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Kerrville used to be retirement destination number one when I was growing up for folks from the RGV.   Seemed like every business folk my parents knew after they sold their business or put in their notice after 30 years of service was moving to Kerrville or Fredericksburg.   This was back in the 80’s.  

The direction San Antonio is growing it might become more like  what Boerne was 20 years ago where folks who wanted to live away from the city but still wanted the small town feel end up.    Kind of like Dripping Springs in the Austin area where not too long ago it was out in the sticks.  Now the Austin metro area is clearing  a lot of those sticks and merging up with Dripping Springs.    

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On 7/10/2025 at 7:12 AM, Helobious said:

I went to Manziel’s last ever high school game, Tivy was playing Lake Travis in San Antonio. Johnny was playing defense and returning kicks too. 
 

Thats all I know really.

Funny thing is the community barely recognized him with a tribute just in the last year or two.   They kind of shunned him when Manziel wanted Manziel and some other things came out about his move to Kerrville.   

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 Kerrville and that area are going through it right now and so maybe their politics keeps you from moving there, that's your bad, not theirs. Basing your whereabouts on your neighbor's political views is taxing and is unnecessary.  

I move around year to year, mostly small city's and big towns (how do we classify this?) El Paso,  New Braunsfels, Galveston, San Antonio,  Austin and am currently in Uvalde. Every place has been great and every place has their shit you deal with. 

Out of all of them, id say Uvalde has been my favorite,  and that as we know is my personal preference. 

I'd live in Kerrville,  Hunt, Kerr County in a drop of a hat. If the company I l work for  said we need you in Kerrville,  id say it better be for more than a year! 

Outside of the metro areas,  its all conservative and there's a reason for that. Im sure some are militant,  as you describe wanting to avoid, but 97% are not. Small town living is simple and there's plenty of space. 

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34 minutes ago, Dewey said:

 Kerrville and that area are going through it right now and so maybe their politics keeps you from moving there, that's your bad, not theirs. Basing your whereabouts on your neighbor's political views is taxing and is unnecessary.  

I move around year to year, mostly small city's and big towns (how do we classify this?) El Paso,  New Braunsfels, Galveston, San Antonio,  Austin and am currently in Uvalde. Every place has been great and every place has their shit you deal with. 

Out of all of them, id say Uvalde has been my favorite,  and that as we know is my personal preference. 

I'd live in Kerrville,  Hunt, Kerr County in a drop of a hat. If the company I l work for  said we need you in Kerrville,  id say it better be for more than a year! 

Outside of the metro areas,  its all conservative and there's a reason for that. Im sure some are militant,  as you describe wanting to avoid, but 97% are not. Small town living is simple and there's plenty of space. 

There’s a decent percentage of mean, rude, racist, nosy, cliquey people that I want to avoid too. Not just the militant ones. Add in the lack of activities and resources and I don’t think I could live in a small town again. 

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23 hours ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

Pretty much how we feel about our small town.  Mind your business and don't stick your nose into mine and all is good.  

Bullshit. 

Spent my formative years in a typical small town. No one pays closer attention to other people’s business than small town citizens.

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Newsflash:  there are tradeoffs no matter where you live. One person's 'busybodies' are another's 'people who give a shit.'  Another person's 'accessibility' is another person's 'traffic and congestion.'

I've lived 5 miles from a town of 440 people( 8 years) and I've lived in Houston metro( 16 years,) working significantly inside the loop.  You can find what you want to find if you're looking for it.

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36 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

Bullshit. 

Spent my formative years in a typical small town. No one pays closer attention to other people’s business than small town citizens.

As long as your business is clean and lawful no one cares.  Don't be a wolf in sheep's clothing.  

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48 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

Bullshit. 

Spent my formative years in a typical small town. No one pays closer attention to other people’s business than small town citizens.

Times have changed……. Things  that encourage us to stay indoors and home have altered a lot of stuff.   I see this even in my own neighborhood in a Burb like area in the twenty years we have lived vs when we built our home.  We’ve had so many people move in and out on our street I might know a handful of people who have been here for the long term as well.  When we first moved here we had neighborhood gatherings, etc and nothing now.  Football fridays we’d have a nearly sold out stadium, now a lot of empty seats.      In the small town I grew up in which I visited over the weekend, it’s the same dynamic but more so because the younger generations starting with mine (Gen X) moved away and didn’t come back in large numbers after college, etc.   

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2 hours ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

There isn't much to go back to in Danevang.  Bless the world's farmers, but I can do better.

You can get a damn good burger there, though. 

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