Granbury has always been a pretty lakeside community, with a small town feel, but like all of North Texas, it's growing quickly. So much so that many people believe it's becoming a suburb of Southwest Fort Worth, with a growing number of commuters choosing to keep their big city jobs and their small-town feel.
"It's just a storybook town," said Patricia Collins, who manages a boutique on the square called Stephen's of Granbury.
But before you write your happy ending, remember, you've gotta get here.
"It's about an hour and five (minute), hour-ten commute for me," said Morris Duree.
He makes the trip to his office in Arlington on the only route in and out of town: Highway 377, where traffic often slows to a crawl.
"The traffic now is big city," said Duree. "It does take a lot of patience, coffee and just taking your time, enjoying the scenery."
Morris knows all about patience. He's raising triplet 4-year-olds and he's part of a growing number of people willing to brave that commute, to raise a family in a small-town feel.
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"This is definitely a suburb of Fort Worth now, whereas it used to be a little town outside of the Metroplex area," Duree said.
Granbury's population has more than doubled since 1990, from 4,045 to 9,386. It's grown by at least 1,400 people since 2010 alone and is expected to reach 14,000 by 2040.
"Now there's so many people here there's a lot of folks that I don't know but they, I think, catch this small-town spirit," said Duree. "They loved it, that's why they moved here."
They got here as fast as they could.
Granbury Mayor Nin Hulett told NBC 5 the city is working with the Texas Department of Transportation on a master plan to widen and improve Highway 377. They're also building a new multimillion-dollar water plant to accommodate the booming population and working to expand Granbury Regional Airport.
