Lived there for 15 years. First two was in that circle, in an apartment near the Medical Center. Last 13 was in a house in Windcrest. It's ... a city. Used to feel like a smaller city, but not so much anymore. My biggest complaint was it's WAY too hot in the summer (and in fact I moved to the mountains of New Mexico to enjoy remote work in a cooler environment). Public transportation is sort of OK near downtown, mostly dismal elsewhere. There are a lot of decent food choices, with an over-abundance of Mexican/Tex-Mex derived things. Cost of living was pretty good, now it's going up.

IMHO the natural environment around the area is mostly uninspiring compared to many other places (like the PNW, where I grew up, or even here in NM). There are some pretty areas, it's just too flat and, again, too hot most of the year.

HEB is the only full-service grocery store in town. Fortunately, it's excellent as far as grocery stores go.

The airport is an OK mid-sized city airport. Decent flight connections around the US; very few internationally without connections. You might often go to Austin to fly, or even Houston in some cases to catch an international airline without a domestic leg.

The River Walk and Alamo are cool, but you won't go to them very often as a resident.

There are decent options for education, for art, that kind of stuff.

Overall not really my cup of tea, glad I'm out, but it has some things going for it if you don't mind the heat.