San Antonio's high ranking can be attributed to its slew of comic shops and game clubs. SanAntonio SATX SanAntonioTX gaming cosplay Geek comics manga
San Antonio geeks can nerd out at San Japan, which is returning to the Alamo City Sept. 1-3.
We all knew San Antonio residents have an affinity for geeky activities such as cosplay, comics and tabletop gaming. How else do you explain theBut a new study suggests we're not just holding our own when it comes to such fandom — we're the fricken third-geekiest city in the nation, just behind New York and LA, which claimed the top two spots, respectively.
Researchers working for LawnLove, the online lawn marketplace that commissioned the study, worked up the rankings by comparing the 200 largest U.S. cities using metrics including their number of comic book stores, geek social groups and comic conventions. "San Antonio is not just for history nerds," the study said."[The] Alamo City claims the 3rd-highest number of board game and trading card shops, after New York and Los Angeles. S.A. is also home to 14 stores that hostTurns out Texas is a pretty geeky state in general, with Austin and Houston both cracking the top 10 at No. 6 and No. 7, respectively.
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