San Antonio vs Austin (actually Round Rock vs Boerne) (Houston: homes, theatre)

[teenwolf80]

Originally Posted by JuanValdez

Yep, and more than once. I'm not a 20 year old looking to get away with drinking in public. The shop owners absolutely hate it, too.

Again, there's more to FF than college kids drinking. I go every month. I see people from all walks of life and ages at FF. From 15 to 70. It draws in everyone who's looking to have a good time whethet that's people looking to bar hop, hear music, visit art galleries, watch sidewalk performers, buy things, eat, etc.

[doss1]

Your daughter would enjoy Round Rock more than Boerne. I think for a liberal you'd also like that area, too. Boerne is very conservative.

[texascycling]

Boerne. Round Rock is so bloated, bland, and absorbed into Austin it has no identity of its own other than how I described it earlier in this sentence. It is also not at all liberal in comparison to Austin, though it certainly is more so than Boerne or SA.

I know this decision based on having gone to high school in Boerne and having had lived in the Austin area for the past 7 years. I ALWAYS enjoy the chance to go visit my folks at home in the relative calm and country of Boerne. Yes, San Antonio has grown perilously close since they moved there in the late 90's, but it's still very much its own entity that is a different breath (in many ways, including demographically and culturally) than the San Antonio MSA that it's part of.

[ItsTheTruth]

Originally Posted by JuanValdez

First Friday is nothing but thousands of college kids milling around aimlessly. Probably the biggest hoax going in this city besides all those stand in line for a $10 turkey leg "cultural festivals" at Hemisfaire Park.

Wow, what's an incorrect picture you are painting of San Antonio.

None of the First Friday kids milling around are enrolled in college, or perhaps they were until their second kid arrived, and the turkey legs are $9.

[ItsTheTruth]

TexanTodd:

If you can afford Austin real estate prices, then absolutely go there. Once you move, it can be very hard to up and move again. I wish I had done more research because I would've never bought in San Antonio. Austin has more jobs, more culture, a real university, unfortunately more traffic, and while both places are rather conservative, Austin is definitely more Liberal-leaning.

[rynetwo]

Originally Posted by ItsTheTruth

TexanTodd:

If you can afford Austin real estate prices, then absolutely go there. Once you move, it can be very hard to up and move again. I wish I had done more research because I would've never bought in San Antonio. Austin has more jobs, more culture, a real university, unfortunately more traffic, and while both places are rather conservative, Austin is definitely more Liberal-leaning.

Depends on the job field but San Antonio has a lot more people and a lot more jobs than Austin in total.

Please Explain

Pretty Correct

[ItsTheTruth]

Originally Posted by rynetwo

Depends on the job field but San Antonio has a lot more people and a lot more jobs than Austin in total.

Please Explain

Pretty Correct

Jobs:

Austin has more professional jobs, San Antonio has more blue collar and call center jobs. I would assume that someone moving from another city is not doing so for a call center job. I don't have numbers to prove this but based on my experience in my field, I believe it to be true.

More culture:

San Antonio has a rich Mexican culture. Austin has 50,000 college students from around the world, a wider variety of international markets, restaurants, and stores. Austin has 10x the number of festivals, from music festivals, cultural festivals like Brazilian and Greek, to poetry festivals.

University:

There is nothing to correct. I stand by my initial statement that UTSA is not a "real" university. It's the university you go to if you're scared to leave home or couldn't get in elsewhere. To even think to compare UTSA to UT-Austin or Texas A&M, let alone universities out of state, is comical.

[majormadmax]

Originally Posted by ItsTheTruth

Austin has 50,000 college students from around the world

The total enrollment for fall 2011 at UT was 51,112, of which only 9.1% were foreign (so just over 4650).

51.0% of the undergrads are White, another 17.6% Hispanic, and nearly 80% are from Texas (source)

I don't think there's as much "diversity" as you might think at UT Austin!

[ItsTheTruth]

Originally Posted by majormadmax

The total enrollment for fall 2011 at UT was 51,112, of which only 9.1% were foreign (so just over 4650).

51.0% of the undergrads are White, another 17.6% Hispanic, and nearly 80% are from Texas (source)

I don't think there's as much "diversity" as you might think at UT Austin!

How nice of you to leave out the UTSA numbers which prove my point. Here, I'll do it for you:

1830 international students out of 30,474 students. That's 6%, so UT-Austin is 50% more diverse. Also, 92% of students are from Texas at UTSA. That also leaves 2% of the UTSA population from the USA but outside of Texas, as opposed to 11% at UT-Austin, so not only is UT-Austin more diverse, and it has a greater number of foreign students, but it also far more popular with out-of-state students, which is a great measure of the value/reputation of the university.

UTSA Office of the Registrar - Fall 2011 vs Fall 2012 Census Day Report

[imaterry78259]

SA is far superior than Austin in just about everything you are looking for in a place to live.