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I certainly don't want to minimize Fort Worth in any way, but I think that's a bit of a reach.
As for the topic, I actually love both of these cities very much for different reasons. I do have to go with Long Beach though.
Ok, maybe not small fry, but you must admit that a lot of the benefits conferred to an area is determined by population of region and that Dallas was just too small to receive those benefits alone. A lot of people minimalize FW but there would be no DFW air port w/o Fort Worth. The Federal bank chose DFW because of the collective population of the region. Those two alone account for so much of the Population Dallas received after that. so yes, in a way I think Dallas would be small fry without FW. Don't see anything about it that would warrant it being any bigger than Oklahoma City without the shared commerce the region pulls
I think Long Beach is way more overshadowed by it's bigger brother than Fort Worth. Most outsiders describes the metro as Dallas/Fort Worth and you will never here anyone mention Long Beach in the same sentence with LA. I would rather live in Long Beach by a mile.
A better comparison would have been Long Beach vs Fort Lauderdale IMHO. Two cities that are actually desirable to live in and are over-shadowed by big brother more than Fort Worth to Dallas.
I think Daly City is more overshadowed than any of them. Even when SF is discussed as the Bay Area, no one talks about it. San Jose, yeah, another 40 miles away, but not the fog shrouded and densely populated Daly City neighboring just to the south. I'd never live there myself because it's gloomy, but it's just odd how completely ignored it is. My choice is Long Beach. Let's hear more about Fort Worth though.
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