Reviews & Comments
San Antonio, TX
The only place you want to live is Alamo Heights -
6/15/2007Unlike the almost the entirity of San Antonio, Alamo Heights has good schools (and police, and fire dept.); why? - because Alamo Heights was started by people smart enough to not want anything to do with San Antonio and never incorporated with the city. It also has trees growing on the streets, educated people, and sidewalks that are safe to walk down. It's an older neighborhood, but don't let San Antonio fool you, there are brand new construction neighborhoods everywhere that are all out ghettos - you just don't learn that until you live there a while. San Antonio is a border town hole that preceeded the rest of the U.S., at least the south, by being little mexico from the beginning. Prepare for people who have never spoken english, including those raised in the U.S. all their lives.
Alamo Heights, TX
San Antonio -
6/15/2007Alamo Heights is the only place in San Antonio that you want to live. It actually has trees lining the streets for one, and grass in the yards, good schools, and a great police/fire dept. Alamo Heights is in the North Central part of San Antonio but was wise enough not to incorporate with the city because nobody wanted any part of the hole in the earth that S.A. is. And Alamo Heights is bordered by 2 other good neighborhoods that help to insulate against the depressed and outright bad neighborhoods that border every other 1/2 way decent place in San Antonio.
San Antonio, TX
San Antonio -
6/15/2007Housing and food are cheap. However the city is a patchwork of a very few great neighborhoods with a very few nice with a whole bunch of depressed or bad & very bad. You don't necessarily know what's a bad neighborhood because some new & still pretty developments are simply brand new ghetto's I would never want my family to live in. This is a border town here, it is not the U.S., it is a mix of some Texas and a lot of Mexico. The other reviewer unfortunately was largely correct about the fact that this is a city totally indicative of the decent of America into the third world and a culture of haves and have nots. There is a middle class, but they have to suffer schools that I glad my children will not be raised in; we are moving. Oh, and in addition to the high crime and the fact that you cross a street to get from the nicest neighborhoods to the worst ones, it is hot here, not just hot and dry, but hot and humid and unrelenting, I'd rather live in the high desert of California because it's more pleasant there with the dry heat. If you speak spanish, move to San Antonio, if not, you are handicapped.