What is the best place in the country to raise a family? Where kids can walk to school or ride their bikes to their friends’ houses? Where you can settle into your “forever” home, at least until everyone’s done with high school?
To find the answer, Los Angeles–based tech entrepreneur Max Clark compiled a thorough spreadsheet, taking into account myriad factors ranging from top public schools and safety to proximity to an international airport. The Park Cities area of Dallas got the highest marks overall, so in December 2020, Max—along with his wife, Sharon Lee Clark, and their two young sons—packed up their life and moved to a home they’d only seen via videos. “When we heard we were in escrow, I was so elated that I immediately started ordering things for our home,” Sharon says. “I had rugs before we closed.”
The original decision to move to the Park Cities may have been purely by the numbers, but the ease with which California native Sharon—a Korean American fine artist and founder of Krane Home, a home decor brand selling art, wallpaper, and fabric—has assimilated into her new Dallas world feels entirely like kismet. In her short time here, she’s already chaired or cochaired events for the Children’s Cancer Fund, Dallas Symphony Orchestra League, and The Family Place. Beyond the social scene, Dallas has proven to be an aesthetic fit for the longtime Angeleno, as well. The fashionable Sharon doesn’t fear a colorful print, and her decor work is equally vibrant. In Dallas, it seems, Sharon can finally be herself…