Forbes: San Antonio is the 'best city in Texas'

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San Antonio has been dubbed the best city in Texas by a Forbes writer because “everyone seems to like San Antonio.”

Scott Beyer, a contributor to Forbes, lived in four Texas’ major cities for a month each and gave his analysis in a recent article. He said residents of Austin, Dallas and Houston often called each other "pretentious, vapid, over-consumptive or some combo of the three." But not San Antonio, "everyone seems to like" it, he said.

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Beyer spoke to billionaire Red McCombs who told him, “many Texans view San Antonio as their second home" for historical reasons. Beyer said the Alamo City has a “slower pace of economic development” that has “helped it maintain” an “old-world charm.”

He mentions San Antonio has less traffic and skyscrapers compared to Dallas, Houston and Austin.

He also called the River Walk a “charming public space.”

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“San Antonio could thus be described as a city that successfully combines two worlds,” Beyer wrote. “It maintains a small-town feel, as evident when Travel + Leisure readers named it ‘America’s Friendliest City’; yet offers big city prospects.”

Second on list was Austin, followed by Dallas and Houston.

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