San Antonio's favorable cost of living not enough (Combine: new home, neighborhood)

[TXStrat]

Originally Posted by ged_782

If nonstop flights between San Antonio and Nashville are important to you, you might try another airline next time, as there are some nonstops between SAT and BNA, just not on United.

Tracking that, Southwest offers one, it wasn't available via my work travel program.

[Azure110]

It has been several years, but I have flown a couple of times direct from SAT to Nashville on my way to Lexington, KY. Nashville was my layover point and not my intended final designation.

My job does not care which airline I choose when I have to fly for work. I just buy the ticket and get reimbursed for it later.

[huckster]

Agreed. That greatest American Author Mark Twain once famously stated ,
"There are only Four unique cities in America."
"Boston, New Orleans, San Francisco and...........San Antonio."

Originally Posted by DonMattingly

I think that SA has way more character than other Sun Belt cities like Austin, Charlotte, Atlanta, Etc.

It has beautiful old buildings and a lot of history.

It's definitelty a little Podunk, but so are those other cities.

Nashville has a lot of character too, but it's not as great as SA in my opinion.

Anyway, I don't think that SA will ever have great flight options. It's not a major business center. In this regard, it's no different than places like Columbus, OH; Indy; Raleigh, NC, etc.

[DonMattingly]

I largely agree with that list, though it's omission of NY is absurd. There's nothing in America (and few cities in the world) that remotely compare to NY.

Anyway, SA is very unique. Itreminds me of a western version of Charleston or Savannah. I think it's far better than Austin.

[Azure110]

Originally Posted by huckster

Agreed. That greatest American Author Mark Twain once famously stated ,
"There are only Four unique cities in America."
"Boston, New Orleans, San Francisco and...........San Antonio."

That may be true when Mark Twain was alive.

[huckster]

The magnificent mile is an incredible stretch of road there on Michigan Ave...

Originally Posted by DonMattingly

I largely agree with that list, though it's omission of NY is absurd. There's nothing in America (and few cities in the world) that remotely compare to NY.

Anyway, SA is very unique. Itreminds me of a western version of Charleston or Savannah. I think it's far better than Austin.

[SweethomeSanAntonio]

Originally Posted by Azure110

That may be true when Mark Twain was alive.

Cities do not become more unique over time they usually lose what makes them unique. San Antonio does a good job of retaining the things that make it unique.

[KM1174]

Originally Posted by Quattro72

This is a gut-check article for San Antonio. This has been happening for a long time and glad someone is calling attention to it.

“Rackspace Hosting Inc. CEO Taylor Rhodes said recently that the San Antonio-based tech giant is confronting what it calls a “talent gap” in its sales, marketing, product and engineering teams.

rack shack needs to pay more. 40k for a CCNA cert'd, college educated person with more than a decade of cisco experience, who also worked for dell.com as a lead admin..

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[steve807]

Supply and demand, think H1b or the like. Throw in some off-shore outsourcing, easy with cloud services.

[Azure110]

Originally Posted by KM1174

rack shack needs to pay more. 40k for a CCNA cert'd, college educated person with more than a decade of cisco experience, who also worked for dell.com as a lead admin..

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Network admins are not neurosurgeons where they are few and far between. Many network admins can be self taught, college educated, or both. The market is saturated with CCNA certified admins now.

As the other poster put it....supply and demand. Looks like supply has exceeded demand and only the most talented network admins can be the exception to that rule.