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Being incredibly pedantic here, but it's actually not. San Antonio almost entirely surrounds Windcrest, but Windcrest is a separate city. There are a few places
by AlexB138 10y ago
Being incredibly pedantic here, but it's actually not. San Antonio almost entirely surrounds Windcrest, but Windcrest is a separate city. There are a few places like this in San Antonio. The city chose not to incorporate these areas.
I know this because I worked at Rackspace, and one of the larger means of income for the city of Windcrest is semi-bogus traffic tickets given to people coming and going from Rackspace headquarters.
- cwyers 10y agoI love false pedantry. Windcrest is part of the San Antonio Metropolitan Survey Area: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_San_Antonio https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_San_Antonio
- AlexB138 10y agoI'm not sure what you're attempting to show with that link. Yes, it's part of the San Antonio metro area. It's not part of the city San Antonio, Texas. Sorry if I was unclear in the distinction I was making, I thought I communicated that.
- andrewem 10y agoI can't tell if you're trying to troll here, but the comment you're replying to said Windcrest is a separate city (it is, with a Mayor and City Council, per https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcrest,_Texas https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcrest,_Texas), and you reply that it's part of the San Antonio MSA, which is true but not what was being discussed. I didn't ever live in or near San Antonio (or Windcrest!), but I did live in Austin and Houston so I am familiar with the Texas phenomenon of cities entirely or almost entirely surrounded by much larger cities. For instance, near Houston there's Bellaire and West University Place.
- cwyers 10y agoNot trolling. The comment being replied to said "Well, Windcrest is a subset of San Antonio, Texas." Not "the city of San Antonio, Texas." Both officially and unofficially, San Antonio is the name of not just an incorporated city, but of the metropolitan area of which it's the largest city. When you say that the metro area, as opposed to the city, was "not what was being discussed," that was an assumption the comment I replied to was making. But nowhere is that said in the comment that started this thread. The principle of charity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity) "requires interpreting a speaker's statements to be rational and, in the case of any argument, considering its best, strongest possible interpretation." The interpretation of the statement being replied to that makes it true is "Well, Windcrest is a subset of the San Antonio, Texas metro area." The "pedantic" comment I was replying to ignored that possible interpretation in favor of an interpretation that made the comment false. But why not interpret the comment in such a way that it's true, given that there's a very common way of reading that (San Antonio the metro area) where it's so?
- jbronn 10y agoMy personal favorite SA enclaves: Olmos Park, Alamo Heights, and Terrell Hills.
- jimmywanger 10y agoHeh. Somehow your comment reminded me of this, speaking of enclaves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%E2%80%93Bangladesh_enclaves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India%E2%80%93Bangladesh_encla...
- tbyehl 10y agoTo be really pedantic, it was in San Antonio. Windcrest purchased some surrounding property and annexed it.
- AlexB138 10y agoInteresting! I didn't know that. Was that done as part of the deal with Rackspace, or did they own the property when it was vacant?