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Maybe moving to Texas. Your thoughts?

by JBplusThuy

Mar 31, 2017

Hi all,

As the title suggests, we're kicking around the idea of maybe moving to Texas. I'm a remote worker, so as long as I have a reliable and fast Internet connection, I can work from anywhere (currently in southern California).

A couple places that look kind of good to me in preliminary poking around are New Braunfels and San Marcos. Of course, I need to know good places to catch bluegill around there :-)

Other than BG, though (and the fishing is probably better there than it is around here), what do you all think of those places? They seem attractive to me because they are far enough for San Antonio and Austin to be enjoyable, yet near enough that if I need to go into the city for anything, it's doable. My employer has offices in Austin, should I need to get on our corporate network for any reason.

I have three kids - one in high school, one to be in high school next year, and one in grade school, so having a UofT campus in San Marcos is a plus for me, too.

If those are great places to live, you can tell me the truth. I promise not to try to make them like California :-)

Thanks!

Jonathan

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    JBplusThuy

    Thanks to all for the great info!

    Clay, if this goes from kicking it around to reality, I'll get back to you for the name of that agent. I think I could well plan my life around catching 15 BG in 10 minutes :D I've looked into schools a bit and the ones in NB seem to be rated higher (sometimes much, much higher) than the ones in San Marcos. Need to do more research on that re: why.

    I've heard about the heat, Sharon, but I like it :) My wife, maybe not so much, but Montana and Wyoming are out of the question because she sure doesn't want to live where it snows. Texas has cheap electricity so it's easy to run the AC a lot. 

    Leo, where in TX did your brother go? It hadn't really crossed my mind about buying some rural land with a pond, but now you've got me thinking... :D Where in FL is your sister? My sister lives in Tampa and seems to like it, and I've enjoyed FL for travel, but I think it has some of California's drawbacks: also very crowded, also far from just about anywhere, also kind of expensive to live there. One of her sons moved to TN, so people do seem to leave FL, too.

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      chris kowaleski

      Living in San Marcos I often have to problem of not knowing where to fish because I have too many options. Lot's of good places to fly fish in the area, and tons of different species. But, it is a college town, and an area with alot of tourist traffic so on the weekends alot of spots are blown out on the weekends/during the weeks in the heat.

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      Apr 6, 2017

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        Rob Bowen

        I used to live in Round Rock and Killeen when I was stationed at Fort Hood. The fishing and BBQ in the TX hill country is outstanding! There are clear rivers, ponds and lakes to fish. We would have 100 fish days fishing with fly rods on some of the rivers and ponds down there. We would only count long string of fish caught, so people would not realize how many fish were in certain ponds. Each cast has to bring a fish to the kayak, only count consecutive fish. Get s strike and miss the fish, start the count over. It would not be uncommon to have long string of 15-20 fish in a row. If you like to fish, move to TX.

        Stay hydrated in the summer.
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