Why Aren't There More Tree/Green in Dallas Compare to Houston???? (Fort Worth: home, living)

[Guineas]

Originally Posted by skids929

Being from NE, we are blessed with a few things, trees and water are two of them. Also, in the state I live in MA, we are blessed with a**holes and communists as well. I would sorely miss the trees thats for sure.

You could have just moved to New Hampshire instead of the congested oven that is Dallas. NH doesn't even have a sales tax.

Anyone who likes trees, shade, and green grass has no business being in DFW.

[AlGreen]

Originally Posted by Guineas

You could have just moved to New Hampshire instead of the congested oven that is Dallas. NH doesn't even have a sales tax.

Anyone who likes trees, shade, and green grass has no business being in DFW.

that is not true at all

[Guineas]

Originally Posted by AlGreen

that is not true at all

I just got back from Dallas last weekend. The grass was definitely not green and I hate the smell of burning rubber in my car after 20 minutes in the parking lot.

There are a few neighborhoods in Dallas with big oak trees, but the vast majority of neighborhoods are flat and barren-looking with some shrub trees here and there.

There's no comparison with Massachusetts. Big tall trees grow like weeds in New England.

[AlGreen]

Originally Posted by Guineas

I just got back from Dallas last weekend. The grass was definitely not green and I hate the smell of burning rubber in my car after 20 minutes in the parking lot.

There are a few neighborhoods in Dallas with big oak trees, but the vast majority of neighborhoods are flat and barren-looking with some shrub trees here and there.

There's no comparison with Massachusetts. Big tall trees grow like weeds in New England.

sir, your limited experience in dallas does not represent the entire city. is it as green as massachusetts? absolutely not. but to suggest that there are no trees, shade, or green grass is absolutely FALSE

tokalon rd dallas tx - Google Maps

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[Guineas]

Originally Posted by AlGreen

sir, your limited experience in dallas does not represent the entire city. is it as green as massachusetts? absolutely not. but to suggest that there are no trees, shade, or green grass is absolutely FALSE

tokalon rd dallas tx - Google Maps

highland park tx - Google Maps

I've lived in Plano all my childhood. Obviously I know there are green areas in Dallas, but it is definitely not the majority of DFW and it would be misleading to use those examples to describe most of Dallas.

Most of Dallas has small shrubby trees, yellowed grass, and heat hot enough on the asphalt to fry an egg in the summer.

[Mister Nifty]

Originally Posted by Guineas

You could have just moved to New Hampshire instead of the congested oven that is Dallas. NH doesn't even have a sales tax.

Anyone who likes trees, shade, and green grass has no business being in DFW.

New Hampshire does sound nice with all those puritan white folks who like to worship witchcraft before eating mincemeat pie and dancing naked around a maypole. But I prefer Texas where a person can climb atop any two story structure to not see everything there is to see within the state.

[Mister Nifty]

Originally Posted by Guineas

I've lived in Plano all my childhood. Obviously I know there are green areas in Dallas, but it is definitely not the majority of DFW and it would be misleading to use those examples to describe most of Dallas.

Most of Dallas has small shrubby trees, yellowed grass, and heat hot enough on the asphalt to fry an egg in the summer.

I can remember reading about zoologists, treeologists, or whomever, stumbling across a virgin forest somewhere in Dallas county. This meant it existed in such a way as to never be manipulated by mankind. This means trees did exist in Dallas county even before mankind started planting groves of them.
In regards to Houston, if you desire to know what the city looked like prior to people planting a lot of trees in the area, then pay a visit into all those reservoirs built in the western part of the city. My friends and I, when we were teenagers, used to drive into this area as they kept them empty to catch as much flood water as possible.
The indegenous plants of the marshy and swampy Houston were quite ugly.

[Mister Nifty]

Originally Posted by Guineas

I've lived in Plano all my childhood. Obviously I know there are green areas in Dallas, but it is definitely not the majority of DFW and it would be misleading to use those examples to describe most of Dallas.

Most of Dallas has small shrubby trees, yellowed grass, and heat hot enough on the asphalt to fry an egg in the summer.

Is the city of Mesquite named after the tree of the same name? If so, then that is an arid kind of tree. Or what about Cedar Hill? Cedar is also an arid type of tree. Cedar Hill is a lost paradise within Dallas county! That area while very green has a lot of cactus. It is fascinating. Try driving out to Possum Kingdom sometime. That area does have lots of trees on top of the little mountains that rise up in and around the Brazos River, but it too is more of an arid region with lots of cactus. It is natural for trees to grow up in and around the Trinity basin (The Urban Forest) and the three branches of the Trinity that feed and create it. I can remember driving along I-20 south of dallas and seeing a lot of short trees that look like Christmas trees.

[AlGreen]

Originally Posted by Guineas

I've lived in Plano all my childhood. Obviously I know there are green areas in Dallas, but it is definitely not the majority of DFW and it would be misleading to use those examples to describe most of Dallas.

Most of Dallas has small shrubby trees, yellowed grass, and heat hot enough on the asphalt to fry an egg in the summer.

i never said those examples were representative of dallas. i just posted those to prove that what you said is not true

Anyone who likes trees, shade, and green grass has no business being in DFW

that is absolutely not true. does all of dfw look like east dallas and the park cities? no. but those types of neighborhoods are not at all unusual sights in the metro, so let's not pretend they are. i've never even been a resident of dallas, and i know this

[AlGreen]

Originally Posted by Mister Nifty

Is the city of Mesquite named after the tree of the same name? If so, then that is an arid kind of tree. Or what about Cedar Hill? Cedar is also an arid type of tree. Cedar Hill is a lost paradise within Dallas county! That area while very green has a lot of cactus. It is fascinating.

i don't think mesquite trees are native this far east in texas, although you will find them. and actually, cedar trees are not arid. the ones you find in dallas are actually juniperus virginiana (eastern red cedar) which is, as the name implies, native to the eastern u.s.

truth be told, dallas is not an arid city at all. it's southern plains