[Sarajevo]

Believe it or not, but they're still throwing up subdivisions and BIG houses in the San Antonio area. I'm 40 miles outside of the city, yet we still see the encroachment of these eyesores, and they go up in the craziest places (flood plains, hillsides with no embankments).

I've had large snakes in the yard when I lived in the city, along with turtles, raccoon, opossum, and skunk. This is only the thrid snake of this size that I've seen since I moved to the Hill Country.

[Red_Devil 232]

The Hill Country is beautiful.
I lived in San Antonio for about a year and all the houses in those subdivisions were all alike - same design and no yards. Gads! They would come in with the big excavating equipment cut into a hill side, remove all the trees and erect a 100 houses or so. They all looked alike. My wife and I rented an old farm house, with a good sized fenced in yard, for the dogs, about 15 - 20 miles east up I-10 from the city limits.