We're looking for a suburb setting, without bugs and moderate climate. I've heard west Texas around Lubbock or Amarillo is such. True? We're leery of anything near Austin - socialist central of Texas.
Lubbock or Amarillo
If you are serious then narrow your choices. I’m assuming that is what
your goal is. A lot of inland areas will be vastly different from your
locale on the Pacific Ocean. If you can spend some time at a couple of your
choices. I’ve moved a couple of times and things aren’t nearly the same
as where you were. JMO. Good luck
You could try Killeen. Military town (Ft. Hood). A lot of new housing going in. A manageable drive to Austin and Houston if you need specialized medical care. Right on the edge of the Hill Country. Still solidly red - tipped the election for Congressman John Carter (TX-31) when Williamson County went blue.
Amarillo gets a TON of snow....windy snow....every winter.
Lubbock will get snow, but nothing like Amarillo.
West of Austin and San Antonio are nice.
We’re near Amarillo. You can look at the NOAA website to get average climate information. But, our weather is seldom average here. Elevation is 3,600 feet. It can get pretty cold as well as pretty darn hot. Average snowfall per year is about a foot and a half but last winter we received no snow whatsoever. I chuckle when I hear a weatherman say we are x degrees above or below where “we should be”. We’re always where we should be it’s just seldom the average. We have plenty of mosquitoes in some places and during some times during the summer. But again, some years we have very few. We also have a few tornadoes to contend with and an occasional blizzard. There’s also rattlesnakes. I shot 2 last year but had not seen one in the previous 10 years. Also, there are houses here in the $900k range. We live in a gated community south of town on a small lake. It’s a very conservative area. There were no counties in the Texas panhandle and in Oklahoma that voted for Obama.