re: Anyone here live in Kilgore/Tyler TX area?

I'm partial to Longview, but Tyler is a nice town with everything you really need. If you don't mind a drive there are some smaller towns around it that are nice too (Kilgore, Lindale, Jacksonville, Troup, etc.)

Tyler is old money and territorial as frick.

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Yes…but no

Yeah I do. I love the area and never have worried about crime in Tyler

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Super nice guy. His sister was in a lot of my classes in from elementary on up.

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Yeah but the 903 covers a big area, so there are people from East Mountain who think Tyler is huge

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903 is a weird area code. It's in Tyler but it's also all the way up in Sherman which is like a 2 1/2 hour drive northwest.

Lived just outside Kilgore once upon a time and really liked it. Has just enough facilities where you didn't have to go to Tyler or Longview for basics.

Sort of depends 9n what you do for entertainment though. If occasional night out and hunting/fishing is your thing it is great. If clubbing is your weekend you will be disappointed.

Some damn good HS football around there. Carthage, Marshall, Kilgore has been state Champs a couple times. Even small towns like Gilmer are putting out div. I players.

My wife's family has some land in Tyler, we go there frequently.

We just had a wedding on the land last month. Catered by Stanley's BBQ. Go to Stanley's for live music, get a mother-clucker cadillac style.

I enjoy it very much in Tyler. It's like taking a break from the bullshite of Louisiana. I definitely can see myself moving there later on in life. Can't right now because of work.

Longview and Tyler are both nice towns and both are growing steadily like most decent towns in Texas. Both have good public school systems, especially elementary/middle schools, Longview High is large and has a strong athletic program and competes for State Championships in football often, Hallsville High just outside Longview is one of the most sought after districts to live in and great school, town of 4,000 with the school having almost 6000 students so a large, more rural school district. Tyler has some good high schools and a couple of good junior colleges.
Several good golf courses in the Longview/Tyler area if you golf, lots of good lakes within close drive distance for fishing, boating, water sports and camping. I’m not familiar with bar or club scene but there are some good places to eat scattered around the area.
Tyler has probably 115,000 residents, Longview probably 85,000, Kilgore is pretty small, probably less than 15,000 but lots of old money in the area, was once the oil production capital of Texas and has multiple working oil wells inside the city limits.

It really depends on where your job will be located, if it’s actually in Tyler you probably should consider housing in the immediate Tyler area, I really haven’t been around Kilgore much but I would probably chose to live in Longview, Tyler, Hallsville or Henderson, simply due to schools, closeness to conveniences and property resale value. Tyler is further than I’d want to drive from Longview on a daily basis, if you live on the north or east side of Longview and drive to the south or west side of Tyler it’s 45 to 60 minutes.
The real estate market is hot in most of East Texas and new construction in good neighborhoods is currently in the $200-240 sq ft and higher in some areas. Land prices are high compared to most of Louisiana, Texas doesn’t have hold state income tax like La. but has property taxes that are becoming unreasonable and the county reassesses value and raises those taxes EVERY year. For example, a $500,000 home on half an acre in Longview will run close to $800 or more a month compared to a house of that value in Bossier City about $375 so taxes are at least double.
If the job is actually in Tyler, you could consider Henderson, Jacksonville or some of the smaller towns like Whitehorse, Lindale, Canton or others. if you plan eventually to have children in school, there are a lot of good choices and unfortunately that’s something I couldn’t really say when I lived in Louisiana.