When someone says they live in DFW

[BLDSoon]

I'd assume they live in Celina, Melissa, Lucy, Janet or some other small female named city that most people wouldn't immediately know the location of.

[happycrow]

It's easier than saying you live in the Hurt Useless Deadbird area.

[Mckellyb]

My wife and I are Dallas county natives, me true north Dallas (Marsh Ln. & Merrill), her Oak Cliff then the real Irving (just a few blocks south of the city's center off Irving Boulevard).

We've since lived in the mountains of CO, then south of Portland, OR, Vegas for a few years, and now we're back...kinda.

SW Fort Worth is where we call home, and honestly, I can't move back to Dallas, Denton, or Colin counties. The traffic is atrocious and it's just too damned crowded!

When asked where I hail from, the answer is Fort Worth, period. Dallas and Fort Worth, while only about 30 miles apart, physically, are very, very different in most every respect.

Dallas = wanna-be east coast
Fort Worth = The West (but not the west coast)

What irks me is, I was job-hunting until recently, and "the D/FW area" is so large, it could swallow the combined area of Connecticut and Rhode Island. I'm in SW Fort Worth, I can't work in Plano/Richardson/Frisco...even downtown Dallas isn't viable, really.

Dallas and Fort Worth are two entirely separate cities. Many can't seem to wrap their heads around this.

The only time I go east of the Tarrant/Dallas county line is if I'm forced to. Thankfully, that's not often. ;-P

And, no, I don't own a pickup, I dislike country music, and I do not want to live amongst properties with cattle on them.

[FJB327]

It depends on where I am when it's said....

Outside of TX, you don't hear people say they are from Dallas Fort Worth unless they are from Fort Worth but even then, it's usually just Dallas.

It goes like this:

Inside the metro, this wouldn't be said.. People would just say where they're from if its a somewhat recognizable place... ex: I'm from: FW, Dallas, Addison, Arlington, Mansfield, Plano (really Murphy)

Outside the Metro, inside the state, you're more likely to hear this from people who dont live in FW or Dallas: I'm from DFW means I'm from the metro.. not fort worth, not dallas but some other city within the DFW

Outside the State, inside the country: You are from Dallas or maybe even FW but even most FW ppl will say Dallas since it's more recongizable. FW ppl may say DFW to piggy back off of Dallas's name recognition and enlighten others that this metro has two big cities. .

Outside the Country, you are from Texas but Dallas if pressed and possibly FW if you're asked in Mexico.