Why choose San Antonio over Austin? (Houston, Dallas: good schools, wages, upkeep)

[6 FOOT 3]

We in the El Paso crowd costantly get hammered about our region being awful and yada yada yada....so its rare that we can sit back and watch your two cities hammer away at each other. Now where's the popcorn.......

[saywhat?]

harry o......Neil has the popcorn

[neddy]

Well I just moved from SA to Austin due to my husbands job and I can not see a big difference in them. Some HEBSs here don't have fresh tortillias! (thank goodness i live by a HEB plus that does!) The weather is about the same (we all are flooding) I have driven all over at all times of the day and traffic in Austin is not as bad as they make it out to be but its about like SA still moving for the most part just slowly. Few things missing here for my kids,6 flags...sea world have not found a good Mexican food place yet..maybe Mamacitias will build here. Higher prices here than SA have to get used to that. The things that my family did in SA we can do here...One thing is that Austin folks seem to not want to drive very far for anything and I understand that its the longtime residents more so it seems to me that they don't want to admit that Austin is getting larger. My mom's family is from Austin (terrytown) and they are of this thought! Its strange...also the driving her is very different than SA..they are a lot slower...If you look at the two cities as one big city, Austin is the slightly younger side and SA is the family side of the metro area.

[imaterry78259]

Originally Posted by NewYorkcapitaloftheworld

Just stop, there is no way San Antonio compares to Austin, I'm from Houston and have visited both on several occasions, Austin is by FAR way way way better than San Antonio. I mean really c'mon, Austin is younger, the nightlife is better (does SA have a nightlife?). All San Antonio has is the Alamo and the Spurs, and thats the truth, i know it hurts but its true. Im not even exagerating when I say that San Antonio is nasty! San Antonio is more comparable with Beaumont or Port Arthur just with a different demographic, because thats how small it feels. I reallly dont even know how this is an argument.

You got to be kidding- Their is an active nightlife in San Antonio it is spread out all over the city. Not like Austin where nlife is just downtown or S Congress. I know that SA has twice as many nightclubs as Austin. Austin is not on the same par as SA yet, just a few years ago they didn't have a decent place to shop. They act like the new kid who just won the lotto not used to being rich. In SA the neighborhoods, culture,transportation and restaurants are far superior. Austin do have, cool old professor hippies, nude Hippie Hollow and an active adult swinger crowd along with bands

[210]

Originally Posted by saywhat?

I mean, someone dared to say that SA was not paradise.

And who is saying that?

So what?

Yeah fantastic attitude, did you even bother to read his/her lame posts?

[210]

Originally Posted by neddy

Well I just moved from SA to Austin due to my husbands job and I can not see a big difference in them. Some HEBSs here don't have fresh tortillias! (thank goodness i live by a HEB plus that does!) The weather is about the same (we all are flooding) I have driven all over at all times of the day and traffic in Austin is not as bad as they make it out to be but its about like SA still moving for the most part just slowly. Few things missing here for my kids,6 flags...sea world have not found a good Mexican food place yet..maybe Mamacitias will build here. Higher prices here than SA have to get used to that. The things that my family did in SA we can do here...One thing is that Austin folks seem to not want to drive very far for anything and I understand that its the longtime residents more so it seems to me that they don't want to admit that Austin is getting larger. My mom's family is from Austin (terrytown) and they are of this thought! Its strange...also the driving her is very different than SA..they are a lot slower...If you look at the two cities as one big city, Austin is the slightly younger side and SA is the family side of the metro area.

Now this is an opinion/POV that I will take. Someone who has lived in both recently.

Not someone with a immature attitude who "visits" the two places for two or three days.

[Gabriela]

Originally Posted by NewYorkcapitaloftheworld

Just stop, there is no way San Antonio compares to Austin, I'm from Houston and have visited both on several occasions, Austin is by FAR way way way better than San Antonio. I mean really c'mon, Austin is younger, the nightlife is better (does SA have a nightlife?). All San Antonio has is the Alamo and the Spurs, and thats the truth, i know it hurts but its true. Im not even exagerating when I say that San Antonio is nasty! San Antonio is more comparable with Beaumont or Port Arthur just with a different demographic, because thats how small it feels. I reallly dont even know how this is an argument.

If you like Houston and Austin so much, why don't you just post on the Austin and Houston forums, and leave us, the SA folks, alone ! We don't need useless and argumentative topics here!

I moved in SA a year ago and it is truly a very very nice city ... and I am not by any means old!

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Ignore NewYorkCapital.

Like they say at the zoo and in the wildlife, DO NOT FEED THE BEARS.
This can apply now.

[Charming Billy]

I'm a fourth generation native Austinite -- one of about two or three left in the whole state of Texas -- who now lives in SA. We real Austinites have never felt the need to knock SA. We like it for what it is and like Austin for what it is. Furthermore, as a native Austinite, whenever I go home for a visit I feel as out of place amongst all the snobs and hipper-than-thou newcomers as do you visitors from SA. I feel like SA is in some ways more like the Austin I grew up in during 60s and 70s. (Only more graffitti, stray dogs, unpredictable gang violence, and crazy leadfoot drivers -- the things I don't like about SA.)

Having said that, I have to say that I prefer SA these days because, now that I'm raising a family, I can afford to give my kids pretty much the same upbringing I had in Austin. If lived in Austin, I'd have to find another, more lucrative, line of work if I wanted to live a neighborhood approaching the one I grew up in. I couldn't afford to even rent a house in the lower middle/working class neighborhood next to the lower/upper middle class Austin neighborhood I grew up in.

[oldmanshirt]

I'd just like to say that I'm 24 and I live in SA. While I do wish SA had the mentality of building up like Austin, or up as well as out like Houston (because I do happen to love skyscrapers), I find both of those cities to be for other people, and not for me. Now, I've never considered going to the Austin or Houston forums and going off on their cities. You live there, I live here, so what? If your city is so great, go out and enjoy it and stop feeling the need to unload on mine.