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Old 07-07-2010, 09:37 PM
 
Location: Austin/Houston
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Originally Posted by ;14941934
If Houston didn't annex so much land, the city would have more suburbs and cities.
Dallasites always use Houston's annexation as a crutch. You do realize that it most of those annexed cities were under 20,000 people. Not really enough to really make a real big difference. Not in the same way that Dallas uses a major city like Fort Worth (over 600,000 people) and its suburbs to boost its metro statistics. Dallas and Fort Worth are two cities that got coined together because of the airport, plain and simple. It was a marketing strategy. Like Scarface said, the Ft Worth metro and Dallas metro do not function like they are apart of the same metro, heck, even Dallas's suburbs are more like parasites to Dallas, sucking all the life and business out of the city

 
Old 07-07-2010, 09:47 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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Dallas is not the center of its metro, something Houston has as an advantage. Houston is the nucleus & everything revolves around IT.

Fort Worth may anchor the Dallas-Fort Worth "Metroplex" (here we go with that marketing strategy again) but Fort Worth is its own city separate from Dallas & has very little to do with its big brother 30 miles to the east outside of sharing some interstates & an airport name.
 
Old 07-07-2010, 09:49 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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So the DFW Metroplex is united now is it?

Fort Worth: 300 square miles (727,000)
Dallas: 350 square miles (1.3 million)
Total: 650 square miles (2,027,000 million)

Houston: 601 square miles (2.25 million)

Dallas + Fort Worth with 50 square miles more still have a smaller population! I like how we can always twist things around in this rivalry.

Come on, you guys have two cities, we're just one. Two cities with a combined land area larger yet still a smaller population? Pshhhh.... Hahahaha.

It's fun getting all you Dallasities worked up about your Metroplex situation.
 
Old 07-07-2010, 09:50 PM
 
Location: Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
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It's not arguing, but whatever. Real talk homie, real talk.
You are funny.
 
Old 07-07-2010, 09:51 PM
 
Location: Austin/Houston
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Originally Posted by Metro Matt View Post
Dallas is not the center of its metro, something Houston has as an advantage. Houston is the nucleus & everything revolves around IT.

Fort Worth may anchor the Dallas-Fort Worth "Metroplex" (here we go with that marketing strategy again) but Fort Worth is its own city separate from Dallas & has very little to do with its big brother 30 miles to the east outside of sharing some interstates & an airport name.
very true! But its big brother loves to call on it and claim it when it needs some help to boost its own image.

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Originally Posted by OmShahi View Post
So the DFW Metroplex is united now is it?
Come on, you guys have two cities, we're just one. Two cities with a combined land area larger yet still a smaller population? Pshhhh.... Hahahaha.

It's fun getting all you Dallasities worked up about your Metroplex situation.
It is fun. They can't accept that Dallas only makes up 25% of the entire metroplex. Houston is Houston's own metro area, Dallas merely sits inside the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. They want all the glory, they can't accept two cities in the metro. They don't wanna share!
 
Old 07-07-2010, 09:53 PM
 
Location: Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
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Originally Posted by Metro Matt View Post
Dallas is not the center of its metro, something Houston has as an advantage. Houston is the nucleus & everything revolves around IT.

Fort Worth may anchor the Dallas-Fort Worth "Metroplex" (here we go with that marketing strategy again) but Fort Worth is its own city separate from Dallas & has very little to do with its big brother 30 miles to the east outside of sharing some interstates & an airport name.
Ft. Worth and Dallas is the center of the Metroplex.
 
Old 07-07-2010, 09:56 PM
 
Location: Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
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Originally Posted by C2H (ComingtoHouston) View Post
very true! But its big brother loves to call on it and claim it when it needs some help to boost its own image.
It is not like that in real life.
 
Old 07-07-2010, 09:58 PM
 
Location: ITL (Houston)
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There is no center to the metroplex. Just a lot of disjointed clusters.
 
Old 07-07-2010, 10:00 PM
 
Location: Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
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Originally Posted by C2H (ComingtoHouston) View Post
very true! But its big brother loves to call on it and claim it when it needs some help to boost its own image.



It is fun. They can't accept that Dallas only makes up 25% of the entire metroplex. Houston is Houston's own metro area, Dallas merely sits inside the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. They want all the glory, they can't accept two cities in the metro. They don't wanna share!
Dallas doesn't make up the Metroplex, Fort Worth and Dallas share the metro peacefully.
 
Old 07-07-2010, 10:01 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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There is no center to the metroplex. Just a lot of disjointed clusters.
I thought DFW Airport was the center of attention in the Metroplex?
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