"Dallas Defend Your City" (Houston, Austin: schools, live in, area code)

[kdogg817]

Dallas go defend your city. We are the 4th largest metro area in the United States and we are under represented on the City-Data National forum. We are getting blasted on the national forum . America needs to know why Dallas is important and a elite city.

Here is a link to my thread on City vs. City that you may go to share your views about Big D and why DFW is a region to be reckon with.

http://www.city-data.com/forum/city-...ml#post9379637

[Dangerfield]

For the most part I quit posting on the General and City vs City forums. Many people there are West Coast or East Coast biased and seem to bash anything Southern as either sprawly,suburban and/or country. Much of it I perceive as jealousy due to the South is where their people and companies are moving.

DFW - the nation's 4th largest metro area and second fasted growing between 2000-2008, full of internationally renowned companies, excellent cultural amenities, ethnically diverse populous, superior medical facilities, solid institutions of higher education, top notch sports scene... What's to defend?

[BigDGeek]

I say let them think it is backwards and podunk. Then they will not move here. We have enough rude northerners and west coasters here as it is.

[txgolfer130]

Originally Posted by BigDGeek

I say let them think it is backwards and podunk. Then they will not move here. We have enough rude northerners and west coasters here as it is.

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by BigDGeek

I say let them think it is backwards and podunk. Then they will not move here. We have enough rude northerners and west coasters here as it is.

I got into this with a Calif gal about 3 months ago on the Ca thread. She insisted all of Texas was backwards. Of course she mentioned Dallas and Houston as 2 places, she did like Austin. When I pinned her down, her views were based on driving up 35 once, and driving from Austin to Houston once, a few years before when she spent a month of so in Texas. She talked about how the little towns were all a bunch of rednecks, no education, poor schools even UT. Some of this was based on her relatives that live in Abilene, Tx who she had visited. She couldn't give any real examples of about things in Dallas.

Nita

[Spade]

Originally Posted by Dangerfield

For the most part I quit posting on the General and City vs City forums. Many people there are West Coast or East Coast biased and seem to bash anything Southern as either sprawly,suburban and/or country. Much of it I perceive as jealousy due to the South is where their people and companies are moving.

DFW - the nation's 4th largest metro area and second fasted growing between 2000-2008, full of internationally renowned companies, excellent cultural amenities, ethnically diverse populous, superior medical facilities, solid institutions of higher education, top notch sports scene... What's to defend?

One Correction. It is the FASTEST growing metro between 2000-2008 now.

[kdogg817]

Originally Posted by Spade

One Correction. It is the FASTEST growing metro between 2000-2008 now.

Thanks Spade alot of false infomation going around city data. That why I wanted Dallas natives to correct some things and let people know what the metro area is all about.

[Texas Mack]

Originally Posted by nmnita

I got into this with a Calif gal about 3 months ago on the Ca thread. She insisted all of Texas was backwards. Of course she mentioned Dallas and Houston as 2 places, she did like Austin. When I pinned her down, her views were based on driving up 35 once, and driving from Austin to Houston once, a few years before when she spent a month of so in Texas. She talked about how the little towns were all a bunch of rednecks, no education, poor schools even UT. Some of this was based on her relatives that live in Abilene, Tx who she had visited. She couldn't give any real examples of about things in Dallas.

Nita

You'd be surprised how many people on the general forum sit around entertaining themselves with trumped up stereotypes that they know are overblown. Some people are really, really bored. That's one of the ills of message boards. You get stupidity that can be displayed anonymously, without anyone being able to recognize the offending idiot.

That said, George Carlin nailed it during one of his stand-ups: you wouldn't know how full of it/stupid the average person was if they didn't try to speak.

Time for a glass of lemonade on a 96 degree Houston evening! Cheers!

[jobert]

Originally Posted by kdogg817

Dallas go defend your city. We are the 4th largest metro area in the United States and we are under represented on the City-Data National forum.

Dallas metro is under-represented? - not if you're talking about numbers. - for starters, FtW has it's own forum already, and even if you did consolidate the two, they would be 125% the size of the Los Angeles forum..

speaking of representing, 817 isn't a Dallas area code

[WillysB]

Funny... as if anyone in Dallas would give a drop of rat's urine what anyone in another city thought about Dallas.