Kevin’s point about street width might be important here. Many of the cities you’ve suggested as counterpoints have significantly wider streets than San Antonio (and other Texas cities).
San Antonio’s narrow streets are a vestige if it’s mostly uninterrupted design as a rural frontier outpost for 300 years. This was never designed to support the major city it is now.
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HTOWN: 2305k (+10%) + MSA suburbs: 4818k (+26%) + CSA exurbs: 190k (+6%)
BIGD: 1304k (+9%) + MSA div. suburbs: 3826k (+26%) + adj. CSA exurbs: 394k (+8%)
FTW: 919k (+24%) + MSA div. suburbs: 1589k (+14%) + adj. CSA exurbs: 90k (+12%)
SATX: 1435k (+8%) + MSA suburbs: 1124k (+38%) + CSA exurbs: 18k (+11%)
ATX: 962k (+22%) + MSA suburbs: 1322k (+43%)
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