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Originally Posted by arbeiter
Sprawl is ugly and depressing to begin with, but San Antonio's about the ugliest of the ugly. And I call bullcrap on your rose-tinted ode to the working class tract house. San Antonio's suburbanization is largely due to people from out of the area moving in (expanding economy, military presence, etc.) and are not part of that cycle you described.
San Antonio has not had the same scale of problems with drug dealers and drivebys like many other cities. excuses. you want to look at 'tract housing' that represents the struggle and escape from working class neighborhoods? look at brooklyn, or somewhere else, but not schertz or universal city.
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I'm not saying it's pretty, and I would love it if everyone could live in an alamo heights, or monte vista enviroment, but they can't. You should be better informed however, San Antonio's military presence has been on the rapid decline for about a decade, coming with the closure of Kelly and brooks AFB, now will Lackland AFB losing the majority of it's programs San Antonio can hardly be called military city.
You talk about drug dealers and drivebys like you know San Antonio, but aren't you from Austin,but now you live in brooklyn? What do you know? Do you know of neighborhoods called gunrise (sunrise), places where police no longer offer protection. or the Glen which no city will annex because the cost of police protection is too high. The Glen recently lost all section 8 funding because it's too dangerous! "SAHA is phasing out the subsidized housing program by mid-fall 2007 in The Glen and adjacent Camelot II neighborhoods because of rising crime, unsafe conditions and uncooperative landlords renting to Section 8 clients, the city's housing agency said" from the San Antonio express news
http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/...o&mysa_login=1 What about a whole 1.1 million square foot mall abandoned because of drivebys in the parking lot? you didn't know about that did you? If you want to pick on sprawl, pick on the mcmansions of the Dominion and Stone Oak. Don't pick on the 90,000 dollar houses of live oak and Converse, besides most of those house in the photos look like they are from out by seaworld, not schertz or universal city.