With all the praise being directed at Austin and San Antonio and their continued population growth, you might think it would be expensive to live there. But, as it turns out, these two vibrant metros are among the most affordable cities in the nation according to a new report from Forbes.

Why Moving to San Antonio is Something That Should Be on Your Radar

Recently, Travel + Leisure Magazine ranked San Antonio as one of the best places to travel in 2016, San Antonio was the only city to make the list.

San Antonio is becoming nationally recognized as one of the best places to visit in the United States.Moving to San Antonio has also become a good idea in the past few years: a rising economy, a safe family setting, and an enthusiasm about history and culture that is second-to-none makes the city an attractive destination. That’s not all, because people are not only visiting San Antonio, but making it their home as well.

Why is San Antonio and the surrounding areas both a good visiting and moving destination? We have some ideas.

The new Milken Institute Best-Performing Cities report has been released for 2016, and Austin and San Antonio continue to be singled out as two of the top cities in the country. Austin was No. 4 on the Milken Institute’s list and San Antonio was No. 10, proving again that living in Texas has numerous advantages.

Austin Tech Start Ups

Though Austin has always been a go-to place for young adults, it’s becoming the central place for technology in the south. With an ever-growing number of Austin tech start-ups launching here, now is the time to move to the New Braunfels area, located just outside of the city.

San Antonio and Austin Corporations Continue Expansion

From 2008-2014, Texas gained 6.47 billion in investments from major companies relocating to Texas, according to The Dallas Morning News. The top Texas cities that acquired businesses during this 7 year time period were Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth and San Antonio. What does this mean for the Texas economy? Business relocations lead to job creation, investment dollars and tax revenue.

Why Texas? Many of these companies have moved from California to leave the less affordable housing, stricter regulations and high labor costs. The report featured in The Dallas Morning News reported in a 7-year time span about 15 percent of California’s large businesses relocated to Texas. Texas has affordable housing for employees and land for expansion.

Among all the other impressive news about Austin (and there’s a lot to choose from), this just may be at the top: According to a study by WalletHub, Austin has performed better than any other city since the recession.

The study ranked the fastest-growing economies “based on key metrics from 2008-2014, including population growth and the rate of decrease in unemployment, among other factors,” said the Austin Business Journal.

They include:

• Working-Age Population Growth
• Poverty Rate Decrease
• Median Household Income Growth
• Growth of Regional GDP per Capita
• Growth of Median House Prices

Great acclaim and great popularity. That’s been the story of Austin and San Antonio for the last several years, as the two cities have appeared on numerous “Best of” lists, swelled in population, and enjoyed their positions as two of the fastest-growing cities in the nation. And they’re not done yet. Fortune just released its list of the Best Real Estate Markets for 2016, with Austin and San Antonio sitting at No. 3 and No. 5, respectively.

“Trulia Housing Economist Ralph McLaughlin cast a wider net when deciding at which home markets interested him most,” said Fortune. “He looked at five metrics: strong job growth over the past year, low vacancy rates, high affordability, more inbound home searches than outbound, and a large share of millennials.

Get Away this Weekend – New Hotels in San Antonio

Spending a weekend in San Antonio is booking a trip to history, education, entertainment, and fun – all you have to do is make the reservations! New hotels in San Antonio are helping keep tourists happy when they visit the Alamo City, and newer hotels are even finding themselves in exciting neighborhoods.

When you’re not visiting San Antonio, Vintage Oaks offers exciting community events, but let’s see what the Alamo city has to offer.

Good news for the Central Texas housing market in 2016: the nonprofit research and education organization Urban Land Institute (ULI), has named Austin and San Antonio among their top real estate markets to watch in the coming year, according to Builder magazine. For those looking to buy land in Texas or build a custom home in New Braunfels, there has perhaps never been a better time.

Austin, the No. 2 market to watch nationally, “has become a perennial favorite among survey respondents,” said ULI. “This optimism has been rewarded by continued strong economic and real estate performance. Austin continues to benefit from diverse job creation ranging from service jobs to higher-end STEM and technology, advertising, media, and information (TAMI) positions. Austin remains an attractive place to live for all generations.”