What do you love/hate most about San Antonio? (Spring: school districts, salaries)

[HillCountryHotRodMan]

I dislike small minded people who spam the forums with ridiculous garbage because they are too inconsiderate to realize that SOME of us were trying to have a conversation in particular threads that we can no longer FIND because they are on a 2nd or 3rd page due to an obvious individual who is ADD. No names required.... just look at the first page of threads.

Moderators? Come on.... please ....

[HillCountryHotRodMan]

Originally Posted by JFL3

Sit back, have a coca cola or pepsi and smile. Enjoy your Friday night, kind sir.

See ya around....

[mayangook]

i wish san antonio went back in time to 1984.

[missyr0402]

I love SA when ever I do leave I get home sick and always head home
I Love the history
I love the culture
I love the people
I love once a true San Anton always one
I love our SPURS!!!!!!
I love that we know how to have a good time and throw the best celebrations

I don't like when people who arn't from here making our city look bad
I hate the lack of respect for our city and how much we have grown
I hate when anyone disrespects our culture or anyone else's
I don't like the traffic at times but everywhere I have gone has the same problums(ITS PEOPLE WHO DON"T KNOW HOW TO DRIVE!!!!!& ARE TOO NOSIE WHEN THERE IS AN ACCIDENT)

Other then a few small things SA is a fun, beautful place with awesome weather and with some of the sweetest people Ive ever meet

[IngramWindsorfan82]

Yeah the only thing I don't like is the speed of development... It'll be like 50 years before we have that enormous feeling like DFW... Hell by then they'll be like 3 hours away from us!

But Don't get me wrong I DO love it here it's just not like a "young" town like the way Austin and Dallas and even Houston feel... There's just soo much to do there if you're NOT a tourist.

[xsa210tx]

Originally Posted by huckster

San Antone doesn't have a ghetto area at all. Expecially so, in the true sense of the word.

Chicago, Detroit, cities like those these have true urban blight, and have true ghettos. Without getting into the statistics of crime, unsolved murders, city budget deficits etc. these cities contain within their boundaries- abandoned 50 story buildings, stores and thousands and thousands of homes. Entire neighborhoods are sometimes abandoned, it is a sorry spectacle- these areas and sometimes they truly resemble in parts third world countries in many ways.

Ghetto is a catch word used here in many posts by persons who use it as if
it is an interchangeable word to notate lower middle class or something negative.

People from ghettos would exchange places with San Antonians, if they could.

BRAVO! Right on.

I tire of these feeble-minded people who seem to think San Antonio is "ghetto" and this or that. Those ignorant individuals don't know REAL ghetto.

We are a heck of a lot better off than many other cities! That's for sure.

Maybe these people who don't like SA, should leave. That's a good idea. You would think, right? Thanks for the video link as well! That video from Detroit looked like something out of a Third-World country somewhere.

[xsa210tx]

Originally Posted by thenewtexan

Love: weather, cost of living, diversity

Hate: 90% ghetto (was 80% when I moved here), fattest, dumbest city in the U.S.

*shakes head*

[xsa210tx]

Originally Posted by huckster

Detroit is now at 800,000 population. 87 total acres now are overgrown and littered and vacant with many, many more entire neighborhoods and factories etc. abandoned, within the city limits. Homes can sell for as little as $500.00 to as little as one dollar. That is no mistake $1.00 per house.

This isn't the abandoned mattresses, trashbags, bikini carwashes etc, the eyesores that are sensationalized here in San Antonio, locally, for a lack of newsworthy stories. There is a genuine unspeakable human tragedy, suffering, that goes on in Detroit daily and there is nothing to do about it. The city is decaying and dying.

It is not gloating to say, Life is good in San Antonio, not so good sometimes, but good. It is luck. Count your blessings San Antonio.
YouTube - A Tour Of Detroit's Ghetto

I know I do very well, others who like to put down this wonderful city so much, should heed your advice.

[L210]

I think you're confusing ghetto with urban decay. Ghettos do not have to be falling apart; they're just areas a minority group is forced into through legal or socioeconomic pressures. Urban decay can happen amongst those who are in the majority.

Urban decay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Britain experienced severe urban decay in the 1970s and 1980s. Major cities like Glasgow, the towns of the South Wales valleys, and some of the major industrial cities like Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, and east London, all experienced population decreases, with large areas of 19th-century housing experiencing market price collapse.

Ghetto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In the United States, many Hispanic immigrants from Mexico, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean concentrated in barrios located in cities with large Hispanic populations such as Orange County, California; Anaheim, Baldwin Park, Chino, Coachella, El Centro, El Monte, Fresno, Huron, Hemet, Indio, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Modesto, Monrovia, Moreno Valley, National City, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Cincinnati, Compton, Inglewood, Southern Los Angeles, Oakland, Ontario, Rialto, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Ana, California and Temecula; Alexandria, Virginia, Dallas, Houston, El Paso, and San Antonio, Texas; north of Philadelphia,PA and Phoenix, Tucson, and Yuma, Arizona; Denver; Oklahoma City; New York City; Brentwood, New York ;Chicago and Sterling, Illinois. Many of these cities struggled with issues of crime, drugs, youth gangs and family breakdown. However, middle-class and college-educated Hispanics moved out of barrios for other neighborhoods or the suburbs. The barrios continually thrived by the large influx of immigration from Mexico, this largely due to the explosion of the Latino population in the late 20th century. The majority of residents in these urban barrios are immigrants directly from Latin America.

Despite mainstream America’s use of the term "ghetto" to signify a poor, culturally or racially-homogenous urban area, those living in the area often used it to signify something positive. The black ghettos did not always contain dilapidated houses and deteriorating projects, nor were all of its residents poverty-stricken. For many African Americans, the ghetto was "home": a place representing authentic blackness and a feeling, passion, or emotion derived from rising above the struggle and suffering of being black in America.

[SabresFanInSA]

Right now I hate that 5 miles in every direction from me is under construction. Need a damn off road vehicle to get from my house to 410