Characterize each neighborhood (Austin, Round Rock, Spring: homeowner, yard, cars)

[Mimmyu]

Originally Posted by ashbeeigh

To be fair that is Williamson county and not Travis.

The website isn't called Maps of Travis County.

[ashbeeigh]

Originally Posted by Mimmyu

The website isn't called Maps of Travis County.

Then you can take it up with them. I was just passing along a good map of the Austin area. Sorry about the semantics.

[RoamingTX]

Originally Posted by Mimmyu

Not the whole city... still missing the entire 78717 zip code.

78717 is ETJ and not City anyway.

[10scoachrick]

Originally Posted by RoamingTX

78717 is ETJ and not City anyway.

Hang on...MUCH of 78717 IS in the city of Austin...Like the 4000 homes in Avery Ranch, among many others. Many of the "Round Rock" homes in 78717 ARE in the RR ETJ...and have an Austin address!

[Mimmyu]

Originally Posted by 10scoachrick

Hang on...MUCH of 78717 IS in the city of Austin...Like the 4000 homes in Avery Ranch, among many others. Many of the "Round Rock" homes in 78717 ARE in the RR ETJ...and have an Austin address!

And Lakeline Mall has a Cedar Park address but is full purpose Austin.

[ashbeeigh]

Im not sure why y’all are arguing about another website’s semantics. I just posted the darn link as a way to discuss neighborhoods in the area. I could care less if you call yourself an Austin resident and live in Brushy Creek. But I know it bothers some prople.

[cBach]

Originally Posted by ashbeeigh

Im not sure why y’all are arguing about another website’s semantics. I just posted the darn link as a way to discuss neighborhoods in the area. I could care less if you call yourself an Austin resident and live in Brushy Creek. But I know it bothers some prople.

I know, what started off a light fun humor is becoming a pedantic boring fest.

Let's stick to funny generic "sitcom" characterizations of each neighborhood.

[ScoPro]

Originally Posted by RunninJT

Nobody in real estate has a crystal ball or they would already own everything I suppose. The point of my rant post was that 78753 is definitely changing, no idea what into, but it is changing. You are dead on about the northern area of 78753, you can see the housing prices rapidly change within a block or two once you get away from Rundberg.

Despite the extremely high marks at Graham the other schools in the area are just simply low scoring, and Reagan has a horrible reputation for a very good reason. You couldn't get me to send my kids to Reagan with a gun to my head, they would be home schooled or I would move first. I made that oath when the students raped a teacher there a few years ago. PISD does dip in past Palmer in one area and I am sure they are thankful for that there. But the rest is covered by Graham, Dobie, Walnut Creek (at the edge past I35, most is covered by Graham), Reagan is the main High School for the area and Lanier mostly covers west of I35 I believe. There also A LOT of Charter Schools in the area with no lack of eager parents signing up their kiddos. Beats the alternative.

Windsor Hills was considered outside of Austin just a decade ago, so just recently annexed. I guess bits of Pfluggerville and Manor are next to be absorbed by the beast. But for now if you want to "be in Austin" and you are working with a limited budget, then this is it for owning a house. As I have argued with people on this forum many times in the past the Rundberg area is relatively "bad/run down, for Austin at least". The closest description for a lot of it would be ghetto or slum. But if you start comparing it to the run down and scary parts of other major cities like Baltimore or Detroit or even Houston, it's nothing. Oh it used to be a hell of a lot worse than it is now, but slowly but surely some of it is cleaning up a bit (haven't seen hookers on the corners of Rundberg/I35 in a long while). Or maybe its just getting covered up better since the protest marches.

When we built our NPC house on Kendal Drive (it backed up to Dessau Road - a narrow 2 lane squirt top then) in Windsor Hills in 1971, we were the 5th or 6th family to move in. Wasn't anything else around there except the trailer park, a 7-11, and a couple of farm houses on Dessau. Rundberg (2 lanes) had just been paved a year or so before. The neighborhood had already been annexed by the CoA.

We moved out & upgraded to the Four Seasons neighborhood in 1976 where we lived until 1995. Raised 3 sons who all attended Graham, Dobie, & Reagan.... when they were still good schools, with the last kid graduating in 1991.
Drove through Windsor Hills a few months ago and noted that most of it was still fairly well kept, except our now old house that is getting run down & trashed. Kinda sad, but am glad when we moved when we did to avoid the "degentrification" of the area. Never though that it would become crime central for Austin. Heck, we were way out in the sticks then.

Originally Posted by RunninJT

Well it starts at Rundberg. Bordered by Rundberg, I35, Dessau (Cameron turns into Dessau there) and east Braker. Mobile home park south of Rundberg, low income houses and apartments to the south, progressively more expensive houses as you go each block to the north. We have a lovely duck pond (now considered an official protected park) regularly stocked with fish. Lots and lots of retirees.

Actually, Windsor Hills as originally built was north of Rundberg, Dessau on the east, Marlborough Drive on the west, and Childress on the north.
The neighborhood west of what is now Dobie MS was called something else, and by the time we moved out in 1976 the 2nd phase of Windsor Hills was going up on the north side of Childress. Rundberg ended at Lamar, and there was a Safeway in that strip center on the SW corner of the "T" intersection with pasture land beyond that.

On a rather grisly side note, the 1965 murderer James Cross killed two UT coeds and dumped their bodies in an empty field just west of Georgian Drive on the south side of Rundberg where Barrington Elementary school is now located.

[ScoPro]

Originally Posted by 10scoachrick

Hang on...MUCH of 78717 IS in the city of Austin...Like the 4000 homes in Avery Ranch, among many others. Many of the "Round Rock" homes in 78717 ARE in the RR ETJ...and have an Austin address!

Correct - the ever growing octopus that is Austin has swallowed up large chunks of Wilco - especially in 78717. Annexed years ago..... & forgotten by their fellow Austinites apparently.

Even half of our unincorporated Brushy Creek MUD is in 78717 and we (meaning I) have an Austin mailing address, much to my "embarrassment".

[ScoPro]

Originally Posted by cBach

I know, what started off a light fun humor is becoming a pedantic boring fest.

Let's stick to funny generic "sitcom" characterizations of each neighborhood.

Well, nothing much funny happened when we lived in Windsor Hills (1971-1976), except when the kids who lived in a farm house on the other side of Dessau would occasionally shoot their shotguns, and pellet shot would rain down on our patio cover.
And how different it was when a new neighbor from India asked where he could buy a live goat to "sacrifice" for a banquet to celebrate the birth of their first child.
Then there were the neighbors several doors down who announced at one of our block's progressive dinner parties that they were becoming an "open marriage" couple. But I don't think they got any offers to swap. They soon moved out to West Lake Hills where the "grass" must've been greener.... and smoked more often.