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Please let us know your favorite links! An engaging place to call home! Austin360.com The playing fields and surrounding land tell much of the story. Just a couple of level, green acres adjacent to a sprawling middle school that wasn't here in far Northwest Austin 19 years ago. Suspended between a divided, four-lane road and a delightfully undeveloped canyon is an iconic, green football field surrounded by a track and other playing fields. Here on these fields on any given day, children and adults play softball, soccer, lacrosse and, now, even cricket. With the exception of the canyon and the hills above Bull Creek to the southwest, there is less and less here that feels like old Austin or 'native Texas.' Before the middle school was built, there were few homes on either side of the canyon and the road was a narrow, twisty, two-lane affair that, at one point, still had 'trail' in the name. To the southwest, perched beyond the swath of green hills, is the skyline of the 3M corporate complex. This, too, is symbolic because it is a high-profile national company whose move into Austin in the mid-1980s helped foreshadow the mighty changes to come ‹ changes that are still occurring. Today, Austin is a broad urban landscape that is increasingly dense, complex and diverse. By land size, the five counties that make up the metro area ‹ Travis, Williamson, Hays, Bastrop and Caldwell ‹ sprawl across 4,200 square miles, an area larger than either of two states. By population, the five counties are home to more than 1.4 million people, a population larger than any one of 12 states. |
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