Could anyone name the most conservative places and neigbhorhoods to live in the austin area?

[mlassoff]

Originally Posted by Alatex

Often, the answer is affordability.

I don't have a lot of money, so I tend to look at outlying areas to get more house and land for my money. Some the people who live in the more rural areas do tend to be more "conservative," but you'll find some "liberals" even out here in the sticks. Whatever one's political persuasion, I don't really care so long as they're not trying to take my money or get in my business.

No I totally get that. But would you shop for a home in a "conservative" area, or would you tell your realtor you looking within a certain price rage? On the flip side I think Hyde Park looks really broken down in parts... I think some liberals call that "character"

Are there neighborhoods for us political moderates?

[Alatex]

But would you shop for a home in a "conservative" area, or would you tell your realtor you looking within a certain price rage?

I can't speak for anyone else, but politics has never entered the equation for me when looking for real estate. I'd guess that more of my brother's neighbors in San Marcos lean a little to the right overall, while more of his coworkers lean a little to the left, but he gets along great with all of them.

I have neighbors in Alabama that I have known for many years that I have no idea about their politics, nor they about me.

[TexasHorseLady]

Originally Posted by Moonlady

When I lived in Georgetown, I received a flyer in my mailbox asking me to support the protest of the Georgetown High senior science book because it had a full picture of the male anatomy. It wasn't the fact of the letter, it was the way that it was sensationalized to say "we don't want our HS senior girls seeing THAT". There was a male strip show that came to town, and it received a protest from some of the local women. Their exact words (printed in the AAS) said "that's fine for that Soddom and Gomorrah city to the south of us, but not here in Georgetown".

Admittedly, that was over 15 years ago, but I don't know that it's changed much. Anyway, that's how I deemed it to be conservative.

I don't know about 15 years ago (we only moved into the general area of Georgetown and started being there a LOT a little over 12 years ago), but that's certainly not the Georgetown that I know today.

Which does not mean that there aren't some people like that in Georgetown today, just as there are in Austin, come to that, or New York City, for that matter, but it's not my experience living and working in Georgetown. So things have evidently changed a LOT since you lived there.

[Raskolnikov]

Originally Posted by Alatex

I can't speak for anyone else, but politics has never entered the equation for me when looking for real estate. I'd guess that more of my brother's neighbors in San Marcos lean a little to the right overall, while more of his coworkers lean a little to the left, but he gets along great with all of them.

I have neighbors in Alabama that I have known for many years that I have no idea about their politics, nor they about me.

I would agree with you but it's different in Austin. I think that during the election period, living in central Austin in one of the charming neighborhoods with character (Hyde Park etc.) if you did not have an Obama sign you were a pariah. There were Obama block parties, caucusing for Obama at the local elementary schools, and just general mania going on. I do not live central anymore (moved several years ago south) but I work there, and I am moderate-libertarian. I work with people who all live in the center of town, and besides me I do not think they would encouter anymore who isn't a liberal democrat in most of their lives. Many of them live in a bubble. I'd recommend outlying areas - like South Austin, or north central - for more political diversity. But to answer your question, no, it should normally never come up when looking for a neighorhood. But Austin's different. It's more in your face.

[TexasHorseLady]

Interestingly, I lived in central Austin for many years, and my son still does (leases the house from us), and except for election years when the political animals on both sides of the fence go a little crazy, while, yes, those political animals are with us always (doesn't everyone have them, folks for whom politics is the be all/end all of life?), I couldn't tell you what the politics of my neighbors was unless they happened to have bumper stickers - and even then, I'd have to know they were the ones who put them on, not that the car didn't come with them.

It can,as said, get pretty crazy in certain areas during election time, but for the most part, no one really cares what your politics is and you CAN find conservatives in the middle of town. If you care.

[Alatex]

I would agree with you but it's different in Austin...

That is interesting. I haven't spent enough time in Austin proper on my visits to really learn the city.

I recall seeing maybe 2 or 3 political signs of any sort in my brother's subdivision (of about 50 homes) in San Marcos during the last election cycle, which was very similar to my home neighborhood in Alabama, where I saw maybe 8 or 9 signs total out of about 150 houses.