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Old 12-05-2009, 07:03 PM
 
Location: Beaumont, TX
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Seriously - San Antonio is not that humid. Trust me, it could be waaaaay muggier!

 
Old 12-11-2009, 03:47 PM
 
Location: The land of sugar... previously Houston and Austin
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San Antonio is a GREAT city & is often left forgotten in the shadows of Austin, Dallas, & Houston. I really don't get it because SA is the second largest city in Texas after Houston.
Probably has something to do with this.

Comparing Texas' Big 4 Metro Economies
Four of those top 40 MSAs are in Texas: Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio and Austin. Respectively, the current dollar value of their GDPs ranked 4th, 6th, 36th and 37th in 2008. ... The two giants, of course, are Houston and DFW, which each accounted for more than 30 percent of the state’s GDP. San Antonio and Austin each accounted for roughly 6 ½ percent of Texas GDP.
I've always kind of thought of Austin+San Antonio as sort of nearly equal to DFW or Houston, but that's clearly far from the case. Less than half.



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This is true. Austin has taken the #1 spot for egotistical d-bags. Second place goes to...
 
Old 12-12-2009, 01:03 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Ha, what part of SA did you live in? I live in a very nice part of town. You really think downtown San Antonio is nice?

Downtown is the dirty run-down part of San Antonio. That is the crime-ridden low-income area! If you can only afford to live in the ghetto you should not be complaining. I'm sorry you didn't like San Antonio, but over 2 million people LOVE IT and plenty more move in every day.
What downtown are you talking about? Downtown San Antonio doesn't include all of the ghettoes surrounding it within 410. Downtown San Antonio is the area between all of the major highway crossroads (are surrounding the Riverwalk).

It is definitely not dirty, run down, or crime ridden.
 
Old 12-12-2009, 02:53 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX
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I agree downtown is far from ghetto, but just to be clear, there are several areas within 410 that are also not ghetto. <cough>Alamo Heights, Terrell Hills, Olmos Park, Mahnke Park, Monte Vista, Tobin Hill, Southtown/King William</cough>
 
Old 12-13-2009, 10:35 AM
 
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Having lived in San Antonio for a year before moving to Austin, I really really hate San Antonio. With the exception of the Riverwalk downtown, it's dirty and you get a sense that people don't take pride in living there. Crime is high, incomes are low.. The only place I'd like to live in less in Texas would be El Paso.. uck
No where is bashed like El Paso is, yet for quality of living, El Paso is a pretty good place. Not too much traffic, not too much violent crime although property crime is too high, the best weather anywhere in Texas and the mountains.

San Antonio is a great tourist destination but I think it would be too hot and humid to live there.
 
Old 12-14-2009, 06:48 PM
 
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If you took the "Metroplex" from around Dallas, what would you have...

If you moved the capital up the road to Waco, Austin would be just another college town...

San Antonio has Tourism, Aerospace/aviation, The Military, Medical and Biomedical research, Historical, traditional and economic ties to Mexico...And the Food is kick-ass awesome.
So if you took part of the DFW area away from DFW what would you have? lol that's like asking "What if you took part of San Antonio away from San Antonio?"!!!
 
Old 12-15-2009, 03:25 PM
 
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Hmmmmm........maybe the painted on eyebrows?
 
Old 12-16-2009, 01:32 PM
 
Location: Metromess
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Seriously - San Antonio is not that humid. Trust me, it could be waaaaay muggier!
Oh, sure it could. Houston is living proof of that. But SA is humid enough. It's not all that far from Houston. My idea of "not humid" is Fort Davis!
 
Old 12-16-2009, 05:39 PM
 
Location: I-35
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Brilliant!
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I think Waco gets bashed more than Houston, Dallas, SA & Austin combined.
 
Old 09-23-2015, 10:13 AM
 
Location: USA
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SA seems kind of dumpy but that's my personal opinion and based on comparisons to other places I have lived. It seems run down (downtown has so many empty stores) and divided by class. Those with money run north and everyone else fills out the rest of the city.It doesn't seem cohesive to me.
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