25 Best Places for Affordable Homes: Benbrook
This is the first time I’ve seen our little old Benbrook make any of the “top cities” lists.
Want to retire near the water, but without paying premium prices for a home? Residents who buy real estate in these towns see their incomes go the furthest.
#8 Benbrook, TX
Median home price (2007): $145,136
Median family income: $76,188
This little Ft. Worth bedroom community is on the straight and narrow – bars are forbidden in Benbrook, as is the sale of hard liquor. But who says a little modern Prohibition can’t be fun? Residents opt for outdoor entertainment instead – swimming, fishing, and boating in nearby Benbrook Lake, or golfing, horseback riding, and picnicking in the surrounding parkland.
