Sounds like a country song doesn't it!

Anyway, anyone live there mind if I pick your brain.

My wife wants to move there, I could transfer there, not sure how I feel about it. I love Kerrville, but I am trying like hell to get promoted and it will be a small demotion for me.

Here's what we know:

1. We can afford the housing, maybe not a 100 acre place, but something much nicer than where live.

2. It is kind of a retirement community from our last trip there, when I was living in San Marcos in 2014.

3. There are a ton of people moving in.

4. Water is a problem.

5. Hunting means a lease, probably not a close one for cost.

6. Crime is so far low, the Mexican resteraunt that I bought tamales in told me he doesn't even lock his doors EVER!

We would be there 3-6 years until I complete my masters/doctorate and can move on in my work.

Financially we will be fine there.

i don't have anything to say about the area, i'm from the northeast but

i would say if your current location may be where you go back to after your doctorate then it's a coin toss

otherwise, if the wife is up for the adventure go for it. 3-6 years explore a new area then move onto the next adventure

I'd suggest going back and looking at any of the dozen or so relocation threads you have started and follow the advice given.

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Originally posted by Lhook7:
I'd suggest going back and looking at any of the dozen or so relocation threads you have started and follow the advice given.

Generally I get go to hell as advice.

There has to be more than a dozen, I have moved about 8 times since I retired from the military.

Seth,

The last I knew you were in CA. I suggest you bag that state and come join us in TX. Me and the MRS relocated here and have no regrets.

As to hunting, you can manage without a lease. As a military retiree you can hunt the bases and I've found several people that will let me hunt their places for does. If I want a buck I'll simply go back to my native CO and hunt private land there.

That's my advice.

Chief

Yep,

We'll see what they offer.

I could bag does and hoglets and be happy.

I got offered Del Rio and Midland a few months ago and begrudgingly turned those down. Don't really believe the "wife aint happy mantra", but I'd rather not pay child support and alimony.

Kerrville is a great place IMO. An hour to San Antonio, but out of the rat race, Kerrville has lots to offer....restaurants, river running through middle of town, great health care, a drive into the surrounding countryside and you'll likely see 20 different types of big game, and the TX Hill Country is a great place to be.

I may wind up there one day myself. Good luck.
JG

I really want to try and find a transfer to San Angelo.

Not quite as pretty as Kerrville, but a hell of a lot drier climate and easier living. Maybe I am wrong, but it seems to be far enough away from the traffic and influx of tourist that Kerrville has.

For overall quality of life, Kerrville has San Angelo licked. San Angelo is cheaper, but it's a bit of an anomaly. If it wasn't for the base, it'd be a heckuva lot smaller, like 10,000 people. Hunting is better towards Kerrville, though the whitetail tend smaller in Kerr County. Fishing, music, shopping, travel access, scenery - all better in Kerrville. For a happy wife scenario, head south. avoiding Del Rio and Midlad was a good call.

Personally, I would take San Angelo over Kerrville.

Kerrville, like Austin, used to be a really neat place but it is now nothing more than a suburb of San Antonio, and Yuppieville.

There is plenty of hunting around both places, problem is going to be affording it. I don't think the military presence at San Angelo is all it has going for it as it has been on a fairly steady growth pattern over the past 20 years.

San Angelo commissary and PX would be very handy being a retiree.

I am trying to finish up my grad degrees so I can move into a bigger deal, Texas would be a nicer place to do that then where we live in California in the desert.

Sounds fine for - "We would be there 3-6 years until I complete my masters/doctorate and can move on in my work."

But things like - "Hunting means a lease, probably not a close one for cost." and "Water is a problem." remind me of part of why I left California.

What is really sad, is that hunting leases within 2 hours of the major metroplexes in California for pigs/coyotes are as much as trophy whitetail leases in South Texas.

I was told over $8000 for the kind of lease that would work for us within 100 miles of my house.

$8000 will get you a helluva lease within 100 miles of San Angelo. I just saw a lease east of lubbock for $2500 per gun, 8 guns total and it was for 9000 acres. San Angelo has been hit moderately hard by this most recent oil crash, so property prices are flat, if not down. Kerrville has a ton of snowbirds who winter there. Very different town in summer vs fall/winter. Hunting right around Kerrville is good, but small deer. But within 100 miles? Some good whitetails, decent aoudad, great turkey and quail, lots of exotic options. Most of that holds true for San Angelo too, since 100 miles will overlap some.

I was more saying that $8000 here within 200 miles of Los Angeles really just buys a place to hunt pigs, coyotes and black bear.

I would bet a $8000 lease in the Hill Country would be stupendous.

Yeah, I served a 5 year sentence on a work assignment in the People's Republic of California. Never drew a tag, never fired a rifle in state at more than paper. The tags for hogs are ridiculous, the restrictions on firearms are ridiculous, and the game management is hopping from one endangered species to the next. I figured out it was cheaper to build a boat and hunt coastal sloughs than to put in for reservation draws for waterfowl. Then Monterey county taxed my boat, which I built with my own two hands, as a luxury item.

I don't miss anything there but the food. And wine.

San Angelo will be the anti-California for sure. I like west Texas better than the hill country, and San Angelo is a little bit of both. Some beat properties along the Concho at reasonable prices too. You won't find that in Kerrville. But I still like Kerrville a little better. But I kinda forgot that when I left California, dang near anywhere in Texas was better!

I will miss the droves of fake boobs, but since I am not single it is more of a casual notice thing than something I can get a real good look at.

Got in trouble last night for saying high to someone in their 20's. My wife is awesome, I just have a short leash.

I live just West of Austin in Lakeway and spends lots of time in the Hill Country. I'd take Fredericksburg over Kerrville, but both are nice. You'd be surprised at the amount of white tail and axis you could take on a small <20 acre free range plot outside of Kerrville, especially around Hunt.

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Originally posted by Austin Hunter:
I live just West of Austin in Lakeway and spends lots of time in the Hill Country. I'd take Fredericksburg over Kerrville, but both are nice. You'd be surprised at the amount of white tail and axis you could take on a small <20 acre free range plot outside of Kerrville, especially around Hunt.

We'll see how my wife thinks she needs to live closer to town. Seems to be quite a few 20 acre house lots west of town.

It's horrible here. Really. Hordes of tourists and traffic makes my commute at least 9 minutes. Damn.

The upside is that I can walk to work in 30-40 minutes, and do almost every day.

The downside to living in the Mojave Desert is today was a cool day at 104 F, plus it is in California so there is that.

I love my job though, just want my kids to have the best life I can give them.

first off anyplace has to be better han CA.

Come to Idaho and save that $8000 you won't have to pay to hunt over 30 million acres of PUBLIC ground.

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Originally posted by Big Wonderful Wyoming:
I was more saying that $8000 here within 200 miles of Los Angeles really just buys a place to hunt pigs, coyotes and black bear.

I would bet a $8000 lease in the Hill Country would be stupendous.