Yes , without question

Hey! I have a 2 and 4 y/o. This town is like comfort food.

On the day to day life looks the same everywhere. You work your ass off, juggle moving the kids around, and spend your nights as a family with a few activities and then its off to bed, right?

There are a lot of sports for kids around here and plenty of activities such as art camps and programs offered through local churches. I like how we can daytrip to cool museums in Austin or catch neat stuff in a two hour radius.

The one thing here that's great is community. I would honestly rent here a bit and figure out what you like and what you care about. We fit in with some friends in downtown bryan and the church we found.

We started living in Bryan and had no problem sending our kiddos to public school over there but we ended up moving closer to our friends in small group on north college station College Hills area. We love it here.

The weekends there are farmers markets and lots of outside play. The summers we travel to regional lakes and rivers.

I prefer older neighborhoods of character to suburban life - but to each their own. We co-exist with college kids ok and sometimes we have to help raise them. Hope that helps.

I graduated in 98 and moved back in 2008.

We love it here. Great place to raise kids because everyone values education. Kids have both graduated from high school and this was a safe environment to raise them in.

You learn to avoid certain areas on game day, and rejoice when everyone leaves for the holidays and traffic clears. This is a big enough town to have something to do, but the traffic isn't at Houston or Austin levels yet.

Last week we went to an Opas event, and our calendar is constantly full. We also hop down to Houston quite a bit for shopping and the Theatre. It almost feels like we are a North Houston suburb now. My only fear for the area is that it is getting too big. I enjoy the amenities, but I anticipate more congestion over the next decade.

It's fine as long as you're already married

redd38 said:

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It's fine as long as you're already married

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Or a male under 40.

Moved back in 2007 - best decision we ever made.

As an adult with family, it's kind of like we live in a parallel universe with the college kids. We drive the same roads and shop at the same Wal-Mart, but my life rarely intersects the life of college kids. Their schedule is just way different than ours!

College Station is a great place for families. Tons of youth activities, good schools (both in BISD and CSISD and nearby small towns), good churches, plenty to do.

Welcome home!

Be prepared to pay more for a house than you can imagine

Housing cost in BCS is half or less from where I'm relocating from.

I'm an old Ag. My wife and I moved back here 20 years ago. We had moved away in late '80s when we got married. We raised our son here. He's now in college. BCS is a great place to raise children. Good schools. Good extra curricular activities. We love it here.

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Does it feel like there are enough activities, programs, etc geared toward non-students so that you don't feel like an outsider looking into a student town?

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Unless you work for or near the school, it doesn't feel like a college town.

rkramer said:

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Housing cost in BCS is half or less from where I'm relocating from.

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property taxes aren't

Just get to Chuy's by 5.

I graduated here in 2009 and never left. Girlfriend turned wife moved here in 2010. We own a small business and do travel quite a bit, so no kids yet. We love College Station and the entire community. Every time I go to Houston, Dallas or Austin, it reminds me how much I enjoy it here. Traffic is minimal to none, very few restaurants actually have long waits for dinner (unlike the big cities), parking is easy, etc. I've always said that B/CS is like some kind of a non-typical bubble. You have so much money flowing into this community from the university and all of the student's parent's money that the entire city feels "new and clean".

Where you want to live will really vary depending on what type of house/neighborhood you are looking for. If you want a "newer" neighborhood close to town, you have your normal places like Castlegate, Pebble Creek, Copperfield, Austin's Colony, Greens Prairie, etc. If you want more space a little more out in the country, look at places like Saddle Creek, Duck Haven, Milican Reserve, Heritage Lake, North Country Estates, etc. Then I also think that both Bryan and College Station have some good "older" neighborhoods with larger lots, mature trees, etc. Emerald Forest, Foxfire, Raintree and several others fit that bill.

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On the subject of Traditions vs College Station, you will love the traffic living in Traditions vs what you will deal with in CS. And high speed hard wired internet if that matters.

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And questioning your wife's safety when she needs to run to the store at night.

I moved back almost two years ago and I love it. It looks different, but it still feels the same to me. Probably because I was coming from Houston. I love being close to simply grab a basketball or baseball game with a kid or two if I simply feel like it.

One thing I will say is that it is an absolutely wonderful place to raise a family. Housing costs give you a little more spending money and I love raising my kids in a conservative city. Little to no traffic, so shuttling several kids to several events isn't that big of a deal. Schools are good, I have been able to challenge my kids academically with no extra effort.

I highly recommend it.

Hands down one of the best places in the state to raise kids, imo. What big city conveniences you might miss are a short drive away. We choose the Austin airport to fly out of because it's easier to get to than Houston.

How is a route that goes through several towns easier than a route that has zero lights?

Stupe said:

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How is a route that goes through several towns easier than a route that has zero lights?

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Feels faster.
Less traffic.
Get to drive through the countryside.
Doesn't feel impossible to find my exit/parking/what-have-you (if you're talking about AUS vs. IAH; Hobby isn't too bad).
Oh, and I get to stop at Bucky's.

Stupe said:

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How is a route that goes through several towns easier than a route that has zero lights?

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Mainly, you avoid Houston.