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A former San Antonio resident claims they survived four months in Texas in a viral Reddit post targeting H-E-B, the weather bad roads and even scorpions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Move over, “boring” San Antonio claims<\/a>. A former Alamo City transplant laid into Texas online this month, taking aim at everything from H-E-B to the weather, the job market, infrastructure and even scorpions in a spicy Reddit post<\/a>.<\/p>\n The poster’s assertions go well beyond the average “San Antonio is\u00a0sooooo borrrring”\u00a0allegations, <\/a>claiming that their move to S.A., specifically, was… well, not the move.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n “I survived 4 mos. in Texas,” the post begins.<\/p>\n Tired of living in Atlanta \u2013\u2013 where this former transplant describes dealing with constant traffic, long commutes, and a high cost of living \u2013\u2013 they began researching the Lone Star State and came across an article naming San Antonio among the top cities in Texas for Black professionals.<\/p>\n “I had this notion that I could move there, find a job, and pay far less for housing,” they said. “I was overconfident and thought I wouldn\u2019t have any issues finding a government job based on my background, but I was dead wrong,” the post continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n The positives<\/p>\n The Reddit user said there are many positives to living in San Antonio, showing love for the city’s food, friendly restaurant staff and plentiful shopping attractions.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n “San Antonio has the best customer service I\u2019ve ever experienced. No matter where I went, I was treated right…” they said. But when weighed against the challenges of finding even basic opportunities, they said it was an uphill battle from the very beginning.<\/p>\n Does San Antonio have a bad job market?<\/p>\n In the post, which has garnered more than 1,500 comments and nearly 1,000 upvotes, the Reddit user shared that they had trouble lining up a job or even getting callbacks on their resume, despite having several out-of-state certifications and other qualifications. Even their spouse had issues finding work that would have paid a suitable income.\u00a0<\/p>\n “[M]y spouse was offered a position that required a bachelor’s degree, and they only offered her $15 an hour. San Antonio has poverty wages that you simply cannot survive on,” the post reads.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n No love for H-E-B<\/p>\n The Redditor slammed H-E-B, saying the hype around their first introduction to the brand didn’t match\u00a0what they expected.\u00a0<\/p>\n “With the way this grocery chain was hyped online, I thought H-E-B was going to be this grand, magical grocery store and it\u2019s not,” they wrote. “It offers average food at high prices; Kroger is way better.”<\/p>\n Bad roads, weather\u00a0<\/p>\n Some people can’t handle the “hellfire” of Texas heat, but what really seemed to get under this Redditor’s skin was that the weather made it less appealing to go out during most of the day. Then, when they did venture out, they faced “endless” potholes and construction projects on the roads.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n “Texas has some of the worst roads I\u2019ve ever driven on,” the poster said flatly.\u00a0<\/p>\n Scorpions<\/p>\n It’s no secret that scorpions head in<\/a>doors to avoid the heat<\/a> of Texas summers, but for this former transplant, the insects made two especially unwelcome visits to their home.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n “I\u2019m used to bugs, but scorpions are a different beast entirely. We found and killed two scorpions in my child\u2019s room on separate occasions,” they said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former San Antonio resident claims they survived four months in Texas in a viral Reddit post targeting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2527,820,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-474094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-mysalifestyle","tag-mysastaff","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n