ssmith
10-15-2013, 08:23 AM
We won a free weekend + my husband has a conference in Austin Texas....well it rained so we had to do something other than go to the Music Festival, so we decided to check out Sun City in Austin Texas. Here is my report...
The area is beautiful and the homes are really nice......much better prices than designers in TV right now.
It will be about 15,000 people at build out in about 2-3 years.
It is close to Austin and there is much to do. Many of the activities listed in their magazine was about trips in and around Austin and a plethora of trips on cruises etc.
Seems there are many, many activities related to raising money for the surrounding area....Had to laugh at the Cattlebaron's ball (love it like the TV show Dallas). This is neither good nor bad in my opinion but wonder if there are more wealthy types living in this area...with more expendable income.
It does not seem to have a town center (at least not a town square like The Villages) and there is only 2 restaurants on the property. They have 3 lovely golf courses. The golf carts drive on the streets and there were some going around in golf carts but most drive their cars places.
There were many activities...I suppose one could keep really busy with them.
Of course, The Villages has more activites.
I feel like they focused on selling me a house in a nice subdivision that happens to be all 55+ with some community activities added compared to The Villages that sold me on the community that happened to just have nice homes too.
I could see where one would prefer this place to The Villages. Texas is a great place. it would be too far for our kids to come to see us and there is no Disney close and beaches are 3 hrs away instead of 2 hrs away. The heat in Texas in the summer can be opprsive too. Also Sun City does appear to have problems with drought and water conservation was an issue.
For us, there was no comparison to The Villages. Just thought I would share our opinion of the place.
BTW we did enjoy the Outlet malls near the Austin area...just sayin hahahaha. Have never seen a Gucci, Neiman Marcus or Crate and Barrell at an outlet mall before!!!
The area is beautiful and the homes are really nice......much better prices than designers in TV right now.
It will be about 15,000 people at build out in about 2-3 years.
It is close to Austin and there is much to do. Many of the activities listed in their magazine was about trips in and around Austin and a plethora of trips on cruises etc.
Seems there are many, many activities related to raising money for the surrounding area....Had to laugh at the Cattlebaron's ball (love it like the TV show Dallas). This is neither good nor bad in my opinion but wonder if there are more wealthy types living in this area...with more expendable income.
It does not seem to have a town center (at least not a town square like The Villages) and there is only 2 restaurants on the property. They have 3 lovely golf courses. The golf carts drive on the streets and there were some going around in golf carts but most drive their cars places.
There were many activities...I suppose one could keep really busy with them.
Of course, The Villages has more activites.
I feel like they focused on selling me a house in a nice subdivision that happens to be all 55+ with some community activities added compared to The Villages that sold me on the community that happened to just have nice homes too.
I could see where one would prefer this place to The Villages. Texas is a great place. it would be too far for our kids to come to see us and there is no Disney close and beaches are 3 hrs away instead of 2 hrs away. The heat in Texas in the summer can be opprsive too. Also Sun City does appear to have problems with drought and water conservation was an issue.
For us, there was no comparison to The Villages. Just thought I would share our opinion of the place.
BTW we did enjoy the Outlet malls near the Austin area...just sayin hahahaha. Have never seen a Gucci, Neiman Marcus or Crate and Barrell at an outlet mall before!!!