What are some good lakes in East Texas which allow you to have a boat dock / waterfront property besides Cypress, Sandlin, Fork, and Winnsboro. Thanks

deffinatly think falcon compares to fork... Honestly fork is a honery old lake lol, I love to fish it but still... If we are talking about staying around the metroplex then I am a ft. worth man all the way. I REEEEAAALLLY can't stand dallas. But it isn't exactly close to fork. I have a buddy who has a lake house on a private lake south of Longview... DEFFINATLY the place 2 me in my mind. If you wana be out west I would say san angelo. Less than an hour to O.H. Ivie which is one of the most overlooked lakes when out of state ppl look at texas. 2 hours to amistad and sunny suuuunny most of the year., 3 lakes in town...(really 2 now O.C. Fisher is dange near dry) but the buttes and Nasworthy have produced many double digit fish.

Just my thoughts

Rockwall.
About 30 minutes from the "Big City" yet still has that old city feel.
Was just named as one of the top 10 places for a family to live:
http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2009/jul/02/rockwall-named-among-10-best-places-families-famil/
Also surrounded by quite a few lakes.

Cedar Creek has all of the above. It's far enough from the Messoplex but only an hour and a half from Dallas.

In my opinion, it depends upon a couple factors:
1. Why you are moving here in the first place?
2. Where are you moving from?
3. What is important to you in deciding what community to live in (school systems, proximity to work, nice houses/lot size, proximity to ocean...)?

I am born/raised in LA/Palos Verdes and lived 20 years in San Diego. Some of my suggestions in comparing what I was looking for were relative to those locations.