Is San Antonio forgotten in Texas? (Houston, Dallas: suburbia, land, celebrities)

[Raider Scott]

So this guy went to the tourist trap parts of Austin and San Antonio and downtown Houston in the most miserable months and was not impressed?


Why does this not surprise me. LOL

[yadigggski]

Originally Posted by copperkinn

San Antonio is nothing more than a working-class Hispanic majority suburb of Austin, IMO.

This has to be a troll lol.

If it isn't... I hate to break it to you but Austin was nothing more than a little college town until the San Francisco Bay Area decided to invade it. SA was the biggest city in Texas until the 30's, and is still notably bigger than Austin is.

[Suesbal]

Originally Posted by yadigggski

This has to be a troll lol.

If it isn't... I hate to break it to you but Austin was nothing more than a little college town until the San Francisco Bay Area decided to invade it. SA was the biggest city in Texas until the 30's, and is still notably bigger than Austin is.

And now there’s no open space between the cities. Maybe we can call the new megalopolis “San Austinio”.

[supfromthesite]

The cities are too spread out to ever be a metropolis imo.

[yadigggski]

It's possible I think. CSA is more likely but Miami-Palm Beach is about the same distance and they're an MSA. Orlando-Tampa is about the same too and they're headed in the same direction. Lakeland and New Braunfels are about the same size but San Marcos/Kyle play a role too.

Not sure if there's data on it, but I'm sure there's a lot of people that commute somewhere between some part of both metros.

[supfromthesite]

Orlando to Tampa bay is actually further than San Antonio to Austin. So I guess if that happens it could happen down here too.

[LocalPlanner]

There's a multi-thousand-acre MPC planned for the rural area between San Marcos and Luling, so, yeah, future consolidated metropolis.

[TheOverdog]

I hate to break it to you but Austin was nothing more than a little college town until the San Francisco Bay Area decided to invade it.

What? Maybe you could say it was a giant college town until Michael Dell (Texas native/UT student) opened a computer company there and built computers in the early '80s. Even then big tech, compounded by UofTX research has been important to Austin since the 1960s. SF transplants were band wagoners, not first invaders.

SA was the biggest city in Texas until the 30's, and is still notably bigger than Austin is.

Houston was bigger than SA in the 1930s, it surpassed it in the 1920s. Dallas was basically the same population as SA though the same timeperiod. SA is bigger now, but is also 150 sq miles larger than Dallas in area.

[DabOnEm]

Originally Posted by supfromthesite

Orlando to Tampa bay is actually further than San Antonio to Austin. So I guess if that happens it could happen down here too.

just barely, but also we shouldn't be looking at these cities from downtown to downtown imo. look at furthest development of the city limits. using that, SA and Austin are only roughly 50 miles apart. subject all the major suburban development in New Braunfels, San Marcos, Kyle, and Buda, and yeah SAA can definitely be one metropolis in the future. They may already have been there had a joint airport been built between NB and SM.

[yadigggski]

Originally Posted by TheOverdog

What? Maybe you could say it was a giant college town until Michael Dell (Texas native/UT student) opened a computer company there and built computers in the early '80s. Even then big tech, compounded by UofTX research has been important to Austin since the 1960s. SF transplants were band wagoners, not first invaders.




Houston was bigger than SA in the 1930s, it surpassed it in the 1920s. Dallas was basically the same population as SA though the same timeperiod. SA is bigger now, but is also 150 sq miles larger than Dallas in area.

I'm saying that Austin didn't have the attention that it does now until SF tech started invading. Now people that don't know much about TX assume Austin is bigger than SA because of all the media attention (and general lack of that for SA).

I didn't look too deep into what year it changed, I guess sometimes in the late 20's. I just read that Houston was bigger than SA starting at the 1930 census.