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02-04-2009, 04:43 PM
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Angel 713 what's does that comment suppose to mean
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02-04-2009, 05:28 PM
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About 500-600K then. The size of Fort Worth basically. Houston doesn't have a Fort Worth. Just Houston.
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I think that fact has been established dozens of times already.... |
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02-04-2009, 05:58 PM
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Originally Posted by C2H (ComingtoHouston)
Thanks metroplex03. I think you're more than likely correct but is that information of the metro popuilation on the Dallas and Houston's visitors page. If not, can you provide a link?
I do think the population on Dalls Ft. Worth's metro estimates are more recent than Houston's. I believe it may be correct that DFW does have a 600K population advantage over Greater Houston now because of Fort Worth's explosive growth in the recent years.
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The info is comparing the 2007 numbers of both Greater Houston and DFW using their respective chamber of commerce websites, which gets their info from the us census. So it's probably reflective of July 1st, 2007.
Each city has a chamber of commerce website...mainly to get businesses the important demographic information necessary to make decisions on business relocations.
The census.gov website is official...which is what the Chamber of Commerce of each region uses. |
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02-04-2009, 06:07 PM
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Originally Posted by raymondm
Dallas just reminds me that as a society, we still have a long way to go.
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I agree with you on this. Dallas infrastructure looks like a progressive city. With the exception of South Dallas, the mentality is pretty much redneck the further intown you go. I think this is due to the segregation of the city. I've been pulled over, stopped for really no apparent reason at all myself up there. I believe it may be due to the color of my skin as I too am a young black man. Even in Denver CO, which has a high percentage of whites, i don't remember being singled out like the way I have been up here. Dallas has seemed to have developed a bad reputation of this, although i know that some parts of Greater Houston has the same type of people.
BTW I inserted a comma in your quote for you.  sorry but i had to! |
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02-04-2009, 06:11 PM
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Originally Posted by C2H (ComingtoHouston)
I agree with you on this. Dallas infrastructure looks like a progressive city, but the mentality is pretty much redneck because the city is segregated so much. I've been pulled over, stopped for really no apparent reason at all myself up there. I believe it may be due to the color of my skin as I too am a young black man. Even in Denver CO, which has a high percentage of whites, i don't remember being singled out like that.
BTW I inserted a comma in your quote for you. sorry but i had to! |
Sorry C2H...the Chamber website gives different numbers in different tables...so the difference could be 510K-605K...which is in line with what others have said. There's a saying: "Lies lies, and statistics!" Thanks. |
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02-04-2009, 06:39 PM
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C2h I agree about south dallas. I heard about how bad denver is, houston has some spots like that too like belaire, and the some parts of cyfair. Thank God I havnt ran into a problem like that in houston.
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02-05-2009, 04:49 PM
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I think this should sum it up, this from Forbes--"Texas cities dominate the Forbes Traveler 30 Most Visited U.S. Cities list, and Houston is the king of the hill among the state’s urban travel meccas. Its 31 million annual visitors include a million convention guests as well as tourists touching down at the Space Center, Moody Gardens, and other attractions. In 2005, six and a half million of Houston’s visitors came from Mexico."
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03-19-2009, 06:44 PM
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03-19-2009, 08:43 PM
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