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Old 09-24-2013, 03:33 PM
 
Location: Dallas,TX
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... what part of Dallas do they live in?

Anyway, as much as I would like to move more and more out of Dallas' shadow, it ain't gonna happen. It will always be DFW, not D & FW.
Just south of Mountain Creek. It's a small part separated by most of Dallas by undeveloped land and I 20/ spur 408. It usually gets ignored by the rest of the city, even though that's where most of the single family home construction is, and one of the only places in the city of Dallas where middle class families are moving to.

Most of the students there goes to Duncanville Isd, since that area feeds in Duncanville ISD, which is probably why Duncanville has a lot of students.
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Old 09-24-2013, 03:43 PM
 
Location: The Bayou City
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The suburbs of DFW are almost entirely North/South as opposed to East/West. Suburban DFW (minus the cities between the two) about 3/4 north of Dallas and Fort Worth.
True. I'm not sure about west of ft worth but I know they're suburbs to the east of Dallas.
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Old 09-24-2013, 03:46 PM
 
Location: Willowbend/Houston
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True. I'm not sure about west of ft worth but I know they're suburbs to the east of Dallas.
Yeah, but the suburbs fade quickly after you leave Dallas to the east. But if youre driving north of Dallas, you have to go 30 miles before youre out of the burbs.
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Old 09-24-2013, 08:30 PM
 
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Like peterlemonjello said above me, the Census Bureau divides metros based on commuting patterns if I am not mistaken. DFW is simply too interwoven to split. You could split by county lines, but that would be simply to weird to th residents that live there.

My family, for instance. Even though we live the the city of Dallas, we still have to go to Tarrant County to get our groceries. In fact, the store we go to is in both Tarrant and Dallas county.

Final response, it's not going to happen.
Hey I'm kinda confused. So is your grocery store in Grand Prairie?
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Old 09-24-2013, 08:46 PM
 
Location: Dallas,TX
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Hey I'm kinda confused. So is your grocery store in Grand Prairie?
Yes. To be more specific the walmart.
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Old 09-24-2013, 09:28 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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It is, but remember, there are cities on the Fort Worth side of the Metroplex in Tarrant county that really belong with Dallas based on commuting patterns. That's why the Dallas side would be larger than 4.2 million if Fort Worth didn't exist.
"If" Fort Worth didn't exist.

I hate to break it to you, but Fort Worth was established as a city before Dallas was...7 years prior to be exact.
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Old 09-24-2013, 09:37 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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The suburbs of DFW are almost entirely North/South as opposed to East/West. Suburban DFW (minus the cities between the two) about 3/4 north of Dallas and Fort Worth.
That's strange, I could've sworn Dallas' major suburbs like Garland, Mesquite, Grand Prairie, Irving, Rockwall, Rowlett, Forney, & Terrell were all situated East to West.
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Old 09-24-2013, 09:42 PM
 
Location: Upper East Side of Texas
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Just south of Mountain Creek. It's a small part separated by most of Dallas by undeveloped land and I 20/ spur 408. It usually gets ignored by the rest of the city, even though that's where most of the single family home construction is, and one of the only places in the city of Dallas where middle class families are moving to.

Most of the students there goes to Duncanville Isd, since that area feeds in Duncanville ISD, which is probably why Duncanville has a lot of students.
Duncanville ISD is lousy as is the city itself.

Why Duncanville ISD was one of the few Texas school district judged “improvement required” by the state | Dallas Morning News
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Old 09-25-2013, 06:53 AM
 
Location: Willowbend/Houston
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That's strange, I could've sworn Dallas' major suburbs like Garland, Mesquite, Grand Prairie, Irving, Rockwall, Rowlett, Forney, & Terrell were all situated East to West.
There are a lot more people living North of DFW than east or west minus the burbs between the two which I clarified in a previous post.

Take out Irving and Grand Prairie because those are between Dallas and Fort Worth.

Garland is as much North as it s East.

Now you have Mesquite, Rockwall, Balch Springs, Sunnyvale, Forney, and Terrell. Those are the Eastern burbs of Dallas. They pale in population comparison (big time) to the northern burbs of Dallas. Those would be Plano, Richardson, Frisco, Carrollton, McKinney, etc.

That's why the notion of DFW having a wired shape is not really accurate.
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Old 09-25-2013, 06:56 AM
 
Location: Willowbend/Houston
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"If" Fort Worth didn't exist.

I hate to break it to you, but Fort Worth was established as a city before Dallas was...7 years prior to be exact.
Doesn't matter. I'm talking 2013 not 1849. In 2013, you have a huge amount of people commuting from Tarrant to Dallas county, but not really the other way around. That's why you can't break the metro by county line.
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