on a home near the Austin area. Looking in the 900K-ish price range with potential properties that hit all the checkboxes such as larger garage, pool, fun community, newer home, low hoa, upgrades, close to culture/city life, etc. I like Lakeway, Round Rock, and a few other areas near Travis Lake. I dont care to be cutting grass or other home maintenance all day, but want a place to keep the wife happy with gardening and such. What other areas would you recommend that are a fairly close trip to downtown Austin, yet near good fishing lakes. Curious to see your responses. Hoping to meet other anglers too.

The hill country from austin to Burnet is pretty nice (IMO). I wouldn't want to be close to austin, and the traffic. Georgetown is not as busy as Round Rock, and very easy to get to a DR. I would stay west of I-35.as I grew up in RR, graduated from Hutto when it was a population if 500. Fished the highland lakes allot, and loved that area. I have since migrated up to the DFW area, good luck on your move.

Thank you friend.

There is only so much of Austin. They are going to build houses, apartments, etc. on every available piece of land around it.

If my plan comes together, I’ll be moving to Georgetown in a couple months.

Check out Dripping Springs, 30 min sw of Austin.

just a suggestion....take that $900,000. and buy you a $200,000. house in east texas between T-bend and Sam Rayburn....buy you a $100,000. boat and spend the $600,000. you saved hunting and fishing around the world.....

This. Great idea. Got me thinking !!

I’d recommend looking at all of the other 49 states.

We are full here in Tx!!!!

If I was young and starting over, I would look in Oklahoma. Way more for the money and not near the growth rate as Texas has. Great fishing too. Look around the central area and in the Muscogee area.

AR, I moved to the Austin "area" nearly 9 years ago from Dallas. You can't have both things...near downtown and near good fishing, and most likely a crackerbox of a house for $900k. We moved to the hill country in Jonestown. Big lots, great views. 45 minutes from actual downtown. Depending on your age and what/how you like to eat, you may or may not be "downtown" all that much. We go to the live music venues (going tonight) downtown, and once in a while out to eat "downtown". Lake Austin is making a comeback but is a beating to fish. You have to compete with jet fleas and mainly those stinking wave boats. Since it's a river there's really no place to get away from them. Where we live, we're about 20 minutes from the nearest good size town, Cedar Park. Decent food, Walmart, Academy, Costco, H.E.B. grocery, movies, etc all there. We're 45 minutes from LBJ, which has a good population of decent sized bass. Not sure what you're fishing is like where you live now, but if you're comparing to any of the good E. Tx lakes, you may be a little disappointed. Feel free to pm if you really want details on this area. Be glad to help.

Can't imagine ANY outdoorsman wanting to live in downtown Austin. Oxymoron of culture.

Right. Austin=fruitcakes. “Keep Austin weird” isn’t just a saying that happened. There is some truth to it.

It used to be a beautiful place. However, the lack of infrastructure is not keeping up with the growth. Trying to get in/out of town is a complete beating with traffic. If you can own property outside of DS and it's not slated for rooftops in 5 years you might be onto something.

I would not have any desire to live in that area again. Overcrowded with people and traffic, lack of water in the lakes, sub par fishing due to the years of low water levels.