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Can you elaborate further? As someone who had admittedly never visited Dallas/Fort Worth, I have this image in my head as the whole area being one giant suburba

by jdhn 6y ago

Can you elaborate further? As someone who had admittedly never visited Dallas/Fort Worth, I have this image in my head as the whole area being one giant suburban sprawl with some tall buildings in a "downtown".

bdcravens 6y ago
That's pretty accurate, though many of the cities that make up the DFW Metroplex are relatively large cities in their own right (Plano/Irving/Arlington/Fort Worth). Fort Worth is actually as big as San Francisco, in terms of population.
hindsightbias 6y ago
Correct. Frisco TX was mostly pasture 30 years ago and now has a half dozen 5A high schools. Thats 2000+ students. They dont build smaller schools because that’s optimal for football teams. Lake Travis west of Austin is ~3000 students. Packed classes but got them 5 state championships.
fakedang 6y ago
That's pretty accurate actually. But maybe it's just my personal preference that you can find your large country ranch just a few miles from the suburbia and the city. That city might be the most Texan culturally - that and I can't stand the shit planning in Houston. Most property that I spoke of is pretty cheap too, with all the creature comforts and benefits of living in a major US/global city. Edit:- bdcravens summed it up nice. The DFW area is like 5 cities joined together, each having their own unique city centre and sprawl. Austin might be capturing most of the cultural import and export in all of Texas, but I like the way Dallas has evolved, without changing its innate Texan characteristics as much as Austin. SV people might find it distasteful, but I think it's a matter of personal preferences, and maybe I like it because I find it very distinct compared to what I'm used to (Central or Zone 2 London homes with a tiny garden). That being said, I like Austin way more than the Bay area.

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Can you elaborate further? As someone who had admittedly never visited Dallas/Fort Worth, I have this image in my head as the whole area being one giant suburba

by jdhn 6y ago

bdcravens 6y ago
That's pretty accurate, though many of the cities that make up the DFW Metroplex are relatively large cities in their own right (Plano/Irving/Arlington/Fort Worth). Fort Worth is actually as big as San Francisco, in terms of population.
hindsightbias 6y ago
Correct. Frisco TX was mostly pasture 30 years ago and now has a half dozen 5A high schools. Thats 2000+ students. They dont build smaller schools because that’s optimal for football teams. Lake Travis west of Austin is ~3000 students. Packed classes but got them 5 state championships.
fakedang 6y ago
That's pretty accurate actually. But maybe it's just my personal preference that you can find your large country ranch just a few miles from the suburbia and the city. That city might be the most Texan culturally - that and I can't stand the shit planning in Houston. Most property that I spoke of is pretty cheap too, with all the creature comforts and benefits of living in a major US/global city. Edit:- bdcravens summed it up nice. The DFW area is like 5 cities joined together, each having their own unique city centre and sprawl. Austin might be capturing most of the cultural import and export in all of Texas, but I like the way Dallas has evolved, without changing its innate Texan characteristics as much as Austin. SV people might find it distasteful, but I think it's a matter of personal preferences, and maybe I like it because I find it very distinct compared to what I'm used to (Central or Zone 2 London homes with a tiny garden). That being said, I like Austin way more than the Bay area.