Considering moving to Houston...

[xmas1997]

Interesting you say rude people for the most part. My wife and daughter are back in Houston/SA right now because it is Spring Break in England. She said she was so happy to be back in Houston and have people smile at her as she walked by, have cashiers make conversation, drivers wave, etc. I guess it is all a matter of perspective. They got to SA yesterday so I'll ask her about it there as well.

One does not have to show one town as the cancer of our country in order to love the other. I think some people here are letting their sports loyalties play a bias on the real world.

From the outside, other people see both SA and Houston as hot/humid with lots of fat Mexicans. SA has the military. Houston has the oil. That's the reality.

Well actually an argument could be made that San Antonio has the oil now.
But the truth is that there is good and bad practically everywhere and no one place has a monopoly on that.
However, with that being said, Houston, being the 3rd largest city in the US, it has more of the bad percentage wise. More of the good too? Maybe, maybe not.
I don't know if it is because of all of the negative factors mentioned already, but Houston seems to have way more than it's share of rude, foul mouthed, and antagonistic people than most any other US city I have ever been too, and I've been to most. They are a product of their environment.
We often speak about "southern hospitality" when speaking of most cities in the southern USA, but Houston ever rarely personifies this sentiment, rather it more closely identifies with eastern rudeness.
Yet again, there are good and bad elements everywhere.

[sandman]

Well actually an argument could be made that San Antonio has the oil now.
But the truth is that there is good and bad practically everywhere and no one place has a monopoly on that.
However, with that being said, Houston, being the 3rd largest city in the US, it has more of the bad percentage wise. More of the good too? Maybe, maybe not.
I don't know if it is because of all of the negative factors mentioned already, but Houston seems to have way more than it's share of rude, foul mouthed, and antagonistic people than most any other US city I have ever been too, and I've been to most. They are a product of their environment.
We often speak about "southern hospitality" when speaking of most cities in the southern USA, but Houston ever rarely personifies this sentiment, rather it more closely identifies with eastern rudeness.
Yet again, there are good and bad elements everywhere.

To each their opinion regarding rudeness. There is nothing statistical and purely anecdotal. Again, I grew up in SA and lived in Houston for a decade. I didn't just drive through or come in on business or to catch a ball game. I lived through 10 years of the good and bad of that town. A vast majority of overly rude people was not one of them. But we see what we want to see. Your making it sound like every Mexican in SA gets a paycheck from the Board of Tourism and speaks with a welcoming and melodious lilt to their English that envisions drinking Coronas on a beach down in Cozumel.

[xmas1997]

Didn't mean to sound so demeaning.
But having worked in Houston for the past 20 or so years, as well as most of the rest of Texas off and on in my travels working, the proportions are skewed to the negative IMHO.
We used to say that the contractors there were a "different" breed of people, as compared to the rest of Texas, and that was not a complement by any stretch of the imagination.
As for the Mexican American population, by and large they were decent and friendly regardless of where they lived, so maybe that is a bit of type casting in their regard.
Certainly there are many good and great people of all nationalities living there, but I've never been to a place where there were more jerks and jack offs as well.