So I went home this weekend

Gonna stick up for HEB here. They don't and won't open a store just to do it. I am sure great research goes into their decisions for this type of thing. They could be basing it on future zoning allowances for growth and jumping on land or location for the future.

I live within 2 miles of two HEB's and that is not enough. Both are almost always crowded. One is 24 hours. Another would be busy too if put somewhere nearby. Maybe they could buy my house/lot for a nice price!
 
How do you think these guys feel about it...

They took the whole Cherokee nation
And put us on this reservation
They took away our ways of life
The tomahawk and the bow and knife

They took away our native tongue
And taught their English to our young
And all the beads we made by hand
Are nowadays made in Japan

Cherokee people
Cherokee tribe
So proud to live
So proud to die

They took the whole Indian nation
Locked us on this reservation
And though I wear a shirt and tie
I still part Redman deep inside

Cherokee people
Cherokee tribe
So proud to live
So proud to die

And some day when they've learned
Cherokee Indian will return
Will return will return
Will return will return
 
Mac class of '93 reunion thread.

I moved back to SA a couple years ago after more or less being gone since HS. It has changed a lot mostly for the better. Some places for the worse. The city could use some development principles that included the ability to walk from your house and more green spaces and parkways. If you've ever lived in an area where you can walk to a bar or restaurant, you know how great it is. Doesn't happen anywhere in SA. Still a great place to raise a family and a whole lot better than Dallas.
 
A few Mac grads here. Cool.

I agree; SA is not a great place to be single in your 20s. But I'm in my 30s and married with a kid. I love Austin but I would entertain the idea of moving back if I could get a job as good as my current one. Sadly the industry I'm in is basically non-existent in SA. But I have a lot of very good friends in SA and it's a short drive for football and basketball games.

My wife worked in SA for 3 years while we were dating and she loved her time there. She lived out by Sonterra across from Reagan HS is. She moved back to Austin around 2004/05 and she is amazed when we go back to see how much it's changed since then.
 
Totally agree that SA is not for single 20-somethings. I left and didn't come back until I was married with a kid for a reason. If you're single and older (as some friends are) can be okay, just have to like divorcees.

When you want a family focus with a nice, inexpensive house with a short commute, it's a great place. I also like being able to do weekends in Houston, Dallas, Austin, hill country, area lakes and the coast relatively easily/cheaply. Only challenge is finding great jobs in SA since it is a tourist and small business town.
 
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Austin's no different.

Not many years ago, maybe 4 or 5, I enjoyed checking out the 3 donkeys that lived in the big red barn off Brodie and 290 across from the strip mall. Now that's one big strip mall too. The barn and the old lady's house is still there, but that was just part of the deal the developers made with the family when the family sold the land after the old lady/mom/grandmother died.

You can say the same thing about the area where Dave and Busters is up north, and where Eagle Golf Range used to be.
 
I had a question for all those familiar with the Northside of San Antonio (281/1604) area. There's a big ranch up there with a house right in the middle right next to SACS, straddling the edge of Encino Park and Redland Woods. I always thought it was cool how they never let their land get developed but nowadays that land has got to be worth tons. Anybody know the deal with that?
 
I grew up in Conroe in the 70's back when there was one Conroe HS. Now Conroe ISD has either six or seven HS's I have heard.

Back then Conroe was an incredible country small city. Close enough to Houston to get whatever you might need from a major city yet far enough out to still have all the advantages of being rural. I remember when 1960 was called "Jack Rabbit Road" and the only thing between I-45 and HWY. 6 was a Dairy Queen and a Lumber Yard. Anyone else remember when the Goodyear Blimp was stationed right across from Spring HS? Back then you could fish or ski all day on Lake Conroe and see maybe two or three other boats. Today you can't even get on the water for all the Lake Lice.

Then the Yankees started moving in and telling us all how terrible Texas was and how great things were back up North.

Today Houston extends all the way to Willis.

Progress ain't always good.
 
When my mom and dad bought their house many years ago (1604 was only 2 lanes and no Hwy 151) the guy who developed their small neighborhood (about 50 houses) said he wouldn't sell the land behind them to another home builder. He didn't he sold it to Sea World! You can see the top of Shamus dome from their deck at least now they get to see a fireworks show and know when it's 10pm !
 
That's what is so great about growing up in Galveston. Every few years a hurricane wipes out all that development, and there is nothing but bare sand again. You guys are living in the wrong towns, clearly.
 
Roosevelt grad here. No real point, just wanted to represent. Moved to Austin in 03 for school. I remember when I was really young there was nothing on 1604 on the drive to Fiesta Texas (before six flags). Parents now live out in Helotes, and that area has really grown as well. From IH 35 all the way to Military strip malls and homes.
 
Galveston is great for people without kids. It has a very high child molester population. When one of my sisters was deciding between UT Southwestern and UT Med Branch in Galveston this statistic was something that came up. As they have a daughter about to go into daycare they researched this. Dallas is not heaven by any stretch of the imagination but Galveston was really high.
 
Here is my breakdown of SA:

60% 40-60 Years old, divorced or about to be. Raising 2-3 kids in a development constructed within the last 10 years.

15%- kids of above group- who are in some form of realizing they want to leave SA for Austin, Dallas or out of state.

10%- transient military, on a base

5%- 20-30 somethings whose company relocated them to SA and realize they probably should not have accepted relocation package for a $50,000 job in SA.

7%- undocumented San Antonians
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2%- high school drop outs who wanted to leave SA while in High School but couldn't ever quite figure out how to do so.

1%- 4 time World Champion San Antonio Spurs Basketball Team- GO SPURS GO!

I may have left SA, but I still love it. Best Tex Mex anywhere, best basketball team, friendliest people and ugliest suburbs!
 
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