Country Living Close to Everything. - 3/29/2011

Lake Jackson is a really nice place to raise a family. The schools are great in this part of the Brazosport area school district. The town has a lot of white collar employees from the nearby chemical plants living here, and some blue collar as well so it's a nice mix. It's a small town - 30K people, but it's central community in southern Brazoria County, so I would say the metro area is around 100k people. The beach is 15 minutes away, which is really nice. It's a kind of laid back little area, not trendy or having an overly inflated view of itself. It's a family place. The kids can play outside and you don't have to worry, which is a refreshing change if you come from a bigger city environment trying to raise kids where you feel you can't take your eyes off them. My daughter has made a lot of good friends down here in a short amount of time. They ride on their bikes around the neighborhood, we go to the rec center right down the street, to the beach, the roller rink, bowling alley - all the fun family stuff - it's here. Houston is just an hour away if we want adult entertainment and a night on the town...but since I have become a family girl I worry about that stuff less and less often. I really think Lake Jackson is idyllic in a way. It took a bit to grow on me but I love it down here now.

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Grew up there; happy to move away - 7/6/2007

Lake Jackson is an okayish place to grow up, but it is absolutely deadly for an adult. There's nothing there except chemical companies, cattle, and prison farms. Downtown is kind of cute for a small town, with a few nice shops, but not more than you can visit in a morning. It's very humid, and very green - there's a great variety of wildlife. Unfortunately, that wildlife includes huge clouds of mosquitoes (a neighboring town, Clute, actually has a yearly Mosquito Festival) and alligators. Schools aren't great, but they aren't terrible, either. The high school has a decent range of courses beyond the basics for science, not surprising for a town where the economy is based on the chemical industry. Facilities are pretty poor, especially for middle and elementary schools. The chief advantage is that it's near Houston but not in it.

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