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I grew up in San Antonio and as a latchkey kid in high school, I spent hundreds of hours walking through neighborhoods like these. Went off to college and I'm really missing that time, especially because I couldn't afford to come back over the break. So thank you, this was comforting.
I left for a few years and when I moved back I was shocked by how much had changed in areas of town that hadn't really changed my entire life. It's funny and I know it's not true, but it seemed like gentrification had taken a personal vendetta out to erase my history here! It's real culture shock to return to your sleepy neighborhood after just a couple years away to find it completely gone, replaced by busy pod people living in busy pod buildings.
Having lived nearly all my 58-years of life in San Antone and living presently in the dodgy part of the Pecan Valley neighborhood, everything in this video just looks like home. Be it a castle on a hill or shotgun shack on the tracks, behind most of San Antonio's doors you'll find good natured, big hearted folk looking out for their families, friends, and neighbors. There are places where I don't feel comfortable going anymore, where the people are less likely to be friendly and look at you with suspicion; They're the neighborhoods that are heavily gentrified, where plastic people moved into the neighborhood because of it's personality then wiped it away in favor of ticky-tacky hipster fad. I'll choose a block of slightly run down, affordable, single family homes on overgrown lots over the five-over-one no-personality plastic sardine apartments any day.
I've lived here since 1984. I love the older homes. We raised our children in a home in Alamo Heights. Many are remodeling and updating, but some are moving in and tearing down the fantastic little cottages and building huge homes that don't match the rest. We sold our home in 2015 as it needed a lot of work and we were paying for college. We love apartment living (no maintenance) but if we were to buy again, we would likely look at the Jefferson area. Great homes that just need some TLC.
Not everyone can live in Alamo Heights or Terrell Hills. This is still somebody’s home. What a load of sneaky shit presenting this as a “hood”. Gentrification has made most cities an “us” and “them” but we are all still human.
It all depends on what people consider bad!! Maybe they came from worse and to them it’s nice?? Or maybe it’s all they know? These neighborhoods are quiet my in laws live in valley hi on Springvale for over 30yrs and before that they live in the mobile home park right before the neighborhood… it’s rough but not awful JMO.. depends on how you look at it! We used to live in valley hi off baywell and it wasn’t bad since we had family in the neighborhood people knew us and we all watched out for each other..
I lived off of Crestway near Walzem after retiring from the Army and in 2017/18 we had more homicides than any other year. Now I live in New Braunfels. F the Alamo City. Too many people that simply don’t care. My commute on 35 is far more peaceful than the one on 410. Stay strapped or get clapped folks.
@@georgefloydsinhellwbreonna5330 yes I agree… we moved from San Antonio to just outside San Antonio and now we take hwy 16(Bandera road) to cut through all the bs.. but we actually just wanted to get away from people and turns out people are coming our way to get away from it also.. lol time to move further out!! Lol
I grew up there on Las Palmas and Wallace Street. It was rough but now and days there is alot of legacy residents who are all older so it's not as bad these days but there is unfortunately alot of mentally ill folks walking around at night.
Go cruise the neighborhood next to Nelson Wolff Stadium off south Calaghan. I've seen donkeys and goats roaming the street. There used to be a sheriffs office in the neighborhood and for some reason it got closed down.
SA City Ordinance Dept. are jackasses! Always ready to stop and give you a ticket! Regardless if it's a cat, dog, rooster 🐓🤣 loose walking around being free as animals should instead of being tied up. We have beautiful animals in my hood. Not too far from Larry St. More like Grimes area, used to be called Rio Grande st but now it's called Mel Waiters. Not even 1/4 mile from around the corner....stay safe. Merry Christmas 🎅🎄 God bless each and everyone of you all.
That’s cuz this is a suburb of San Antonio. The real hood is the west side look up that video. matter fact, just RU-vid Westsideside, San Antonio, and watch what pops up😂😂😂
Yeah man....South San, East off New Braunfels Ave and Gevers, and the West Side, and downtown are literally falling apart at the seams. It's demoralizing. Only North and farWest side are modernized concrete and high end. The soul of San Antonio is downtrodden parts....they need urban revitalization without gentrification. It NEEDS to happen.
The problem is that theft is too high to get insurance to cover any projects. I do commercial landscaping amongst other agricultural things and my insurance company won’t cover loss anywhere near the AT&T center. You’re guaranteed to have stuff stolen or have someone try to rob you. Even big companies won’t touch it.
Aye this is rly close to where I live. The house at 6:11 is not too far from my old place. I know bc I used to drive past that tall spooky rusty fence all the time
Not being rude, but what exactly is the reason for this video? Do people in this neighborhood approve of you taping their neighborhood, vehicles, and license plates? I am just curious.
MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎄 TO MY BEAUTIFUL CITY 210 IT'S NOT WHAT KINDA HOUSE 🏡 YOU GREW UP IN 🏡 IT'S WHAT KINDA LOVE YOUR FAMILIA'SHOWED YOU AS YOU GREW UP 💝✨🙏 GOOD FOOD 🍲🥣🫔🫔🌮🌮🥩🍳🥑🌶️🍅🫑🧅🍉🍌🍎🍩🍮🥧I GREW UP POOR 😬 BUT I WOULDN'T OF NEVER KNOWN THAT 😬 UNTIL PEOPLE STARTED SEPARATING FAMILIES 💔 😢 BUT I LOVE MY BEST SIDE HOOD 💝🏡
That’s a wooden privacy fence. It’s so you can have privacy from people while you’re doing whatever in your backyard. This isn’t Latin America where you need walls around your property to be safe.
This looks like the neighborhood bordered by Pecan Valley and MLK near Gates Elementary. The subdivision is Wheatley Heights, I have an aunt that has lived in that area for more than 50yrs, its wasn't so bad in the 70s. As one comment noted there are a lot of good people living in that area but there is also a lot of illegal activity.
You just moved here?? lol I moved to Alamo Heights in June and absolutely hate it. The weather sucks, it’s run down, and the people are mostly lower income/low class.
@@SmokeyJohnson1234 There’s a lot of low class people on the West side. My neighbors here in Alamo Heights are professionals like doctors and lawyers but all of us agree that we stay in the bubble and avoid venturing out. SA is a temporary stop for me… I plan on moving back to SoCal/Orange County soon.
I know exactly where you are in town. They didn't call me the human GPS for grins. I drove 100 to 300 miles a day criss crossing San Antonio for 30+ years. Now I'm 40 miles south of town on the family ranch. Where I see no one unless I want to!
The chain link fences keep the stray dogs out of the yard and alert the owners of the house if a crack/meth head tries to break into that car. Ever tried climbing a chain link fence? They're not quiet
Definitely can be sometimes. Other times like last week and 2 years ago, we had temps around 10°F with wind chill 0°F +/- a few. Definitely a land of extremes. Hard to tell what you’re gonna get.
Hey, that’s my city!! My church of worship is in the shadows of the Alamo Dome; Mt. Zion First Baptist Church (333 Martin Luther King Dr.). You should visit sometime; very friendly people there. 🥰 🙏🏾 ⛪️ San Antonio is a great place to live; lots of friendly people….😊
Hey I’m in San Antonio… drive down commercial maybe I’ll see my grandma house where I grew up!! It’s not that bad really just keep to yourself and have respect for others.. I couldn’t see street names but I think you were in my in laws neighborhood if you were in valley hi? Very nice people in that neighborhood..
