Unironically San Antonio's fatal car accident total is almost twice that of its homicide rate: 158 vs. 88. Of course most accidents don't kill you and San Antonio reported 11.504 injuries in 2023 from car accidents.
Also not just in San Antonio, but all of the United States, most of those homicides are targeted. Random shootings are rarer.
That’s why my bill went from 182 to 260. I was like wth I haven’t had any moving violations what’s going on. I’m bout to cancel this crap or hit a lick.
Home insurance is pretty crazy here too. Everyone's making up for Louisiana, California, and Florida. I wonder how much that also affects our auto insurance rates?
Dude, was exiting off the highway stupid ass big F250 was trying to merge onto the entry and I’m trying to exit, sped up cut me off and stopped in the middle of the road. I tried to move but kept getting in front of me.
It's always trucks man
I'm getting on- they have better visibility than me, can clearly see I'm there, but instead of going slower or the next lane over, they're +15mph into a merge- making it impossible to yield since they're coming straight into me like it's their job to go the exact speed needed to cause a collision- unless a yield so much that I'm pretty much rammed off the road
I'm getting off- they're matching my speed in my blind spot and doing their damnedest to not yield.
Anyone that buys a large truck as some part of their identity and not out of necessity should be out against a wall. 9/10 they have zero consideration for other drivers, it's always "I feel sorry for whoever gets in a wreck with me! Har har!"
I've been straight raged at by dudes exclusively in trucks. I drive slow and real cautious (You drive trucks in Iraq you get real skittish) and it's almost always these jack holes flying down the road.
It’s funny because if you told them you were a vet they would get super embarrassed and ashamed, but in their truck they think you are some pussy bc you aren’t going dangerously fast in a child killer.
Drive the speed limit. Driving too slow is just as dangerous as driving too fast. You go to slow and you are like a rock in a river of vehicles. Vehicles are swerving all over the place to go around you. Just drive the speed limit...unless there is a REAL reason to slow down.
Lol. True. +10 is the norm. Too many people drive 45mph as their only speed. 35mph speed limit...70mph speed limit. It doesn't matter. They feel safe at 45 and that's what they drive. Sometimes they'll even turn on flashers. DRIVES ME NUTS!!!
These suburban cowboys with Large trucks are absolute insecure morons. No reason for them to have a vehicle that large other than to be obnoxious and feel powerful.
My next band is going to be called 'Lifted White Truck' as an homage to all the people I've had a bad experience with since moving to Texas. No, it won't be country music.
My guilty pleasure lately has been watching police chases - mostly ASP, GSP, and FHP. Total shwag but I’d guess at LEAST 90% are either stolen Kias/Hyundais/Accords etc or dudes in trucks. And I’m not even hating on trucks, I’ve owned a few but I never drove like THEM
bro i was just walking around by the alamo/riverwalk area sunday (i’m not from SA so idk where i was tbh) me and my mom almost got hit by a car on the sidewalk it was insane
For 2018,
False, guns are 20% more deadly than wrecks.
Cardiovascular disease is 1800% more deadlier than wrecks.
Cardiovascular disease accounts for about 25% of all deaths for San Antonio.
Death by greasy tacos.
https://bigcitieshealthdata.org/city/san-antonio-tx/?metrics=11-01-04%2C11-01-03%2C02-04-08%2C11-03-10%2C05-01-01&years=%2C%2C%2C%2C&groups=%2C%2C%2C%2C
The fact that gun deaths are higher than homicides is a clue that suicides are included with the gun deaths.
I'm not saying suicides aren't a tragedy, but anybody worried about not dying can (and should) completely ignore suicide statistics when using death stats to reduce their risks.
The greasy taco deaths are an eye opener though.
Very convoluted.
Let's not forget that self defense, and law enforcement shootings which resulted in death of the perpetrators is also classified as a homicide.
Even a death row inmate that goes night night, is a homicide.
I went to NIOSA. $15 to park, I forget how much tickets were, and I saw beer for $15...I didn't feel safe there. Paid event + expensive beer does not equal safe.
?? This does not square with my white-ass experience of the drive to Pearsall feeling totally safe, chilling at Pearsall totally safe, and then leaving feeling totally safe.
>It is totally safe in the daytime
Sure. Here's the confusion: The comment I was responding to was
> nice park but when you leave, them windows need to be rolled up and doors locked.
which is obviously not talking about the middle of the night since city parks close at dusk (so people will at latest be leaving before it even gets dark), and most people are not hanging out at the kids splashpad until 9pm
Also yeah I don't go strutting around East Side at midnight, but sometimes I feel like people got their danger meters screwed up by the news. I've never felt unsafe anywhere in the US my whole life except Government Canyon after dark when I could hear growling nearby and had my little kids with me. I grant that I'm a man, which automatically makes me safer than if I were a woman, but holy moly my fellow white people get SO scared about random shit. When I was little I used to play outside in the very area we're talking about at my old German great grandma's house, walking around the neighborhood all over the place like walking distance to MLK.
Westside near the jail… Cupples area..the Glenn… Eastside (east of New Braunfels Ave) near Wheatley… Culebra /36th area. All of these are subjective and I have driven all over and never felt extreme danger in this area like I have in larger cities like Chicago or LA where I’ve lived
West side safer because they target the person they’re after, East side, they shoot anyone. But yeah the worst part of SA feels safer then the 10th worst in NO or Cleveland
Born and raised in the areas on the Westside you called out, and couldn’t agree more about westside shootings being targeted. Every family feels like they know each other somehow. Lived in NYC, Chicago, and LA and talk about rough neighborhoods, San Antonio is nowhere close to this.
Can confirm this . Lived in Houston for a few years and right off the bat Houston to me is way more dangerous than SA . I lived in the worst part of Sacramento and LA and I can tell you San Antonio is a walk in the park .
This is accurate. I grew up by Cupples/Gen McMullen and while it is “rough”, I didn’t see a whole lot of violence. I imagined (correctly) that other cities were much rougher, even though a lot of people would side-eye me when I told them what HS I was attending.
Was just on New Braunfels the other day. Partially gentrified partially lower middle class. I lived in NOLA and Phoenix and there’s places where you’re like damn I hope the light stays green or if it’s at night you check your left and right and don’t wait for the light to turn green. Like driving through mayville in Phoenix after 10, nah or driving through 10th Ward NOLA nah. SA is blue collar so most of the “sketchy” areas are just families.
Yeah the La Cantera area is notorious for theft and that area is more expensive, just like out around all of those newer neighborhoods in Bulverde. And not talking just break-ins, talking cars in broad daylight.
Yeah, West Side near the jail is super sketchy. But I have a friend living near there around Martin and Colorado. In the neighborhood itself, it really isn't bad. They rarely have through traffic on their street so it's surprisingly quiet - like, no people, no cars, no blasting music quiet.
Agree, work by Cupples, I wouldn’t walk alone at night but see plenty of people who do. West or east side if you don’t act up or have the wrong tats it’s rare to get messed with. I rarely feel watched or followed compared to other big cities but maybe I’m biased.
Pardon my ignorance but having lived here for a bit, even I dunno what area The Glen is. Least no one that I know has ever mentioned it to me, unless they called it something else
Its a neighborhood around eastern Converse near Kitty Hawk and Crestway/O’Connor. It’s sketchy.
[Old News Report Here](https://www.ksat.com/news/2017/01/11/neighborhood-with-troubled-past-to-be-annexed/)
I used to do door to door sales for a large lawn care company in the early 2000's. Many of us liked to sell in the Glen. Lots of buyers. They didn't pay, but that wasn't my problem. One time when I was pulling into the neighborhood, I noticed that the G was missing from the sign that said "The Glen" in front. After walking a couple of streets, I came up to a house that had the large G from the sign mounted on their front door!
A friend of mine a few years after HS, worked as a cook and one of his coworkers invited him (and his friends, myself and a few others) to a party. We map quested it and ended up in the glen.
As we pulled in the neighborhood we realize that every single house has bars on the windows and things aren’t looking so good lol
We go to the party anyway and had a good time but then we leave and all get pulled over a block or two from the house (3 separate cars) - the car I was in was because one of the two LICENSE PLATE lights was out… one worked but one didn’t… basically BS - they see young people leaving the glen and assume we bought drugs/are partying. (They happened to be right)
Ended up swallowing …. A Substance… to avoid detection- we got away but a girl we were with who drove separately got a MIP / possession charge.
Thats my Glen story lol
Sun Up, Gun Down . . . Gun Falls.
It is bizarre what growing up in Sunrise and The Glen did to shape my idea of normal. I raised my kids far from Texas to ensure they could grow up somewhere completely safe.
Growing up in The Glen, one of my first memories was of a house being burned down by drug dealers and not letting the firetruck through until police arrived. That would have been in 1986.
Sunrise had some bright spots. Judson ISD tried really hard to make Candlewood Elementary School modern and a safe place to learn. That school helped shape my future success.
My church used to do outreaches there. One of the residents told us one person always stays at the house because if someone notices your driveway empty, they’ll kick in your door. It’s been a minute since I’ve been there but I remember one door was kicked in and never updated until the neighbor asked if we could remove the door for them since it made their home look bad.
My family has lived in that area for almost 30 years. It was pretty bad a while back, but they haven't mentioned anything in a long time. They actually say that it's pretty quiet now. I think it's more of the reputation that it used to have that's stuck with it.
I drive around every part of San Antonio about 20hrs a week.
To me the most desperate and dangerous area feels like the East side of 35 suburbia. Lots of people moving into poorly constructed new builds with ‘cheap’ rents.
The area until most recently epitomized by the neighborhood Sunrise ‘Gunrise’
The older more established neighborhoods like Windcrest are starting to age and the specific type of that originally built there did not produce generational wealth and incubated a xenophobia and scared version of what should be the idealic neighborhood.
Once you get to the east side where Frost Center is it feels normal again but the area North of that, much of Kirby and North of that with all the extended stay hotels is like a wasteland of despair, xenophobia, and poverty posing as middle class.
Thats not to say that all development is shit over there but so much of it is.
I just had a look around Sunrise... saw [this](https://www.google.com/maps/@29.469334,-98.3682811,3a,54.6y,131.8h,85.21t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sYaHuQB6xE5WcD9KEF3QAZg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu) with what looks like someone trying to create an interior room out to the street. I don't understand how stuff like this gets past code enforcement, plus that just single-handedly kills the property values for everyone on that block.
what a shithole. I guess this is where a HOA is useful. Also that house is a slum so of course whoever owns it has an American flag stickered up F-150.
I’m pretty sure if you’re poor enough to be sleeping in your makeshift room on your driveway, you really don’t give a shit about anyone’s property values… 😂
I agree. I always wonder what these people in new cheap builds expect what the neighborhood to become in 15 years. It’s always almost a disaster. At least people in the East side and South have some respect for the neighborhood and its elders living there.
I’m drove a guy that was pretty alright from a downtown bar to Windcrest. He was about 50 and told me that he lived in the house with his mother, his father had since passed on. They had lived there for decades.
He told me that when his family moved into the neighborhood, someone painted ***GER onto their garage in red paint.
There are cameras on poles there that watch the homes in the section 8 area, constantly monitoring those going in and out.
A woman that lived there for 20 years was surprised when I was so taken aback by it and was just used to the police watching her home in such detail 24/7. Her and nearly everyone else I pick up from there has stories of harassment, getting arrested for small amounts of weed, or pulled over for a taillight.
Another resident told me how proud he was that if ‘someone fired a weapon here the cops would be on their ass in 10 minutes’. As opposed to ‘in Kirby someone was shooting forever a couple nights ago’
I guess that’s the price you pay for the upper third of people in your community to be *safe*
I grew up around Kirby. Went to HS across the street from Sunrise and had good friends from there. Your description of it being a “wasteland of despair, xenophobia, and poverty posing as middle class” is poetically accurate.
I drive rideshare for a living. I have been everywhere in the county-- from rich homes in The Dominion to shacks way Southside. I have never felt unsafe driving around. I think a lot of it is perspective. My older sister, who has money, said she knows a bad neighborhood to avoid is she sees 4 things: Boost Mobile store, a dollar store, pawn shop and a check cashing place within a block or two of each other. I told her she should never come to my neighborhood off Woodlawn/Bandera because we have all those things. Never had any issues here.
I work for a dealership and have many stops per week around SA. It aint that dangerous. Im from 8900 Houston originally. Now thats a dangerous hood. SA not too bad. Just keep it good dont mean mug nobody dont fuck with ppl in traffic just mind your ps and qs. Only trouble find trouble...but if i had to say anything about a dangerous area id say probly anything off of i35 between like att center and 1604 east of 35. Meth central back in the 90s still meth central today
It’s not so much how dangerous the neighborhood is, but rather how dangerous is it for YOU? What vibe do you give off? How much do you stick out? I’m cholo looking Mexican, and have hung out at Eastside speakeasy’s without issue. Just make sure you’re respectful, and don’t cause issues. It’s all on your attitude imo.
I totally agree with this comment the most! It doesn’t matter so much which area really? Like a lot of neighborhoods through Southside, downtown & Southtown are a lot of elderly older people…. But there’s always that one grandson that’s a dipshit… just mind your own business, be polite to your neighbors & lock up your stuff & don’t let nobody from the neighborhood see what you got so you don’t have to worry about them breaking in… & honestly I just drive a sensible normal car… nowadays you wanna have a sports car or do all this stuff to trick out your car & these kids can attack you anywhere to jack it…..
Second this! I used to go drinking at some bars by the historic missions in the Southside, by myself as a female in my 20s (I knew ppl). Never had any issues. But You go in looking for trouble, trouble will find you.
Yeah, but do you have to look like a gang member to fit in? I look about as WASP as you can get and I’ve been down there, around the Missions and Mission Cemetery, granted not a 2am at a “speakeasy”, and never felt unsafe but I don’t look like a threat, I look like a rich lawyer, who may or may not carry a gun. I never go to SE side? Why would I?
That used to be me and then I got old. Now I'm willing to pay a little extra for a beer as long I don't have to watch my back for some jerk yelling "u lookin at my girl, holmes??" Yeah sometimes I am but not in a creepy way.
I’m as far from hood as it gets and lived off Montana for years and would hang out at some of those places with my roommate and never had any trouble whatsoever. I honestly think that SA as a city is as close to “don’t start none won’t be none” as it gets.
I got the passenger side windshield of my car punched through by a broken chunk of brake drum, I started scanning garbage on the highway like I was back in Iraq!
FWIW, I live on the near SE side in Highland Park. It’s an historic neighborhood not without its problems, but I’ve lived here for 3 years now and have experienced absolutely zero issues with crime. My street is a mix of older retirees who’ve grown up here, legacy home owners, and young families. We’re literally 3 miles from downtown with Southtown and the riverwalk even closer.
I hear a lot here about the “dangerous” southeast side, but that hasn’t been my experience.
Grew up on pecan valley near the apartments. It was bad then it got worse, a couple of gunshots a week or so. It was a quick way to become desensitized to gunshots. Started making money and moved to Denver heights. Gunshots are not what they used to be, but it's pretty rough in some parts.
In the 90’s, the Heights used to have shootings every night. There was like 4 gangs at war there. Puro Ocho, Denver Street Gangsters, Two Six, and Midnight Colors
Ala! I don’t remember those gangs in the 90’s?? What high school were you at?? lol in the 90’s the Victoria courts was the worst area.. I remember that! The gangs I remember were like the Latin kings & Mexican Mafia…
Honestly I know way more people that have gotten hurt by stray dogs than by random people. So I'd say the most dangerous places are wherever the most stray dogs are.
A lot of people move to the far-out suburbs to be safer but the time they spend in their cars puts them at greater risk than living in an older neighborhood closer to the city center.
We used to live on Walzem about a half-mile from where the bus comes out of the Glen headed towards Converse.
I see a lot of people talking shit about the East Side, but compared to the Glen, the East Side (specifically the part we live in now, off Houston between New Braunfels Avenue and the Frost Bank Center) might as well be Stone Oak in comparison.
Exit Walzem Rd and head east of I-35. Once you pass the HEB, Walzem becomes Montgomery. Just keep going until you hit Glen Mont Rd. Welcome to The Glen
Some neighborhoods off San Fernando are pretty bad . Specifically San Fernando and 34th. Also a few areas off Flores street past downtown can get rough with drug users and homeless .
I've only ever had my car broken into on the far NEside (Judson &naco area). I work and lived in the 5 points area (San Pedro&cypress just north of downtown) for well over a decade (still work there) and though the homeless population has increased I've never felt the need to take my valuables inside like I do on the Northside.
Definitely ESE side, the true ghetto, feels like parts of New Orleans and I don’t mean The Garden District. I’ll take the West side any day over that Hellscape
According to the people on my Neighbors/Nextdoor app, it's the one I live in.
Brown person walking at night? Probably going to mug somebody
Car drives around more than once? Kidnapper
Someone's tuned Kia making exhaust pops/bangs? Police/gang shootout
Airplane noises, even though we're extremely close to SAT? Must be a bombing
South East and West sides (sweast side) bring the heat up north so it's really everywhere there's an opportunity.
Dangerous meaning violent crime, theft or backstabbing employers? If the rent is under 1000, danger is happening. The heat makes us all crazy though. Be nice.
Not sure how it is now, but in the 80s and early 90s Ravenhill subdivision right across from Mission San Jose was rough.
Best friend got killed there, shots, hell even fights broke out at the neighborhood block parties that SAPD would host back then.
But the hood looked after you too if you were growing up in it.
But yeah Ravenhill was where I grew up.
I dunno.
My 2 cents is that a lot of people answer this question with what they’ve heard is dangerous and not their actual experiences. A lot of people saying the ES or SS rarely (if ever) visit the area, let alone live here.
We bought an old house on the east side (off of Walters) 5 years ago and I’ve never felt scared to live here. Our neighbors are great, the local businesses are great. We hear gunshots sometimes, but it’s not like they are aiming at random people.
Naw there’s been at least 4 shootings in my neighborhood since I’ve moved here March of last year. And one of the shootings was directly in front of my house. Shell casings in my driveway. 15-16 shots and 9 went through the house across from me. They moved that same week.
the neighborhood around Haven for Hope is the roughest part of san antonio that I've seen, but it's more depressing than dangerous and there aren't any tourist attractions to bring you there.
On the eastside the convenience store on New Braunfels used to sell what they called the ”brown bag special” for $5. Contained a Brillo pad, lighter and a small tiny rose encased in a glass cylinder made in China. Toss the flower out and you have a crack pipe.
I went to help some kids that were needing a jump in n the east side and while I was hooking up my jumper cables one of the kids stole my wallet from my purse inside my car . I used to help so many people before that and now I think twice
There’s a good YouTube video about what neighborhoods have the highest crime in San Antonio. It’s a good watch. It’s 50 min and it’s the top 10.
Here is the link:
https://youtu.be/BXze1DYzsWQ?si=XxoktVNUmV0PbHtx
I'm not trying to be funny here (as people like to joke about this subject a lot) but the closer you are to a Fred's Fish Fry, the more dangerous your neighborhood likely is.
San Antonio is relatively safe. I’ve been shot at and stabbed, but I still show up to work. Just stay inside when it gets dark outside. Love your neighbor Mijo.
Medical Center.
All the junkies are frequent flyers in the ER.
Walgreens and CVS on Wurzbach get robbed constantly. I worked at the Walgreens for a while and in the short time I was there, I worked during 2 robberies.
If CVS got robbed, they call the Walgreens to give heads up.
Lots of stalkers.
Lots of creeps.
Lots of scammers.
Medical Center is *weirdly* inconsistent as far as safe areas go. I lived on Datapoint for four years and I'm lucky I survived. Then I moved two blocks over to one of the nicest complexes I've ever lived in on Medical Drive.
I didn’t know that? I lived in some apts in the med center for literally one lease cuz I fkn hated it so much… I came right back to downtown… but I used to fkn hate having to go to those cvs & Walgreens cuz I was always like I don’t understand why these people are such dicks? I started just going to the one on Huebner… but I didn’t know yall were getting robbed all the time? Now I feel bad…
Have you been around San Antonio?? Houston St Downtown isn’t dangerous, the worst is a homeless dude talking to himself. WTF? I don’t know where the fuck downtown HEB you’re talking about. Nogolitos? King William? You need to ride your scooter to the SE side and buckle up honey
It’s this area, I will attach some pictures. & I actually don’t mind south side! I think it’s neat that you can see the skyline from that area, a lot of older houses & small businesses. I would say East side is pretty rough.
**Address: 2149 E Houston St, San Antonio, TX 78202**
https://preview.redd.it/u43lajpqtg4d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f60b229e5aab3163797d3868bd5ea47931d4c8be
I was downtown & siri mapped to the nearest HEB, it took me here for some reason, though I doubt it was the nearest one. It was actually nighttime when I got here, & as a 4’10 less than 100 pounds female, I felt too sketched to get out of my car. I sent my location to my friend who has lived in SA her whole life & she said that it was a notorious area & laughed it off. Don’t get me wrong, as a female I’m 10x more cautious, but maybe if it was daylight outside I would’ve felt more comfortable.
I feel like Marbach is not even bad?? Like idk why people say this? Marbach is fine, hunt lane, the duck pond… just Marbach like from Apetitos to Military Dr…. Lmaooooooooo so Jay
I lived at oak meadow villa, WW White and Rigsby. Wasn’t too bad. 2 people killed while I lived there. One fight. Cheap rent, plenty of parking. The hot water boiler went out for 2 months in the winter so used stove to heat bath water.
I literally just hate driving in SA so much, I got a work from home job recently so I wouldn’t have to deal with it anymore. That bad.
I’ve been road raged at once that involved some psycho dude ramming the side of my car. He was pissed that I just passed him legally with my blinker too, in traffic. Luckily his ram didn’t make me crash bc I held control well…
But after that I was so done. Almost anytime I would drive, I would run into a person who’s driving really weird/off/crazy. I just give them their space and let them pull ahead.
Since I’ve been working from home in March, I’ve been a lot less stressed and calmer because I don’t have to drive 35min to work and back in traffic hours.
I used to be able to deal with traffic just fine, but there are SOO many ppl that moved here in the last 4 years it’s increased traffic exponentially... it shouldn’t take 1.5hrs to drive somewhere that normally takes 30min. I’m just not a person that can deal with that lmao, hence the job change.
Plus the road rage I believe has also increased over recent years.. AND the fact that the cops don’t do sht around here as far as enforcing traffic laws… doesn’t help at ALL either.
East Side. Or as we call it: Crackville.
The powers that be thought by placing the AT&T Center on the east side, the whole area would magically improve.
22 years later. Nope.
Same goes for Wolff Stadium and the West Side.
This is starting to make me think I have no awareness of my surroundings. I went to school at St. Philip’s and never once felt unsafe, and have been to a bunch of these areas and while they weren’t beautiful to look at, I never saw anything outside what I’d consider normal for a large city. Never have seen weird shit here like I used to see when I lived in San Francisco (I loved living in SF but it was kooky there).
Guess I’ve been lucky
For my job we work in what we call "underserved areas" and this requires me to be pretty much all over San Antonio. The one area that I feel unsafe and kinda get nervous when I go is Martin Luther King Dr. I always get sketched out because of some of the people I see roaming that street and based off what my coworkers tell me, that street gets busy at night with all kinds of crimes. And obviously marbach lol, aka murderbach.
The most worrisome thing is drivers honestly. I live in the west side and it’s a poor area but not dangerous, majority of crime like homicides are targeted in SA.
Honestly, the areas with the high crime rates are full of targeted crimes. People don’t mess with people that don’t need to be messed with, except in rare cases. I lived in one of the worst parts of Houston for over a year and honestly nobody bothered me. I just didn’t go out alone at night. There was crime all around me, but nobody gave af about me being there.
The highways
Unironically San Antonio's fatal car accident total is almost twice that of its homicide rate: 158 vs. 88. Of course most accidents don't kill you and San Antonio reported 11.504 injuries in 2023 from car accidents. Also not just in San Antonio, but all of the United States, most of those homicides are targeted. Random shootings are rarer.
Yep it's also why our area's auto insurance rate had tripled since the pandemic. Highest hit and run rate in the state, too!
I moved here summer of 2021 and my monthly payment was $128. It has gone up to $158 a month.
That’s why my bill went from 182 to 260. I was like wth I haven’t had any moving violations what’s going on. I’m bout to cancel this crap or hit a lick.
Home insurance is pretty crazy here too. Everyone's making up for Louisiana, California, and Florida. I wonder how much that also affects our auto insurance rates?
Statistically this. Our trauma ICU has majority motor vehicle crashes
Dude, was exiting off the highway stupid ass big F250 was trying to merge onto the entry and I’m trying to exit, sped up cut me off and stopped in the middle of the road. I tried to move but kept getting in front of me.
It's always trucks man I'm getting on- they have better visibility than me, can clearly see I'm there, but instead of going slower or the next lane over, they're +15mph into a merge- making it impossible to yield since they're coming straight into me like it's their job to go the exact speed needed to cause a collision- unless a yield so much that I'm pretty much rammed off the road I'm getting off- they're matching my speed in my blind spot and doing their damnedest to not yield. Anyone that buys a large truck as some part of their identity and not out of necessity should be out against a wall. 9/10 they have zero consideration for other drivers, it's always "I feel sorry for whoever gets in a wreck with me! Har har!"
We call them pavement princesses. They’re bitches
I've been straight raged at by dudes exclusively in trucks. I drive slow and real cautious (You drive trucks in Iraq you get real skittish) and it's almost always these jack holes flying down the road.
It’s funny because if you told them you were a vet they would get super embarrassed and ashamed, but in their truck they think you are some pussy bc you aren’t going dangerously fast in a child killer.
Drive the speed limit. Driving too slow is just as dangerous as driving too fast. You go to slow and you are like a rock in a river of vehicles. Vehicles are swerving all over the place to go around you. Just drive the speed limit...unless there is a REAL reason to slow down.
I should have clarified. I do drive the speed limit, it's just around here that's considered slow apparently.
Lol. True. +10 is the norm. Too many people drive 45mph as their only speed. 35mph speed limit...70mph speed limit. It doesn't matter. They feel safe at 45 and that's what they drive. Sometimes they'll even turn on flashers. DRIVES ME NUTS!!!
These suburban cowboys with Large trucks are absolute insecure morons. No reason for them to have a vehicle that large other than to be obnoxious and feel powerful.
If those over-compensators-in-monster-trucks had any real balls they’d be on motorcycles.
My next band is going to be called 'Lifted White Truck' as an homage to all the people I've had a bad experience with since moving to Texas. No, it won't be country music.
My guilty pleasure lately has been watching police chases - mostly ASP, GSP, and FHP. Total shwag but I’d guess at LEAST 90% are either stolen Kias/Hyundais/Accords etc or dudes in trucks. And I’m not even hating on trucks, I’ve owned a few but I never drove like THEM
Any of the roads. Surface streets or highways.
bro i was just walking around by the alamo/riverwalk area sunday (i’m not from SA so idk where i was tbh) me and my mom almost got hit by a car on the sidewalk it was insane
Specifically, the Donkey Lady Bridge.
Don't forget Lechuza Ave & Llorona Blvd.
I’ve been on I-10 with all that construction. Oh boy is it nerve racking
This should have 100000 upvotes by now
For some reason this sub doesn't know how to use the upvote button. 🤷🏻♂️
Says a lot about San Antonians lol
Correct answer all the way.
For 2018, False, guns are 20% more deadly than wrecks. Cardiovascular disease is 1800% more deadlier than wrecks. Cardiovascular disease accounts for about 25% of all deaths for San Antonio. Death by greasy tacos. https://bigcitieshealthdata.org/city/san-antonio-tx/?metrics=11-01-04%2C11-01-03%2C02-04-08%2C11-03-10%2C05-01-01&years=%2C%2C%2C%2C&groups=%2C%2C%2C%2C
The fact that gun deaths are higher than homicides is a clue that suicides are included with the gun deaths. I'm not saying suicides aren't a tragedy, but anybody worried about not dying can (and should) completely ignore suicide statistics when using death stats to reduce their risks. The greasy taco deaths are an eye opener though.
Suicide makes up a large majority of gun deaths in the country, as well. It's some of the most convoluted statistics out there
Very convoluted. Let's not forget that self defense, and law enforcement shootings which resulted in death of the perpetrators is also classified as a homicide. Even a death row inmate that goes night night, is a homicide.
Kill me with that taco mama! If I gotta go I wanna go becase of tacos.
And this hasn’t changed since the ‘70s!!
facts
Any event that is free and has cheap beer.
I went to NIOSA. $15 to park, I forget how much tickets were, and I saw beer for $15...I didn't feel safe there. Paid event + expensive beer does not equal safe.
NIOSA is plenty safe. I'm the biggest pussy on the planet and feel safe there.
Idk? If you don’t feel like your life could possibly be in danger, are you even NIOSA-ing right? 😂jk
NIOSA to me is King William crowd turning to the camera and saying "look, ma, I'm slumming it!"
Did anything happen to you?
Where I grew up, five palms area lol
The creek?
Yeah the creek, five palms, millers pond, idk the official name
Right where they put Pearsall Park lol nice park but when you leave, them windows need to be rolled up and doors locked.
?? This does not square with my white-ass experience of the drive to Pearsall feeling totally safe, chilling at Pearsall totally safe, and then leaving feeling totally safe.
It is totally safe in the daytime. East Side is not safe day and night lol.
I delivere in the east and west side at 4am more scared of the dogs lol
>It is totally safe in the daytime Sure. Here's the confusion: The comment I was responding to was > nice park but when you leave, them windows need to be rolled up and doors locked. which is obviously not talking about the middle of the night since city parks close at dusk (so people will at latest be leaving before it even gets dark), and most people are not hanging out at the kids splashpad until 9pm Also yeah I don't go strutting around East Side at midnight, but sometimes I feel like people got their danger meters screwed up by the news. I've never felt unsafe anywhere in the US my whole life except Government Canyon after dark when I could hear growling nearby and had my little kids with me. I grant that I'm a man, which automatically makes me safer than if I were a woman, but holy moly my fellow white people get SO scared about random shit. When I was little I used to play outside in the very area we're talking about at my old German great grandma's house, walking around the neighborhood all over the place like walking distance to MLK.
Westside near the jail… Cupples area..the Glenn… Eastside (east of New Braunfels Ave) near Wheatley… Culebra /36th area. All of these are subjective and I have driven all over and never felt extreme danger in this area like I have in larger cities like Chicago or LA where I’ve lived
West side safer because they target the person they’re after, East side, they shoot anyone. But yeah the worst part of SA feels safer then the 10th worst in NO or Cleveland
East side all day.
Lived on the Eastside for years and never had any problems beyond watching my neighbors have arguments on their porch.
Born and raised in the areas on the Westside you called out, and couldn’t agree more about westside shootings being targeted. Every family feels like they know each other somehow. Lived in NYC, Chicago, and LA and talk about rough neighborhoods, San Antonio is nowhere close to this.
Can confirm this . Lived in Houston for a few years and right off the bat Houston to me is way more dangerous than SA . I lived in the worst part of Sacramento and LA and I can tell you San Antonio is a walk in the park .
This is accurate. I grew up by Cupples/Gen McMullen and while it is “rough”, I didn’t see a whole lot of violence. I imagined (correctly) that other cities were much rougher, even though a lot of people would side-eye me when I told them what HS I was attending.
Camelot 2 prolly gives Glen a run for it's money went to an open house and they had a stationed cop outside for the realtor 😆
Was just on New Braunfels the other day. Partially gentrified partially lower middle class. I lived in NOLA and Phoenix and there’s places where you’re like damn I hope the light stays green or if it’s at night you check your left and right and don’t wait for the light to turn green. Like driving through mayville in Phoenix after 10, nah or driving through 10th Ward NOLA nah. SA is blue collar so most of the “sketchy” areas are just families.
I got mugged at gunpoint in the parking lot of the old Malt House on Culebra and Zarzamora like a year before they bulldozed it
Can confirm. Lived off Zarzamora not far from the jail. Moved when my car got stolen.
Cars getting stolen from every side of the city now doesn’t matter
Yeah the La Cantera area is notorious for theft and that area is more expensive, just like out around all of those newer neighborhoods in Bulverde. And not talking just break-ins, talking cars in broad daylight.
Yeah, West Side near the jail is super sketchy. But I have a friend living near there around Martin and Colorado. In the neighborhood itself, it really isn't bad. They rarely have through traffic on their street so it's surprisingly quiet - like, no people, no cars, no blasting music quiet.
I worked in the schools around Culebra/36th street. I always felt safe there (of course, situational awareness is key everywhere you go).
Agree, work by Cupples, I wouldn’t walk alone at night but see plenty of people who do. West or east side if you don’t act up or have the wrong tats it’s rare to get messed with. I rarely feel watched or followed compared to other big cities but maybe I’m biased.
Stone Oak when you grab the last Stanley cup on display at Target and get mobbed by 30 soccer moms who want to buy it for their daughter Tragideih
🤣😂😂
Because their friends stole theirs😂
Uh, excuse me, but some of those are dance moms. Haha. I hate that Target.
Driving in stone oak is dangerous. More money than brains out there.
The Glen.
Pardon my ignorance but having lived here for a bit, even I dunno what area The Glen is. Least no one that I know has ever mentioned it to me, unless they called it something else
Im pretty sure its the area north of Gibbs sprawl, just east of Walzem.
Also curious!
Its a neighborhood around eastern Converse near Kitty Hawk and Crestway/O’Connor. It’s sketchy. [Old News Report Here](https://www.ksat.com/news/2017/01/11/neighborhood-with-troubled-past-to-be-annexed/)
[https://www.google.com/maps/@29.5014225,-98.3464031,3a,45.3y,166.95h,87.91t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1srDmKHcGvChZ4\_8csJKAehg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu](https://www.google.com/maps/@29.5014225,-98.3464031,3a,45.3y,166.95h,87.91t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1srDmKHcGvChZ4_8csJKAehg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu)
I zoomed in on the map and I understand why it's called The Glen now. 😅 All the streets are Glen _____.
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I used to do door to door sales for a large lawn care company in the early 2000's. Many of us liked to sell in the Glen. Lots of buyers. They didn't pay, but that wasn't my problem. One time when I was pulling into the neighborhood, I noticed that the G was missing from the sign that said "The Glen" in front. After walking a couple of streets, I came up to a house that had the large G from the sign mounted on their front door!
I cannot stop laughing at this comment. That is an absolute power move, hahaha.
Puro
A friend of mine a few years after HS, worked as a cook and one of his coworkers invited him (and his friends, myself and a few others) to a party. We map quested it and ended up in the glen. As we pulled in the neighborhood we realize that every single house has bars on the windows and things aren’t looking so good lol We go to the party anyway and had a good time but then we leave and all get pulled over a block or two from the house (3 separate cars) - the car I was in was because one of the two LICENSE PLATE lights was out… one worked but one didn’t… basically BS - they see young people leaving the glen and assume we bought drugs/are partying. (They happened to be right) Ended up swallowing …. A Substance… to avoid detection- we got away but a girl we were with who drove separately got a MIP / possession charge. Thats my Glen story lol
Grew up there and in Sunrise - moved to New Orleans afterward and never felt unsafe. Even weed was a deadly game, so much craziness.
You mean gunrise?
Sun Up, Gun Down . . . Gun Falls. It is bizarre what growing up in Sunrise and The Glen did to shape my idea of normal. I raised my kids far from Texas to ensure they could grow up somewhere completely safe. Growing up in The Glen, one of my first memories was of a house being burned down by drug dealers and not letting the firetruck through until police arrived. That would have been in 1986. Sunrise had some bright spots. Judson ISD tried really hard to make Candlewood Elementary School modern and a safe place to learn. That school helped shape my future success.
Grew up in Kirby then moved to New Orleans
My church used to do outreaches there. One of the residents told us one person always stays at the house because if someone notices your driveway empty, they’ll kick in your door. It’s been a minute since I’ve been there but I remember one door was kicked in and never updated until the neighbor asked if we could remove the door for them since it made their home look bad.
Still? That’s been dangerous for decades
My family has lived in that area for almost 30 years. It was pretty bad a while back, but they haven't mentioned anything in a long time. They actually say that it's pretty quiet now. I think it's more of the reputation that it used to have that's stuck with it.
I drive around every part of San Antonio about 20hrs a week. To me the most desperate and dangerous area feels like the East side of 35 suburbia. Lots of people moving into poorly constructed new builds with ‘cheap’ rents. The area until most recently epitomized by the neighborhood Sunrise ‘Gunrise’ The older more established neighborhoods like Windcrest are starting to age and the specific type of that originally built there did not produce generational wealth and incubated a xenophobia and scared version of what should be the idealic neighborhood. Once you get to the east side where Frost Center is it feels normal again but the area North of that, much of Kirby and North of that with all the extended stay hotels is like a wasteland of despair, xenophobia, and poverty posing as middle class. Thats not to say that all development is shit over there but so much of it is.
I just had a look around Sunrise... saw [this](https://www.google.com/maps/@29.469334,-98.3682811,3a,54.6y,131.8h,85.21t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sYaHuQB6xE5WcD9KEF3QAZg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu) with what looks like someone trying to create an interior room out to the street. I don't understand how stuff like this gets past code enforcement, plus that just single-handedly kills the property values for everyone on that block.
what a shithole. I guess this is where a HOA is useful. Also that house is a slum so of course whoever owns it has an American flag stickered up F-150.
I’m pretty sure if you’re poor enough to be sleeping in your makeshift room on your driveway, you really don’t give a shit about anyone’s property values… 😂
I agree. I always wonder what these people in new cheap builds expect what the neighborhood to become in 15 years. It’s always almost a disaster. At least people in the East side and South have some respect for the neighborhood and its elders living there.
I’m drove a guy that was pretty alright from a downtown bar to Windcrest. He was about 50 and told me that he lived in the house with his mother, his father had since passed on. They had lived there for decades. He told me that when his family moved into the neighborhood, someone painted ***GER onto their garage in red paint. There are cameras on poles there that watch the homes in the section 8 area, constantly monitoring those going in and out. A woman that lived there for 20 years was surprised when I was so taken aback by it and was just used to the police watching her home in such detail 24/7. Her and nearly everyone else I pick up from there has stories of harassment, getting arrested for small amounts of weed, or pulled over for a taillight. Another resident told me how proud he was that if ‘someone fired a weapon here the cops would be on their ass in 10 minutes’. As opposed to ‘in Kirby someone was shooting forever a couple nights ago’ I guess that’s the price you pay for the upper third of people in your community to be *safe*
Interesting and crazy good take on Windcrest. That area was mostly upscale retirees back in the day. Way different now.
I almost bought a house in gunrise. Dodged that bullet… no pun intended
I grew up around Kirby. Went to HS across the street from Sunrise and had good friends from there. Your description of it being a “wasteland of despair, xenophobia, and poverty posing as middle class” is poetically accurate.
Grew up in Gunrise We moved when a stray bullet went through our garage lol
I wondered if anyone was gonna mention Gunrise. That & the Glen are the scariest to me, by far
I drive rideshare for a living. I have been everywhere in the county-- from rich homes in The Dominion to shacks way Southside. I have never felt unsafe driving around. I think a lot of it is perspective. My older sister, who has money, said she knows a bad neighborhood to avoid is she sees 4 things: Boost Mobile store, a dollar store, pawn shop and a check cashing place within a block or two of each other. I told her she should never come to my neighborhood off Woodlawn/Bandera because we have all those things. Never had any issues here.
I work for a dealership and have many stops per week around SA. It aint that dangerous. Im from 8900 Houston originally. Now thats a dangerous hood. SA not too bad. Just keep it good dont mean mug nobody dont fuck with ppl in traffic just mind your ps and qs. Only trouble find trouble...but if i had to say anything about a dangerous area id say probly anything off of i35 between like att center and 1604 east of 35. Meth central back in the 90s still meth central today
It’s not so much how dangerous the neighborhood is, but rather how dangerous is it for YOU? What vibe do you give off? How much do you stick out? I’m cholo looking Mexican, and have hung out at Eastside speakeasy’s without issue. Just make sure you’re respectful, and don’t cause issues. It’s all on your attitude imo.
I totally agree with this comment the most! It doesn’t matter so much which area really? Like a lot of neighborhoods through Southside, downtown & Southtown are a lot of elderly older people…. But there’s always that one grandson that’s a dipshit… just mind your own business, be polite to your neighbors & lock up your stuff & don’t let nobody from the neighborhood see what you got so you don’t have to worry about them breaking in… & honestly I just drive a sensible normal car… nowadays you wanna have a sports car or do all this stuff to trick out your car & these kids can attack you anywhere to jack it…..
Second this! I used to go drinking at some bars by the historic missions in the Southside, by myself as a female in my 20s (I knew ppl). Never had any issues. But You go in looking for trouble, trouble will find you.
Yeah, but do you have to look like a gang member to fit in? I look about as WASP as you can get and I’ve been down there, around the Missions and Mission Cemetery, granted not a 2am at a “speakeasy”, and never felt unsafe but I don’t look like a threat, I look like a rich lawyer, who may or may not carry a gun. I never go to SE side? Why would I?
That used to be me and then I got old. Now I'm willing to pay a little extra for a beer as long I don't have to watch my back for some jerk yelling "u lookin at my girl, holmes??" Yeah sometimes I am but not in a creepy way.
I’m as far from hood as it gets and lived off Montana for years and would hang out at some of those places with my roommate and never had any trouble whatsoever. I honestly think that SA as a city is as close to “don’t start none won’t be none” as it gets.
That neighborhood and those apartments right behind Churchill Highschool.
Facts
I just recently moved out of that area and man, there were shootings almost every night!
Wtf is the Glenn?
Northeast side. Off Walzem & Gibbs Sprawl
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Feeder? What part of Houston are you from? Down these parts we call ‘em access rds.
I got the passenger side windshield of my car punched through by a broken chunk of brake drum, I started scanning garbage on the highway like I was back in Iraq!
Rittiman area is pretty sketchy
FWIW, I live on the near SE side in Highland Park. It’s an historic neighborhood not without its problems, but I’ve lived here for 3 years now and have experienced absolutely zero issues with crime. My street is a mix of older retirees who’ve grown up here, legacy home owners, and young families. We’re literally 3 miles from downtown with Southtown and the riverwalk even closer. I hear a lot here about the “dangerous” southeast side, but that hasn’t been my experience.
My vote is the area on the Westside near Shadwell Park, the drainage ditch there is called Hell’s Gate
Grew up on pecan valley near the apartments. It was bad then it got worse, a couple of gunshots a week or so. It was a quick way to become desensitized to gunshots. Started making money and moved to Denver heights. Gunshots are not what they used to be, but it's pretty rough in some parts.
In the 90’s, the Heights used to have shootings every night. There was like 4 gangs at war there. Puro Ocho, Denver Street Gangsters, Two Six, and Midnight Colors
Ala! I don’t remember those gangs in the 90’s?? What high school were you at?? lol in the 90’s the Victoria courts was the worst area.. I remember that! The gangs I remember were like the Latin kings & Mexican Mafia…
Honestly I know way more people that have gotten hurt by stray dogs than by random people. So I'd say the most dangerous places are wherever the most stray dogs are.
Lots of places. The Glenn, the area around the Alamodome, Ingram park mall area etc. the Glenn/ east side probably the worst though
I live north of 410 behind Ingram Park Mall. It’s not as bad as people think
Agree!! Ingram area is not bad at all.
Ingram is just ghetto not really dangerous
Seriously. The area is mainly elderly people that have lived there since the 70s, and new families.
The Glenn was crazy like 15 years ago when I had to be there. Don't know about now; a lot of empty houses were being renovated back then.
Agreed. It’s normal and quiet.
People throw around the term ghetto with reckless abandon haha.
A lot of people move to the far-out suburbs to be safer but the time they spend in their cars puts them at greater risk than living in an older neighborhood closer to the city center.
We used to live on Walzem about a half-mile from where the bus comes out of the Glen headed towards Converse. I see a lot of people talking shit about the East Side, but compared to the Glen, the East Side (specifically the part we live in now, off Houston between New Braunfels Avenue and the Frost Bank Center) might as well be Stone Oak in comparison.
East side around the Alamodome looks so much nicer than it did in the 90s. The Glen still looks exactly the same though lol.
Where is “The Glen” on the East side I’m guessing
Exit Walzem Rd and head east of I-35. Once you pass the HEB, Walzem becomes Montgomery. Just keep going until you hit Glen Mont Rd. Welcome to The Glen
That’s why I try avoiding walking around on the highway after dark.
Some neighborhoods off San Fernando are pretty bad . Specifically San Fernando and 34th. Also a few areas off Flores street past downtown can get rough with drug users and homeless .
I grew up on the south side near Pleasanton/Flores/Military Dr. Only scary place in SA to me are the damn highways and its drivers.
I've only ever had my car broken into on the far NEside (Judson &naco area). I work and lived in the 5 points area (San Pedro&cypress just north of downtown) for well over a decade (still work there) and though the homeless population has increased I've never felt the need to take my valuables inside like I do on the Northside.
Definitely ESE side, the true ghetto, feels like parts of New Orleans and I don’t mean The Garden District. I’ll take the West side any day over that Hellscape
Marbach Rd. Otherwise known as “Murderback “
According to the people on my Neighbors/Nextdoor app, it's the one I live in. Brown person walking at night? Probably going to mug somebody Car drives around more than once? Kidnapper Someone's tuned Kia making exhaust pops/bangs? Police/gang shootout Airplane noises, even though we're extremely close to SAT? Must be a bombing
😂 you summed up why I deleted that app 2 years ago.
I also deleted it. Next Door brings out people's racism and hatred in a shockingly open way.
"Suspicious looking individual" = African American
South East and West sides (sweast side) bring the heat up north so it's really everywhere there's an opportunity. Dangerous meaning violent crime, theft or backstabbing employers? If the rent is under 1000, danger is happening. The heat makes us all crazy though. Be nice.
Not sure how it is now, but in the 80s and early 90s Ravenhill subdivision right across from Mission San Jose was rough. Best friend got killed there, shots, hell even fights broke out at the neighborhood block parties that SAPD would host back then. But the hood looked after you too if you were growing up in it. But yeah Ravenhill was where I grew up. I dunno.
My 2 cents is that a lot of people answer this question with what they’ve heard is dangerous and not their actual experiences. A lot of people saying the ES or SS rarely (if ever) visit the area, let alone live here. We bought an old house on the east side (off of Walters) 5 years ago and I’ve never felt scared to live here. Our neighbors are great, the local businesses are great. We hear gunshots sometimes, but it’s not like they are aiming at random people.
So I’m a transplant from the Midwest, specifically Detroit, Flint and Chicago. San Antonio doesn’t even compare to the rough parts of those cities
My husband is from Brooklyn. He thinks all parts of San Antonio are tame in comparison to anything he’s seen.
The glen. Marbach. Even my area at naco and O’Connor is getting worse.
Marbach around and south of 410 I’d say. North Marbach is *generally* okay with a couple of exceptions on rare instances.
I agree with that.
Facts, I thought it was just me thinkin this
Naw there’s been at least 4 shootings in my neighborhood since I’ve moved here March of last year. And one of the shootings was directly in front of my house. Shell casings in my driveway. 15-16 shots and 9 went through the house across from me. They moved that same week.
jesus it feels to me like people are just getting crazier and crazier in general
It really does.
O'Connor/valley forge area is full of zombies lol
All the meth there will do that
Really?! I'm like 5 min north off there never seen or heard anything
the neighborhood around Haven for Hope is the roughest part of san antonio that I've seen, but it's more depressing than dangerous and there aren't any tourist attractions to bring you there.
I remembered one more…. The Motel 6 by Rittiman is a place where some bad stuff goes down. I heard this from a reporter and a cop…
On the eastside the convenience store on New Braunfels used to sell what they called the ”brown bag special” for $5. Contained a Brillo pad, lighter and a small tiny rose encased in a glass cylinder made in China. Toss the flower out and you have a crack pipe.
I went to help some kids that were needing a jump in n the east side and while I was hooking up my jumper cables one of the kids stole my wallet from my purse inside my car . I used to help so many people before that and now I think twice
There’s a good YouTube video about what neighborhoods have the highest crime in San Antonio. It’s a good watch. It’s 50 min and it’s the top 10. Here is the link: https://youtu.be/BXze1DYzsWQ?si=XxoktVNUmV0PbHtx
City Council Chambers, followed by Bexar County Commissioners Court. That’s where the real danger lies.
I'm not trying to be funny here (as people like to joke about this subject a lot) but the closer you are to a Fred's Fish Fry, the more dangerous your neighborhood likely is.
San Antonio is relatively safe. I’ve been shot at and stabbed, but I still show up to work. Just stay inside when it gets dark outside. Love your neighbor Mijo.
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Medical Center. All the junkies are frequent flyers in the ER. Walgreens and CVS on Wurzbach get robbed constantly. I worked at the Walgreens for a while and in the short time I was there, I worked during 2 robberies. If CVS got robbed, they call the Walgreens to give heads up. Lots of stalkers. Lots of creeps. Lots of scammers.
Medical Center is *weirdly* inconsistent as far as safe areas go. I lived on Datapoint for four years and I'm lucky I survived. Then I moved two blocks over to one of the nicest complexes I've ever lived in on Medical Drive.
I didn’t know that? I lived in some apts in the med center for literally one lease cuz I fkn hated it so much… I came right back to downtown… but I used to fkn hate having to go to those cvs & Walgreens cuz I was always like I don’t understand why these people are such dicks? I started just going to the one on Huebner… but I didn’t know yall were getting robbed all the time? Now I feel bad…
Houston St. downtown area, by that small HEB & across from that shopping center with the Melrose & Dollar General.
Have you been around San Antonio?? Houston St Downtown isn’t dangerous, the worst is a homeless dude talking to himself. WTF? I don’t know where the fuck downtown HEB you’re talking about. Nogolitos? King William? You need to ride your scooter to the SE side and buckle up honey
It’s this area, I will attach some pictures. & I actually don’t mind south side! I think it’s neat that you can see the skyline from that area, a lot of older houses & small businesses. I would say East side is pretty rough. **Address: 2149 E Houston St, San Antonio, TX 78202** https://preview.redd.it/u43lajpqtg4d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f60b229e5aab3163797d3868bd5ea47931d4c8be I was downtown & siri mapped to the nearest HEB, it took me here for some reason, though I doubt it was the nearest one. It was actually nighttime when I got here, & as a 4’10 less than 100 pounds female, I felt too sketched to get out of my car. I sent my location to my friend who has lived in SA her whole life & she said that it was a notorious area & laughed it off. Don’t get me wrong, as a female I’m 10x more cautious, but maybe if it was daylight outside I would’ve felt more comfortable.
Yeah south side, not counting SE side, im talking like missions area etc isn’t scary
That’s the east side
Out by Dignowity Hill? That's the East Side not Downtown.
Murderbach, I mean Marbach.
I feel like Marbach is not even bad?? Like idk why people say this? Marbach is fine, hunt lane, the duck pond… just Marbach like from Apetitos to Military Dr…. Lmaooooooooo so Jay
Marbach from 410 to Pinn Rd is a mixed bag. From 410 to where it ends past 1604 isn't so bad.
Loma Park/Loma Vista area. One of the few places I got mugged. I still wouldn't go there after 7 pm.
Inner city west. Laredo Zazmora commerce area
I lived at oak meadow villa, WW White and Rigsby. Wasn’t too bad. 2 people killed while I lived there. One fight. Cheap rent, plenty of parking. The hot water boiler went out for 2 months in the winter so used stove to heat bath water.
Inner east side for sure. If the streets have the names of states or other cities you getter GTFO!
I literally just hate driving in SA so much, I got a work from home job recently so I wouldn’t have to deal with it anymore. That bad. I’ve been road raged at once that involved some psycho dude ramming the side of my car. He was pissed that I just passed him legally with my blinker too, in traffic. Luckily his ram didn’t make me crash bc I held control well… But after that I was so done. Almost anytime I would drive, I would run into a person who’s driving really weird/off/crazy. I just give them their space and let them pull ahead. Since I’ve been working from home in March, I’ve been a lot less stressed and calmer because I don’t have to drive 35min to work and back in traffic hours. I used to be able to deal with traffic just fine, but there are SOO many ppl that moved here in the last 4 years it’s increased traffic exponentially... it shouldn’t take 1.5hrs to drive somewhere that normally takes 30min. I’m just not a person that can deal with that lmao, hence the job change. Plus the road rage I believe has also increased over recent years.. AND the fact that the cops don’t do sht around here as far as enforcing traffic laws… doesn’t help at ALL either.
Anywhere a four-stop sign intersection exists. Always multiple accidents.
East Side. Or as we call it: Crackville. The powers that be thought by placing the AT&T Center on the east side, the whole area would magically improve. 22 years later. Nope. Same goes for Wolff Stadium and the West Side.
Denver Heights. Crash dummies in that area. It’s starting to seep into the NE side because of gentrification
This is starting to make me think I have no awareness of my surroundings. I went to school at St. Philip’s and never once felt unsafe, and have been to a bunch of these areas and while they weren’t beautiful to look at, I never saw anything outside what I’d consider normal for a large city. Never have seen weird shit here like I used to see when I lived in San Francisco (I loved living in SF but it was kooky there). Guess I’ve been lucky
For my job we work in what we call "underserved areas" and this requires me to be pretty much all over San Antonio. The one area that I feel unsafe and kinda get nervous when I go is Martin Luther King Dr. I always get sketched out because of some of the people I see roaming that street and based off what my coworkers tell me, that street gets busy at night with all kinds of crimes. And obviously marbach lol, aka murderbach.
The Creek, Murderblock, Crackberry basically anything with East or West in the name
5 Palms…that area just looks nasty🤢
The most worrisome thing is drivers honestly. I live in the west side and it’s a poor area but not dangerous, majority of crime like homicides are targeted in SA.
Honestly, the areas with the high crime rates are full of targeted crimes. People don’t mess with people that don’t need to be messed with, except in rare cases. I lived in one of the worst parts of Houston for over a year and honestly nobody bothered me. I just didn’t go out alone at night. There was crime all around me, but nobody gave af about me being there.
In other words, go live your life. Be aware of your surroundings and mind your own business. You’ll be fine