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I spent my HS years in San Antonio and I couldn’t wait to get out. While the downtown area is interesting most of what’s outside that small circle is the same old strip-mall-urban-sprawl in every direction. The same check cashing place, cell phone shop, gas station, fast food outlets and pawn shops exist over and over in every direction. It’s depressing and it’s poor and it’s very conservative. The available jobs are, for the most part, not good. I worked as a telephone sales person in HS (lots of telephone bank jobs in that town) and it was demeaning, difficult and the most sought after job in town at the time. It sure beat the old fast food job I had before that.
I couldn’t wait to get to Austin and just about all my friends were right next to me in the exit. San Antonio has some charm, and there are aspects about the culture I enjoy, but taken all together it’s no model city and it’s not a place I would want to live in again.
