Jones Creek, Sweeney, etc. as places to live and raise a family? Anybody have any knowledge of that area?

Thanks!!

I work in Old Ocean so I work with a lot of people that live in Sweeny. All seem to be real good people (no major kid trouble that I know of) but there can be some rough areas just like anywhere else.

Lake Jackson is where you will travel to do your shopping

I grew up in Lake Jackson and pretty much ran the entire county (and then some). I still live in Brazoria County, though up on the northern side though.

In all honesty, none of the towns in the southern half of the county are anything to write home about. Even LJ, which is the higher end place (if you can call it that), isn't much outside of a more upscale town that is only there because of Dow and BASF.

That's not to say they are bad places - most of them are great places to raise a family. Just keep in mind that they will always be small towns. Hell, I don't think Lake Jackson has grown at all in the 10 years+ since I left. It may actually be a little bit smaller.

Of all of the southern county towns (Freeport, Surfside, Quintanna, Jones Creek, Lake Jackson, Clute, Richwood, Brazoria, Sweeny, Old Ocean, West Columbia), Lake Jackson is probably the best overall in terms of living because of the amenities it provides over any of the others.

I'd personally want to live in Jones Creek, except that it feeds Brazosport Independent School District (and specifically Freeport/Brazosport). BISD is not all that great of a district. Sweeny ISD and West Columbia ISD aren't much better.

Once you get to the middle and northern part of the county (closer to Houston), things change a lot.

If you like coastal living, fishing and hunting, it's a great place to set roots. You'll get the rare storm or hurricane, but that's about it. Lots of outdoors activities - most all of them are (shockingly) water based between rivers, bayou's, bays and the gulf.