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Huffington Post Deems San Antonio the ‘New Austin’, Misses Meaning of Texas
Honestly, Texans, we shouldn’t take it personally. The Lone Star State is so great that outsiders can’t help but compare our own major cities the way some people would compare New York to Los Angeles.
On April 10, Sidonie Sawyer published a piece on the HuffPost Travel Blog called “24 Hours in San Antonio (the New Austin), Texas”, detailing her experience in our incredible San Antonio. The problem? Well, she pits it against Austin, which is a tired metaphor at this point, right?
First we had the breakfast taco war and now we have this. Can’t anyone just leave well enough alone? The problem with Sawyer’s article, and especially its title, is the claim that San Antonio is “now baptized as the new Austin, as many large IT companies have chosen San Antonio over Austin, for less traffic, more space, less high prices, and more working force.”
Why can’t San Antonio just be San Antonio, a wonderful city that is truly deep in the heart of Texas and still maintains the authenticity that makes all Texan cities truly Texas! Sawyer makes this claim, and gives one frightening admission: “We never even ate Mexican food!”
This is perhaps the most unsettling sentence of all in the article that seems to lose sight of what makes Texas, Texas. From her chic, quaint experiences with organic farms and Whole Foods (which don’t get us wrong are all great!), she seems to miss entirely what Texas is all about, because it’s a far cry from the local Trader Joe’s.
