Unreal Estate Game: South and East Texas

[Rain Man]

Assume that you idly buy a state lottery ticket while getting a doughnut at 7/11, and voila! You're a winner! You win your choice of one the five houses that will be shown.

I'll give you five houses in a state, and you vote on the house you would take.

Background rules:

Assume that your job situation won't need to change - you can find an identical job or work from home or whatever, so jobs don't matter.

Consider the house itself and the location and anything else that's important to you (schools, restaurants, lot size, etc.). Feel free to do a google map search to check out the neighborhood and the area.

You cannot sell the home. You can live in it as long as you like, but when you move out, it reverts back to the state as a prize for a future winner.

All houses will generally be in the $900,000 to $1 million price range.

All maintenance and utilities and taxes are cost-neutral compared to your current home.

If you wouldn't move into any of these homes, you can instead accept a cash prize of $50,000 (tax free).

Today's state is the south and east regions of Texas. Here are your five houses:

Austin - http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...turbo=1#photo0

Beaumont - http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...3851367#photo0

Corpus Christi - http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...-15062#photo36

Galveston - http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...4_M70443-67479

San Antonio - http://www.realtor.com/realestateand...9-68275#photo0

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by loochy

Galveston is kind of dumpy though. Also, the beach is not a nice and pretty beach...it's kind of gross sand with ugly brown water. Down towards Corpus is much nicer.

When you've lived in apartments for basically 98% of your life a million dollar home is anything but dumpy.

But, yeah. In that case I guess I'd go Austin. City living is awesome to me and I've always wanted to spend some time in a high rise.