A few questions about San Antonio? (Charlotte, China: wedding, good schools, to live in)

[V3rtigo]

i never made any claim about foreign born anything. that was somebody else.

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[lemonfresh]

Originally Posted by V3rtigo

i never made any claim about foreign born anything. that was somebody else.

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[mpd33]

Originally Posted by V3rtigo

the languages you hear people speak, and the restaurants in this cities show that clearly. find me a singaporean restaurant, or a jamaican, or a filipino. youd probably struggle to find even oone. back home, i had each of these, and more, within walking distance.

Singaporean food in SA:
Can't find one but I am not familiar enough with that type of food to know what to be looking for.

Jamaican food in SA:
1) Willard's Jamaican Jerk Bar-B-Qing
Jamaican, Barbecue
726 East Mistletoe Avenue, San Antonio
(210) 736-5375

2) Caribbean Taste Buds
13777 Nacogdoches Rd #101
San antonio, TX

3) Simply The Best Caters
4400 Rittiman Road
San Antonio

Filipino food in SA:
1) Lily's Philippine Restaurant
8210 Glider Ave
San Antonio, TX

2) Filipino Express
4963 NW Loop 410
San Antonio, TX

3) CEBU Philippine Restaurant
13032 Nacogdoches Rd
San Antonio, TX

4) Mekeni Bar & Grill
310 Kitty Hawk Rd,
Universal City, TX

[majormadmax]

Originally Posted by V3rtigo

no its my time to dispute. why would being deployed in another country be any different from our own city? where do a ton of servicemen live even after the military? yup, right around one of the bases. they want to be close to other current/former servicemen. their friends? other servicemen? their coworkers? other servicemen? going out to the bar? yup, with other servicemen. i'm not saying this is everyone, but it is the majority. i'm not even saying its a horrible thing since everyone likes to interact with people that share their life experiences, but to deny that this is the case is silly. doctors have more doctor friends than anyone, ditto lawyers, ditto servicemen.

First, please take a second and review your posts before posting. Your poor grammar and lack of proper capitalization doesn't reflect an educated comment. If you want to convince people your opinion is the right one, take the time to properly state it.

Secondly, once again, you are wrong about where military families live off base. If you had any insight into the situation (which you don't), you would realize that the vast majority of servicemembers and the families in San Antonio are dispersed throughout the city. There is no “clumping” as you claim, and despite your inaccurate perceptions, the vast majority of military people do not soley socialize with each other outside of work.

Now, overseas it is a bit different but still it is not as you describe. But since you have never been in the military or were stationed overseas, I wouldn’t expect you to know. However, I have, spending nearly a decade stationed in foreign lands and even more time TDY to them.

Yes, it is not uncommon for a group of American servicemembers to travel together; but that in no way means they do not experience the culture of the place where they are living. As a matter of fact, sometimes they make more of an effort than the locals to learn things about the place. When we lived in Germany, I asked my German friends about some castle ruins that were a few miles from the village in which we lived. They didn’t even know that the ruins existed, and they were born and raised in that area.

Feel free to continue to make uneducated comments about the military, I will gladly continue to shoot each ignorant statement down with facts and firsthand experience. I am on break from grad school, this is my second masters and I have two more classes to go; but I have all the time in the world to disprove every false assumption you are going to post, so go for it!

Lastly, I noticed your "back home" comment when it came to restaurants; so I am beginning to understand what your motivations are. You obviously are from someplace that you think is much better than San Antonio, and enjoy bad-mouthing this city much like you do servicemembers. We've had several people like that on this forum in the past, and the consensus was that if you like it better wherever it was you came from, why don't you go back there? Do you honestly think that San Antonio is a bad city because it doesn’t have Singaporean, Filipino or Jamaican restaurants in it? Despite the fact that mpd33 has already proven that it does have two out of the three, I am sure you will find some other way to criticize the city. The funny thing is, you claim that people in the military don’t go out and experience the culture of the places they travel to, and here you are guilty of the same thing! Oh, the hypocrisy!

[V3rtigo]

Originally Posted by mpd33

Singaporean food in SA:
Can't find one but I am not familiar enough with that type of food to know what to be looking for.

Jamaican food in SA:
1) Willard's Jamaican Jerk Bar-B-Qing
Jamaican, Barbecue
726 East Mistletoe Avenue, San Antonio
(210) 736-5375

2) Caribbean Taste Buds
13777 Nacogdoches Rd #101
San antonio, TX

3) Simply The Best Caters
4400 Rittiman Road
San Antonio

Filipino food in SA:
1) Lily's Philippine Restaurant
8210 Glider Ave
San Antonio, TX

2) Filipino Express
4963 NW Loop 410
San Antonio, TX

3) CEBU Philippine Restaurant
13032 Nacogdoches Rd
San Antonio, TX

4) Mekeni Bar & Grill
310 Kitty Hawk Rd,
Universal City, TX

#1 jamaican is just an old guy with a smoker who makes bbq. he's not from jamaica and neither is his food.
#2 i have tried it and it is good. its the only place in town though.
#3 is a caterer.

i hate filipino food but i was just making a point. none of those are even within 10 miles of me.

[V3rtigo]

maybe ill start adding spelling mistakes in there as well. clearly typing on a local forum is an indication of intelligence. im not trying to convince anyone, im stating facts. if you choose to stick your head in the sand, so be it.

theres no clumping? really? read this forum and tell me you havent seen families asking where the best place is to live to be near other military families.

i havent badmouthed servicemen, but if you choose to believe that, thats your problem. maybe you can call me a terrorist or unamerican next. pathetic. we will be moving eventually, perhaps somewhere with some more culture.

and yes, the restaurants are an indication to me of what constitutes a great city. the lack of multiculturalism, the unitary/military thinking, and commonality of the city. its brilliant that the #1 rated restaurant on yahoo travel in this city is a cheap burger joint with large portions for the large waistlines. impressive. maybe if people started to think about these things as well, the city could improve? no, lets just keep it the way it is, its already perfect here, right? we dont need a real asian market, or a russian restaurant, or a rollerhockey rink, or anything else. we dont need sports teams or basketball courts. we dont need any great employers. everythings perfect. lets never change and if you dont like it, get out.

[mpd33]

Originally Posted by V3rtigo

#1 jamaican is just an old guy with a smoker who makes bbq. he's not from jamaica and neither is his food.
#2 i have tried it and it is good. its the only place in town though.
#3 is a caterer.

i hate filipino food but i was just making a point. none of those are even within 10 miles of me.

But you didn't make a point. That's my point. You can't change your criteria after you've already stated a separate set of criteria. You said there isn't even one (and if we found one we'd be struggling to find it). I didn't break a sweat to find all of those. I'm sure there are more, I just did a quick little search and copied 'n pasted.

[startech]

Where did the op go after his thread was hijacked?

[ChrisMP]

Just reading and wondering why people attack people personally and not with subusance of ideas and what they think.

[perticusrex]

Originally Posted by ChrisMP

Just reading and wondering why people attack people personally and not with subusance of ideas and what they think.

I wonder the same thing myself.