Can anyone who is familiar with both So Cal and Dallas-Fort Worth give an analogy for cities that are equivalent? (Houston: homes, neighborhood)

[Taub201]

I just read about Hancock Park. It's 20% Orthodox Jews and 70% white. It doesn't have a good public school system, especially at the high school level. It does have the Marlborough School. Wouldn't that make it more like north Dallas (Forest to Beltline)? $85K median household income.


I live in UP. Unfortunately, it is over 90% white. It has a great high school which is why we picked to move to UP from NYC.

[kyam11]

Originally Posted by Taub201

I just read about Hancock Park. It's 20% Orthodox Jews and 70% white. It doesn't have a good public school system, especially at the high school level. It does have the Marlborough School. Wouldn't that make it more like north Dallas (Forest to Beltline)? $85K median household income.


I live in UP. Unfortunately, it is over 90% white. It has a great high school which is why we picked to move to UP from NYC.

As I said you simply won't get perfect anywhere. I found the surroundings similar and the proximity to LA similar. Yeah the schools are terrible. You have these older non-tract big homes in its own little bubble. I feel like if you took someone from Hancock Park or from HP (here)and plopped them in the other they would say yeah it feels somewhat close.

[keribeth818]

We lived in Long Beach for a few years. My office was in Newport Beach but my job took me in a 2 hr radius of LA. I spent as little time in LA County as possible, only going for work and to visit friends in the beach cities (which cannot be compared to Little Elm and The Colony, imo).

I think there's a couple posts here that nail the city comparisons. Or at least as close as you are going to get. Plano to Irvine is probably the closest you're going to get. There are a few neighborhoods in Dallas itself that remind me of the trendier areas of Long Beach. The overall feel cannot be compared. It's completely different.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by keribeth818

We lived in Long Beach for a few years. My office was in Newport Beach but my job took me in a 2 hr radius of LA. I spent as little time in LA County as possible, only going for work and to visit friends in the beach cities (which cannot be compared to Little Elm and The Colony, imo).

I think there's a couple posts here that nail the city comparisons. Or at least as close as you are going to get. Plano to Irvine is probably the closest you're going to get. There are a few neighborhoods in Dallas itself that remind me of the trendier areas of Long Beach. The overall feel cannot be compared. It's completely different.

Just for the record The Colony and Little Elm thing was a joke.

[keribeth818]

Originally Posted by EDS_

Just for the record The Colony and Little Elm thing was a joke.

Ha! Must have read that before my coffee...Obvious to me now.

[DAX_]

Nothing alike period

[ziggyNZ]

It's an impossible question to answer. We moved from SoCal (PV) to Dallas (McKinney) 2 years ago and there are zero similarities. Aside from stats it totally depends on the individual.

[DabOnEm]

Originally Posted by Eric Fred Norris

I fly to LAX maybe six times a year, every year, for several years. For 1-2 weeks each stay. Very familiar with the area.

Arlington = Anaheim, minus the enormous mass transit infrastructure.
Beverly Hills = Highland Park, University Park. Not nearly as glitzly as Beverly Hills is however, closer to Pasadena maybe.
Grand Prairie and West Dallas = Hawthorne, lots of warehouses and trucking activity and factories
Richardson, East Plano = Rowland Heights, City of Industry and Hacienda Heights
South Oak Cliff or East Fort Worth = Inglewood, Westmont
West Plano = a less nice, more crowded version of Irvine
NE Dallas, Garland, Mesquite = roughly the area from El Monte down to Cerritos
Hurst, Euless, Bedford = Orange and Santa Ana
Far North Fort Worth, Keller = Pomona, Ontario

There are no rough equivalents to places like Santa Monica, Pasadena, Torrance, Hollywood, Burbank. We don't have an ocean, mountains or a huge TV/movie industry.

Arlington-Anaheim, BH-HP, GP/West Dallas-Hawthorne, South Oak Cliff/East FW-Inglewood, West Plano-Irvine are all good comparisons.

The ones in bold I think should be instead:

Richardson, East Plano = Glendale
--Both Glendale and Richardson have big business districts, which Rowland and Hacienda Heights lack.

NE Dallas, Garland, Mesquite = Harbor City, Gardena, Carson
--I think these cities fit better demographically and for what they are for their respective metros.

H-E-B = Arcadia, Duarte, Monrovia
Small self-contained cities all next to each other with the one on the west side having the large mall for their corner of the region.

Far North FW, Keller = Redlands, Loma Linda
--If it weren't for the mountains these places would look similar. Redlands still has some of that open vibe that you get in Far North FW.

DFW's Torrance is Grapevine-Flower Mound.

[latikeriii]

North Oak Cliff= Echo Park

[kyam11]

Originally Posted by DabOnEm

Arlington-Anaheim, BH-HP, GP/West Dallas-Hawthorne, South Oak Cliff/East FW-Inglewood, West Plano-Irvine are all good comparisons.

The ones in bold I think should be instead:

Richardson, East Plano = Glendale
--Both Glendale and Richardson have big business districts, which Rowland and Hacienda Heights lack.

NE Dallas, Garland, Mesquite = Harbor City, Gardena, Carson
--I think these cities fit better demographically and for what they are for their respective metros.

H-E-B = Arcadia, Duarte, Monrovia
Small self-contained cities all next to each other with the one on the west side having the large mall for their corner of the region.

Far North FW, Keller = Redlands, Loma Linda
--If it weren't for the mountains these places would look similar. Redlands still has some of that open vibe that you get in Far North FW.

DFW's Torrance is Grapevine-Flower Mound.

There are some horrible comparisons here