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Old 07-26-2010, 10:00 PM
 
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I have been living in san antonio since 1996. San Antonio is a big difference from my hometown of Los Angeles,Ca. Everything here is far away,major shopping is not a walking distance, city of san antonio takes years to fix a major road. The city shuts down during holidays,a lot of things are hard to find here. I really dont like it here, but I stay for the cost of living.
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Old 07-26-2010, 10:28 PM
 
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I have been living in san antonio since 1996. San Antonio is a big difference from my hometown of Los Angeles,Ca. Everything here is far away,major shopping is not a walking distance, city of san antonio takes years to fix a major road. The city shuts down during holidays,a lot of things are hard to find here. I really dont like it here, but I stay for the cost of living.
Really? Hmmmmm.....very interesting.......
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Old 07-26-2010, 11:33 PM
 
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I hate the ponds that form on I-35 when it rains.

Today I was driving North on I-35 and between Walzem and 410, right by the exit to get on 410 West,
There was water sitting on the highway about 4-6" deep and it seemed to be that way on at least 2 of the 3 lanes.

Just imagine hitting that on a Geo Metro doing 70MPH
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Old 07-26-2010, 11:41 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX
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I definitely agree with that! I teach on the Westside and live in Live Oak, so I take 35 a majority of the way home. There are spots like that in several places on 35. I know there were a few times last year when I left school when it was dark - had been raining steadily throughout the early evening or there had been a recent storm - and ran into a few of those spots, including around the Splashtown area. I don't like driving here in the rain when it is light outside, but in an area of 35 that "puddles" (and especially when there isn't much lighting along the road and it is in one of the spots where there are concrete dividers and no breakdown lanes) - definitely not high on my list of enjoyable things.

On the other hand, for some reason I have always liked seeing how quickly the rain fills the ditches up in the neighborhoods that have them.
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Old 07-27-2010, 12:18 PM
 
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I love that San Antonio is in Texas. I hate the fact that I'm not there.
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Old 07-27-2010, 09:27 PM
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Location: San Antonio, TX
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I have been living in san antonio since 1996. San Antonio is a big difference from my hometown of Los Angeles,Ca. Everything here is far away,major shopping is not a walking distance, city of san antonio takes years to fix a major road. The city shuts down during holidays,a lot of things are hard to find here. I really dont like it here, but I stay for the cost of living.
I'm from L.A. too. Isn't L.A. decades behind in building enough highways/freeways to keep up with its population? Besides, even if things are further away here in S.A. (which is really subjective as it would depend on what part of L.A. vs what part of S.A.), I still get places a lot quicker in S.A. than in L.A. due to the horrendous traffic in L.A. Then again maybe the exodus from CA due to its economic collapse has helped its traffic since I gladly left 2 years ago!
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Old 07-27-2010, 10:05 PM
 
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I'm from L.A. too. Isn't L.A. decades behind in building enough highways/freeways to keep up with its population? Besides, even if things are further away here in S.A. (which is really subjective as it would depend on what part of L.A. vs what part of S.A.), I still get places a lot quicker in S.A. than in L.A. due to the horrendous traffic in L.A. Then again maybe the exodus from CA due to its economic collapse has helped its traffic since I gladly left 2 years ago!
Very interesting as well, hmmmmm.....


Gets me to wondering: Maybe so many places {every place?} are decades behind than other places in some ways?




Of course, I suppose aside from subjective things, there are perhaps so many other seemingly-infinite factors and variables {known and possibly unknown} that certainly play into such equations, aye.......
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Old 07-27-2010, 10:32 PM
 
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Then again maybe the exodus from CA due to its economic collapse has helped its traffic since I gladly left 2 years ago!
I guarantee that if the prices of houses were the other way around (expensive in Texas, cheap in California) there would be zero exodus from California to Texas.
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Old 07-28-2010, 07:47 AM
 
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LA is the perfect case for demonstrating diminishing returns on adding additional freeway lanes. It only works for so long.
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Old 07-28-2010, 08:10 PM
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Location: San Antonio, TX
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I guarantee that if the prices of houses were the other way around (expensive in Texas, cheap in California) there would be zero exodus from California to Texas.
If in addition to that, CA was a pro-business, low-tax state with a more down to earth pro-American attitude, then I agree the exodus would be a lot smaller.
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