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So, I've been going down there off and on most of my life.  One of my best friend's growing up's mother grew up in a really cool house on Hwy 39 in Hunt/Ingram.  She's in her 80s now and they are retired down there, as are some other older family friends.  

Beyond that, I don't really have much feel for who lives in Kerrville/Kerr County.  Lotta old, white, fairly wealthy retirees.  Probably a lot native cedar-chopper type rural poors too.

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I dont think Kerrville will change much, it will still continue to grow. Hunt and other parts of the county, who knows, but it will be different 

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I honestly don't know much other than the basics like the Guadalupe River being beautiful in that area and the Ingram Dam.  Otherwise, neighbors of mine have a house out there... he sent me pictures from that night.  They lost a pickup truck and a trailer.  Their house was 36 feet above the river and the water came up to the front porch.  

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I can only speak to my 8 summers as a camper and one summer as a counselor at Waldemar. It’s just very laid back. Small town feel. The magic of that place could be felt—now I can only imagine the mentality. A warning system that seemed even less effective than strings tied to cans in a treehouse. You got the sense or at least I did as a camper “floods happen but it ain’t no big thing.” I never got the sense as a camper that the river would turn on you or that we wouldn’t be safe. It’s that feeling that the camp directors were in charge of all that and no worries. I am honestly shocked a disaster like this had not happened before now. It will never be the same. There will be lots of changes whether people wanted them or want them now or not. It was just a sleepy beautiful slow moving place. Now it is being drug forcefully 99 years into the future. Knowing a few locals and again I can only speak to my direct knowledge I can say they likely felt this sort of phone tree like warning system was adequate and feared any other type of change. Now change will be forced on them. The whole thing is past heartbreaking. Felt heartsick since we all learned the news of multiple people missing. These are not people who thrive on change. Just do what they do. It will never be the same and just as they wanted to live near the magical river with its mists rising off of it…they didn’t respect the power of it. And so I get the frustration people from the outside looking in have on the locals. They were living at their own pace with very few changes for a long time—thinking nothing bad will happen here. Wrong. 
 

this could have been an event where if the people had been amenable to change and to a common sense and necessary warning system we would be talking about how sad the devastation and destruction is and there would not have been significant loss of life. Instead it’s about the profound unnecessary loss of life and the destruction. 

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not a place for a tranny to call home that I can assure you.  kidding aside (or maybe that's not kidding, I dunno I digress), I love it there, and with a hospital and enough going on, it's a place I once had an eye on for retirement. loftier goals and now politics have me thinking out of state, but if you like the out doors (like I do), you love Texas (like I do), you can co-exist with sane conservatives (like I can) then with the exception of summer heat it's could be a great place to slow down. I'd rank it over Marble Falls and Horseshoe Bay for sure, I might over Fredericksburg too but that's debatable based on what you want. It's wildly different than the communities close to town like Lake Travis. For me, whatever my love may have been for the hill country it's been replaced by a need to leave. So it's Colorado, California, or Mexico as the top three right now (no particular order).

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38 minutes ago, West Kerr Horn said:

I grew up in small town West Texas (Snyder) and have lived in Austin (7years) and DFW (38 years).

I know Snyder well, having grown up in Big Spring.

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58 minutes ago, West Kerr Horn said:

I grew up in small town West Texas (Snyder) and have lived in Austin (7years) and DFW (38 years). As a youngster, we came down to Kerr county, Kingsland, Christoval, Leakey and Camp Wood to camp and fish. Good times. 
 

When retirement talk between my wife and I started, I told her I had a place in mind. We have lived here for 3 years. Absolutely love it.  I like that we have dark skies and I can see the stars at night. I like that I don’t hear planes, trains and sirens at night. It took me a couple of months to get used to sleeping where it was so quiet. 
 

Another adjustment is to not being in a hurry and slow down, not be insistent. No one is in much of a hurry here. 
 

My friends here are a motley crew:  the owner of a food truck/ nonprofit food bank, a semi-retired security guard and his wife that moved here from Northern California, a Kerr County native that works in construction and his wife that is my barber.  One of my UT classmates and I have reconnected and he is the director of Schreiner University music dept and the conductor of our local symphony. I am on a deer lease with the nonprofit guy and the music guy. Go figure. Redneck hunters have different interests!
 

The county has very affluent areas ( game ranches, retirement communities) and abject poverty. Ingram Tom Moore HS built a new band hall and installed showers because some of the kids in band have no running water in their homes. One of the reasons we started the nonprofit was to help these families with food and basic necessities. 
 

I can add more later if anyone is interested. 

I don't think anyone can dispute the natural beauty and that is what I am most familiar with.

Sounds much more diverse than I would have guessed.

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21 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

I don't think anyone can dispute the natural beauty and that is what I am most familiar with.

Sounds much more diverse than I would have guessed.

It’s fairly diverse. Yeah there are really rich people and older people that live on nice pieces of land and such. But any town over 20,000 (Kerrville) you do have a fair mix. And many of those living in town aren’t wealthy. But I can see how people thinking of Hunt and Ingram residents in that way. Those who have big swaths of family land. Most of the older types are not showy though (sure some are same as every place) but they are pretty laid back. Most don’t advertise what they have and if you ran into some at a store in town you wouldn’t think…”yeah that’s a really rich person.” Like I said there are some showy types but the vast majority are very understated. At least in my experience. 

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27 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

I don't think anyone can dispute the natural beauty and that is what I am most familiar with.

Sounds much more diverse than I would have guessed.

Even if only 20% are your kinda people thats still a substantial number. You can find your people. Birds of a feather and all of that. 

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3 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

I had to play/work the Kerrville Folk Festival several years in a row and the commune. God damn hippies. 

Pretty sure new viruses breed in those campgrounds. But we’ve been before staying in airbnbs and loved the music.

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I used to hunt, fish and camp in Kerr County a lot in the 90's. Beautiful country. 

On one trip me and some friends found a fishing spot where the water was crystal clear and the bass was the size of a dog. We never caught anything and couldn't find that spot ever again after that day. We were high as shit on mushrooms and pot so it is possible we were sitting at creek staring at minnows the whole time.

One time we rented a camp cabin from one of the local camps in Kerr on a hunting trip. I went to use the restroom late at night at one of the central bathrooms when the lights turned off mid dump. I ended firing off several rounds from a Colt 1911 out the bathroom window. It turned out the bathroom light was on a timer and Jason Voorhees wasn't trying to kill me. I blame Jack Daniels and Marijuana for that mishap.

Regarding Kerrville, I was a Little League All Star coach that clinched a sectionals held in Kerrville. Three Year Lettermen achievement unlocked.

My cousin owns a popular Mexican restaurant in Kerrville but it would probably be a 5 out of 10 place in San Antonio. 

That's all I got to say about the place. Basically most of my experience with the area is getting fucked up with firearms which is normal for the location.

Would not recommend.

 

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6 hours ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

HEB has a "resort area" of sorts for any employee to schedule and use.  Well, it was possible when Oma worked for HEB.

How many of these properties does HEB have? I know they have one right by the causeway in Rockport. A buddy of ours went to work in their IT dept and we've been bugging him to try and get us in there.

 

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2 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

extremely dumb and racist leadership and people 

To a certain extent, that is to be expected, these are rural-ish Texans.  But I do know that a significant number of inhabitants are imports from Dallas and Houston that have retired there.  In other words, old and white.

I also know that doesn't seem to help the situation a bunch.  That Moser dude is/was a what NASA engineer that held positions of significant responsibility.

I was wondering how monolithic that was.

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MIL sold to Kerrville about 4 years ago after the FIL died. Sold the ranch in Harper and moved to where here friends were. We were thrilled for her to have access to medical facilities, HEB, etc just a few minutes away vs her living 45 minutes from anything at the ranch.

She had a great place in a 55+ gated community just a half mile north of the Guadalupe. We helped her get settled and were visiting every few months or so and were really impressed w/ how cute, accessible and friendly the downtown was. We loved walking along the river park that has now been destroyed by the floods.

She was only in that place a few years (long enough to renovate it) when she moved out to the Tierra Linda ranch area. She just couldn't get used to living that close to people so she found a house on 5 acres ("it's turnkey!"...she's spent the last 18 months gutting the place). She's about 5 miles from downtown Kerrville now. It does seem to be a very retiree friendly & equipped town. It's not a place we'd ever retire to (no place in Texas fits that mold), but it does have a lot to offer.

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11 hours ago, West Kerr Horn said:

My grandparents lived in Big Spring over by Howard College. My uncle & aunt and their two kids currently live there. 

Back in the day, I had an Aunt Juanita who lived over there on Purdue or Yale. One of the college streets. She had one of those Jesus paintings where his eyes would follow you around the room. Hated that damn place.

Edit: It was as creepy af and none of us were/are Hispanic. My dad's extended family all had weirdo names, like Iris, Elda, Royce, and Fleur. I've always chalked the name-thing to rural Southerners from a specific timeframe trying to sound "cool" or "exotic."

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If you decide to stick around, we've got a few West Texas folk who grew up in Lamesa, Andrews, Meadows (over by Brownfield), Midland, and somewhere around Lubbock. We also have a few who, at the very least, went to school at one of the bible colleges in Abilene. There have also been mentions of Sweetwater, but only as visitors who've been to the rattlesnake roundup there. (Fuck the 'Stangs!) The Coleman area is also in the mix, but I don't think I've ever come across someone from Slaton, Jayton, or Rotan on this site. I think a San Angelo guy (or two) has shown up as well.

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7 hours ago, Hmbre97 said:

How many of these properties does HEB have? I know they have one right by the causeway in Rockport. A buddy of ours went to work in their IT dept and we've been bugging him to try and get us in there.

 

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It’s not for discretionary use. You have to be awarded the trip. Most are based upon tenure and of course performance. They have good fishing charters for employees when they have employees stay and many activities on the actual resort with small cabins. 
 

Knowing a few that have been there and a little about the resort, in my opinion, it’s largely underutilized. At the end of their lengthy pier, you can do some tremendous wade fishing for reds and trout.

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7 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

i'm glad videos of past commissioners meetings are now being posted

And that’s the crux of it for some folks.   Non whites, gays and trans can’t just say “I’m moving to this town looks great”.  Now I’m not saying all smaller country towns will fuck with minorities or gays that move in.  Just curious if it’s a warm reception. 
 

I love the hill country.   Beautiful

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Not going to refute a lot of what has been said, some of it is true and some of it is speculation.  The racial make up of the county (non scientific, but based on observation) is probably about 50/50 White/Hispanic, with a few African American and Asian.  Most of my friends are Hispanic.  In every city, you have racist POS and we have some here.  Most everyone here gets along in my view.  

 

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As a Mooney aviator I make the pilgrimage to KERV every few months to wave hello at the factory. They've got a nice little GA airport and FBO but for airlines I think San Antonio is going to be your closest airport. 

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