Check out my TOP 5 EAST TEXAS TOWNS around Longview Texas!
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- If you have ever wondered what it is like to live in Longview Texas, you probably don't want to watch this video. Not because I don't like Longview, it is because I talk about towns around Longview and why they may fit better in your pursuit of finding your East Texas home!
Here I will show you my top 5 best East Texas towns that are within 20 minutes of Longview, TX. If you haven't heard of White Oak Texas, Liberty City Texas, Kilgore Texas, Hallsville Texas, and East Mountain Texas, you will want to see this video highlighting these great towns. And the best part it, Longview Texas is just a hop skip jump away! You can still enjoy that city life and have a country feel when you get back home!
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Thank you, very helpful!
Thanks Carol!
We live in between Henderson and Kilgore off of 259, so born and raised in Henderson, but thanks to that modern invention of driving pretty much frequent Kilgore, Longview and Tyler. These little towns are making great strides in bringing in business and jobs, but with that the challenges of property values exploding, and subsequently taxation going through the roof, making the cost of living easily starting to meet or exceed the traditionally lower wages that Texas has seen in the last few decades.
This is such a great comment, thanks for your insight!
Why is Tyler not on the list? For context, I am Canadian immigrating to East Texas. My husband has accepted a job with UT Health.
Hello and thank you for your question! What I was going for was showing the top five smaller towns around Longview so people that are looking for more of a country feel can have the best of both worlds as Longview is only a short drive away. Tyler is quite large (bigger than Longview) and is about 40 minutes away. But I am a fan of Tyler and know it is a great place to be! UT Health is a great place to work. Congrats to your husband! And good luck to you as well, I know it may be a big change, but it is a great place to live. If you ever have any questions about things to do in East Texas or you need help finding a good real estate agent, let me know as I know a bunch and love to help people in their move out here!
Because Tyler is much bigger than Longview, and would warrant a video of itself for those wishing to live outside and make the horrendous commute into Tyler to work.
Born & raised in Kilgore ❤
That is awesome! At some point I want to do several separate videos on some of the towns here in Northeast Texas and Kilgore will be one of them. Any suggestions on things I should include in that Kilgore video (i.e. unique places, restaurants, etc.)?
@@thestragent Yessir! Well of course we all know the museum is number one. Home of the Rangerette. The world richest acres. But all those ETX small towns are very small. With so much to learn and worth to see or live. Henderson, Overton, Carthage, Marshall & etc….
It’s great food and most important of them all is people that here has great genuine love. It’s a Texas thing and we are very proud of who we are because this world can be cruel
@@thestragent GOOD LUCK BROTHER! Wishing nothing but the best for you and your future 🤙🏽
What is the water table depth down there? The only way I can tolerate this area in Texas is if I can get a basement added. I live in my basement right now 90% of the time.
Hello, and thank you for your question! I did some research and found some good information on some water wells around this part of Northeast Texas. For the most part, the well depth in most of the areas around Longview are well over 100 feet below land surface, and some well over 500 feet. However, there are a few spots where it is closer to 30 feet (Some parts of Kilgore, North Longview, and around Lake Cherokee). This is all according to the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) and Groundwater Database (GWDB) in Gregg County. I hope this is what you were looking for!
However, if it is a basement you want, I am not sure you are going to have much luck out here in East Texas. This may not be where I am from, but most of the locals I have talked with about basements in this area say it is rare to find one. I guess it is mainly because the shifting soil and just the expense to build one. But this is what I have been told. I had a basement back in the Northwest and miss it (it was always nice and cool down there :) ).
@@thestragent Do you have a link to the website as I have tried to find where the well/water table depths are there and have been less than successful. What kind of soil do you have there? Is it sand? I'm in Colorado and we have nothing but clay and rock here so it's really stable. Yes, basements are a rare find there and if I can't get a house with a basement I'm trying to find one that's partially "buried", so kind of like an Earth Ship.
Here is the link to the website I found.
www.twdb.texas.gov/groundwater/data/gwdbrpt.asp
I chose the "Record of Wells by County". When you click on this one, you can choose what county you want to look at. I chose Gregg county as that is most of the Longview area. And for aquifers, I selected all.
As far as the soil, I am not quite sure. My father in law has described it has some sort of clay that is difficult to dig into and it shifts a lot.
Are you looking at moving to Texas then? Are you sure, the weather here is quite different ;). I lived in western WA and West Montana most of my life, so I am still getting use to it.
@@thestragent I'm in what is considered "High Desert". This June/July/August was completely miserable here. It doesn't matter if it's 100 degrees or 110 degrees, any way you roll the dice, you're going to be staying inside. It was 80 degrees here less than 72 hours ago now, we'll have snow in the next 24 hours. You at least get decent winters, ours are miserable. Our property tax went up 48% this year. In addition, our sales tax and income tax went up considerably as well. Crime is terrible here, we're #1 in the nation for car theft. It's just ridiculous. Yes, June, July, August are miserable for you. November, December January, February and March are miserable for us. June, July and August we're usually on fire (literally) so there's so much smoke outside even if the weather was nice, it's so smoky you can't.
Basements can be problematic across the U.S. Years ago the home with a basement was likely to depend upon natural drainage. With electrification the tract builders did not spend the effort on site selection and preparation and depended upon mechanical drainage. A home in Chicago can have basement flooding just as would happen in the Houston region.
Good drainage can overcome the problem, but it comes at a cost. When you stand back 100 from a foundation you should see a grade rise over the 20 feet from the foundation. The roof should have gutters that drain well away from the house.
You can also condition clay soil by tilling in powdered limestone which changes the electrical bond and allows water to pass through. Mechanical pumping might still be required using a French drain - but where is the water being pumped? The neighbors don't want it.
In my opinion basements are worth the effort. A 9 foot deep basement with deep window wells will provide free passive geothermal heating and cooling. These days a basement outside the southern states might cost $25,000 extra - a good slab foundation is a good portion of that cost.
im sold what kinda of job can i get down there? Been working in a casino. Openings in shreveport?
Mr. Kevin Roger! Come on down! I actually think your best bet is working at the Casino going in (and may already be in) near Broken Bow, OK. Broken Bow is only 2.5 hours north of Longview, TX and is also an excellent spot for Short Term Rentals :). Though I should probably confirm the whole casino thing as it was just something I heard.
East Mountain does not have a school district.
You are correct! I apologize as I should have clarified. I was utilizing data for several small towns around Longview and each of them were given a rating on schools. I would assume the rating for East Mountain is for Spring Hill and Union Grove schools. Thanks for your comment!
Just curious if these small cities are racially segregated? Prejudiced against certain groups? Accepting of all ethnicities and religions?
According to the “Real Estate Code of Ethics,” these are questions I cannot and will not answer. If you have certain objective questions about neighborhoods, I can direct you to third-party websites or the town websites to help you understand them better. Let me know, thanks.
@@thestragent I was just curious because small towns can be very prejudiced and biased. I would like to think that these small towns are really nice places to live and very accepting of different ethnic groups,cultures and religions.
Sometimes when I’m interested in a town, I will follow Facebook page. It kind of gives you a feel for the town a little bit. Sometimes they post videos of community events.
kilgore tx 100
Are you saying that Kilgore is your favorite? If so, I agree! But, I am a little bias as I live here in Kilgore :).
Not a great list. You just named basically all of the towns close to Longview.
Hey Josh and thanks for your comment! It was actually my goal to just use towns around and close to Longview. I wanted to show people who may be looking at moving to Longview that you do not need to live in Longview to enjoy it :). Some may be nervous about the size (roughly 80,000 people) and may not want to take a job or live there because it is too big. But you can live around 20 minutes out and enjoy the best of both worlds (the country and the city.. ish :) ). But thanks for watching and your comment!