Hey guys I may be moving to Texas. I can live anywhere but would prefer to live someplace I can have a few acres be close to water and the great duck hunting has to be close. Any suggestions? My wife wants to move to Austin but I'm not sure how he hunting is. I have a mud boat and a bad ass airboat. Any guidance would be helpful. I'm in Galveston/Houston this weekend checking it out.

Thanks assholes!!!

A mud boat and airboat in Austin is about as useless as a fishing pole in a desert. Hunting is good just about anywhere but west texas. Granted west texas can be great if you have access to all the private ponds and what not...

Ne Texas is awesome and Longview is in the heart of all the good lakes , rivers and pine trees.

Austin? Bahahahah. Fun place to visit sparingly, but fuck living there for a laundry list of reasons so long I'd be retired before I was done.

I'm 2hrs NE of Houston and that's as close as I'd ever be in my life. Close enough to go if I need to but far enough away that I don't have to deal with that BS. Whoever told you to move to Austin, punch them in the throat. Depends on what you have planned to do for work as to what area of the state. Dallas/Ft Worth is also on my list of places that I'd visit, but never, ever, ever live. I live an hour from the coast, and an hour from the lakes... Pretty perfect for me.

I live south of Houston. Clear Lake, nasa area. I moved here from Port Neches-groves. It has all the benefits of a big city and is within reasonable driving distance to many types of outdoor environments.

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If my oldest daughter lived with me full time, I would move to Texas tomorrow. Austin is a good central area surrounding by some solid deer hunting. You won't need a mud boat though. If I moved to Texas, it would probably be South of San Antonio or close to the border

What about Beaumont or Corpus Christi? These are the two areas I was targeting but have never been there. I the big city traffic so I'm not looking to live outside of Houston or sanantonio.

I'm 25mi NW of Beaumont. Good medical facilities, things to do, good hunting and fishing to the north and the south, salt water, fresh water, woods, marsh, that area has it all. Traffic isn't great during peak times but once the current construction is over in town it will be better. I was born and raised in the area, PM me if you have any more specific questions.

I live 15 minutes west of Beaumont. SETX mentioned the traffic, but it should be clear in the next year or two when they finish widening I-10 and 69/96-North. The traffic is no where near as bad as the Houston / Austin / San Antonio / Dallas downtown and suburban areas.

I'm a fan of where I live, but many areas of Texas afford good hunting and fishing opportunities. Being in Beaumont you have lots of great duck hunting opportunities with 20 minutes of driving - and even more an hour out. Add another 1/2 to hour and you can hunt the big lakes.

There are some local deer hunting opportunities, but drive 1-2 hours from Beaumont and you can find some great hunting leases.

There is fishing access galore. Keith and Sabine Lakes are great for saltwater, as well as the beach. Fresh water bayous and rivers are plentiful, and the lakes are worth the drive.

Also born, raised and live in the Beaumont area.

It isn't terrible but by no means perfect. It's growing like crazy around here, some parts of Beaumont are not even recognizable compared to as recently as 10-15 years ago and certainly not 25-30 years ago.

Probably the biggest thing that I like about living here is that Beaumont-Port Arthur and surrounding areas have enough population to support things like restaurants, activities so on but it's still small enough that there is nature available nearby. I drive about 15 minutes to the area I duck hunt, 20-30 to go shoot squirrels, deer, hogs so on and as little as 5 to as long as 30 to catch Redfish, trout and flounder.

Now, that being said. It isn't without it's problems. Parts of Beaumont, Port Arthur and even parts of Orange are absolute shitholes. Huge drug problems in the larger cities and smaller cities. But, if you stay away from it, you'd never know it's there for the most part. Of course the crime associated with such activities is present as well.

All in all, it's a typical place to live where a quarter million or so people are within a relatively confined area. A lot of people say it's crime ridden around here and I guess to some it may be. But most of the same people also either ignore or are truly ignorant to the number of people that actually live in the area. Some still have a small one horse town mentality and view without realizing that there area, relatively of course, has a shit load of people who live here and packed in close. With that comes crimes. It's just the natural order of things.

Beaumont is 120k, Port Arthur on paper is 53k but actually up around 70-80k, Nederland, Port Neches and Groves another 40k. That alone is right around 250,000. Not even counting the rural parts or getting into southern Orange and Hardin counties which are 100% connected to Beaumont-Port Arthur area.

Do you have kids, if so you will be limited on what cities you should consider.

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Only thing I miss about the area is family. Way more of everything where I'm at now.

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x2 do you have family and kids?

I was born and raised in groves, moved to clear lake @ 22. I've never regretted it. Yes there is traffic but what I gained far out weighs the negatives. Lots of

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like the guys said... kids and school districts are important when i comes to TX living.

I am a SW Louisiana guy so not much help in TX. Where are you moving from maay help us determine what may fit.

There are a few small groups of airboaters spread along the TX coast (Orange to Port Neches, then another group in Point Comfort and a few more in the Corpus area) and some more in east/central TX along the Trinity and middle/upper Brazos Rivers, possum kingdom and various areas.