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North Texas Suburb Cracks Top Five in Money.com’s 50 Best Places to Live

By Marlin Weso / September 22, 2021 /

In the 35th edition of Money’s rankings released this week, Flower Mound was fourth. Frisco was ranked 19th.

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Rockwall Makes Money Magazine’s Top-10, and Jason Castro Couldn’t Agree More

By Marlin Weso / September 23, 2020 /
One of Rockwall's biggest attractions is its Harbor District (Google Maps)

Want to live the good life in North Texas? According to Money, you should head to Rockwall. The Dallas-Fort Worth suburb made it into the top five in Money‘s list of Best Places to Live in America. In rankings released Tuesday, Rockwall was fourth, making its Money list debut based on its “status as one…

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Craig Ranch Enters Build-Out Phase with Thousands of New Houses, Apartments

By Leah Shafer / February 2, 2015 /

Developer David Craig was in the right place at the right time when he bought the first tracts of land for Craig Ranch 15 years ago, north of State Highway 121 in McKinney. With northward expansion of the population and careful planning by Craig for the mixed-use development, the 2,200-acre planned community has been hugely…

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Tuesday Two Hundred: Murphy Fixer-Upper Sits on Almost an Acre with Pool, Barn

By Leah Shafer / January 12, 2015 /

Gone with the Wind was a childhood favorite of mine, with its winding storyline, genteel fashion, and dramatic romances. In one memorable scene, Scarlett’s father, Gerald O’Hara, an Irish peasant immigrant, proclaims in his rough brogue, “The land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it’s…

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