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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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10 hours ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

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

Again, bullshit. And, fuck you. I am no wolf in sheep’s clothes. Small town voting patterns show that some crimes are completely acceptable, while other acts, which break no law, are worthy of scandal and opprobrium. The first category might be CR, except for popos out of control, which is a common DT topic. The second category is best summed up in the phrase culture wars. 
 

Edited to point out your choice to invoke the word “clean” proves my point. You use the word to mean acts which meet a given locale’s image of itself.. One example, there are small towns where one’s religion is judged. Certainly, to reach the conclusion that an individual is “clean” involves sustained scrutiny.

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37 minutes ago, tejas60 said:

Chill, bruh. He didn't call you a wolf in sheep's clothing.

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And you know this how? I tried to parse that statement through another lens, but, I guess I’m not as smart as you. Please explain it to me.

Hate? Hate isn’t righteous. (Obviously, not speaking about our Deadhead).

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On 7/11/2025 at 4:56 AM, bolverk said:

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.

Abilene checking in

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On 7/13/2025 at 8:39 AM, West Kerr Horn said:

As I am writing this, it is raining again - already 3" in the rain gauge.  Hunt/Ingram responders/helpers evacuated, Walmart and HEB closed, everyone asked to stay home.

I understand the politics of this, but we ares till finding the dead and frankly, we don't have time to point fingers right now.  There are too many people with real needs, black, white, brown.  No one gives a damn, we are just trying to fill needs.  

When you see burly men out searching for the dead and they find a 6 month old baby that has been dead for several days and these men are broken and crying by what they have seen - that is what we care about now.  When you have single moms come to our warehouse and need diapers and wipes for their baby and ask to take 5-10 diapers because they know there are others that need - that is what we care about now.  By the way, we gave her several boxes of supplies - we have plenty.

I see a community that is caring for their own - thousands of people locally, nationally and other countries.  The crew at Mercy Chefs told us that they have never see a response like this to a disaster.  I thank God for all the help and for the ability to help my fellow west Kerr neighbors.  WKH

 

 

How about you grow the fuck up, get an avatar, and stick around

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On 7/13/2025 at 7:01 AM, aggie08 said:

Not trying to make this specific to Kerrville, but most people in most towns get along perfectly well face to face. Then they go home and rant to their spouses about how you, or people or look, think, or choose sexual partners like you, are what's wrong with the country.

Well at home and at the microphone at public meetings 

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34 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

Well at home and at the microphone at public meetings 

And keep their mouths shut when folks who have been in, and contributed to, their community for decades are picked up by ICE due to the color of their skin, told they have no rights, are not given due process, and are deported to facilities in foreign countries, where they are told no one leaves there alive. 
 

Then these fucksticks call themselves clean and law abiding.

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