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Old 09-26-2018, 08:06 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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I have lived in both San Antonio and Houston and I sympathize with OP. San Antonio may have tourist attractions but it is boring and cultureless. Everybody wears boring regular clothes and there is no culture. Just because it is Hispanic, does not mean it’s diverse. I wanted Houston back pretty fast. Now, I don’t mean to offend anyone who likes SA, it’s just when it comes to diversity and culture, Houston is superior.
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Old 09-26-2018, 07:50 PM
 
Location: New Braunfels, TX
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I have lived in both San Antonio and Houston and I sympathize with OP. San Antonio may have tourist attractions but it is boring and cultureless. Everybody wears boring regular clothes and there is no culture. Just because it is Hispanic, does not mean it’s diverse. I wanted Houston back pretty fast. Now, I don’t mean to offend anyone who likes SA, it’s just when it comes to diversity and culture, Houston is superior.
Funny.....while Houston has things to offer, I find a better quality of life in SA. I turned down repeated offers to transfer to Houston over the years - something about being that close to sea level bothers me.

Each city has things to offer - they won't be for everyone. But to say one is flat-out superior over another is based purely on personal preferences, IMO.
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Old 09-27-2018, 09:11 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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I didn’t say one was flat out superior to the other. I said Houston has more culture. I specifically said that my post was referring to diversity and culture.
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Old 09-27-2018, 11:29 AM
 
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I have lived in both San Antonio and Houston and I sympathize with OP. San Antonio may have tourist attractions but it is boring and cultureless. Everybody wears boring regular clothes and there is no culture. Just because it is Hispanic, does not mean it’s diverse. I wanted Houston back pretty fast. Now, I don’t mean to offend anyone who likes SA, it’s just when it comes to diversity and culture, Houston is superior.
I was surprised to see that San Antonio has VERY few asian restaurants.
Houston has an area that feels like you were teleported to an Asian city.
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Old 09-27-2018, 11:58 AM
 
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Houston has an area that feels like you were teleported to an Asian city.
More like somebody teleported an Asian city to a cluster of strip malls on the edge of an American city, but just as good if you were used to SA.
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Old 09-27-2018, 06:35 PM
 
Location: New Braunfels, TX
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I think your issue is that San Antonio has a lot of older retired people
Much more than Houston does, in percentage.

It has nothing to do with diversity
Houston - 9.8%
San Antonio - 11.4%

Not that large a difference, IMO.
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Old 09-27-2018, 06:36 PM
 
Location: New Braunfels, TX
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I didn’t say one was flat out superior to the other. I said Houston has more culture. I specifically said that my post was referring to diversity and culture.
One person's "culture" is another person's "ugh!!"
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Old 09-27-2018, 07:02 PM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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San Antonio is perhaps a great city for families with young kids and retired military, but life is much harder for educated, ambitious young people.
You might not agree with this article, but some reasons are spot on and so are the comments.
https://therivardreport.com/left-beh...e-san-antonio/
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Old 09-27-2018, 10:50 PM
 
Location: New Braunfels, TX
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It's also an article from 2012, with a 2016 "update"......lol
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Old 09-28-2018, 07:38 AM
 
Location: Clear Lake, Houston TX
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It's also an article from 2012, with a 2016 "update"......lol
It still applies. One personal example- the other side of my family is from SA/NB. Every single college-educated one of them left for Houston and Dallas. Not that I'm knocking it because if I stopped @ high school I'd do the same thing... Their quality of life would be downgraded if they made the move.
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