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Originally Posted by Syndic
What a sea change. All my life, it has been Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio but you're so right. It's hard to deny that we're overtaking San Antonio. The level of major investment here compared to there is very telling. The skylines do not lie.
I'm glad I'm buying a house now as opposed to later. After these buildings are built and the McKalla stadium is built, things are going to be a little crazy here.
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Honestly,
We've surpassed San Antonio some time ago. I wind up down in SATX a good deal, and it's a great city with a lot going on.
But when it comes to night life, restaurants, skyline, development and density it really isn't close. We also have our pedal to the metal when it comes to explosive change where San Antonio feels a lot like Austin when we were excited about things like the Austin lofts or Triangle back in the early 2000s.
South Town San Antonio is *really* nice and the area around the Pearl is getting there but San Antonio is just now really starting to show the positive signs of re-urbanization of its central core. I think the Mission reach of the riverwalk is *really* well done and will pay massive dividends in the future.
If anything Austin needs to look at San Antonio's willingness to expend money on new public park space, connective tissues between neighborhoods for not cars (the new mission reach riverwalk extension specifically).
Where we are decades behind San Antonio and will likely remain there for the foreseeable future is the arts. We just don't have the investment there that we should, but hopefully as our tech money gets a little older we'll start seriously investing in that as well.
That said, I think in most ways Austin feels bigger.