Questions about CircleC/Steiner Ranch/Avery Ranch (Austin, Spring: lawyers, home search)

[tildahat]

Originally Posted by scm53

Or something to recognize as rank hypocrisy and not care about. Just something to know.

Regardless, something that does exist. I figure it's up to the OP to decide if it matters to him/her.

[Trainwreck20]

Huh. Interesting about PEC/AE. I know three or four families, though, that are on AE as far down as La Crosse that have AE. Looking at some other information, it appears there may even be an area where you get to choose AE or PEC.

[scm53]

Originally Posted by tildahat

Regardless, something that does exist. I figure it's up to the OP to decide if it matters to him/her.

Live is too short to make important decisions based on the irrational animus of close minded people.

Besides, unless you walk into Bouldin Creek Coffeehouse, or Book People, with a "Circle C Swim Team" tee shirt, how would any of those biases be known?

[Trainwreck20]

The biases have very much faded over the years, imho. Whereas CC was a touchstone topic 20 years ago, it is now becoming very much just a neighborhood.

[Austin97]

there are two announced trader joes and 1 that is possible. One is downtown, one is off mopac (loop 1) and 2244, and the one that hasnt been announced is 360 and great hills trail. It will be difficult to live close to a trader joes as you will probably need to live north of 71 and closer to 360 than 620.

There are 4 whole foods. Pretty much no matter what part of town except far northwest you will be close to a whole foods. Austin has a grocery called central market which I like better than whole foods as I believe it to be cheaper which very high quality. There are 2 central markets, one south and one central.

You have named 3 of the mega master planned neighborhoods, but there are tons of other neighborhoods that are also great. What part of town are you working in? It sounds like you might be from california so you dont care about commute, but part of the advantage of moving to a small town like austin is that you can get a much shorter commute.

[austin-steve]

Originally Posted by Trainwreck20

The biases have very much faded over the years, imho. Whereas CC was a touchstone topic 20 years ago, it is now becoming very much just a neighborhood.

Agreed. There is no material impact felt today, either in sales market behavior or resident concern, connected to the SOS/development issues of the early 1990s and Gary Bradly or Circle C.

Zero, nada, zilch.

Anyone who drags that dead cat out from under the rug and starts swinging it around his head yelling "lookie here, you need to know about this" doesn't understand the complete and utter irrelevance of it in today's world and to today's buyers and sellers.

Buyers care about schools, location/lifestyle and price, and little else. Circle C offers an awesome combination of all three.

Steve

[Prius732]

Thanks so much for the info.....


Husbands job will be Central area,we are originally from New Hampshire and currenty live in the M street area of Dallas.....

I think we will definitley consider Western Oaks and Legend Oaks as well.After reading more info there is no reason not to.

We were most drawn to Circle C from driving around when we took a trip to Austin to reserach areas.We liked the location and ementities,but wondered if there were better options.That led us to Steiner and Avery.

Since I will be staying home I want to live in a neighborhood with alot going on for kids preferrably near a Whole Foods and Trader Joes.That is where we do the majority of our food shopping and we are really close to one right now.I see that there is a Whole Foods and Costco close to Cc,WO and LO.The new Trader Joes in Rollingwood seems pretty close,10-15 minutes?What other shopping dining options are located close to those areas?

Crime wise,what area of Austin is consided the safest?It seems like western Austin from looking at crimereports.com?

[Trainwreck20]

preferrably near a Whole Foods and Trader Joes.

Not sure on where the TJs are or will be, so can't help there.

There is a new Whole Foods at Wm Cannon/Mopca which is fairly accessible to that area (the actual in-parking lot traffic is a bit annoying). There is also a 'nicer' HEB at Escarpment/Slaughter that you may find very nice - it carries a wide variety of organics and is less expenses (generally) than WFs. If you want to avoid the crowds, go to Randalls on Wm Cannon.....

Crime-wise, you are not going to really have a problem unless you hunt for it. There are a few 'hot' spots around town - north along Rundberg, SE there are some spots, and possible some to the NE still (have not checked a crime map in a while, though). In any case, if you are slated to good schools, you will not be in a problem crime area.

[tildahat]

Originally Posted by austin-steve

Agreed. There is no material impact felt today, either in sales market behavior or resident concern, connected to the SOS/development issues of the early 1990s and Gary Bradly or Circle C.

Zero, nada, zilch.

Anyone who drags that dead cat out from under the rug and starts swinging it around his head yelling "lookie here, you need to know about this" doesn't understand the complete and utter irrelevance of it in today's world and to today's buyers and sellers.

Buyers care about schools, location/lifestyle and price, and little else. Circle C offers an awesome combination of all three.

Steve

Of course people who live there don't care. If they did, they wouldn't live there. And I agree the concern has lessened greatly in frequency and intensity over time. But *in the last month* I have heard someone go on a fire breathing rant about Circle C/SOS, so its out there still. That's why I mentioned it. I have no idea if the OP would care about that either way, I think it's possible its relevant to her. "Prius" is part of her username after all....

I think the other thing I mentioned is relevant too. People have heard of Circle C and it has a rep as a highly affluent suburb, somewhat like Westlake. Therefore people have preconceptions about them. Some buyers might like that, some might want to avoid it, some don't care either way. I think the various "Oaks" neighborhoods are just as nice but are basically anonymous to most Austinites. For some that's a plus.

I think these things are factual observations. Just throwing them out there for the OP.

[Kosmonaut]

Circle C = Westlake??

The avg home price in CC is about 350K, the avg in Westlake is about 800K. Not even the same ballpark.

Heck - New build in Circle C is about the same price as new build Southpark Meadows now.