Does the bus stop come with the yard?
Westgate is nice but expensive. A friend of mine couldn’t find anything he liked there for $210K, and even if you’re not picky at all I’m not sure if it’s possible to find anything there for $150K. My friend ended up in Round Rock, which seemed like an excessive commute to me and clearly isn’t an option for you. Lamar north of 183 was, when I checked it out for a friend renting there ~6 years ago, one of the highest crime areas in the city. But crime varies by a shocking amount from neighborhood to nearby neighborhood (apparently burglary doesn’t pay well enough to fund car travel to more profitable places to burgle?), and the crime rate in Austin overall isn’t too bad, so I’m not exactly expecting dirtdirt to be knifed by muggers soon. We ended up buying a house in Harris Branch, a neighborhood near Manor. Sounds too far for mass transit, but there’s an express bus (the 990) that leaves Harris Branch at 6:05 or 7:18am, then gets to Congress & 6th half an hour later. Return trips at 4:
