re: Moving to B/CS

Houses in good hoods in B/CS are more expensive than the Houston or Dallas 'burbs. I live in the center of the 'not much house for the money' universe here in central ATX, but B/CS ain't cheap either. I was surprised by this when my folks tried to move there when they retired. They got mad sticker shock and ended up dropping the idea of maintaining a city and country house and ended up just living in the country house out near Franklin, where the schools are REALLY good for rural 2A and the houses and land are cheap. They just commute into CS for shopping, volunteer work, and to use national chain phamacies. You can always try that if you don't mind the gas.