Fort worth tx: more like Phoenix, Dallas or OKC (state, compared, population)
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It may sound crazy but I honestly feel like Fort worth, and tarrant County in general don't have much in common with Dallas. If I had to find a city to compare it to I would say Phoenix. Maybe even okc
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It may sound crazy but I honestly feel like Fort worth, and tarrant County in general don't have much in common with Dallas. If I had to find a city to compare it to I would say Phoenix. Maybe even okc
Fort Worth to me is what would happen if you took West Texas (specifically from the Panhandle to the Metroplex), made it a big city, and added culture/diversity to it.
It may sound crazy but I honestly feel like Fort worth, and tarrant County in general don't have much in common with Dallas. If I had to find a city to compare it to I would say Phoenix. Maybe even okc
If Fort Worth was more geographically isolated and didn't have the economic advantage of being right next door to Dallas it would be more like OKC. Phoenix is too large and too far west to really be compared. I'd say Denver 10-15 years ago (before the hipster era and cannabis legalization) may be a pretty good comparison.
If Fort Worth was more geographically isolated and didn't have the economic advantage of being right next door to Dallas it would be more like OKC. Phoenix is too large and too far west to really be compared. I'd say Denver 10-15 years ago (before the hipster era and cannabis legalization) may be a pretty good comparison.
I don’t think Denver was ever as conservative as okc is now
Might be just me but the vibe I get is that FW feels more and more similar to Dallas.
I don't get Phoenix and Denver. I do get some of the OKC vibe, but I get that from the Dallas side too.
I would say Dallas. The metro is far from the great divide it used to be. Seems to have cemented into a single area. The feel overall it's not as different as the feel of a multi major city area like the Bay area or Baltimore-Washington area.
They are far from twins but are just as similar as the twin cities are to each other.
I don’t think Denver was ever as conservative as okc is now
It's hard to say because metro Denver has a smaller core city relative to a large suburban population. So when we talk about "Denver" what are we really talking about? Suburban Denver was very conservative. Now it's not. The City of Denver was always pretty libertarian-liberal, and arguably it still is.
Ft. Worth also used to be very conservative, and now it's not. And the most important political development in Texas is the DFW suburbs becoming more liberal--just as suburban Denver shading light blue turned Colorado light blue. Now it's happening to Texas, as literally everyone said it would.
Oklahoma City, on the other hand, was, is, and will be quite conservative relative to the rest of the country, at least until it becomes a hot destination for young (and generally liberal) transplants like Denver and DFW are today.
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