B  ee Cave
Out of the mouths of babes can come the most creative and life-changing ideas - just ask the Gifford family. The Giffords were traveling back to Dallas through Austin after a family trip to the Gulf coast when their then eleven-year-old daughter made the comment that if the family were to move anywhere, why not move to Austin?
"My wife and I were both Dallas born and bred, and had gone to school at the University of Texas here and had loved living here at that time. Our daughter made that comment, and we just looked at each other. We had just put our house up for sale in Dallas. A month later after that, we were here and we've never looked back," says family patriarch Jeff Gifford.
Gifford, now a real estate agent with the Keller Williams Southwest Market Center realty office, settled his family in the Bee Cave's Camelot subdivision, where they've lived happily ever since.
" The main reason we moved to Bee Cave was because of the excellent reputation of the Eanes Independent School District, and then we lucked into this funky old neighborhood that's very affordable," said Gifford. "Here in Bee Cave you can find homes that start at around $200,000 and up. Many of the homeowners in our area are the original owners, and as time goes on younger people are moving in and fixing up the homes here."
Gifford finds living in Bee Cave offers the best of country living with city amenities. "It's like living in the country. Our home sits on two acres and we have wonderful hill country views - yet we're close in and only minutes away from shopping and downtown Austin. We're only five minutes away from the boat launch by the 360 Bridge, and only 25 minutes away from Pace Bend Park or Mansfield Dam."
B ee Cave is bound on the north by Lake Austin, on the east by Loop 360, on the west by the Village of Bee Caves, and on the south by the Barton Creek Tributary, Barton Creek Blvd. and Lost Creek Blvd. Utilities are provided by the City of Austin and Pedernales Electric Cooperative.
In addition to Camelot, the Bee Cave community includes a wide variety of older neighborhoods such as Rob Roy, Lost Creek, Cuernavaca, Austin Lake Hills, Barton Creek West and newer ones such as The Uplands, Lake Pointe and The Homestead. In addition to the Eanes Independent School District, the area is served by the Lake Travis Independent School District, which also boasts an excellent scholastic reputation with outstanding academic accomplishments and fine facilities.
G ifford says the mix of old and new neighborhoods makes for an equally interesting mix of people in Bee Cave, and his family has a wide variety of friends and acquaintances from many different backgrounds.
"The perception of other Austinites is that a lot of people who live here are snobs, but that's not true," says Gifford. "Our feeling is that one of the things we love about Bee Cave is that it really does cross so many different social boundaries - like other places, there are people here who have a lot of money and people here who have none.
Schools
Eanes Independent School District
Austin Independent School District
Lake Travis Independent School District
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Amenities
Lake Austin
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Zone: SW
MLS Area: 8W
Zip Code(s): 78738
Zip Code 78738
Demographic Profile
Population:
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7,233
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Avg HH Size:
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2.85
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Median HH Income:
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$127,496
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Median Age
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41.6
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% Married:
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78%
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% of HHs with Children:
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42%
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% with College Degree:
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64%
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% Owner Occupied Housing
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93%
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Median Yr Dwelling was Built
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1999
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Source: Claritas 2006
Bee Cave, positioned close to the boat launch at the 360 Bridge and only 25 minutes away from Pace Bend Park, also provides its residents the proximity to all the Lake Austin has to offer from water-skiing and boating to swimming.
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