Housing under 300k in places that dont suck

Love it when real estate agents shoot everything with a wide-angle lens.

BTW, nice house.

My old boss has a nice house on Lake Travis, I didn't want to ask how much he paid but the house across the street was listed for like 250k

My wife's aunt and uncle live in that area. Very nice and i hope to move there in ~5 years or so.

That's funny you posted that, because when I read the title I clicked on it so I could come in here and suggest Austin.

I live in a house a few blocks away from Zliker park (our city's Central Park) and walking distance to the 10 mile hike and bike trail going around our city lake/river. I'm a mile from the very center of downtown. I paid $283k for my house. If I ever decide to expand it, I'm looking at construction costs of around $80-$100 per square foot with a final retail value of roughly $300 per square foot.

Not a bad place to be.

Be warned though, that outside of the river going through downtown, none of the lakes actually have any water in them. Record heat and drought this year. Don't worry though, Rick Perry held an Evangelist conference and state wide official day of prayer for rain.

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I dunno what it is but those beaches in TX just look ghetto as fuck

Texas has pretty shitty beaches. Corpus Christi and further south has decent beaches/water.

If you're referring to the pictures from the OP, those are lakefront beaches. If you're referring to Texas coastline beaches, they are ghetto. They are terrible. The sand is from brown limestone and such rather than crushed coral, and the result is the water is a murky disgusting brown rather than crystal clear on white sand. There are also oil wells everywhere and tar balls that wash up on shore. And instead of cruise ships it is oil tankers drifting back and forth.