Is San Antonio seen as inferior to Austin, Dallas and Houston? (Waco: amusement park, live in)

[Shock]

Originally Posted by River City Rocky

Damn that's crazy, I never knew spm used that as a sample to his song. Thanks for posting.

Lol same

[KathrynAragon]

Originally Posted by River City Rocky

Hmmm interesting...

It may be an acquired taste. Or maybe I have a lot of painters in my house right now and I don't want to interfere with their groove.

[walker1962]

Originally Posted by MisterShipWreck

I like College Station the best. I am just over an hour from Houston, if I really want the big city. Austin is 2 hours away, and San Antonio and Dallas are 3 hours away.

My girlfriend lives in San Antonio, so I am there quite a bit.

College station is more than an hour from Houston and that's on a Sunday morning with no traffic. Highway 290 by the time its widened will help some but not enough. TxDot really needs to do something with the old Hempstead highway to relieve congestion heading to B/CS.

[Johnhw2]

It goes Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, then Austin in my value system,


Any town whose goal is to be weird is a place I can not relate to. Water issues long term will hold the hill country darlings back. Being near the coast holds Houston back wiht its flooding and hurricane potential which are big negatives to me. Dallas wins by a margin and when I say Dallas I really mean DFW. Without the Suburbs and FW I would not have DFW first, DFW has water issues too unless they can crack the get surplus OK water which I believe they will. Irving water system already has an agreement and plan for long term OK water acess once the courts call the Choctaw water rights superior to the state of Oklahoma;s claim they can stop water going to Tx when the tribe has already agreed to do just that.

[exins]

I was born & raised in San Antonio, but college and career caused me to move. Have lived in Georgia and Colorado, and in other places in Texas: the Rio Grande Valley, Houston, and DFW metroplex. I traveled throughout the U.S. for my employer. EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE, upon learning I am from San Antonio says, "OMG I LOVE San Antonio! I would love to live there!" The only ones who didn't "love" it were those who went through basic training at Lackland during July/August, marching in formation in 100 degree temps for hours at a time. But how many ex-military and retirees from all over the country returned to settle down there?? Neither Dallas nor Houston have cultural events , celebrations, or historical landmarks on the scale that SA does. My husband has lots of children and grands, and great grands up here, while my family is greatly diminished, so we will probably not be moving back, Just wanted to say, appreciate San Antonio, because it is still a great place!

[R1070]

San Antonio is it's own thing and I respect that. For that reason, I don't view it as inferior, just different. I feel the same about Austin.

[Soonhun]

Originally Posted by exins

I was born & raised in San Antonio, but college and career caused me to move. Have lived in Georgia and Colorado, and in other places in Texas: the Rio Grande Valley, Houston, and DFW metroplex. I traveled throughout the U.S. for my employer. EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE, upon learning I am from San Antonio says, "OMG I LOVE San Antonio! I would love to live there!" The only ones who didn't "love" it were those who went through basic training at Lackland during July/August, marching in formation in 100 degree temps for hours at a time. But how many ex-military and retirees from all over the country returned to settle down there?? Neither Dallas nor Houston have cultural events , celebrations, or historical landmarks on the scale that SA does. My husband has lots of children and grands, and great grands up here, while my family is greatly diminished, so we will probably not be moving back, Just wanted to say, appreciate San Antonio, because it is still a great place!

Neither Houston or Dallas-Fort Worth have cultural events or celebrations on the scale of San Antonio? I mean, with the increase diversity and populations, I am willing to bet there are just as many events in the first two metros or cities, and with increase variety. If you mean attendance, well, I don't know as much about Houston from personal experience, but DFW has the State Fair (you may personally hate it, I don't know, but many others love it) and both seemingly have more sporting events, which is a subset of culture.

[C24L]

Originally Posted by RJ312

When I considered moving to Texas, I briefly considered San Antonio, and it was the first big city I eliminated for this reason. I didn't think it was the best that Texas had to offer. I even eliminated it before Austin. I liked some economic factors about Austin, but I was concerned about my ability to fit in socially in Austin. I also felt that Dallas and Houston had more economic factors in their favor. It was a decision between Dallas and Houston.

Okay thats kool.I am glad you found the city that worked for you.Dallas and Houston just dont appeal to me much.I like San Antone better than both Dallas and Houston but thats just me.

[BillyH]

Originally Posted by Tall Traveler

I think it goes back to the fact that San Antonio was the first major city to go majority Hispanic combined with no major companies HQ there and a lack of high paying jobs in comparison with Houston, Dallas, and Austin.

When I lived in Texas in the 80's and went to university there, practically every young person wanted to move to Austin....even Aggies.

SA has five Fortune 500 companies (USAA & Valero etc) Austin two Dell, Whole Foods.

[Ivory Lee Spurlock]

Originally Posted by River City Rocky

I've noticed here on city-data people mention Austin, Dallas and Houston as the "big 3" Texas cities and most talk about relocation, recommendations,etc are centered around these cities with San Antonio notably left out.

Is this just a city-data thing? Or do people in the other cities generally see San Antonio as being a level below?

This is an honest question because I have only ever lived in San Antonio so I really wouldn't know.

The entire 40 years I've lived in Texas, I don't think I met anybody who doesn't like San Antonio. People visit, they have a good time, they like the city, and they return. Not everybody wants to live there, but I never hear anybody downgrading it, like the many people who downgrade Houston, Dallas and Austin. There's so much to do, it's almost like a vacation wonderland.

San Antonio looks and is much older than the other 3 Texas million plus metros. Even the downtown area the streets are alot narrower, in the olde style way. I've always found it very confusing to drive in downtown SA, as somehow I seem to lose my sense of direction there.