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My husband does courtesy work at The Westlake Villas Apartments because they offered us free rent for his services. The Westlake Villas Apartments on the Northwest side of town. My apartments are located at 1455 Cable Ranch Road which is between 410 and Marbach Road and 151 and Potranco.
I believe the socio-economic status in this neighborhood is middle working class. They are building a new apartment complex (Polo Club, I believe) and a new subdivision (Leaf Harbor). For the most part the area is well maintained but there is a slight problem with graffiti. In my area there are a lot of families and a military personnel. Just above where we live we have had two military personnel live there, one family and right now a bunch of men. The apartments around us (Trails of Westlakes and The Gates of Caprinon) take housing and Section 8’s. The racial/ethnic population I believe varies. We have African-American, Hispanics, Caucasian, and Arabs (the ones upstairs).
On the 410 and Marbach side of our apartments we have a lot of fast food options (Burger King, Taco Cabana, Wataburger, Taco Bell, Mc Donald’s, Sonic, Popeye’s, KFC, Jack In The Box). There are also some restaurants (Peter Piper Pizza, Golden Wok, Red Lobster, and Panchos). We have an HEB, Wells Fargo, Walgreen’s, Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, Bally’s, Family Dollar, Dollar General and Big Lots. There is a Fire Station also down the street from us,along with the Alamo Draft House. On the 151 Potranco side there are many more nicer restaurants such as Chili’s, Carinos, Buffalo Wild Wings, TGIFridays, Village Inn, and Cracker Barrel). There are tons of shops like Target, Payless, GNC, Petsmart, Lowe’s, Office Dept, Kids Outlet, Supercuts, Ann’s Linens, Clair’s and Radioshack along with many more. I believe developers are planning another shopping area to be built on the other side of Potranco but they have only cleared the land so I am not sure what the developers are going to do. In a way all this new development may help out the neighbor hood because of the business it will bring and perhaps the jobs also. But it will also create more problems because of the traffic it will bring. The traffic is already bad just for me to get home.
There are some strengths to the neighborhood. For instance I love the fact that HEB is only a 3-5 minute drive and if my husband and I
want to rent a movie we can just walk there. Also we like to call in food so the fact the good places actually deliver I feel is a great plus. The traffic on the other hand I really hate. If you get on Marbach at 530 or 6 pm it is packed! I don’t see that we have a gang problem and it is pretty quiet in our complex. My husband usually gets calls saying that someone is playing music too loud and even those are rare.
In relation to where I live Palo Alto is about a 20-minute drive. It’s really just 410 South all the way. I do however take care of my aunt who is legally blind and she lives off of 410 South and Moursond, which is about 5 minutes away from Palo Alto. I leave my daughter with her while I attend my two classes.
My husband and I really do not go out anymore. He works Monday through Friday from 10am to 7pm, so we like our weekend to relax at home and maybe have someone over for dinner because I love to cook. Plus it’s easier for us with our daughter ; she can run around and play without us worrying what she is getting in to or if she might break something. If we do go somewhere it is usually to one of his friend’s uncles house to watch the latest WWE pay-per view event. He lives in the Southside off of Pleasanton and West Vestal and it usually takes us about 20- minutes.
These apartments right now is just a place for us to lay our heads even though we have been here a little over a year. The management is great with us and they generally care about our daughter and us. They are always excited to see her and ask my husband when he goes into the office to get her so they can see her. They have watched her grow from the day she was born till now. We do however have land that my parents have given us (5 acres) in Elmendorf to build our house when we can. My husband wants to wait until he pays off his truck, which won’t be that much longer thanks to the income tax return we are getting. We will be right next door so we can send the little one to visit grandma and grandpa when we want to go out sometime.
I believe the socio-economic status in this neighborhood is middle working class. They are building a new apartment complex (Polo Club, I believe) and a new subdivision (Leaf Harbor). For the most part the area is well maintained but there is a slight problem with graffiti. In my area there are a lot of families and a military personnel. Just above where we live we have had two military personnel live there, one family and right now a bunch of men. The apartments around us (Trails of Westlakes and The Gates of Caprinon) take housing and Section 8’s. The racial/ethnic population I believe varies. We have African-American, Hispanics, Caucasian, and Arabs (the ones upstairs).
On the 410 and Marbach side of our apartments we have a lot of fast food options (Burger King, Taco Cabana, Wataburger, Taco Bell, Mc Donald’s, Sonic, Popeye’s, KFC, Jack In The Box). There are also some restaurants (Peter Piper Pizza, Golden Wok, Red Lobster, and Panchos). We have an HEB, Wells Fargo, Walgreen’s, Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, Bally’s, Family Dollar, Dollar General and Big Lots. There is a Fire Station also down the street from us,along with the Alamo Draft House. On the 151 Potranco side there are many more nicer restaurants such as Chili’s, Carinos, Buffalo Wild Wings, TGIFridays, Village Inn, and Cracker Barrel). There are tons of shops like Target, Payless, GNC, Petsmart, Lowe’s, Office Dept, Kids Outlet, Supercuts, Ann’s Linens, Clair’s and Radioshack along with many more. I believe developers are planning another shopping area to be built on the other side of Potranco but they have only cleared the land so I am not sure what the developers are going to do. In a way all this new development may help out the neighbor hood because of the business it will bring and perhaps the jobs also. But it will also create more problems because of the traffic it will bring. The traffic is already bad just for me to get home.
There are some strengths to the neighborhood. For instance I love the fact that HEB is only a 3-5 minute drive and if my husband and I
want to rent a movie we can just walk there. Also we like to call in food so the fact the good places actually deliver I feel is a great plus. The traffic on the other hand I really hate. If you get on Marbach at 530 or 6 pm it is packed! I don’t see that we have a gang problem and it is pretty quiet in our complex. My husband usually gets calls saying that someone is playing music too loud and even those are rare.
In relation to where I live Palo Alto is about a 20-minute drive. It’s really just 410 South all the way. I do however take care of my aunt who is legally blind and she lives off of 410 South and Moursond, which is about 5 minutes away from Palo Alto. I leave my daughter with her while I attend my two classes.
My husband and I really do not go out anymore. He works Monday through Friday from 10am to 7pm, so we like our weekend to relax at home and maybe have someone over for dinner because I love to cook. Plus it’s easier for us with our daughter ; she can run around and play without us worrying what she is getting in to or if she might break something. If we do go somewhere it is usually to one of his friend’s uncles house to watch the latest WWE pay-per view event. He lives in the Southside off of Pleasanton and West Vestal and it usually takes us about 20- minutes.
These apartments right now is just a place for us to lay our heads even though we have been here a little over a year. The management is great with us and they generally care about our daughter and us. They are always excited to see her and ask my husband when he goes into the office to get her so they can see her. They have watched her grow from the day she was born till now. We do however have land that my parents have given us (5 acres) in Elmendorf to build our house when we can. My husband wants to wait until he pays off his truck, which won’t be that much longer thanks to the income tax return we are getting. We will be right next door so we can send the little one to visit grandma and grandpa when we want to go out sometime.
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