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Moving to Dripping Springs? Start Here.
Welcome to my blog — a place where you can dig into everything I know about living in Dripping Springs, Southwest Austin, and the greater Austin Hill Country. I'm Laura McCallum, a local Realtor helping buyers relocate to Central Texas from Austin, SW Austin, and out of state. This is where I write down all the stuff I explain on my first call: real neighborhood guides, school info, tax rates, and honest boots-on-the-ground answers about what living here actually looks like.
If you're comparing East Drip and West Drip, wondering what a MUD tax actually costs you, trying to figure out whether Caliterra or Headwaters is the better fit, or you just want the real story on the schools — you'll find it here. My goal is to save you months of confusion and give you the same lay of the land I give every client I work with.
Have a specific question or ready to talk? Text me at 832-998-3698 — I answer fast, no pressure, ever.
Headwaters: The Only Dripping Springs Community Designed Around the Night Sky
Most master-planned communities sell you a pool and a clubhouse. Headwaters sells you the actual sky. DrippingSprings is the first International Dark Sky city in Texas, and Headwaters was built to protect that darkness onpurpose, right down to an award-winning stargazing amphitheater where residents
Belterra: The Austin Address That's Secretly a Dripping Springs Insider Move
Here's a fact that trips up almost every buyer who finds Belterra online: the address says Austin. Everything else about it says Dripping Springs. Not sort of, not technically, actually. Belterra sits in Hays County, inside Dripping Springs' extraterritorial jurisdiction, zoned to one of the best sc
New Developments in Dripping Springs: Target, the Headwaters East Shopping Center, and a New Sports Club
If you have lived in Drip for more than a couple of years, you have had this conversation at a barbecue. Somebody mentions what is being built in Dripping Springs right now, and half the table lights up and the other half groans. Both reactions make sense. We moved out here for the quiet, the dark s
The Ranch at Caliterra: The New Section Everyone's Been Waiting On
Caliterra has been one of the most sought-after addresses in Dripping Springs since its first phase sold out, and this week the community opened its most exciting new chapter yet. The Ranch at Caliterra is releasing its first section of homesites, and it's bringing bigger lots, a brand
Driftwood Springs High School: What Dripping Springs Families Need to Know
I get some version of this question almost every week now: "What's the deal with the new high school? Usually it comes from a family a few neighborhoods deep into a search who has heard "Driftwood Springs" mentioned by an agent or a neighbor and has no real idea what it means for them. So here is th
Dripping Springs Neighborhoods: A Guide to Every Type of Community
Dripping Springs Neighborhoods: A Guide to Every Type of Community Most people start looking at Dripping Springs neighborhoods the same way. They open Zillow, sort by price, and end up with twelve houses in eight different communities that have nothing in common except a numb
Moving to Dripping Springs, TX: The Real 2026 Relocation Guide
We thought we would be in Texas for three years. Seven years later I have stopped saying "for now" when people ask how long we are staying. That is the part nobody warns you about when you start thinking about moving to Dripping Springs, TX. You come out here to look at a house. You end up picking a