San Antonio or Houston?? (Dallas, Fort Worth: house insurance, homes, neighborhoods)

[Guerilla]

Originally Posted by hello13685

I would move to San Antonio then. In my opinion, the only benefit for you in Houston would be more social diversity and the sophistication and more open-minded values that tend to accompany that, as well as more world class arts, etc. Weather in SA would be better.

People exaggerate way to much about Houston's weather. It isn't that bad at all. The humidity is not that much of a difference between Houston and SA. Especially coming from Florida, it shouldn't be bad.

[lilmex83]

I love San Antonio grew up there my whole life and wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Very tight community. And most people from San Antonio feel the same way. The houses are really nice and cheap too. I used to be a salesman and I noticed alot of people from all over the country moved to San Antonio because the houseing was nice and inexpensive. I don't know if Houston is on the same range but I know in San Antonio u get more house for you buck than most places. Most of the people I knew that were moving in to San Antonio were from the bigger more expensive cities like Chicago, New York, and anywhere in California. Being that Houston is a bigger city I imagine it being more expensive but I don't know that for sure. They have close to 6 Million to San Antonio almost 2 million in area population so that could help you figure out what kind of size city your dealing with. Oh yeah Austin is close by so thats always a treat to visit.

[210]

Originally Posted by Guerilla

People exaggerate way to much about Houston's weather. It isn't that bad at all. The humidity is not that much of a difference between Houston and SA. Especially coming from Florida, it shouldn't be bad.

Actually, the humidity it quite different, that isn't some huge conspiracy.

[googie2525]

I lived in Houston for 4 years, and the humidity is THE WORST. It's a tropical climate, lots of swampy bayous, rains a lot, etc., the weather is just gross in general.

[AK123]

Houston's weather isn't "gross" right now... 65 degrees and 20% humidity. The summers are when most of the humidity happens. Even then, it's only about 10% higher than Central TX (I looked it up).

So yes, people DO exaggerate about it.

Plus, Houston doesn't get the ice storms Central TX seems to get once a year or more. I remember this being a problem when I lived in Austin.

[AnthonySA]

Originally Posted by JJP

Houston's weather isn't "gross" right now... 65 degrees and 20% humidity. The summers are when most of the humidity happens. Even then, it's only about 10% higher than Central TX (I looked it up).

So yes, people DO exaggerate about it.

Plus, Houston doesn't get the ice storms Central TX seems to get once a year or more. I remember this being a problem when I lived in Austin.

The stat you have about Houston's humidity is a fluke. Houston, like the rest of Texas was on the back end the storm system that produced all the severe weather a couple days ago. A little meteo 101 - winds spin counter-clockwise so out east their winds were coming straight south bringing with it moisture from the Gulf of Mexico. On the backside (west of the low pressure) the winds came from the north and down here in texas from the West-North-West. When that happens, we have absolutely no moisture source and it will funnel in extremely dry air. That is why we had red flag warnings here and that is why the humidity in Houston was so low and continues to be until there is a change in the weather pattern.

Houston is no doubt consistently more humid than San Antonio. That 10% difference is very sizeable -- especially in the summer. Essentially, your humidity is the percentage of moisture in the air -- that works out best to just predict precip chances. The numbers you want to look at are your dewpoints -- the actual measurement of moisture in the air. 95F with 55% humidity means that it is much more humid than lets say 50F with 55% humidity. But, 70F Dewpoints are always more humid than 40F dewpoints. In fact, you really start feeling the moisture in the air when your dewpoints are above 60.

Now, the Humidity doesn't bother me too much, but Houston does have much more humidity than San Antonio on a consistent basis mainly because of the proximity to the Gulf of Mexico.

Ice storms down here happen once every 3-4 years in San Antonio -- and the one we had in January was among the worse ice storms in Central Texas History. Houston, luckily, very rarely deals with ice storms -- again due to their proximity to the Gulf of Mexico.

[Guerilla]

Originally Posted by googie2525

I lived in Houston for 4 years, and the humidity is THE WORST. It's a tropical climate, lots of swampy bayous, rains a lot, etc., the weather is just gross in general.

What swamps? Doesn't rain too much either, but glad it does because Houston is the greenest major city in Texas.

[AnthonySA]

Originally Posted by Guerilla

What swamps? Doesn't rain too much either, but glad it does because Houston is the greenest major city in Texas.

Us San Antonians can't fathom a city with water... lol!

[210]

Originally Posted by Guerilla

What swamps? Doesn't rain too much either, but glad it does because Houston is the greenest major city in Texas.

And slowly becoming the greyest (concrete) cit yin Texas as well.

[AK123]

Originally Posted by 210

And slowly becoming the greyest (concrete) cit yin Texas as well.

Aren't they all... Texas is not very good with preserving green space. Luckily in Houston, with the help of the new mayor and others, this is starting to change some and there are plans for a large new central park near the convention center, among others.

I don't see any "swamps" either, maybe on the southeast side of town there are some marshy areas...

Someone in a previous post said watch out because Houstonians "lie" about San Antonio... sounds to me like there's more of a problem from the other side!!