Gently Rolling Hills (Terrains)? (Houston, Austin: homes, homeschool, taxes)

[four family]

We live in central Illinois and we want to move with our voting feet. We’ve been doing much research for the past two years on various states (i.e. taxes, climate, engineering jobs, etc.) We have narrowed down to five potential states for us to relocate. One of which happens to be Texas.

We have visited Texas twice (via mini-van trip). We’ve enjoyed many places within Texas. Of course, we did not have the time nor finance to visit vast amount of Texas areas.

We’a a year-round homeschool family and we are looking into living on a hobby-type farm with plenty of acreage (20 plus). My hubby is almost firmly set on gently rolling hills (terrain) with some to plenty of greenery. He’d rather steer clear of flat land and arid climate.

Would you please offer several of areas and/or geography that offers gently rolling terrain, so that it’ll help us reduce wasted time of research? It would be much appreciated.

Thank you for your time to answer.

Debbie

[Jack Lance]

Originally Posted by four family

We live in central Illinois and we want to move with our voting feet. We’ve been doing much research for the past two years on various states (i.e. taxes, climate, engineering jobs, etc.) We have narrowed down to five potential states for us to relocate. One of which happens to be Texas.

We have visited Texas twice (via mini-van trip). We’ve enjoyed many places within Texas. Of course, we did not have the time nor finance to visit vast amount of Texas areas.

We’a a year-round homeschool family and we are looking into living on a hobby-type farm with plenty of acreage (20 plus). My hubby is almost firmly set on gently rolling hills (terrain) with some to plenty of greenery. He’d rather steer clear of flat land and arid climate.

Would you please offer several of areas and/or geography that offers gently rolling terrain, so that it’ll help us reduce wasted time of research? It would be much appreciated.

Thank you for your time to answer.

Debbie

Try the area between Houston and Austin outside of towns like La Grange and Brenham

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ho...0d02def365053b

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Fa...09cae2bcf58097

I hope this helps !

[hound 109]

I agree with Jack. The southern section of the Post Oak Belt/Blackland Prarie, provides rolling hills & lots of farm land. A lot of Czech's & Germans settled this area 150 years ago & there are a lot of nice towns. As Jack said, La Grange & Brenham are near the center of this region (basically between Houston & Austin).

In the map below look at the southern half of region 3. (note: most of the northern third of Region 3 is dominated by the DFW metroplex).

Most importantly....what's your budget & where's your job?

[RMFW]

Lots of nice (and undiscovered) hill country out west of Fort Worth and east of Abilene. The hills out around Palo Pinto is actually an ancient (read eroded) mountain range. The area also used to be a Comsnche stronghold back in the day before the railroads and the fort ranges were put in place up that way.

[Mark Senior]

Originally Posted by four family

We live in central Illinois and we want to move with our voting feet. We’ve been doing much research for the past two years on various states (i.e. taxes, climate, engineering jobs, etc.) We have narrowed down to five potential states for us to relocate. One of which happens to be Texas.

We have visited Texas twice (via mini-van trip). We’ve enjoyed many places within Texas. Of course, we did not have the time nor finance to visit vast amount of Texas areas.

We’a a year-round homeschool family and we are looking into living on a hobby-type farm with plenty of acreage (20 plus). My hubby is almost firmly set on gently rolling hills (terrain) with some to plenty of greenery. He’d rather steer clear of flat land and arid climate.

Would you please offer several of areas and/or geography that offers gently rolling terrain, so that it’ll help us reduce wasted time of research? It would be much appreciated.

Thank you for your time to answer.

Debbie

You did say some to plenty of GREENERY, ahh, East Texas for plenty of greenery, look under the Tyler-Sub
Forum, I just added about the rolling hills I just discovered actually IN Tyler, but you can find 20 acres farm and plenty of green around the area, many have compared to parts of the Eastern States.

Someone just asked about a homes school group in the area someone responded with one. The rolling hilld is not like the hill country, but it does "roll", gently, some of the hill country isn't to gentle. lol

[four family]

Please see my replies in blue.

Thanx.
Debbie

Originally Posted by Jack Lance

Try the area between Houston and Austin outside of towns like La Grange and Brenham

Thank you, Mr. Lance. I’ve just added them onto my research list.

Originally Posted by hound 109

I agree with Jack. The southern section of the Post Oak Belt/Blackland Prarie, provides rolling hills & lots of farm land. A lot of Czech's & Germans settled this area 150 years ago & there are a lot of nice towns. As Jack said, La Grange & Brenham are near the center of this region (basically between Houston & Austin).

I love learning history!

In the map below look at the southern half of region 3. (note: most of the northern third of Region 3 is dominated by the DFW metroplex).

Thank you for the map! I’ll print it and attach to my research papers.

Most importantly....what's your budget & where's your job?

Hubby is a senior structural engineer (waste water, bridge, concrete, building, commercial) in central Illinois with 26 years experience. I am a former state government computer specialist who is full time homeschool mom.

Originally Posted by Mark Senior

You did say some to plenty of GREENERY, ahh, East Texas for plenty of greenery, look under the Tyler-Sub
Forum, I just added about the rolling hills I just discovered actually IN Tyler, but you can find 20 acres farm and plenty of green around the area, many have compared to parts of the Eastern States.

Yes, I did ask about “some” to “plenty” of greenery.

Someone just asked about a homes school group in the area someone responded with one. The rolling hills is not like the hill country, but it does "roll", gently, some of the hill country isn't to gentle. lol

Yes, we like gently rolling hills (terrain). We also like some variation of not-so-gentle hills, as long as they’re not too steep (we want to mow safely) and not rocky (we like basement).

[four family]

Originally Posted by RMFW

Lots of nice (and undiscovered) hill country out west of Fort Worth and east of Abilene. The hills out around Palo Pinto is actually an ancient (read eroded) mountain range. The area also used to be a Comsnche stronghold back in the day before the railroads and the fort ranges were put in place up that way.

That’s funny, we were discussing about smaller cities/towns between Abilene and Fort Worth.
We’ve been to Fort Worth and that was as far west as we could make it.

Via past research, I couldn’t quite determine if the rolling hills and greenery exist between Abilene and Fort Worth.

I’m also researching about the precipitation since we’d have to drill a well.

Thanx.
Debbie

[DanielWayne]

Agreed with Brenham suggestion. Green rolling hills. Pastoral looking area with lots of pleasant small towns.

[ChristieP]

Please keep in mind that a large percentage of Texas is currently in a very prolonged drought.
United States Drought Monitor > Home
If you are looking for farmland, and you don't want to spend a fortune on irrigation, you need to look east of I35. And no, the area west of Fort Worth is not green at all. It looks more like the set of an old west movie with scrub brush, Mesquite trees, and a few high, rocky ridges.

Most importantly, what is your budget for this land, and how long of a commute are you willing to tolerate? Basements are not common in residential homes in most of Texas.

[Bobloblawslawblog]

Definitely Brenham.