Home Away From Home: Proof That Santa Fe Is A Suburb Of Dallas
In a move that is surely going to give Southwest Airlines a momentary quiver, America Eagle has announced new daily non-stop service from D/FW International Airport to Santa Fe Municipal Airport beginning June 11. Quick call to AA: round trip tickets are $339.70 plus a $20 booking fee, and there is only one seat left June 12 at that price. This is a move that is sure to get more North Texans summering (or wintering) in the The City Different with a mere two hour flight. Plus there’s no need to keep a car in Albuquerque for the one-hour-ish drive to Santa Fe. In second home parlance, “lift” is the power bar that generates more bodies to a destination and raises occupancy rates as well as second home opportunities. El Corazon de Santa Fe, a luxury fractional ownership home community in downtown Santa Fe, is basking in delight.
“We already have a few owners from the Greater North Texas area, and I expect that number to increase now that visitors won’t have to drive from Albuquerque to Santa Fe.” says El Corazon’s Development Manager Rob Harper of Dallas-based Unity Hunt. “American Eagle’s new service makes the Club even more attractive to prospective buyers from the greater Dallas-Fort Worth area.”
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Here are the two questions with the two possible answers in Dallas:
Q1. Where do you live?
A1a. Park Cities
A1b. Preston Hollow
Q2: Where do you summer?
A2a. Santa Fe
A2b. Aspen/Vail/Beaver Creek
Yummy! There is so much to do, see, and explore when you’re in Santa Fe: Art (O’Keefe Museum, New Mexico Museum of Art, etc.), Indian Pueblos (Nambe, Taos, etc.), Galleries, Shopping, Dining, Free Walking Tours, Rafting, Hiking, and much much more all whilst being surrounded by breathtaking views in any and every direction; the sunsets are unbelievable!!!
Although that’s interesting, there are trade-offs:
This option would get you from Dallas to Santa Fe easily, but then you have the hassle of driving out to DFW.
There is another option and one that most of my friends take:
Take Mockingbird to Love Field (about 7.6 seconds) and then take a flight from Dallas to Albuquerque and use the Sandia Shuttle Express from Albuquerque to Santa Fe. The overall cost is cheaper than the first option.
Or…find a friend with deep pockets and a “PP” (Private Plane) and just go directly from Love Field to Santa Fe.
So…if Santa Fe is a suburb of Dallas, would that make it Northwest Dallas?
I loved it when I read “Starting at $130K” for the Terra Series. You can’t even by a hideous fixer-upper in the “bubble” of Dallas that looks bad and smells worse for $130K!
I love fantasizing about second homes. I love to be aware of my options. For instance, if I were to ever come into an extra $3M (post-taxes) I know what outfit, bag, and shoes I’d buy immediately. From the above comments it seems as though Santa Fe is a great place to see other Dallasonians. What other hot spots do Dallasites and the like flock to? Or if this were a vocabulary test, would these be the answers:
Dallas : Santa Fe as New York : The Hamptons
Anyone know?
I love it! We have had vacation homes in Utah and Colorado and are now seriously considering New Mexico for health reasons —warmer climate, arid air. Knowing about these direct flights is really really helpful!
When you live in Dallas, you just have to get away July and August — June if possible. It’s even roasting in September. We can deal with the climate here almost year round save for the summer. I’d love to see more on such Dallas escapes — do you have a site devoted to second homes? Would love it!
Think of things you can’t find in Dallas and that’s where you’ll see people with second homes: lakes, oceans, mountains, snow (not ice), mesas, cacti, forests, etc.
That’s where you’ll find DALLAS — because as much as we love this town, we really don’t have the water or mountains or pretty topography. There’s the Hill Country — hot and not exactly an hour’s drive. Face it, the best thing that ever happened to Big D was D/FW airport. Once the Wright Amendment is lifted, I predict much more lift and escape to lakes, oceans, mountains, snow and mesas. There is an oxponential rise in the number of fractional ownerships out there and economy or not, baby boomers all want their escape. One day, dallas may be a ghost town in August!
My friends own at El Corazon in Santa Fe and the units are beautiful. I was able to stay there once and it’s the best deal for a second home in downtown and you can’t beat the location.
What do you mean “one day, Dallas may be a ghost town in August?” It already is! Where does everyone escape to during the summer? And then come Labor Day, you can practically hear the girl from Poltergeist saying, “They’re baaa-aaack!”