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Originally Posted by Rynetwo
As someone who lives between the loops I cannot agree. We go into the urban core all the time, but we also enjoy the conveniences of being near the amenities of Stone Oak without dealing with the traffic.
We enjoy many festivals throughout the year, but we can retreat to our very quite side of town to enjoy our back yard oasis from the pool.
In theory if we could afford a new house, pool, on a quarter acre in Lavaca we might be tempted to move, but that would cost way more than are willing to spend.
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To be fair to both, different strokes for different folks. The urban sprawl panned about on this site as well as others, stemmed as much from personal and familial prosperity as from bad city management. And I don't mean San Antonio only, but every major Western city. Rising personal wealth, and the rise of the automobile allowed people to leave the urban cores of our cities, which were dirty, marred with crime, and seen as undesirable.
Now, we are pretty much stuck with this battle of the urbanites/suburbanites.