Posted on 02/24/2008 10:54:31 AM PST by steveo
My daughter is looking to buy a place In San Antonio. Can anyone tell me anything about the area around McDermott Fwy and Woodlawn / Fredricksberg? Many thanks!
Pingy-dingy!
My in-laws moved to Kerrville ( which is in the hill country near fredrickburg) I tend to hate texas ( I went to college there) but the hill country is pretty good if you have to be in texas. Rolling hills many deer, wild flowers in the spring... but again waking up in texas every morning would not be fun.
Housing is fairly cheap but there are hidden school taxes.
Does Mr. Legs know about either of these places?
You may do better by posting a message on the Texas board. Or maybe contacting a few of these Freepers via pings located on page 11 of the Texas list.
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/profiles2?location=91;m=member-list;page=11
I live in East Texas. If she doesn't have to live there, my house is for sale.
Total BS. I just moved from SA and the only places that are remotely like Nuevo Laredo would be the south side. You don't need to know a bit of Spanish to make it in SA. I lived there from 95 till 07. As long as a person moves into an established mainstream housing area away from the southside all is well. SA is a great town. The real advantages to living outside SA and Bexar county are the taxes. In-city taxes are high compared to surrounding counties.
The NW (Fredricksburg RD) side is very congested, but the medical area is up there and lots of yuppies hang there. Not bad, but terrible traffic.
The area between Woodlawn and Fredericksburg road is an older area with mostly small homes built during the late 30s to the 40s. I grew up in the area.
Some gentrification is going on in both the smaller one story homes and the larger ones.
There are some very nice older mansions built in the Jefferson area but if not modernized already then you’re looking at no central AC and other desirable features.
The really major building now is going on outside of Loop 1604. Much more expensive (but new) housing than the area you asked about.
IMHO, the further west of Flores you go in that area, the ickier the neighborhoods are. The area north of SAC is okay, though very diverse-family homes, mansions made into apartments, regular apartments.
If she’s college age, she would probably like the clubs and stuff nearby. If she’s raising a family, she might want to look further northwest-Don’t know what her price range is, or what she wants in a neighborhood. Or if there is a certain place of work, she wishes to be close to...
There are foreclosures of newer homes to be had on the northwest side.
LOL! If she wants to live in a Colonias wannabe, I will sell her my deer cabin on 20 acres in Kerrville! Her nearest neighbors would then be wild hogs and bobcats.
Why are you saying that? Unless she's working as a construction foreman, she can get by just fine with no espanol.
How much? I'm going to be in the area next week looking.
you dont have to know Spanish to live in San Antonio, i have lived there for 22 years and seldom know Spanish, and mind you I have a Hispanic family. you must have lived either on the West or South side. Kerrville is further than Boerne mind you, 40 miles from SA. I also worked the channel 5 news there and they never spoke Spanish on the 6 news. A good place to live is the North side, it’s calm and little crime. I wouldn’t move into the Medical Center area because there’s a high rate of car breakins and carjackings amazingly.
How can you dislike Texas?
I happen to miss it.
Hmmm. Let me count the ways....
1.Very disingenuous culture. You can get to levels 1,2 but deep authentic relationships are rare.
2. The place is ugly. And weather extreme, the Hots HOT and the colds COLD
3. The Culture is saturated in materialism. I come from So. Cal and you can not compare the materialism to California. They are always wanting to be someone else and it is usually through appearance.
4.There is this thing about texas pride but for the life of me I can not figure out ...Why? maybe because they were their own republic but so was califoria but we dont walk around telling people all the time.
5. It takes you freaking forever to drive through a state that has nothing to look at but barren waste.
6. Business people make a clear distinction between “church life” and “business life” and never the twain shall meet. I found it culturally acceptable to look good in church and then do anything you want in business because.... “well its just business.....”
I could go on but I dont think it would do much good.
Speaking for Texas, thank you for not living here.
Sorry not meaning to offend. I was asked, I responded. While you live in a culture you might not recognize how people precieve it. It was my observation (actually not only mine) but as long as you don’t recognize it, don’t worry about it.
If someone asked someone else to describe your wife and children and they used the same 'not to be offensive' bent that you used on my native state, would you?
As Chris said to Calvera, "Just ride on."
But I also add what Vin also told Calvera, "We deal in lead."
BTW I am still very happy you do not live in Texas.
See we can both agree on something I guess.
Having said this, Pasadena is almost complete in it's Hispanic evolution. I lived there for about 10 years and it was redneck country then. I recently went back for a visit and thought I was in Brownsville. San Antonio is a beautiful city, but I think its too late to save it.
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