I'm not opposed to people not moving here.

Notice, OP, my post wasn't wrong. What you suspect about the people is spot on. Just something to think about. Parenting is already hard. But much harder when you have to unteach your kids everything they hear from their neighborhood friends.

Drive around the neighborhood. You'll see rainbow flags/signs/benches. And these signs every 5th house.



The neighbors are very loving, caring, and open minded. They'll tell you on a yard sign.

And about twice a month some one posts a thread on Nextdoor about someone stealing their snow flake yard sign and then everyone cries in unison and someone gives a spare one sign they have in their garage.

Thanks for the variety of responses. Wow.

Are there other neighborhoods you'd recommended? I don't see how that question is trolling as someone said.

We are considering Austin Classical School in Brentwood so would like to stay near there.

What's your budget like? You could move a little farther south into Brykerwoods/Pemberton but the price tag could climb quickly.

That's out of our price range. And we'd like to stay within 10+/- minutes of Austin Classical to try it out. If we don't like it we'll just go to the public schools (Gullett or Brentwood) since they're rated well. I also work in Round Rock which is a 20 minute drive from the area.

Just trying to get a feel for the different communities around the area.

There are some great areas just north/northwest as well I would consider. Balcones Woods/Millwood/Great Hills area and all have Above Average - Excellent schools.

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There are some great areas just north/northwest as well I would consider. Balcones Woods/Millwood/Great Hills area and all have Above Average - Excellent schools.

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If you can afford a $500k+ house.

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There are some great areas just north/northwest as well I would consider. Balcones Woods/Millwood/Great Hills area and all have Above Average - Excellent schools.

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If you can afford a $500k+ house.

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Given that they are shopping in Brentwood/Crestview/Allandale they would be very similar priced neighborhoods. Millwood and parts of Balcones Woods can easily be sub $400k.

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There are some great areas just north/northwest as well I would consider. Balcones Woods/Millwood/Great Hills area and all have Above Average - Excellent schools.

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If you can afford a $500k+ house.

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Can you email me? I have a question for you. charles0608ag at gmail

Was that to me or aggdave?

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Talk about feeling left out

haha...nothing personal. We won't be able to buy in Austin for a year and a half at least and not ready for a realtor. We are also considering moving back to Houston.

Almost bought a house on Aggie Lane in Brentwood two years ago.

We live in Rosedale and love it. Everything we need is in walking distance of our house. We don't drive on the weekends.

Very safe and a great place to raise kids. Our whole neighborhood is young families.

Central Austin is inclusive, diverse, open minded and accepting. If that's not your bag, then it's probably not a good area for you. Focus your search in Williamson County.

Ditto Austinaggie2003. We've been in Crestview since 2004, Brentwood for a few years renting before that. Central Austin is quite unique and the mix of houses and families is one of the draws to me rather than a downside. That said we're actually moving out to Jester to get a little more space. Kids getting big and the walls of our house kind of closing in on us. But we'll miss this area although we'll be in it all the time as our kids go to St Louis Catholic School.

I still chuckle and say "boring apartment dwellers" every time I drive by those older apartments off of Far West just west of Mopac.

I'm a parishioner at St. Louis

I work from home and have lived in Lakeway since 04. Lake view, new 2800 sf house for 500k. That won't buy me much in Austin.

I always wondered how it got popular to add phobic meaning "having a fear of" to words like homo, trans and xeno, this thread showed me.

Don't worry, you are probably not going to catch by being a good neighbor.

My neighbors in HP are a retired couple who worked in California but grew up in Texas, a family with two high school boys(professors), a family with two kids under 5 (small business owners), two dinks (professional services), a divorced guy (IT) with 50% custody of his daugter and one house with 3 student (2 guys and 1 girl) who are great neighbors. 70% white if that's your thing. So diverish by race but very diverse by political affiliation, religion and backgrounds and they all regularly watch our house, our dogs and we exchange gasp "Holiday/Christmas" foods every year. 3/5 had external lights and all had trees. 1 has the diversity sign posted and they are conservatives.

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Mostly California liberal transplants? Hipsters? Down to earth?

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Yes, still a lot of Bernie Believers in Austin

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Drive around the neighborhood. You'll see rainbow flags/signs/benches. And these signs every 5th house.



The neighbors are very loving, caring, and open minded. They'll tell you on a yard sign.

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You know what I don't get about this? Everyone has them. What's the point when everyone already feels the same way. It's not like they are getting across an unpopular opinion...

So you think the point of putting up a sign in your yard is to express an unpopular opinion?

I think you misread, or perhaps I don't get the retort.

My point is: if 75% of neighbors put up a sign saying, "equality, science is real, blah blah".... why bother? It goes without saying that everyone feels the same. What statement is being made?

I don't think the percentage of houses with that sign is that high but it sure seems to rile some people up.

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I think you misread, or perhaps I don't get the retort.

My point is: if 75% of neighbors put up a sign saying, "equality, science is real, blah blah".... why bother? It goes without saying that everyone feels the same. What statement is being made?

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So again, you think a yard sign is supposed to differentiate from neighbors or provide an unpopular opinion? Presumably you can point me to where you have posted similarly about streets in bcs with lots of aggie flags flying or streets in other parts of texas with lots of spurs/ cowboys flags/signs up, or streets in some small texas town where everyone has a united methodist or 1st baptist church flag/sign or the whole street has a paw print sign supporting the high school football team. Since everyone feels the same way, what statement is being made, right?

That's what I thought

Yeah bro. You win.

Those signs are dumb. They don't hurt my feelings. If anything they tell you which of your neighbors get butthurt easily.

OMG Yard Signs!

Damn those inclusive people and there positive yard signs...bunch of hippie tree huggers!