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I like Dallas but I just could not live there. It has great food, lots of cultural amenities, fantastic shopping, great professional sports teams and its cost of living is pretty cheap. But its summertime weather is the absolute worst. Its like an oven and a sauna. Even at night. One other factor is I wish downtown Dallas would really rise up to be a true city center.
Seattle is the true center of the region, with great shopping, dining, cultural amenities, with I guess around 80,000 residents living downtown. Its nearly surrounded by water with the downtown waterfront being a center of the largest ferry system in North America, water taxis, boat rides and even a cruise ship port. I actually loved the weather in Seattle. Never once did I own central a/c or even a window unit. Winters were a breeze for me. Never too cold. Flowers and green are always around. The city is dense walkable and very easy to get around in. And it was pretty safe and quite clean. Seattle neighborhoods around the city are quite interesting with their own little dt areas. Loved the close proximity to great national parks and ski areas. The short getaways are endless. Dallas is nice but for me its Seattle.
Thank you. This is an honest assessment from someone who prefers one city, but can honestly see both cities for what they are.
Dallas is underrated as a city. I like Seattle more obviously because of it's centrality and understanding that keeping the growth boundary to the core of the city will quickly make a city more walkable, but Dallas has a decent urban core that just isn't discussed very often at all on any website I trek.
I'm actually shocked people don't photograph it's Northwest side more...it's most urban side, yet I never see....Only Downtown and some of Uptown. I get the odd feeling Dallas is just not a photographed city much at all because I struggle to find it's urban neighborhoods in photos despite the fact that I know they're there.
There is no contest. Seattle wins hands-down in everything except COL and its like that for a reason. (supply vs. demand.)
People move to Dallas for work and they move to Seattle to live life.
COL and weather. Seattle's weather sucks big time. I'll take the Big D over Seattle anyday. I don't understand why anyone would live in Seattle. Anybody that pays the high cost of living in Seattle for 8 months of rain is out of their mind. If I'm going to get ripped off every month of my life on COL, I'm going to pick southern California. If I'm going to pay out the yang yang then give me something for my money.
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