What is San Antonio like? - Dallas Cowboys Forum

Ren · 10-20-2012

Got offered a job there and flirting with the idea of taking it.

What's the city like?

Does it have the same brutal heat + humidity the DFW area has in summer?

Is it clean?

Stuff to do?

School system?

Crime?

**jobberone** · 10-20-2012

San Antonio is a great city. Hot but not as humid as DFW. Loved going downtown to the riverwalk. Haven't lived there in ages though so take that with a grain of salt.

Rack Bauer · 10-20-2012

SA isn't as humid as Dallas, but it is very "burn your skin like bacon" type of heat. I lived in Wichita Falls for a year and a half and I'll take that humidity over the scorching heat of south texas all day, any day. Though SA isn't as scorching as where I'm from (Laredo, about 150 miles south of SA).

As far as the city, it's a really nice place to live other than the heat. I lived there for about a year and I liked it. Lots of stuff to do. Not sure on the schools (I went to UTSA and it's a really good university but I assume you're talking about high school and below?), and just like any other city there's some "Clean" parts and some "not so clean" parts. Crime rate depends on where you live in the city. When you find about 5-6 places you might want to live do some research on the crime rate of those areas before making your decision IMO. That info should be available online or from the SAPD.

Ren · 10-20-2012

Just to clear up

by clean i mean pollution, i have a 3 year old with asthma so that's kind of a big deal

Thanks for your replies

MonsterD · 10-20-2012

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Originally Posted by Ren

Just to clear up

by clean i mean pollution, i have a 3 year old with asthma so that's kind of a big deal

Thanks for your replies

It isn't as bad as Dallas or especially Houston in pollution, but it is a big city, so yes it has the thin haze they all do when you are in downtown. If you are on the outskirts it would be light in pollution.

Rynie · 10-20-2012

San Antonio is just as, if not more humid than Dallas. Whoever said it's not as humid as Dallas has absolutely NO IDEA what they're talking about.

a_minimalist · 10-20-2012

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Originally Posted by Rynie

San Antonio is just as, if not more humid than Dallas. Whoever said it's not as humid as Dallas has absolutely NO IDEA what they're talking about.

As you go south doesn't it get more humid in Texas?

**WoodysGirl** · 10-20-2012

SA is definitely drier than Houston. They're also more likely to have droughts and water restrictions during the summer.

I think its great for families and tourists, because they do offer so many things to do...

I have no idea on the quality of schools, but I'll hazard a guess that like many cities, some are better than others depending on the area of town.

I'm not a big fan of some of the real estate I've seen, but they do have some nice areas and its a growing city

danielofthesaints · 10-20-2012

What are you guys talking about? Dallas is no way as humid as the cities south of austin. For the OP, I've lived in Dallas for 22 years, but I have family in SA, and when I visit, it seems like a nice, rapidly growing city with a strong vibrant latin culture. People are friendly, strong family values, but those dang spurs fans are little pests!

CowboyMcCoy · 10-20-2012

That's where they send the banned CZ members.

theogt · 10-20-2012

Very hot. The city feels dirty to me. But there's plenty of restaurants, bars and shopping to make it a fun place.

casmith07 · 10-20-2012

I have family in San Antonio. They love it.

I've been a handful of times. I vastly prefer DFW to SA.

Faerluna · 10-20-2012

I have a good friend that is currently living in SA and if you had specific questions, I could pass them along to him. I think he's lived there for most of his life.

SaltwaterServr · 10-20-2012

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Originally Posted by casmith07

I have family in San Antonio. They love it.

I've been a handful of times. I vastly prefer DFW to SA.

Concur. I lived in San Antonio just about my whole life and just moved away this May to DFW

San Antonio is border town 150 miles away from the border.

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Originally Posted by theogt

Very hot. The city feels dirty to me. But there's plenty of restaurants, bars and shopping to make it a fun place.

That's what I mean when I say it feels like a border town.

There are school systems there in which children have no chance at improving their lot in life. None.

North side is great. Lots of restaurants.

The pollution, for me, feels so much less than the DFW area. San Antonio is hotter and more humid than DFW for most of the year but DFW catches up around middle of June. When I moved in May it was like going back in time 2 months weather wise.

As far as things to do, there's a ton more water-related activities in San Antonio and the lakes are much closer. Canyon, Media, Calaveras, Braunig, the Guadalupe River system, Comal River system, Blanco, and San Marcos rivers as well. Tubing, watersports, you name it.

2.5 hours to the south, you have the longest undeveloped stretch of public beach in the continental United States, Padre Island National Seashore. You're very close to the coast and Gulf of Mexico in general.

San Antonio is so much smaller than the DFW area. You'll drive an hour in San Antonio and run out of San Antonio.

A few museums and such, plus the zoo, but the FW zoo beats it hands down I've been told.

There is 1/10th the road construction in San Antonio than there is in DFW.

If you're looking to buy a house down there, shoot me a PM as well. I worked real estate down there for a few years before the bottom dropped out in 2008. I can point you to a few really good Realtors that know their business, if you're not getting relocation assistance.

All in all, its going to be an adjustment going from such a large metroplex in DFW to a smaller city, but then you have Austin an hour away too.

**jobberone** · 10-20-2012

Average humidity in SA is 57 afternoons marginally less than Dallas and marginally more in the mornings. I stand corrected.