DALLAS the Largest Metro in the South "Where's the respect City-Data" (state, rates)

[kdogg817]

Originally Posted by DWong

Well, just bc a place has alot of billionaires and good economy doesn't mean it's all that great. It's great if money is your driving force.

Another reason why billionaires set up shop in DFW is bc TAXES. In NY or CA state taxes knock out 10%. Ask a billionaire if he'd mind if they took 10% out of his income if he'd stay.

People move to DFW bc it's cheap and there are jobs. Take that away.... it would be just farmland. Heck, Texas most popular and "cool" is Austin which is about 1/5 of the size of DFW.... what's going on with that?

Weather - avg, typical southern city.

Attractions - other than the cowboys, nothing worth noting and lately Cowboys havn't been anything worth mentioning in 15 years.

A work first mentality that in other cities - doesn't really fly well.

Suburbs galore.

High Crime.

Traffic that can rival just about any city.

I am lost. What exactly do you mean by a work first mentality? I would hope any american would work to earn a living. That has nothing to do with conservative views. No one should be living off goverment if they have the ability to work.

[MrMcCoySays]

Originally Posted by kdogg817

I have notice a trend on city-data that Dallas is not respected on city-data. I do understand that Dallas natives tend not to post on the national forum, but very well represented on the Texas forums. I am not sure exactly how a city that added more residents than any United States city in 2007 could be disrespected.

Dallas-Fort Worth metro area has a population of over 6.5 million. It sits on the banks of the trinity river. It is the largest metro area in Texas, the south, and 4th largest in the country. There are over 600,000 more residents in DFW than Houston. Some estimates show the the metro upwards to closer to 7 million. So it is false that some kind of way Houston metro area is larger than Dallas.

Furthermore, what really bothers me is Americans don't know the importance of Dallas and its dominance in the region. Dallas is 8th in the world with 24 billionaires. Dallas also has more billionaires than any Texas city. Dallas has a very diverse economy primarily based on telecommunication, banking, commerce, energy, computer technology, and transportation.

These characteristics are why Dallas is known as Big D.






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This is a list of all the fortune 500 companies in the Dallas Region.

Exxon Mobil Corp. 2 Irving AMR Corp./American Airlines 109 Fort Worth Electronic Data Systems Corp.* 115 Plano J.C. Penney Company Inc. 126 Plano Kimberly-Clark Corp. 136 Irving Fluor Corp. 148 Irving Burlington Northern Santa Fe 160 Fort Worth Centex Corp. 177 Dallas Texas Instruments 185 Dallas Dean Foods Company 224 Dallas D.R. Horton 235 Fort Worth Southwest Airlines 267 Dallas Tenet Healthcare Corp. 280 Dallas Commercial Metals Co. 303 Irving Energy Future Holdings 317 Dallas GameStop 348 Grapevine Energy Transfer Equity 361 Dallas Celanese 367 Dallas Atmos Energy 416 Dallas Affiliated Computer Services 423 Dallas Blockbuster Inc. 434 Dallas XTO Energy 436 Fort Worth Holly 484 Dallas

Good post, but as I have pointed out before, Dallas does not have the largest metro it is ONE HALF of DFW which is anchored by two major cities.

[AK123]

Originally Posted by ajf131

At any rate, I could've sworn Houston was the largest metro in the South. Dallas I thought was 2nd with Atlanta and Miami close behind.

Lots of confusion with this.
Houston is the largest city.
But Dallas-Fort Worth is the largest metro. There are two major cities in that metro.

Originally Posted by DWong

People move to DFW bc it's cheap and there are jobs. Take that away.... it would be just farmland. Heck, Texas most popular and "cool" is Austin which is about 1/5 of the size of DFW.... what's going on with that?

"Cool" is subjective, and do you just believe anything the magazines say? Austin is a college town, and so it has that youth factor. Aside from that it's overrated, and I can say this from real experience. Do you think Lake Travis is natural? (and right now it's all dried up.)

[MrMcCoySays]

Yeah. Austin is certainly a nice city with a neat downtown, but for the most part it is definitely overrated. It might be the "coolest" for the corny hipster types, but Houston and Dallas (along with Fort Worth) are the TRUE cool cities in Texas.

[hype]

Originally Posted by tablemtn

Since when is Dallas part of "the south?"

Right...it's classified as southwest.

[kdogg817]

Originally Posted by hype

Right...it's classified as southwest.

Dallas is southern its not part of the southwest. What characteristics of Dallas is anything like Phoenix, AZ. The Demographics and climate are nothing alike. This has already been discuss numerous times.

[14thandYou]

Originally Posted by kdogg817

Dallas is southern its not part of the southwest. What characteristics of Dallas is anything like Phoenix, AZ. The Demographics and climate are nothing alike. This has already been discuss numerous times.

i admittedly don't know much about the city, but i've always pictured Dallas as more "southwest" than "south". When I think of south, I think of Atlanta, Charlotte, Birmingham, Tampa, Memphis, etc. Dallas doesn't really seem to fit with those. But, again, I don't know it very well.

[MrMcCoySays]

Originally Posted by 14thandYou

i admittedly don't know much about the city, but i've always pictured Dallas as more "southwest" than "south". When I think of south, I think of Atlanta, Charlotte, Birmingham, Tampa, Memphis, etc. Dallas doesn't really seem to fit with those. But, again, I don't know it very well.

Well you admitted it yourself. You don't know Dallas very well, but it is definitely the South.

Many people get the idea that Texas is mostly Southwestern because of the way the media exaggerates and often inaccurately portrays Texas as such. Even some Texans themselves have helped perpetuate some of these stereotypes by not knowing the roots of their own state's culture.

Then there's always the excuse of HOU and DAL having a lot of Latinos. So what, we drive all the Mexicans out of the cities and then voila we're the South again? No. It doesn't work like that. Dallas is rooted in the South, and no amount of outside cultures can change that.

[Lakewooder]

Austin - everybody loves it because it's our capital but it's overrated in the media. Dallas and Houston have some great inner-city neighborhoods which are more "Austin" than Austin. Plus you have 'ancillary' attractions that a metro of 6.5 million demands.

In Dallas check out East Dallas, North Oak Cliff/Fort Worth Avenue and Cedars/Southside on Lamar.

[WDCJoe]

Originally Posted by kdogg817

Your analysis is correct. No Metro has gained on Dallas and actually the gap has been rising between Dallas and everyone else. Dallas has been gaining on Chicago for quite some time now. Probably in the next 15 -20 years if Dallas growth continues it will challenge Chicago for third most populated metro.

Your counting on the addition of 3 million souls (to challenge Chicago) to the Dallas metro area over a period of 20 years? LMAO!!