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

[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

[TXperson]

Dallas gets the respect for not being Houston.

[Westerner92]

Originally Posted by TXperson

Dallas gets the respect for not being Houston.

Houston doesn't get much respect in this forum either. I would say it's because Dallas is one of those successful Sun Belt cities that everybody hates because of its low density. Plus, it doesn't help that Texas has some of the most obnoxious defenders on here.

[Akhenaton06]

Well the South gets little respect here so there you go.

[C2H (ComingtoHouston)]

Dallas/Ft Worth is not over 6.5 mil residents. The last est show it barely topping at 6.3 and that's also due to the fact that they've added 4 more counties, the same thing that Houston's annexation gets bashed for.

I also don't understand why the OP has to put down Texas's other large city to make his point about Dallas being so great! It was almost as if it was a small attempt to stir another Dallas/Houston war.

[Spade]

Originally Posted by C2H (ComingtoHouston)

Dallas/Ft Worth is not over 6.5 mil residents. The last est show it barely topping at 6.3 and that's also due to the fact that they've added 4 more counties, the same thing that Houston's annexation gets bashed for.

I also don't understand why the OP has to put down Texas's other large city to make his point about Dallas being so great! It was almost as if it was a small attempt to stir another Dallas/Houston war.

The Dallas/Fort Worth CSA is indeed over 6.5 million.In fact, it's at 6.6. Now the DFW MSA is only 6.3 million.

[tablemtn]

Since when is Dallas part of "the south?"

[tablemtn]

CSAs aren't meant to be used as a measure of "metropolitan" population, though - they are county-based statistical zones in which counties are joined together by commuting patterns. Hence, by CSA standards, Los Angeles stretches to the Nevada border.

Sometimes CSAs match up fairly well with the "real" metro area population of a city; sometimes they are far too broad.

[C2H (ComingtoHouston)]

Originally Posted by Spade

The Dallas/Fort Worth CSA is indeed over 6.5 million.In fact, it's at 6.6. Now the DFW MSA is only 6.3 million.

I don't see any proof or source for what you claim. So that means that i can say Greater Houston is over 6 mil now.

[OyCrumbler]

Sure, let's give it some respect. Post more pics of the place and tell us what's awesome about Dallas.