit: Roger Robinson/visitfrisco.com
Ford Center at The Star
Dr. Pepper Ballpark
Hanuman Temple
LookyLOO Review of Frisco
SPORTS!!!
No matter your passion: football, soccer, baseball, or golf, Frisco is the place. Dr. Pepper Ballpark has the Frisco RoughRiders minor league baseball team, the Dallas Cowboys practice, and headquarters, The Star, is here. Toyota Stadium, home of the FC Dallas soccer team, is here. To top it off, the PGA is moving its headquarters to Frisco to be paired with two championship golf courses, a conference center, and a resort-style hotel.
While there is so much more going on in Frisco than sports, like being one of the fastest growing cities in the country and having great schools and the rest, it is this gravitational pull of exciting sports to the city that gives it a special energy.
It should be noted that Frisco is growing fast. Between 2010 and 2019, it was the fastest-growing city in the U.S. When you combine this growth with a lack of public transportation, Frisco isn’t part of the DART train line; you get traffic, congestion, and feeling things are always under construction.
Lifestyle
This stunning growth signals a nearly perfect suburban city opportunity. Beautiful new homes are constantly being built to house new families who crave access to great schools, parks, and recreational opportunities. There is also a fun historic downtown area that is growing with more to do called The Rail District. This whole area is filled with boutique shopping, bars, restaurants, and tons of community activities for families and young professionals.
Frisco is kind of heaven for families looking for active suburban lifestyles. Big yards for home play, parks, and amazing facilities for play away from home. Downtown art and food trucks, nice and casual restaurants for the kids, or date nights. While you’re close to Dallas and Fort Worth, when you need a bigger city fix, you may not need it as much as you’d think.
If you're interested in seeing what happens in Frisco, check out the calendar of events.
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Worklife
Frisco has big corporate opportunities in tech and health in particular. Conifer Health and Argon Medical are just two of the big health industry corporations here and Integer Holdings, Goodman Networks, Worldlink and Imagine Communications are just a few of the tech and communication businesses here. Employment in Frisco is booming, so if you want to live and work here, you can certainly do so. You’re also smack dab in the heart of DFW, one of the fastest-growing metroplexes in the U.S., so if you aren’t working in Frisco, you can find work in Dallas/Fort Worth or one of the other booming suburban cities.
Why You Should Move Here Now?
Opportunity
The economic opportunity in Frisco in particular, and DFW in general, is really hard to beat. The growth in jobs in Frisco is unparalleled relative to the rest of the country. Even if that weren’t the case people now move here to wfh and take advantage of the beautiful neighborhoods, great schools and city amenities. The housing prices relative to the economic opportunity are impossible to beat compared to California, or New York or Chicago and so the people keep coming.
Reviews of Frisco from Locals
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I believe Frisco like Plano before it is driven by the schools. The schools are consistently good though as the district ages will increasingly face challenge. We use the small school model which is a differentiator compared to most of the surrounding districts. While the schools are good it is also well run although many like to complain about it, the district consistently wins awards for financial management and quality.
Frisco has good infrastructure including rec center, parks, roads, fire, etc. Everything you need is here and confident. Shopping and restaurants abound even though it is certainly not a foodie destination.
Things to do. For a town of it size it has a lot. With minor league hockey, baseball, basketball and the MLS soccer team, cowboys training facilities plus all of the events that those venues bring in. We also have soccer hall of fame, video game museum, and others.
Housing was affordable though not so much any more but if you want a new house still a good option as Plano and areas south are full and low value. Politics are not great but still pretty even keep some checks on whichever group of crazies you are most concerned about. Fairly significant diversity of people. It is a high income area. Was one of the least impacted in the country by Covid led economic turmoil for example.
For more reviews of what living in Frisco is like from locals check out: The Reviews.
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The Area
Frisco is on the north side of the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex, more commonly known as DFW Metroplex. It is due north of Dallas but only 30 minutes or so north. All of DFW is easily accessible by car and some by train although Frisco isn’t on the DART train line so driving will be a part of your life.
Many people think of DFW as a great big giant city (with 7.2 million people) with borders among the cities, suburbs and towns as largely irrelevant given the lack of natural borders from things like rivers or lakes. While there can be plenty of traffic in DFW for the most part the freeway system/turnpike gets everyone around in very short drives (or train rides) relative to most of the other large metroplexes. DFW is extremely new compared to the other big developed metroplexes and that means it is just more convenient. You’re 15-35 minutes into downtown Dallas or Fort Worth from a great majority of the suburbs which means if you choose to live that rolling lawn lifestyle it’s not far to hit the big cities. Most of the popular suburbs are directly north Dallas: Plano, McKinney, Frisco among others but there are also plenty in between the two cities: Irving, Arlington and Grand Prairie that draw a lot of attention as well.
If you’re looking for the most “developed” of the north suburbs in terms of a commercial district then Plano is a good option. Frisco is the fastest growing the the most development happening but plots of good options.
None of this means you have to live close to one of the big cities. The Metroplex is nearly 9,300 square miles, which means it is larger than the land areas of six U.S. states. If you want rural you can find it here.