Do You like Living in Kyle Texas?
As an Austin Area Realtor I frequently work with out of town clients. I cover the entire Austin/San Marcos metroplex area so I can be in the car with clients for hours...Invariably somewhere in the conversation they will always ask "Where do you live?" I respond, "l live in Kyle". The next question, "Do you like living in Kyle?"
As I began to answer the question recently, keep in mind I've been answering it for the last five+ years I have been a realtor, something different happened. I found for the first time in the six years that I've lived in Kyle Texas, I could honestly answer...
"Yes...I do like living in Kyle." I can tell you that I had what Oprah would call an "Ah Ha" moment. I was finally considering Kyle Texas as my home.
For the last several years if I was to answer that question honestly I couldn't say I liked living in Kyle. I could say I loved living in the Austin area because I do...but I wasn't wild about living in Kyle. My intention was that my time in Kyle was temporary.
So I'm a realtor, why wouldn't I move you might ask. Well easy...I have four daughters, two of which are still living at home. They go to Hays High School and they are doing well and seem happy. (Ok, they're teenagers, they aren't going to actually admit they are happy.) Now anyone that has raised teen age girls has probably learned that if the teen is doing well, if they seem reasonably happy...don't change anything. Don't rock the boat. So several years ago I made up my mind (and my ex did the same as he too lives in Kyle) that I/we were going to be living in Kyle until our youngest graduated from High School (which is in three more years) and then I'd/we'd be clear to move.
I think for a long time that must have been my thought process. Wait it out and move. So maybe that's what kept me from feeling like Kyle was home...maybe I was considering it more of a resting stop. But somewhere along the line there's been a shift...
It happened so gradually that I didn't realize it was happening. But over time this little town has wormed itself in and around my heart. Yes Kyle isn't as 'pretty' as many parts of Austin, we don't have the fancy communities (yet) that I enjoy selling so much in Austin, Dripping Springs, Lakeway etc. and lord knows we don't have the shopping (again yet) of the other communities, but there's a simplicity about Kyle that seems to have worked for me and the kids.
I know with absolute certainty that if I needed help, or one of the kids needed help, we could ask for help and even if we didn't know the person they'd be willing to help. I saw a vegetable stand on the side of the road one day last year. The table was full of fresh vegetables, and beside the vegetables was a glass jar with money in it and a price sheet telling you go ahead and make your own change. It was the honor system...i gotta tell you it made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside that someone out there still trusts people.
Yeah, Kyle has its' problems like any city large or small, with the good comes the bad, yin and yang etc, but it works.
So now I am digging my roots in, I decided I'm going to investigate Kyle. I've sold homes in Kyle throughout the past years, but I didn't sell the community of Kyle. I was to busy checking out what Austin had to offer that I didn't even notice what was in my own back yard. While I can tell you about the neighborhoods in Kyle, how much the homes have sold for etc, I couldn't tell you what there was "To Do" in Kyle.
Well that's all about to change. I'm going to get into the swing of things around home, become active in the Kyle Chamber of Commerce, learn more about what is on the horizon for our fair city. Instead of driving all the way to Austin to entertain myself, I'm going to check out the 'local faire'. I decided in the coming weeks I'm going to enjoy of what Kyle has to offer.
It's funny how life works but shortly after I had my "Ah Ha" moment, I became a part of three different conversations, two in meetings I attended and one with a past client, that all centered on places in Kyle that they had recently visited. They all knew I lived in Kyle and so they all described their recent trips to Kyle. As it turned out two had attended weddings in Kyle, and one came in for a retreat of sorts. I have to tell you I was embarrassed to admit that I had never been to any of the three venues they were raving about and they were all within ten minutes of my home!
So I decided that had to change. In the coming weeks the top of my list of things to do and places to go in the Kyle and Buda area include: The Inn above Onion Creek, Winfield Inn and I think the other one is called Old Town or something like that. I have to look it up. I'm told it has a BBQ the second Friday of every month and a country western dancing. I'll find out the name and let you know. In fact I plan to write a review for each. How much fun it will be to see what 'spa' treatments the Inns have to offer....I haven't had a massage in a long time. And the Mandola Restaurant...that's just up the road on 150, and then there's Bordeaux which is a restaurant I love in downtown Kyle...and then maybe I'll check out "Market Days" oh and I wonder if that Flea market is still taking place, and then there's...well I guess you get the picture. So much to do...so little time.
So for now, have a great one! I guess it comes back to that phrase "Bloom where you're Planted" or something like that!
Celeste
