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mishatx
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It's your typical suburban mega-development. A pool or two, on-site elementary schools, golf and tennis club nearby, still building more and more sections full of big houses on small lots with fancy cabinets and counters and windows to keep the poor people out.
It's probably 30-45 minutes downtown in traffic, and 20 or so without traffic, depending on how long it takes you to get to the MoPac / Slaughter intersection from your house.
The new shopping development and HEB at Slaughter and escarpment is very nice. I need to trip back over there and check it out again. I do know some people who live that way who skip that HEB to shop at the one on Slaughter and Manchaca because the Manchaca HEB is cheaper. I don't know if that's true.
The schools are decent. The high school is Bowie, which is one of three or four schools in AISD that people who are concerned about school quality aren't completely afraid of. Bowie seems to have the top overall combination in AISD of academics, athletics, and arts. Maybe not #1 in each, but near the top overall in all of them.
It's probably 30-45 minutes downtown in traffic, and 20 or so without traffic, depending on how long it takes you to get to the MoPac / Slaughter intersection from your house.
The new shopping development and HEB at Slaughter and escarpment is very nice. I need to trip back over there and check it out again. I do know some people who live that way who skip that HEB to shop at the one on Slaughter and Manchaca because the Manchaca HEB is cheaper. I don't know if that's true.
The schools are decent. The high school is Bowie, which is one of three or four schools in AISD that people who are concerned about school quality aren't completely afraid of. Bowie seems to have the top overall combination in AISD of academics, athletics, and arts. Maybe not #1 in each, but near the top overall in all of them.
iamtigerwoods
500+ Posts
Great place for families with kids. The schools are all very good. The commute can be long(30-45 minutes) during rush hour, but it is no more than 20 minutes to downtown otherwise.
mishatx
1,000+ Posts
I'm not any more negative about it than I am about similar places all over town. It's just a big development. Schools. Families. Granite countertops. That whole deal. Good for a lot of people, but I don't have kids so I'd rather live 3 miles east for less than 1/2 the cost.
It's better than Round Rock because it's in South Austin.
It's better than Round Rock because it's in South Austin.
The commute to downtown from Steiner Ranch seems hellish. Just getting out of the neighborhood can be daunting.
When we were looking, there were some "older" homes in River Place in the low $400's (near the front of the development).
An elementary school just went in at the front of River Place and supposedly land has been purchased for building a middle school and high school nearby.
I don't know much about Circle C except that it seems almost everybody I know from work lives either there or Travis Country.
When we were looking, there were some "older" homes in River Place in the low $400's (near the front of the development).
An elementary school just went in at the front of River Place and supposedly land has been purchased for building a middle school and high school nearby.
I don't know much about Circle C except that it seems almost everybody I know from work lives either there or Travis Country.
iamtigerwoods
500+ Posts
Traffic mentioned the neighborhood, but in that price range, Travis Country is a great place to look at. Much shorter commute than Circle C and it backs up to the Barton Creek Greenbelt.
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