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Old 05-02-2008, 11:31 AM
 
Location: Twin Cities, MN
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I have been researching SA for a while now for a future move. This site has had so many postive things about the city. I have been very excited for our upcoming trip to check things out. I was on another site recently which has info on all the best cities. The message board there was terrible! Almost all negatives, very few positives. These posts portrayed SA as a garbage-ridden cesspool with tons of crime and very few nice areas to live. More than one poster said they are always scared and have to always be looking over their shoulder. What gives? Why such different potrayals? Thanks for your input!

 
Old 05-02-2008, 11:37 AM
 
Location: St. Louis, MO
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Can you give me the link to the other place?
I already know all the good things about San Antonio, but I've been wanting to know the bad ones.
 
Old 05-02-2008, 11:39 AM
 
Location: San Diego, CA
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People just have varying opinions. There are some really nice areas and some not-so-nice. Having been born and raised in SA, I am biased and would say, while it isn't paradise, there are a lot of positives. It's a great place to raise a family, there's a lot to do and quite a friendly place. Some people just aren't happy unless they're complaining, so my suggestion is to just see for yourself. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
 
Old 05-02-2008, 11:53 AM
 
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Yes, please provide the link.
 
Old 05-02-2008, 11:54 AM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX
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Believe it all. Everything you read on the Internet is true.

Cheers! M2
 
Old 05-02-2008, 12:11 PM
 
Location: Twin Cities, MN
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Believe it all. Everything you read on the Internet is true.

Cheers! M2
No, but these are people who live there.

I don't know if I can post the website here. It is bestplaces.com.
 
Old 05-02-2008, 12:15 PM
 
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I have lived in Houston, Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio. I will tell you this, I have never really had a place that I called my home town. When I left SA last year, I will admit I was home sick and still miss it. It is a city that is large enough to give you the "big town" things in life and small enough that you feel comfortable. It is a great place to raise kids, with great medical facilities, lots to do, and the people are exceptional. I have made friends for life from SA. Now there are the city's down falls - crime, gangs, whatever. Not to be rude, but what city or small town doesn't have these issues? So base your own opinions when you visit the city. I have lived in SA for 15 years and call it my home town with pride
 
Old 05-02-2008, 12:15 PM
 
Location: Wiesbaden, Germany
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absolutely true. matter of fact, I'm a 19 year old former Ms. America

actually, I'm a multi-billionaire with nothing better to do with my time..

San Antonio is the 6th or 7th largest city in the country (I can never remember which one we are) and because of this it has plenty of good and bad. I'm rarely happy with it in the summer because I hate hot, but I also enjoy lower than average energy costs.. San Antonio is no Utopia (although there is one near by), nor is it the cess pool of the nation. It's great at being both bad and good and also awful at each one. I'm sure it would be easy to find someone here that loves everything I dislike and hates everything I enjoy.

make sense?
 
Old 05-02-2008, 12:32 PM
 
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I have been researching SA for a while now for a future move. This site has had so many postive things about the city. I have been very excited for our upcoming trip to check things out. I was on another site recently which has info on all the best cities. The message board there was terrible! Almost all negatives, very few positives. These posts portrayed SA as a garbage-ridden cesspool with tons of crime and very few nice areas to live. More than one poster said they are always scared and have to always be looking over their shoulder. What gives? Why such different potrayals? Thanks for your input!
I'm sorry but many on this site give a very inaccurate picture of what San Antonio is really like. First off, San Antonio is a poor, working class, and largely uneducated city. A lot of the sentiments expressed on that site - about the lack of decent paying jobs, lack of importance of education among a large number of the population, and high crime rate are just the way things are here.

The fact of the matter is that if you've traveled like I've traveled, and then come back to San Antonio, you can really see how this city is just a big bordertown like Brownsville. The city has neither economical or cultural significance and is very provincial in regards to change and progress.
 
Old 05-02-2008, 12:37 PM
 
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absolutely true. matter of fact, I'm a 19 year old former Ms. America

actually, I'm a multi-billionaire with nothing better to do with my time..

San Antonio is the 6th or 7th largest city in the country (I can never remember which one we are) and because of this it has plenty of good and bad. I'm rarely happy with it in the summer because I hate hot, but I also enjoy lower than average energy costs.. San Antonio is no Utopia (although there is one near by), nor is it the cess pool of the nation. It's great at being both bad and good and also awful at each one. I'm sure it would be easy to find someone here that loves everything I dislike and hates everything I enjoy.

make sense?
Calling San Antonio the 7th largest city does it an injustice. Again, if you've traveled (something a majority of San Antonians have not done, I'm sorry to say), you'd realize this cities infrastructure is severely lacking in comparison to other top 10 cities, and arguably, to even smaller cities like Seattle, Boston, Miami, and San Francisco.

No kind of light-rail, poorly planned, executed, and laid out road system, virtually no culture, very little diversity, large number of poor and uneducated people, prevalent provincial mindset, lack of single life, lack of restaurants (unless you mean barbecue or Mexican), the list goes on.

In my opinion, if one is expecting a metropolitan experience, they will NOT find this in SA. This city just is not a true cosmopolitan mecca in the least bit. The fact of the matter is that, the way San Antonio is organized (with no suburbs and every area around the city counted as the cities population) you get an inaccurate picture of the cities true size.

The reality is that San Antonio is the 29th largest metro in the US. The city itself may have 1.2 million people, but the metropolitan area only has marginally more. Classifying San Antonio in this fashion, one can accept the cities small-town atmosphere, instead of comparing it to the likes of other top 10 US cities.
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