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Originally Posted by justme02
Uptown, Deep Ellum, Oak Lawn, Bishop Arts, and Addison.
Downtown Dallas is mainly an office park. They do have some clubs starting to open there. I do like Club Plush because I have a likeing for Asian women!
Main Street District in downtown Dallas has nice venues and is expanding as the area re-develops. The surrounding core neighborhoods in Dallas are the most vibrant. Up until the last 5 years or so downtown was never seen as a live/work/play area, but the city is taking strides to change that. Most cities with vibrant downtowns dont have the large collection of other entertainment areas that you find in Dallas. I dont know why Dallas gets such a hard time for its downtown? Maybe because that's the easiest thing to pick on or single out about it. Because the other core neighborhoods within a mile or 2 radius of downtown are walkable, vibrant growing in population. No one ever mentions that.
You hear so much about downtown Ft Worth, Austin, etc. and how they blow away downtown Dallas. But you don't hear that the neighborhoods in Dallas blow away anything those cities offer. Sounds very one-sided to me.
1. Urban: Minneapolis-St. Paul
2. Public Transit: DFW
3. Skylines: DFW
4. Sports: DFW
5. Downtowns: MSP
6. Shopping: DFW for sure
7. The Arts: Minneapolis
8. Museums: DFW
9. Music: Tie
10. Architecture: Tie
11. Climate: DFW (dont like extreme cold but summer here sucks)
12. Economy: DFW (largest job creation in the country, more fortune 500s, most company relocations, etc)
13. Neighborhoods: Tie (Dallas has beautiful inner-city neighborhoods, the suburbs arent great)
14. Night life: DFW
15. Airport: DFW (One of the largest in the world)
OVERALL: DFW. MSP is nice but DFW is simply larger and more powerful, with more amenities
The Minneapolis Institue of Art is a much better museum than the Dallas Museum of Art. The Dallas Art Museum is a nice museum but the MIA is probably the best 2nd tier art museum in the country, its collection is in the top ten in the US in size and it has a lot of quality pieces.
The Minneapolis Institue of Art is a much better museum than the Dallas Museum of Art. The Dallas Art Museum is a nice museum but the MIA is probably the best 2nd tier art museum in the country, its collection is in the top ten in the US in size and it has a lot of quality pieces.
Most metro areas only have one flagship art museum.
The Dallas Art Museum is the only museum I have been to in the Dallas - Ft Worth area, I thought I would compare the two because it is an apples to apples comparison.
Anyway some of the other museums in Minneapolis are the Walker Art Center which is one of the top 4 modern art museums in the US, the Mill City Museum which is dedicated to the rise Minneapolis through the milling industries at St Anthony Falls (more interesting than it sounds), and the Weisman Museum which is the U of M's mediocre art museum.
In St Paul you have the Science Museum of Minnesota (which is a really cool museum), the Minnesota Historical Society (also good), the Children's Museum and the Minnesota Museum of American Art (a decent but not great art museum).
I don't know anything about the other museums in the Dallas - Ft Worth area so someone else is going to have to post about them.
Last edited by Drewcifer; 11-20-2011 at 02:31 PM..
Bus:
Metro Transit has a 127 bus routes
DART has 113 bus routes
Light Rail:
DART has 3 lines
Metro transit has 1 and 1 under construction
Commuter Rail:
Each has a commuter rail line
Average Weekday Ridership (2010, Q4)
Metro Transit: 259.9
DART: 199.3
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Originally Posted by nakold23
4. Sports: DFW
Are you basing this on championships? If not, how exactly is the Dallas sports scene better? Both Dallas and Minneapolis have the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, and D-1 athletics. Minneapolis also has the WNBA and professional Lacrosse and both areas have plenty of amateur athletics too so, IMO it would be a tie.
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Originally Posted by nakold23
6. Shopping: DFW for sure
What can one buy in Dallas that he / she wouldn't be able to buy in the Minneapolis area?
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Originally Posted by nakold23
8. Museums: DFW
Definitely MPLS - STPL over DFW.
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Originally Posted by nakold23
9. Music: Tie
I will let this one slide.
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Originally Posted by nakold23
OVERALL: DFW. MSP is nice but DFW is simply larger and more powerful, with more amenities
The DFW area may be twice the size as MSP, but the MSP area definitely holds its own.
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