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I've lived in San Antonio for 17 years, having grown up in Houston and later living in DC, Tampa and Corpus Christi before settling here. Anyone who thinks the city is booming only for low-wage workers is just ignorant. The reality is that several high-wage sectors are doing extremely well -- life sciences and biotech, financial services, manufacturing, aviation and others, to name a few. AT&T is now headquartered here, Toyota and Washington Mutual have recently set down roots, our military medicine center is growing explosively, and major players like USAA, Valero and HEB call this city home. Our highways are brimming with license plates from California, Michigan, New York and elsewhere as good, plentiful jobs and affordable housing beckon. We welcome our new neighbors. And the bitching from the guy in Austin is just laughable. Let me make this clear: No one, absolutely no one with roots in San Antonio wants to be Austin with its too-sexy-for-Texas attitude and absurdly bad traffic planning. Real people live in San Antonio. West Coast wannabes prefer Austin.
