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View Poll Results: Which metro area feels larger?
Dallas MSA 32 37.65%
Houston MSA 48 56.47%
Tie 5 5.88%
Voters: 85. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 07-17-2013, 01:38 PM
 
Location: Cumberland County, NJ
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This thread is inspired from a debate I had with a poster on the General US forum. Which metro area do you think feels larger, the Dallas MSA or the Houston MSA?

 
Old 07-17-2013, 01:47 PM
 
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I've not been to Dallas, but I've been to Houston. Houston feels bigger than a 6 million metro area. The large freeways, the random towers everywhere, the chaotic look, and the skyline contribute to the feel. I've heard that Dallas (even though is bigger) feels smaller than Houston.
 
Old 07-17-2013, 01:56 PM
 
Location: ITL (Houston)
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Dfw feels more expansive as a region because there are so many cities that make it up. Plus densities drop and pick as you enter and leave some of these cities. Houston feels more like one big city, for a lot of the reasons southernboy said. So I'd say houston overall feels bigger.
 
Old 07-17-2013, 02:18 PM
 
Location: Austin, Texas
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I've been to Houston more times than I've been to Dallas, but every time I went I never really left Hiram Clarke where my family stays outside of a couple of Galleria trips. I've seen more of the Dallas region as a whole so in a way it feels bigger to me. However, from what I've heard and know about the layouts of the cities if I were to really explore Houston it would feel bigger.
 
Old 07-17-2013, 03:23 PM
 
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Houston, been to both many times, feels like poster above, one large city, DFW yes, just feels spread out for miles.
 
Old 07-17-2013, 04:03 PM
 
Location: Abilene, Texas
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To me, Houston feels larger. As some have already noted, I think it's because of the multiple skylines, randomly placed skyscrapers, and huge interchanges in one large city. DFW feels large but more spread out.
 
Old 07-17-2013, 04:15 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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D/FW feels like an enormous patch work of a bunch of suburbs sewn together like grandma's quilt. You're either on the Dallas side or the Fort Worth side with nothing in between except Denton to the far north halfway towards Oklahoma. Its not centralized at all, in fact, its very fragmented. Parts of Dallas County (South & Southeast Dallas) still look like a scene straight out of the TV series DALLAS. Wide open farm land as far as the eye can see aka Baja Oklahoma.

Houston feels like one gigantic, dynamic, international melting pot strewn together by a mad man. Its chaotic appearance & Laissez-Faire "I don't give a ****" attitude isn't for the faint of heart. Ultra wide 20+ lane freeways, stack after stack of high flying interchanges, randomly placed skylines & skyscrapers. Houston is more centralized at its core. I like the fact Houston's topography is so diverse. You have piney forests, rolling prairies, coastal plains, palm trees, swamps, & bayou's all in the same metro. Its amazing.

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Old 07-17-2013, 04:35 PM
 
Location: Dallas,Texas
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^^^^There goes Matt with his extreme exaggerations.
 
Old 07-17-2013, 04:46 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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Houston's density is more consistent as you can clearly see from space.



D/FW:



Houston:

 
Old 07-17-2013, 04:55 PM
 
Location: Dallas,Texas
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That picture is old

DFW in 2012





DFW in 2010

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