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Originally Posted by Schertz1
San Antonio is known for having some of the best values in the Country on both of these among others. So a greater income does not equal more disposable income. Sorry.
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Cost of living basically follows disposable income in a lot of ways - especially in an area like San Antonio which can just sprawl at will. IE, expensive housing doesn't get built if people don't have jobs that pay enough to qualify for the mortgages.
Whether fair or not, the reputation of San Antonio around the country is that it's a 'poor' big city. And because it's grown relatively recently (compared to other 'poor' big cities like Detroit and New Orleans), it's out of luck -
new teams go to areas where advertisers want to advertise to TV viewers with a lot of money - not people who have a bit left over because their housing is so cheap.
For instance,
here's one chart which shows San Antonio's disposable income per capita at dead last among large metros. Kind of hard to google for this stuff; lots of irrelevant stuff in the results, but at least I found one.
Here's a better chart from Wikipedia, although huge.. San Antonio is pretty much the lowest big city in the list under per-capita income (#182); scores a bit better on household income (note difference vs. Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, which I would surmise is due to smaller households due to large population of retirees).