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Texas Looks Like That? A Native Texan's Perspective
Having been born and raised in Dallas, and having lived in the Austin area since 1988, I grew up not really thinking about what a great state this is and how nice it really is to live here. After I got my real estate license and started working with out-of-state buyers, I realized that many of them are surprised when they come for a visit, because they expect our area to look like this -------------------------------------------------------> I guess this image is perpetuated in some older movies, and people have a deeply ingrained thought that Texas has rolling tumbleweeds and open plain land primarily. To be sure, there are parts of Texas that DO have tumbleweeds and plains, but I have not been to those parts myself. Texas actually has FIVE of the Top 20 largest cities in the country by population, according to 2006 statistics that I found today (Austin is #16 now and moving up). I wanted to share a few photos that I have taken in and around Austin in order to give a flavor of what central Texas has to offer with regards to scenery: I took this photo from a lot for sale on ... more
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