Your favorite city/town in Texas?

I went with Mineola. Have always enjoyed that area.

Mineola is a nice small town we used to go there a lot when we had our place at Fork.

Gun Barrel City.

Brackettville TX.

Jefferson

Athens

Not Houston

Been to Rusk and Hawkins the past few years. I liked both places. I pretty much like all of E. TX.

Wichita Falls won’t get many votes.

Rockport

Amarillo

Ben Wheeler

I love most Texas towns, a favorite is hard to pick...... I have my town’s I hate though that seem to be more front of mind than the ones I love.

Sweetwater

I love something about many, many towns/areas, but I’m living in my favorite small town right now-

I leave every town better than I found it.

Is it because you have me so close?

Any where but arlington

Granbury and surrounding area is hard to beat for me. I also love Jefferson and Mineola

Lol-
I was telling the guys at lunch how we lived close but never have driveway beers or lunch-

We should hit the Bristol store sometime and I can not eat sushi with you-

No place within 150 miles of dallas.

They just voted down an effort to review an ad valorem tax (they have 0). They basically have no police, no fire, and no road improvement money. The locals say they have one officer at night and one fireman to go on alarms. Apparently Walmart, fast food joints, and Loews can’t collect enough sales tax to fund a city.

their walmart is the most entertaining place in the country. a honkytonk on every corner and chicken fights at the tire shop. what's not to love?

We'll make that happen soon.

Hell yah

wylie

anyone ever tell you you look like vanilla ice?

They police themselves trust me

I understand. We are a step up from Sachse.

They must arrest themselves for DWI.

No never lol that is vanilla ice in the pic tho

Damn sure won't get mine!

Austin

San Antonio. Liked the small town feel but the big town things to do. Probably helped living on the outskirts and not inside of 1604.

Graham is a great town, good people pretty town excellent fishing within close proximity. Has everything you need without a bunch of [censored] you don't want.

I liked Castroville.

Austin - Where the women look like men and the men are proud to have 'em.

Tyler

And the men dress like women.

yeah
Arlington just had The World Series
& an
NFL game

aledo has massive traffic jams
&
20 year old men playing
high school football

Arlington
then
Port A

Indianola

Marfa

Crockett, Texas.

I don't have a favorite, but a city I've learned to really appreciate, "and the surrounding country areas," is Glen Rose!

I really enjoy it, and I consider the top, or beginning of the Hill Country as it goes down.

Addendum: Marble Falls and Wimberley are nice as well.

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I thought this was under water.

Love austin. Hate the traffic. My sister lived there.

Leaday

Lol

Ben Wheeler is a good place to kick it up

Terlingua

Boerne. Nice town in the Hill country. Easy drive to San Antonio, and New Braunfels, Fredricksburg, Bandera, and quite a few more are all close.

I'll always have a fond place in my heart for Abilene.

Love living in Scurry, Tx but love visiting Greene, Tx.

Is the red food truck any good? Was going to stop and get some tamales on the way back from Terrell a couples ago but got their too late and they were closed.

Grew up in Marshall and love East Texas. I know it’s not the same these days but I’d love to have a big property there.

Broaddus

I hear you. Living here in Wide Awake Wylie has been great!

Another vote for Mineola. Moved out here from Arlington after retirement.

Can't complain too much about living in San Angelo other then I wish it was closer to the coast. Been here 19 years. Keep saying I'm gonna pack up and leave one day but it hasn't happened yet. Oh and theres no fish in our lakes so no need to come visit.

Nacogdoches

My mom and dad lived there in the 50's. It was dry.

how about Lufkn
plenty of $
& low key

Goldthwaite/San Saba and Llano for small town. Abilene for mid sized City

Nocona.

I like cedar hill but would never live there unless I was ballin

Can't complain about living up here in the panhandle for over 40 years. But we enjoy our time when we go to Alba and stay at the place on Lake Fork. Some places that I enjoy visiting are Fredericksburg, Ballinger and Austin.

This is a nice choice too

I have alot of interest in this thread. I'm looking to move away from Houston or farther out than we are now. If I could figure out how to make the same $$ or close to it
in a smaller country town I'd be gone in a heart beat.

Grand Prairie...love those nearby big city lights!

Alpine
Buffalo Gap
Cisco
Marfa
El Paso

comfort was a laid back little town when I lived there way back when.

bonham is a good little town and paris can be fun too. I don't really have a single favorite.

The Montage/St Jo/Nocona area is a very unique part of Texas.
Little hills, cliffs, valleys. Sort of like a mini hill country, but in north Texas with more rainfall and less heat in the summer.

Gruene

my sister lived in Buffalo Gap (well I did to for a semester) It s nice lil escape from the heat of west Texas,

The town were our family started - Fredericksburg

I guess it would matter favorite for what. I love Hemphill because that means I’m fishing one of two awesome lakes. Leakey is one of my favorites for hanging out at the river. Lots of great towns in Texas.

I always enjoy going back. My grandparents ended up between Hamilton and Pottsville in a small German settlement. Something about Fredericksburg that draws me back.

Sabine Pass

Flour Bluff or Del Rio

Hico

So that’s how they win all those hs championships, never knew

It's not, our kids are just better than yours

I like Gillette Wyoming no chance it will turn blue in next election. LOL

yep
for sure they brought in at least 3 players for this season
ask Rocco what he thinks

It ain’t even a town, it a place, it’s called Rayburn Country. I have a house in Country Club subdivision on a gravel road so far off the beaten path they have to pump sunshine back here.

4 miles to the boat ramp on Big Sam, 35 min from my deer lease. Hamburger Depot on 255 has about as good of hamburger as they get. The Mexican resturant has pretty decent carnitas, Chicken fried steak at the stump has to much garlic but it will do. The dollar store sells beer.

All you city boys can have Austin, I’m good where I’m at.

Uncertain is a nice a little place, and Hyde for bourbon and wine.

Wimberly or Gruene

Hmmmm-
I’m not so sure about uncertain-
But Hyde sounds like a nice place to get away from things-

My first "police job" was in Hico many years ago after my tenure at Tarleton State. Always went to the annual Hico Super Six until it ended a few years back. Always enjoyed playing golf at a small nine hole course in Meridian the weekend of the Super Six and was fortunate to play Marvin Leonard's Starr Hollow in Tabor a few years back. That whole area is on the top of my list of favorite places in Texas.

When were you at Tarleton and in what type of work? I was there from 1991-1995. Drove from Hamilton through Hico for a couple of years before moving to S'vill to finish.

No Butch, Lufkin is a smaller version of Beaumont. It ain’t a good place.

Or Hondo

To many for me to just choose one.

The family tree is deep rooted in hico

Amarillo.

Brownwood

Elpaso ? Man I think you got covid or something. What makes you say that ?

My Wife's family is from Hico. Still have a nice farm there on Honey Creek south of town. Good deer and hog hunting.

Granbury,...I like the town square, with the shops.
Grapevine...also has a main street you can walk with some interesting stores, and good eats.

I'm an OLD, was at Tarleton '86 - '87. Worked in Hico for a year, before moving back home and spending 30 years at Longview PD.

Winfield . Best tacos in the state , 10 miles north of Monti and Sandlin , 110 miles east of Dallas and 60 miles west of Texarkana .

Was just in Grapevine today, playing some music in that little park there by Texas and Main St. Lots of folks walking around and touring that little winery there. It is a cool town.

Quitman reminds me of the town I grew up in. Bicycles on sidewalks. Miss the bar where a real young guy could get a root beer in a frosted mug.

Uncertain

I mentioned Terlingua earlier, also Chigger Ridge and Mud Dig are the type places that I like, but Uncertian rates high too.

Mingus

And don’t forget about Thurber.

No one mentioned Clyde?

Granbury is a neat place.

Notrees is beautiful this time of year, Wink too!

We moved back to my hometown of Nacogdoches a few years ago after retiring in Dallas. We enjoy the town and the area.

Any where within 1 hour around San Antonio. I grew up in Boerne back in the 70's, Uncle still has a large ranch in Comfort.

Used to hunt in that area at a place called Twin Sisters. Beautiful area.

I've been spending more time in Llano recently. It's got a good vibe, a lot going on these days. Hopefully Austin doesn't take over that town, but I see it coming.

Rockport probably my favorite, Taylor is my least favorite.

Obviously having grown up around that area, I'm biased to it but you're exactly right. Even down around Forestburg and going a litte east of there is really nice. The area north of St Jo to the Red River to Lake Nocona is probably my favorite area in Texas.

Downtown Nocona, is something to see. If they could just find someone to buy the steakhouse and open something back up in it, I think that would have every building occupied.

What the heck?

If the Nocona Brewery and some of the wineries up there can survive the next five months, that would be a good start.
Now, I don’t want things to get too popular up there as I’d like to relocate to that area.

Jasper (Rayburn/Tbend) and College Station area.

I love all / most East Texas towns. But for a change in scenery Alpine is in the mix.