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I'm in the class of 2016 and recently relocated from the midwest to Houston. I'm a Waco native. Struggling a bit finding the retirement town that we want. Here's the list:
Kerrville was top of the list, but we had some doubts recently due to lack of decent housing close or in town. Maybe we just hit a bad spell with real estate market. Plus, DW isn't in love with the hills, she's more of a 'rolling hills' person.
We love Fredericksburg, but it feels a bit too small and the tourists would drive us nuts after awhile. I'm afraid we'd be driving into SA for any major health care and we hate driving in SA.
We looked at Sun City Georgetown maybe 10 years ago for the DW's parents. Wow, I-35 is just a disaster. We'd never go anywhere.
Now we're talking about other places:
- Low/moderate humidity
- No Hurricane worries
- Close to good health care
- Reasonably close to big city for occasional amenity trips and airport.
- Small enough that we'll actually do things without worrying about traffic
- Nice homes close enough or in town so we'll actually do things without the big 'drive to town'.
- 55+ community is a nice to have, not a must have
Kerrville was top of the list, but we had some doubts recently due to lack of decent housing close or in town. Maybe we just hit a bad spell with real estate market. Plus, DW isn't in love with the hills, she's more of a 'rolling hills' person.
We love Fredericksburg, but it feels a bit too small and the tourists would drive us nuts after awhile. I'm afraid we'd be driving into SA for any major health care and we hate driving in SA.
We looked at Sun City Georgetown maybe 10 years ago for the DW's parents. Wow, I-35 is just a disaster. We'd never go anywhere.
Now we're talking about other places:
- Greater Houston Area - Conroe, Livingston. Humid! But close to major city/airport. Hopefully far enough north to not worry about hurricanes.
- Central Texas - Brenham? Nice rolling hills. 70 or so miles from both Austin and Houston. Still humid, but not the stifling coastal humidity.
- Greater Austin Area - Bastrop et al. May be too congested and crazy??
- Greater DFW area - Maybe we should revisit Denton and look in town? Granbury? others?
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