Texas Forum view on San Antonio (Dallas: 2013, crimes, living)

[Guerilla]

Originally Posted by 210

We're about to build a 40 million dollar homeless shelter campus in the downtown area. SA is trying to end homelessness in SA, not cover it up by pushing it out.

Houston did the same thing. Before I left, there was a story on how Houston is picking up homeless people, and paying their hotel rent for a month. Good luck with that facility.

[210]

Originally Posted by Guerilla

Houston did the same thing. Before I left, there was a story on how Houston is picking up homeless people, and paying their hotel rent for a month. Good luck with that facility.

I don't believe Houston did what SA is doing. The only other cities who have done this are Phoenix and San Diego.

[Guerilla]

Not exactly the same thing, but payed rent for many homeless people.

[210]

It's funny how some don't see SA as "progressive" when we've done things in the last year or so that many cities haven't or the only cities to do it are the likes of San Fran and Boston.

All Yellow Cabs in SA switched to hybrids.

All City owned cars switched to hybrid.

Free parking downtown for any hybrid car.

40 million dollar homeless complex to help stop homelessness.

Etc.

[Guerilla]

Doesn't make San Antonio on the same level as San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, etc. Those cities are much larger, too. Boston and San Francisco have smaller city limit boundaries and smaller populations (city limit wise). Other cities are larger than San Antonio, so it would take more time. Houston has the second largest cab fleet in the U.S., and it would be hard to switch all of them to hybrids.

And though many cities have not built $40 million dollar complexes, there are many cheaper homeless shelters that help get the homeless on their feet. It may not be state of the art, but there are plenty of nice shelters that have been built across the U.S.

[210]

Originally Posted by Guerilla

Doesn't make San Antonio on the same level as San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles, Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, etc.

I never once said they were on the same level, said SA is doing things other widely know "progressive" cities have done.

[quote]Those cities are much larger, too. Boston and San Francisco have smaller city limit boundaries and smaller populations (city limit wise).[/qote]

That has nothing to do with what I said or anyone has said before, it's something you've brought up for no good reason.

Other cities are larger than San Antonio, so it would take more time. Houston has the second largest cab fleet in the U.S., and it would be hard to switch all of them to hybrids.

It wasn't the entire fleet of cabs in SA, just one company.

And though many cities have not built $40 million dollar complexes, there are many cheaper homeless shelters that help get the homeless on their feet. It may not be state of the art, but there are plenty of nice shelters that have been built across the U.S.

SA has those shelters as well, we just happen to be building a 40 million dollar complex.

[Guerilla]

Well, and company could do that with yellow cab's.

[Robert123]

I don't think that a city being "progressive" or not depends entirely on the size of its population. Progressiveness is in part an ATTITUDE. And San Antonio ain't got it.

I think that some of this has to do with SA not being cosmopolitan. My dictionary's definitions of "cosmopolitan" are as follows:

1) "Common to, or representative of all or many parts of the world." San Antonio? Nope. Houston? Yes.

Pertaining to people: 2) "Not bound by local or national habits or prejudices; at home in all places." Hmmmm.... Texans, in general and on this forum, express pride in distinguishing Texas from other places, protecting its values from outside influence and change, and state that they could never imagine living anywhere else, nor would they ever have the desire to do so. Any Texans that hold this view are quite literally, and denotatively, defined NOT cosmopolitan.

You cannot, as a society, embrace living in such a shell, and simultaneously claim social progression.

[Guerilla]

Go over to the California section and see the comments on how "no one can beat that state in anything but prices."

[momof2dfw]

Originally Posted by Robert123

I don't think that a city being "progressive" or not depends entirely on the size of its population. Progressiveness is in part an ATTITUDE. And San Antonio ain't got it.

I think that some of this has to do with SA not being cosmopolitan. My dictionary's definitions of "cosmopolitan" are as follows:

1) "Common to, or representative of all or many parts of the world." San Antonio? Nope. Houston? Yes.

Pertaining to people: 2) "Not bound by local or national habits or prejudices; at home in all places." Hmmmm.... Texans, in general and on this forum, express pride in distinguishing Texas from other places, protecting its values from outside influence and change, and state that they could never imagine living anywhere else, nor would they ever have the desire to do so. Any Texans that hold this view are quite literally, and denotatively, defined NOT cosmopolitan.

You cannot, as a society, embrace living in such a shell, and simultaneously claim social progression.

Then you flunked your own test on being "cosmopolitan". LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! Really, think about it, you say you are "cosmopolitan" but you abhor living here and have made it very well known. Therefore you have your own "prejudices" against Texas and Texans. What makes your views so different than ours just because we love where we live? No, I could not imagine myself living any other place. I have traveled all over this country and many places around the world that most Americans never have and I still love coming "home" to Texas. What is so wrong w/ "protecting" our values from outside influences? Would people in NYC, San Diego, LA, Boston, San Fran or Chicage be just as ticked if they got flooded w/ transplants all from Texas that wanted to change their "home"? I betcha they would. BTW, all in fun it just cracks me up though how it is right for one but not the other.