Are people in Austin"scared" of going into San Antonio and further south? (Mart: live, food)

[ashbeeigh]

Originally Posted by Marty Janetty

I don't appreciate this blasphemy against my name. I'm just asking a genuine question about a topic that has been brought up on many occasions and I'm determined to get down to the bottom of it. Don't be upset if you don't like my questions I'm just doing my job.

Your job?! Are you a reporter? At least cite your sources when you write your next piece, “an anonymous real estate message board poster named kissmybutt said...”

[blakely]

I've NEVER heard anyone in Austin say that they are scared to go to San Antonio. I think the reaction you're getting is because the question, to many of us at least, seems like it came out of left field.

I visit San Antonio several times a year. Outside of being residents of Austin, San Antonio is the city in Texas we travel to most often. A big part of that is extra-curricular activities for kids----mine have all had sports games, tournaments, and other non-athletic activities and tournaments there on a pretty regular basis. It's also an easy drive from Austin and makes for an easy day trip.

[Trainwreck20]

Originally Posted by Marty Janetty

I don't appreciate this blasphemy against my name. I'm just asking a genuine question about a topic that has been brought up on many occasions and I'm determined to get down to the bottom of it. Don't be upset if you don't like my questions I'm just doing my job.

Blasphemy - the act or offense of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk.

Yeah, God, we will try to do better

Also, don't be upset if you don't like our answers.

[ashbeeigh]

Originally Posted by blakely

I visit San Antonio several times a year. Outside of being residents of Austin, San Antonio is the city in Texas we travel to most often. A big part of that is extra-curricular activities for kids----mine have all had sports games, tournaments, and other non-athletic activities and tournaments there on a pretty regular basis. It's also an easy drive from Austin and makes for an easy day trip.

I’m in southeast Austin and just did a day trip this past Saturday. Left around 10, got there at 11:30, left at 4:30 and was back at 6. I also adore the SA trail system, it’s much more thought out and congruent then that if Austin’s. I can run a full marathon in SA without getting on different trails and looping around 2.5 times like you’d have to on town lake. I think that’s the only thing I’d change about Austin, it’s trail system.

[BillyH]

Originally Posted by ashbeeigh

I'm as WASPy as they come and I was raised in San Antonio and was never "afraid" or "scared" of any part of the city, even the westside , eastside or southside. Shoot, some of my first jobs were on the westside. I canvassed the southside for signatures for an early iteration of Obamacare and I have had many elderly clients that I visited in the evenings on the eastside.

Ditto on the waspy part, English/Scottish. I had a job years ago that took me all over the east, south and west sides. I’m not from SA originally. There were huge swaths of town I’d never seen before. I was always trying to find short cuts, I drove down a street that led into a housing project on the near westside. I was driving through it and thought it would lead me to another street, it didn’t it was a dead end. I had to turn around and drive through the whole complex again I got a few stares, like what’s he doing here but that was it. Other than not knowing those areas better, I never had a problem either.

[ashbeeigh]

Originally Posted by BillyH

Ditto on the waspy part, English/Scottish. I had a job years ago that took me all over the east, south and west sides. I’m not from SA originally. There were huge swaths of town I’d never seen before. I was always trying to find short cuts, I drove down a street that led into a housing project on the near westside. I was driving through it and thought it would lead me to another street, it didn’t it was a dead end. I had to turn around and drive through the whole complex again I got a few stares, like what’s he doing here but that was it. Other than not knowing those areas better, I never had a problem either.

I think I know exactly where you're talking about and those are the oldest government housing complexes in the United States. I've done community organizing in those areas. I stood out, but with being able to speak Spanish and being aware of myself an my surroundings everything was find.

[BillyH]

Originally Posted by ashbeeigh

I think I know exactly where you're talking about and those are the oldest government housing complexes in the United States. I've done community organizing in those areas. I stood out, but with being able to speak Spanish and being aware of myself an my surroundings everything was find.

Maybe Apache, I looked it up, Near Lanier HS. There are pockets of neighborhoods on the southside where most of the homes are taken care of. For people to say it's all bad is erroneous, found that out while driving those areas.

[ashbeeigh]

Originally Posted by BillyH

Maybe Apache, I looked it up, Near Lanier HS. There are pockets of neighborhoods on the southside where most of the homes are taken care of. For people to say it's all bad is erroneous, found that out while driving those areas.

Yes. Near the natatorium. The natatorium is actually pretty great.

[BillyH]

Originally Posted by ashbeeigh

Yes. Near the natatorium. The natatorium is actually pretty great.

I know where it's at but haven't been inside.

[ScoPro]

I wasn’t skeered to live in San Antonio in the 1940s (the little rascal on the left)