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The city of San Antonio is bigger than the city of Boston, sure, but that’s because San Antonio annexed everything in sight and has no suburbs. The Boston metro area, which includes everything people think of as Boston, dwarfs your hometown.

you know what.....nevermind...you're correct

San Antonio doesn't have any suburbs.

alamo heights, converse, kirby, leon valley, live oak, windcrest, schertz, universal city...don't exist in the Bostonian dimension.

Thanks for clearing that up for me. Next time you drive between San Antonio and Austin you might see a pretty vibrant economy, development and growth.

Since you know that there is no San Antonio metro area only a "Boston metro" area you're probably the same type of Yankee that made me decide that I'd rather live in Dallas and not live in Brighton and freeze my a## off.....

Yep, San Antonio has a metro area. It’s a little bit bigger than the city as a whole. Here are the numbers:

Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH MSA is the 10th largest metro area in the country. Population: 4,455,217

San Antonio, TX MSA is the 29th largest metro area. Population: 1,942,217

Austinites are pretty proud of what they’ve accomplished and don’t think of themselves as part of San Antonio, but say they were feeling charitable and agreed with you that they were part of San Antonio, well, Austin-Round Rock, TX MSA is #37 at 1,513,565.

What does this mean? Throw in San Antonio and all its many, many suburbs with Austin and its suburbs, including Williamson County which is pretty damn far from San Antonio and I’ll wager has no one commuting down I-35 to your town, and guess what, you’re still 1 million people short of what Boston can boast.

This is why the city of Boston may have a smaller population than the sprawl of San Antonio but our downtown, transport links, economy, and skyscrapers are all bigger and more important.

Yes, our winters do tend to kick the asses of wimps, and yes, we’re not growing very much compared to less populous, less prosperous regions that are playing catch-up. We’ve got our problems, just as you do.

But if you want to simply talk about comparing cities, well, friend, you ain’t in the same league as us. Maybe in a few decades you’ll catch up. And if you’re happy there, more power to you.

you're right, that's what is so great about our country. We can move around and live where we want or have to live. I've done a lot of that and have always ended up right back in Texas.

I actually don't like San Antonio or Austin other than to visit, now that I'm married with the kids. That's just me.

I've seen the sights and lived in many areas of our country and the world. Prefer smaller cities.

As far as commuting, there are actually many who live in North San Antonio who work in Austin and vice versa. I'd kill myself if I had to live in my car.

Commuting well that depends on if you're single and what type of job you've got. Lots of IT folks like my sister actually split time between condos in Corpus Christi, main house in San Antonio and drive into Austin. Puts a lot of miles on her car, her hubby does the same from San Antonio to main job in Austin. They tell me the commute is what they got used to when they lived in Los Angeles...or actually Thousand Oaks area or Manhatten Beach area.

Boston has it all over Texas and San Antonio in particular. It's more important and with the great infrastructure, booming economy and friendly business/legal climate I'm sure that SA has nothing to offer anybody from Mass.

As far as being a wimp and hating the cold weather, you are correct sir. I've done training, hunting, skiing and had to live in Pennsylvania for a 1000 years in 1983-84. I HATE being cold. Put me in a desert, jungle, city street or beach with temp/humidity in the 90's I'm good.... in fact I'm great. If I were to have to fight or compete I used to be sure that the other feller would puke and die before I would.

Pennsylvania cured me of the north for good. Commonwealth tax, township tax, no beer in stores only "state stores", commuting tax for workers outside of a township that have to commute to another area for work.... and all the folks that wanted the government or the union to solve the problems. Stepped on my first homeless person in Philly, sleeping in his cardboard condo by a heating vent or something on the deck by a building. Met a lot of folks that were pretty cynical and mean, but they're everywhere. Just seems that there are less of them in Texas

The women I met on the Jersey shore were nice and my best friend had a nice situation in Barnegat Light, but moved to Florida.

You are also correct about us having problems down here. You've got Ted the swimmer and we've got Governor "Nice Hair".

We used to have a football team in Dallas, you've got a great football team in New England.

you've got Sam Adams

and we've got

I'm just a typical Texan. Love the state, love the people and just can't imagine anybody not thinking the same way...bwahahahaha

I think we might take ya on the cheerleader and hot women side of the ledger

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