I live 16 miles from Princeton, TX, and have lived in this general area for 30 years. It’s a small rural town just outside of a fairly large suburban town (where I used to live). Was always kind of considered a lower-economic fringe community. We moved out of that suburban town 4 years ago because we could see this kind of shit moving in our direction north from Dallas.

Well, growth has hit hard in North Texas and everybody is trying to move out to the “country”. Princeton is now seeing a huge surge in population and economic infusion. I want to say I’m shocked, but I’m not really shocked.

I had to do some digging, but this was billed as a Family Bingo Event and was held at a former church now owned by the city as a municipal event center.