An ex-Wall Street banker who’s visited all 50 states at least 3 times shares his least favorite US cities

According to the Census Bureau, San Antonio was the seventh-most-populous city in the US in 2023, with about 1.5 million residents.

Abbamonte, from his two visits, doesn’t completely understand why.

“The place is just this big conglomerate,” Abbamonte, who last visited San Antonio in 2017, said.

While there, he checked out the San Antonio River Walk, a well-known pedestrian path along the water lined with restaurants and bars. While he felt it had the “potential to be nice,” he couldn’t get over the fact that the area smelled like “old stale cheap alcohol.”

A self-proclaimed history buff, Abbamonte thought the Alamo, the site of the 1836 battle between Mexico and the then-republic of Texas, was “one of the most underwhelming touristy sites” in the US.

Abbamonte’s opinions on San Antonio generally match his sentiments about Texas as a whole, which he ranked 24th in his roundup of US states.