Top 5 Places To Move In Texas

“What makes a city truly the best place to live?” That’s the question Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive into in this laugh-filled episode of The Ben and Skin Show.The crew breaks down Consumer Affairs’ list of the top five Texas cities to live in for 2025, and the debate gets hilarious. From McKinney’s “crime-fighting butter rolls” to Plano’s shocking walkability stats, and Frisco’s domination with Universal Studios and the Cowboys, the gang serves up sharp insights with their signature humor.

Episode Transcript

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Speaker 2 (00:51):
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Speaker 1 (00:53):
This Are You Excited?

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Day? Featuring veteran news anchor kt fun Tweets. I was
just taking a read at you know, my subscription to
Consumer Affairs, and they had a big article and I'm
going to read you some criteria here real quick, okay,
to determine the best places to live in Texas in
twenty twenty five, our research to mentalized the state's fifty

(01:21):
largest cities based on affordability, safety, economic strength, health care,
and education, as well as quality of life. And I
was like, that's pretty interesting. So the five best places
to move to in Texas in twenty twenty five? All
right again they took the top fifty into account. I
was sad to see only in crandall were not on

(01:42):
the list.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
What do we do? We left? That's one?

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, what if they changed their name to cram Down?
Would that change how people feel about it?

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Why would it change it?

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Pastor Gary may Force that he was big on the
crown cram Down.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
No, he was not.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Five is Leander? And that takes us to number four?
What number four? Any guesses? Top five places to live
in Texas?

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Uh? Springtown?

Speaker 3 (02:09):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:10):
String Town's getting bigger though, yep? Uh Flower Mountains Nope? Oh?

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Melissa ben uh Frisco McKenny Number four fantastic, low crime McKenny.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Third overall for safety.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
I bet that's because they have that Texas Roadhouse there
on seventy five.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
That's the only reason we got butter rolls.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
No one feels like doing crime because they had all
that those delicious rolls butter on.

Speaker 4 (02:39):
I can't it's going on with those rolls, man, I
can't get up and steal stuff. I'm full of butter rolls,
cinnamon butter. It feels like a simple recipe. But whatever's
going on there is unfair, It's wrong, delicious, delicious man.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Also, it says this mckinnie's not the most affordable place
in Texas. The median rent is slightly higher, but it's
seventh overall for healthcare and education, Soko, John McKinney.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
That's great, man Number three, I guess it's Melissa Prosper
Salina Plano fantastic. That was really good? Is that because
the legacy? I never thought about Planeo like this high
walk ability?

Speaker 5 (03:19):
Really oh talking about the new downtown Plano maybe maybe yeah, right.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Like downtown plane I used to live over by there.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Second overall for quality of life, great access to parks.
Eighty two percent of the residents in Plano live within
a ten minute walk to green Space.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
How about that, I've.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Got about an eight minute walk in me. I don't
know that I got ten.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
You can get ten.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
You're just starting your Japanese interval walk. If I interval
walked there, I can get there. What happened to that routine?

Speaker 1 (03:45):
To the people heard? His thoughts were all at an
accent while he was doing it.

Speaker 5 (03:49):
There.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
If you can't think like that, you ain't from here.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
Uh number two, and he guesses, Oh, we've been doing
so good so far?

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Are rowing note white settlement for dude.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Frisco. It's fantastic. We love Frisco high education rate.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Frisco's high school completion rate is ninety eight percent the
hust In Texas. Wow, people are getting out of high
school there.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
I'd like to talk to that two percent and see
what they were thinking.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
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Speaker 5 (04:23):
Frisco has to be one of the best cities in America.
Like just look at all that, Like they just brought
in Universal PGA, Dallas Cowboys, Roller Down Beer Works, Rough Riders,
just got it, like an incredible brewery on Main Street
that we're invested in partners.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
But just look at everything they have in Frisco.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
Like, if they want something there, they go get it done.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
They absolutely do. To see Dallas. That's how you become
number two. And we know we've been number two sports
rock just yes, yeah, who does number two work for
number one? And he guesses fort Worth?

Speaker 5 (05:03):
Oh, I think that might be it because I'm just
playing the man here, not the game. I think the
way he responded, I think it's fort Worth or Cigaville.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Let's go Bedford. Ah, look at you. Bedford's a little closer. Allan. Allan, Hey,
I'm number one, and you guys want to move. What
are we doing? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (05:20):
With an award winning parks and recreation department and a
jam pack community calendar.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Oh my god, have you seen it?

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Allan is a bustling suburb that holds its own in DFW.
Eighty seven percent of Allen's residents live within a ten
minute walk of green space.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
It's the same thing of playing out. I'm gonna get
to some green space as soon as I get home.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
Second overall in Texas for safety, lowest property crime rate,
it's up, dude, Seventh, lowest violent crime rate. Yeah, the
cost of living in Allen ranks in the top twenty.
I would not have thought that I've saved so much
money living there.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
I don't think you have. I don't think you have.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
And it is also the third best place to live
in the South in general outside of Texas as well
including Georgia. So shout out to her good friend Allen,
who's listening.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
To he congratlations. I'm so happy about my investment. Congratulations
to the Skinweight family.