Growing up in the northern suburbs of Dallas, it was simply treated as a given that my classmates and I were all the children of transplants. Often, our parents

Growing up in the northern suburbs of Dallas, it was simply treated as a given that my classmates and I were all the children of transplants. Often, our parents came here from much bigger cities because they got tired of urban life and the associated high cost of living and wanted an inexpensive house in the safety of the suburbs. Funnily enough, the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington MSA is now the fourth-largest metro area in the entire country precisely because of people like my parents and my classmates' parents. My parents are both from NYC, and I never thought it odd even in the slightest that they moved halfway across the country about five years before I was born.