From Houston to Dallas??? (Fort Worth, Garland: young professionals, club, moving)

[artsyguy]

Fort Worth has the better zoo. But their museums do not have the extreme variety and abundance of what you will find in Dallas. It is really hard to top all that Dallas has to offer.

Originally Posted by Scarface713

FW's district is not on the scale of Houston's. Fort Worth is a great town with the better museums (and zoo) in North Texas, but lets not get ahead of ourselves here.

[Metro Matt]

Wait, isn't this thread just about Houston & Dallas?

[SloopJohnZ]

Eh, maybe it's because I was born and raised in Fort Worth that I'm not floored by it, but Fort Worth's culture is overrated. It's basically an ultra-conservative, religious right city that pretends it's a small town full of cowboys. There are a thousand things I love about Fort Worth, but the culture is not one of them.

[artsyguy]

Despite Fort Worth's progressive zoo and museums it is very conservative. I remember going into a restaurant with my friend and being stared and glared at like an alien. I think they'd never seen my type of fashion before. The entire atmosphere seemed to change and get tense after 10 minutes from walking in. You could tell the people didn't like me eating in their restaurant. But that still wasn't half as terrible as my experience in central Texas. Central Texas is dangerous because they trick people there. At least in Fort Worth you know you are dealing with proud rednecks. In central Texas you keep thinking you are always dealing with far left open minded liberals. But when you get there nobody tries to prove themselves liberal. It's all talk, and no action. At least the proud rednecks in FW are sincere about their culture and have their stockyards and rodeos which happen to be really fun too.

Originally Posted by SloopJohnZ

Eh, maybe it's because I was born and raised in Fort Worth that I'm not floored by it, but Fort Worth's culture is overrated. It's basically an ultra-conservative, religious right city that pretends it's a small town full of cowboys. There are a thousand things I love about Fort Worth, but the culture is not one of them.

[Metro Matt]

Originally Posted by artsyguy

Despite Fort Worth's progressive zoo and museums it is very conservative. I remember going into a restaurant with my friend and being stared and glared at like an alien. The entire atmosphere seemed to change after 10 minutes from walking in. You could tell the people didn't like me eating in their restaurant. But that still wasn't half as terrible as my experience in central Texas. Central Texas is dangerous because they trick people there. At least in Fort Worth you know you are dealing with proud rednecks. In central Texas you keep thinking you are always dealing with far left open minded liberals.

You talk like Fort Worth & Dallas are a world away when they're really not. Fort Worth has all the strip clubs, liquor stores, & gay districts that Dallas has only to a lesser extent because its a much smaller city. Dallas is by no means a liberal haven. There are "pockets" of liberalism in Dallas, but that's about it. Minorities moving in is the reason Dallas is starting to turn blue. It used to be a VERY conservative city up until the past couple of decades.

[artsyguy]

What is your point? I've never once been sneered at or treated with nastiness in Dallas. It's a very friendly and accepting culture whether you are in the most liberal areas (e.g., Deep Ellum, Oaklawn, etc.) or the most conservative areas (e.g., Lewisville, Frisco, Richardson, Addison, Denton, Carrollton, etc). I've never once been harassed and have always been impressed by the pervasive and salient amounts of multiculturalism and the ongoing friendliness of the people. The least friendly areas are Garland, Grand Prairie, and Fort Worth. It always seems very uptight, unwelcoming, and eerie in those areas.

Originally Posted by Metro Matt

You talk like Fort Worth & Dallas are a world away when they're really not. Fort Worth has all the strip clubs, liquor stores, & gay districts that Dallas has only to a lesser extent because its a much smaller city. Dallas is by no means a liberal haven. There are "pockets" of liberalism in Dallas, but that's about it. Minorities moving in is the reason Dallas is starting to turn blue. It used to be a VERY conservative city up until the past couple of decades.

[artsyguy]

I wanted to add The Madi Museum of geometric art to that list.
http://www.geometricmadimuseum.org/

I think there is even a Women's Museum located in Dallas.

Originally Posted by artsyguy

It is strange how you left out all of the other major art museums and art venues in Dallas (e.g., The MAC, The Dallas Contemporary, The Meadows Museum, The Valley-House Sculpture Garden, The Latino Cultural Center galleries, The Goss, Dun and Brown, Central Trak, CraigHead-Green, Samuel Lynne Galleries, Excuses-Extreme Cafe, 500x, Kettle Art, and The Visual Arts Center at UT-Dallas).

[Cowboys fan in Houston]

Originally Posted by Metro Matt

Wait, isn't this thread just about Houston & Dallas?

Quite being so uptight. Houston's burbs have come up in this thread. Dallas' burbs and Fort Worth are fair game. If we can talk about the Woodlands as one of the benifits of being a unique thing about Houston, we can talk about Fort Worth being unique in the Dallas area since they are the same distance from Dallas/Houston respectively.

[SloopJohnZ]

Originally Posted by Metro Matt

You talk like Fort Worth & Dallas are a world away when they're really not. Fort Worth has all the strip clubs, liquor stores, & gay districts that Dallas has only to a lesser extent because its a much smaller city. Dallas is by no means a liberal haven. There are "pockets" of liberalism in Dallas, but that's about it. Minorities moving in is the reason Dallas is starting to turn blue. It used to be a VERY conservative city up until the past couple of decades.

Dallas proper has been liberal for quite some time now. Why don't you take a stroll around East Dallas (i.e., white Dallas) and see how many Rick Perry signs you see in yards. I'll save you the time, they all say Bill White. And do you honestly want to compare Fort Worth's gay community to Dallas, "The Lavender heart of Texas"? The only time I've ever heard about gays in Fort Worth was the scandal a couple of years back when the cops raided a gay club and beat up on a bunch of people. I'm sure there are plenty of gays in Fort Worth, but they're surely not accepted like they are in Dallas.

Again, I want to clarify I love the City of Fort Worth, they have made the city a great place to live and play. It's the political climate and faux cowboy culture that I don't like.

[Exult.Q36]

Don't fool yourself the majority of whites in the state of Texas vote Republican. I think it’s silly for Fort Worth, Houston, and Dallas to argue which is least conservative. Dallas/Fort Worth northern suburbs are full of transplants from the North and yet those communities overwhelmingly vote republican. Thank God for the black, latino, and asian population in the both metros.