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You seem to not grasp what I'm saying. Tarrant County is suburban. Fort Worth though is not a suburb. But the rest of the county is. It's communities are low dense and sprawling that feeds to both Dallas and Fort Worth in that they have no large corporations, no urban neighborhoods whatsoever, and that's it. Me saying that Tarrant County is suburban does not make Fort Worth suburban.
there's still a gap between Tarrant and the 10 suburb county. If your calling Tarrant suburban Dallas isn't that much Denser. FW takes up almost as much of Tarrant county as Dallas does with Dallas County.
Dallas co 2,691/sq mi Tarrant 1,990/sq mi
collin 862/sq mi
Denton 689/sq mi
Johnson 205/sq mi
Dallas 908 sq mi, Area 385.0 sq mi FT Worth 897 sq mi, Area 298.9 sq mi
D Garland 3,778.0/sq mi
D Irving 2,896.4/sq mi
D/T Grand Prairie 2,154.2/sq mi
T Arlington 3,871.8/sq mi
T N. Richland Hill 3,055.8/sq mi
Ok this thread has turned into the battle of the metroplex.
Yeah, this thread has gone to hell and back and has turned into a silly p!$$ing contest. We.GET.IT. Ft. Worth is important, DANG!!!
And yes, Atlanta is home to Alexyss Tylor. Born and raised in Bankhead. If you want to hear an accent and cadence of a native Atlantan, she'd be a good example. However, I notice that she can go from gentle drawl to Bankhead drawl with the quickness.
So basically Fort Worth is like a Dekalb County (only with less density) about 35 miles from Dallas. I don't see what the big deal is. Not really anything for Dallas to look its nose down at but not anything for Fort Worth to be so proud about. I understand it's a source of pride for people in Dallas because the addition of Fort Worth and it's surroundings makes Dallas a little larger than Houston and Atlanta. But aside from that it's really no big deal.
If the State of Georgia were quick to incorporate new towns like most other states and allowed those towns to easily annex surrounding areas then Decatur might have swallowed up all of Dekalb county and you would have the Atlanta-Decatur Metro Area with 530,000 in Atlanta and 737,000 in Decatur.
But in reality in Georgia towns are very slow to incorporate and even slower to grow through annexation. That's why Georgia has a small number of towns for a State it's size and towns tend to not get very large. A very high number of people in Georgia live in unincorporated areas. Even around Atlanta alot of people don't identify with any town but will name the county they live in like Cobb or Gwinnett even though they live in urban areas.
Last edited by Galounger; 12-22-2009 at 07:41 AM..
So basically Fort Worth is like a Dekalb County (only with less density) about 35 miles from Dallas. I don't see what the big deal is. Not really anything for Dallas to look its nose down at but not anything for Fort Worth to be so proud about. I understand it's a source of pride for people in Dallas because the addition of Fort Worth and it's surroundings makes Dallas a little larger than Houston and Atlanta. But aside from that it's really no big deal.
If the State of Georgia were quick to incorporate new towns like most other states and allowed those towns to easily annex surrounding areas then Decatur might have swallowed up all of Dekalb county and you would have the Atlanta-Decatur Metro Area with 530,000 in Atlanta and 737,000 in Decatur.
But in reality in Georgia towns are very slow to incorporate and even slower to grow through annexation. That's why Georgia has a small number of towns for a State it's size and towns tend to not get very large. A very high number of people in Georgia live in unincorporated areas. Even around Atlanta alot of people don't identify with any town but will name the county they live in like Cobb or Gwinnett even though they live in urban areas.
Consider, too, that if Decatur had accepted the offer to be the eastern terminus for the Western & Atlantic RR, Atlanta never would have existed in the first place.
Decaturites, being a provincial lot, shunned the presence of a large RR terminal in their community. The rest is history.
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