Main Street of Boerne. The streets signs still include the German Hauptstrasse.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nI\u2019m in agreement with Livability.com, for the most part. Their introduction is true:<\/p>\n
Located in the Texas Hill Country, the town of Boerne offers inspiration in many forms. You\u2019ll find it in the natural beauty of the area\u2019s rivers, lakes, caves and trails. You\u2019ll find it in the historic buildings, eclectic shops, restaurants and people in this town.<\/p>\n
But they fail to mention one of the most desirable attributes of Boerne: excellent schools. The school system is one of the major factors that drew my family to this town in the first place.<\/p>\n
I do think that one sentence in Livability.com\u2019s description of Boerne needs a little interpretation. It reads:<\/p>\n
The area\u2019s mild climate and ample amount of sunshine give residents plenty of opportunities to get out and enjoy golf, hunting, fishing, hiking, horseback riding, biking and a variety of sports.<\/p>\n
Ample sunshine with plenty of chances to get out and enjoy it? You betcha. Mild climate? Well, I suppose that\u2019s relative. We are cooler than many parts of Texas and the Southwest. And, at 1500 feet in elevation, we\u2019re must less humid than much of Texas and the Southeast. But with summer highs well into the 90s for four months, I\u2019m not quite convinced about the mildness of our climate. Oh, I suppose if you compare our winter weather with that of much of the US, we\u2019re mild. We usually have maybe 20 nights below freezing. Temperatures below 25 degrees are quite rare.\u00a0 At any rate, before you pack up and move to Boerne, make sure you understand what \u201cmild climate\u201d really means.<\/p>\n
One further point of clarification. Livability.com\u2019s description of Boerne says the down is 27 miles from San Antonio. That may be true if you think of the center of San Antonio. But, in fact, it\u2019s less than 20 minutes from Boerne to the northwest edge of San Antonio, an area that has plenty of shopping and entertainment. You can live in the country and be in an Apple store or an IMAX theatre in no time.<\/p>\n
I almost forgot one of the most important to know about Boerne. The town name is pronounced like the name \u201cBernie.\u201d It\u2019s not \u201cBorn\u201d or \u201cBorney\u201d or even \u201cBuhrna,\u201d which is close to the original German pronunciation of B\u00f6rne. The town is named after a virtually unknown German writer, Ludwig B\u00f6rne, who died in 1837. The early German settlers of this area were fans of B\u00f6rne\u2019s satirical political writing and Protestant freethinking.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
According to Livability.com, Boerne, Texas is the fourth best small town in America in which to live. That\u2019s where I live. (Well, technically, I live just outside of town, but who\u2019s counting.) Boerne is ranked behind: 1. Papillion, Nebraska. (Never heard of it. How about you?) 2. Golden, Colorado. (Right new to the Rocky Mountains. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":4640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5162],"tags":[9071,17083],"class_list":["post-4638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-texas","tag-boerne","tag-livability-com"],"yoast_head":"\n
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