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  1. 23 minutes ago, horn4life said:

    Lots of moving parts to consider. My first questions might be how good are the kids grades?  Where might they want to go.  Top 10% and UT might be something I would personally consider in maybe looking more towards trying to find an Alamo Heights fixer upper. But the Johnson high school area is where most folks I know that move to SA end up.  

    I guess my first really important question would be where are their job(s).  My Brother-in-law lives in that Stone Oak area and he is thinking of jumping to New Braunfels.  Just getting tired of traffic and construction off 281.  That part of San Antonio so much reminds me of Houston's growing pains when I was growing up.

    It’s more like top 6% now. No easy task at a good high school. And I’m not all that sure “Alamo Heights fixer uppers” really exist all that much anymore. Any house in there is going to be pretty expensive. If top whatever% is truly that important, your odds are better at the kind of bad but not Stand and Deliver bad schools: Warren, Marshall, Taft, MacArthur, East Central. Not sure about Lee, might be pretty hard if they count their magnet school kids. All those schools have some good neighborhoods in them. 

    16 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

    Fox Tech !!!!!!

    Ha. That school’s gone full magnet campus now. From what I understand it’s gotten decently competitive, especially that CAST program. They used to have the coolest little baseball field, basically hidden away in a downtown sandlot. Part of the outfield wall was the back of an auto parts store. It all got torn down along with the football field. Not sure if they’re expanding the campus or they sold the land.

  2. 11 minutes ago, ShaggyBevo RIP said:

    When you do look at dead versus recovered-  6.6% are dead.  Why does everyone look at infected versus dead and not dead versus recovered?

     “Recovered” has a loose definition. Hard to really tell. There’s been reports of people recovering from all their symptoms but still testing positive for the virus. Those people can’t be classified as “recovered” even though they’re no longer sick. No one knows yet how long it actually takes the virus to clear out. 
     

    Also I’d imagine most mild cases are sent home to recover until they get better. It’s not like they ever come back to the hospital to get retested and officially be classified as “recovered”. They do get classified as “infected” though.

  3. IMO private schools in SA really aren’t worth the cost, especially if you’re living in stone oak, encino Park, or alamo heights. There’s 3 great ones - Antonian, Central Catholic (all boys), St Mary’s Hall. The rest are just good. Outside of the inner city ISDs & Judson ISD, most of the public schools are ok enough to warrant not shelling out for private school. 
     

    Johnson & Reagan skullfuck all other public schools & most private schools in the city, even alamo heights. I always like pointing out those schools as case studies. They’ve both seen dramatic drops in white student population (Reagan especially) but have seen no corresponding drop in school performance or neighborhood decay. Precisely because of the kinds of families that area attracts. Other decent public high schools would be O’Connor, Churchill, Clark. All are steps below Johnson/Reagan and all draw from a much wider range of economic backgrounds.

    Johnson is a more affordable version of Reagan overall. Reagan gets most of Stone Oak, Johnson gets all of East of 281 and some of Stone oak. Encino Park is an older neighborhood that is still very nice, there’s also some not too expensive neighborhoods off Caliza Dr worth looking into. 1990s era homes. Only neighborhoods I would avoid in that whole area are Bulverde Village & Bulverde Creek. Both are in the Johnson attendance zone, both have high renter % and hood elements to them. 
     

    Alamo Ranch is probably the area of town exploding the most currently. Far west side. But to me it’s more of an area for people that haven’t had money before and just came into some. I-10 north of 1604 is blowing up a lot too. Nicer area overall than Alamo Ranch, and a better location. Clark/Brandeis attendance area. Neither HS is a terrible option.

  4. 6 minutes ago, F250 said:

    My teenager just walked by and casually mentioned his girlfriend was at North Star mall this weekend.

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    Interesting to see the comeback that mall, Ingram, and South Park have made. All were magnets for gangs and mischief for a while but have gotten better in recent years. Now they only rarely see a shooting or stabbing.  La Cantera definitely raised the standard. 
     

    Sorry about your family. Always enjoyed your posts on the baseball & high school football board. Vaya con dios.

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  5. On 2/28/2020 at 7:13 AM, youdunnf'dup said:

    Let’s fucking go. I don’t know why I didn’t think he would be that fast, but when I think about some of his catch and runs, it makes sense. Please get to a landing spot that doesn’t swallow your career whole. Please.

    Shocking that a former 100m Texas state champion ran a fast 40 yd dash.

  6. 3 minutes ago, Enchubben said:

    Hopefully aggy will wash their hands and face after.

    Any chance the progression of this can slow it's roll til after March Madness?  Wife hasn't questioned the trip to Las Vegas yet, but she is going to start asking questions if this keeps up.

    I’m gonna guess it’ll grow exponentially through the end of March as testing is expanded. Scores of deaths will sufficiently freak out everyone. Should plateau in April, will start to die down a bit towards the end of April. That’s how it’s behaved in every other country so far, don’t see why the US will be different.

  7. 5 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    Ok, even going with the low number from Korea, it is still almost twice the mortality rate of one of the roughest recent flu seasons, and that is supposed to be good? I feel like, even if this is the exact same as the flu, it would be a big deal to have 2 flu-scale illnesses spreading across the country at the same time. Only, with that other illness we don't have any of the treatments or vaccines or we use to reduce the severity of the flu. I'm not saying this is world ending by any means, but that sort of illness will have a huge impact on our health system. 

    Worth noting that peak flu season has just passed. So they’ll be fewer “regular” flu patients to add in with the new Coronavirus patients. 

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  8. 19 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    2nd death in the Seattle area. Has anyone in the US recovered yet?

    Most of those original 12 patients recovered and were released a long time ago. But given how new the tests are there’s been a lot of problems. Some people have had their symptoms clear up but they’re still testing positive, there’s been false-positive or false-negative tests, there’s a lot going wrong with the testing. Hard to tell/know what “recovered” really looks like.

  9. 19 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

    That WHO report is fucking terrifying.  It implies that China threw everything it had, in terms of health care resources, at Wuhan and thus kept the death rate artificially low.  

    If this thing goes broader, that rate will skyrocket.  Almost everyone who gets the virus shows symptoms eventually.  And 20% of those need intensive hospital care.  We have ICU capacity for something like only 1% of the population.     

    Might be a little more relevant to see what it does to a population with an average air quality and % of smokers similar to ours, given that this virus attacks the lungs. South Korea is similar to China in both those aspects. 
     

    And that same WHO report is saying that the virus is already on a steady decline in China. “Fucking terrifying” didn’t really come to mind when I read that. 

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  10. 4 hours ago, Hate said:

    It's the same guy. I have no idea how y'all are seeing some second person in that video.

    It is the same guy. If you look closely you see that the camera significantly changes angles upon impact, making it look like a different guy flew in. 

  11. 43 minutes ago, Loco said:

    If you think this has been widely circulating in the US and we just didn't pay attention...  you get the point

    I don’t see how that’s even up for debate. WA physicians estimate this has been going around up there for 6 weeks or longer. And given the lackadaisical international travel restrictions, I don’t see a way this isn’t in all 50 states already. 

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  12. 13 minutes ago, ShaggyBevo RIP said:

    That is .0002% fatality rate and COVID-19 is likely 2% or higher.  Which would be about 10,000 time higher fatality rate. I believe the last epidemic with a 2% death rate was the Spanish flu.

    What you and Somnio fail to understand is that not everyone that gets infected with this gets tested for it. So some people get infected and hardly get sick, never see a doctor, never get tested, etc. That would lower the actual mortality/hospitalization rate. I know it’s less fun to think that way, because doomsday is more exciting, but it helps to look at things with a grain of salt. I’d be shocked if this wasn’t being openly transmitted across the US for a month or longer at this point. Incubation of 2 weeks or shorter means we should already be seeing overwhelmed hospitals and people dead in the street according to you guys. The true hospitalization/mortality rate of this will likely never be known, same is true for Spanish flu. That could’ve been higher or lower than 2%.

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  13. 2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    Boy had a baseball game in SA today. Grabbed lunch after at Taquitos West Avenue.

    Tripas, barbacoa, lengua, and because it’s the weekend, al pastor. Two of each. Glorious. Sorry, Austin. You’ve got some decent tacos, but come on. This is where it’s at.

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    I’m always disappointed in how poorly SA tacos stack up with the RGV ones. I can say that place gives the top RGV places a run for their money. 

  14. 13 hours ago, C-Man said:

    I might've mentioned it further up this very thread but my dad and I picked up breakfast tacos from Tacos n' Salsa on 1604 (just east of I-10) up the way from their house while we were there over Xmas and they were pretty goddamn good. Anybody else been there?

     

    4 hours ago, F250 said:

    Several people have mentioned the place and I hear it is supposed to be good. I don't make it out to that area very often but will give it a try next time.

    It’s very good. I know the owner’s son. The owner is a cool guy too, he works there every Saturday and calls me “Machacado Man” because I always order the machacado plate. Apparently the owner used to be business partners with the guy that now owns Pepe’s Tacos n salsa on Jones Maltsberger. They had a big disagreement, and Pepe left and started a new restaurant called “Pepe’s Tacos n Salsa” specifically to fuck with the Tacos N Salsa owner. The menus only have minor differences. 

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