toyota employment san antonio
If I accept job at Toyota, should I commute from north side(avoid south)?
I have a chance for employment at Toyota in San Antonio.
Reading around about San Antonio’s safe areas to live, the only side that seems to get recommended is the north side. Particularly the south is deemed unsafe but that is where Toyota is located.
I would need an apartment, not a house. I can’t seem to find any good reviews of south side apartments.
Is it a pain to commute from north to south? how is traffic?
Thank you.
I can not speak to any apartments in particular on the south side as I rarely travel south of Durango Street.
There are, however, several nice areas on the south side of San Antonio, and new contruction of neighborhoods is occuring all the time.
As far as crime and safety goes, a review of the crime statistics by zipcode show that the north side has a crime rate 124% of the national average. The west/northwest side (in the Sea World Area) has the lowest crime rate, and the southside and east side areas are both above the national average. Just reading the blanket statistics and the summary numbers it would seem the best place to live would be west/northwest. However, the west/northwest side has the highest level of murders and rapes, but the lowest level of “reported thefts”. The North side especially the area already mentioned around 281/1604 with it’s high rate of crime has the lowest level of violent crimes (murder/rape) in the city and a higher level of reported crime significantly theft and shoplifting. The southside has an above the national average level of violent crime.
So every area of a major city has it’s problems, just decide do you want your car stereo and accessories gone or your life.
Incidentally, I now live in north central San Antonio. I have to agree with the first responder about the apartments around here, but I would also suggest an apartment in Northwest SA out the I 10 corridor, there are several great apartments there and I 10 goes straight downtown and merges with I 35 to the southside.
Good Luck in SATX
But if you move here you have to love the Spurs (it’s a city ordinance)
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