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| *Travel Tips>>>San Antonio Travel Tips |
If you could live in ANY neighborhood in San Antonio, which would you choose? |
Travel Info Money is no object, by the way. Please select a neighborhood that is located with-in the city of San Antonio. (Not surrounding suberbs or cities). Travel Tips If you want to live with the George Strait/David Robinson crowd, then it is the Dominion which is in far northwest SA (but still inside the City Limits) A gated community that is closer in but probably in the $300,000 range is Elm Creek. Closer to downtown is Terrel Hills or Alamo Heights (where the old money lived before some of it moved to the Dominion.) The newest trend is RiverWalk and downtown condos. I never, ever thought I'd see that here. But alas, condos in the half million dollar range per unit are springing up everywhere. The top six floors of the Hyatt Convention Center hotel will be private residences. There is another new development that has been announced for Houston Street near the AT&T headquarter (and right across the river from the Valencia hotel. There are lots of choices. SA is still an expanding market. We're always slightly behind the timing of the building booms when they hit Houston and Dallas. But this time, it's still going in SA. It helps that the Toyota plant just opened, Microsoft announced a half billion dollar facility and the NSA (yes the spy agency) is taking over a facility for 2,000 workers. Others The neighborhood that has a bus stop on the corner. You know the bus, the bus that leaves town? Turtle Creek, because that's where I live! In good ol' Northside! the Dominion where George Strait and Tim Duncan live along with the rest of the San Antonio Spurs Just to clarify...all the SA Spurs do not live in the Dominion. Actually, most live in the Stone Oak area. It is the newest "hot spot", but really lacks any true class. You can find some homes in the low $200's, but most range $300-$400. Understand, the cost of living in San Antonio is quite cheap. While this does not sound like a lot in some areas, even the most extravagant homes in the Dominion are not what you would expect price wise. Alamo Heights is the place with the oldest money in town. It is refined and actually feels like a small town though it in the heart of the city. The King William district can be found here. This area is full of beautiful architecture, museums and parks. You actually cannot get any better in SA. There is nothing cookie cutter about this area! www.ci.alamo-heights.tx.us/ www.mcnayart.org/--a great local art museum! I've always loved Alamo Heights, and I've lived in S.A. for about 30 years, now. But you have remember, Alamo Heights is its own little city within San Antonio... I don't really like my neighborhood, but, being that there's so many S.A. folks here, I don't want to say what my neighborhood is. If money were no object, I would live in Alamo Heights. |
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